The Biden administration is suggesting the possibility that new penalties could be put in place if the Chinese makers of electric vehicles try to move their production to Mexico to avoid newly announced import taxes.
Nah ah! The cybertruck can be placed on things other than a flat bed! I know for sure it can be on a flat bed that also has lots of rocks! I've seen it placed on the side of a mountain. You could in theory pull it through the toughest terrain you can imagine and expect that some of it would still be attached to your cable. It's such a versatile vehicle!
It’s so ironic that the same crowd that wants US businesses to divest from Israel loves to defend trade with China, who is actively committing genocide of the Tibetans and Uyghurs, while threatening invasion of Taiwan. Pick a side. Money or morals.
More Tibetans speak Tibetan and Uyghurs speak Uyghur than Hawaiians speak Hawaiian so you can't claim teaching mandarin along side their native languages in schools is cultural genocide.
Also the moral thing is the thing that doesn't cook the planet; solar panels and EVs displacing coal and ICE engines.
China segregates the Uyghurs in internment camps where they are abused, raped, and tortured and all under constant video surveillance. There have been reports of sterilization as well. The only way out is through forced social integration.
China has committed genocide in the form of cultural cleansing of Tibetans since the 1950s. It’s a peaceful nation, primarily composed of Buddhists. That’s what all those “Free Tibet” bumper stickers are all about.
Genocide is not killing people, it's killing a culture/ethnicity or displacing from the area where they live. Technically you can commit genocide without killing a single person.
You're never going to win an argument with an American who gets their news bites and doesn't think. Genocide in China sounds bad so it's pushed on the news. Forcing economic slavery upon your own people in the USA? Free market baby. Oh but when that free market tries to do good things like cheap electric cars, then we need protection.
When the US wants an iPhone, or television, or paint for their walls, Genocide is OK.
How about we make it clear to us legacy automakers: you have a head start in the us, you have protection from dumping … get your shit together. You have like two years for BYD to build a factory in Mexico and scale up for export. This is your final chance. Use it or find out you’re no longer “too big to fail”
Chinese Electric Vehicles could press the laggards in the USA to innovate in the space! No wonder they are so desperate to regulate Chinese Electric cars to death…
And his fan club are working overtime trying to justify it by employing xenophobic tropes such as "beholden to China" and falsely equating Chinese EVs with the Uighur genocide.
They're even calling anyone who opposes this Trumpian tariff anti-union and in favor of Americans losing their jobs! 🤦