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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)
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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Apparently when everything's made in China, it gives China a bit of an advantage...

.... who'd have thought, except everyone who said so when the west started outsourcing all their manufacturing work there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fyi, the US is the second biggest manufacturer after China. And per capita the US is a bigger manufacturer.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/manufacturing-by-country

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

China still handles nearly a third of all manufacturing in the world, and the US only a sixth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

For sure, China is a manufacturing juggernaut, no question. They also have 4 times the population of the US. But in terms of raw numbers, absolutely China is the biggest manufacturer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Every time I go to buy something "Made in USA" from a hardware store, it's measurements are all like 5/8ths of a freedom eagle.

At least the Chinese stuff uses metric, even if it's generally less robust

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And every dly that goes by that companies send more shit there to be made blows my mind until you realize that corporations have no loyalty to the country in which they reside and stay only as long as the country subsidizes them and allows them to get away with paying no taxes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Also having a government which invests heavily in its infrastructure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Silly Clinton!