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Fun fact. The biggest electric car manufacturer in the world is called BYD and is... Chinese! Their cars cost about half the price of a Tesla for 150% of the quality.

Western trade blocks, if they even exist anymore, are shitting their pants about them so much that our overlords don't let us purchase these cars at their real price. If you believe that tarrifs are going to fix this, I'm very very sorry.

Go travel and see for yourself. And if you don't shit your pants you might wanna see a brain doctor. We're rekt and there's not much to do about it.

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AM 8mo ago 💬 1

I think it’s not only economical but also psychological . Branding still plays a powerful role. Chinese people still buy European luxury goods and iPhones.

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calle 8mo ago 💬 2

Absolutely. However the branding advantage can vanish very quickly. What doesn't change that quickly are economic realities.

There's only one US phone company, Apple, (that produces in China), and only one pure electric car manufacturer, Tesla. Both are wildly popular in China. In case of a trade war (or a real war), China can easily replace those products with their own alternatives for their domestic market. No western country could do the same.

AM 8mo ago

We drugged them with opium.

Now they drug us with dependency.

calle 8mo ago

what hurts even more is that they don't even think about us