https://www.wired.com/story/china-conquers-mexican-automotive-market-and-the-us-is-worried/
State department hand wringing that China is going to use the US trade agreements as they were designed is 
I fully expect them to redo these with “except china” clauses.
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Entire world is showing how much they want cheap evs. US automakers: check out this truck
USA finding out that for as much as it used capitalism to advance the USA’s interests capitalism was using the USA to advance capitalism’s interests just a little bit more.
Dang, sorry dudes.
The genesis of Deng Xiaoping thought is recognizing that these bastards would sell their grandmothers for a nickel
today we have innovated and financialized it to where we can lease out grandmothers on a subscription basis
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I thought this was so funny that it deserved a comment in addition to an upvote. Go you :)
And then offer them three cents just to see if they Cana get a little further ahead.
God, I would HATE IT SO MUCH if I could buy a cheap electric car. I’m SO FUCKIN WORRIED GUYS!
I too wish the free market was actually free sometimes. I want a small, cheap, efficient car like literally every other country in the world produces.
I use protectionism as a huge talking point so much.
“We like to claim we’re all about free market, but the US is a very protectionist country and even then only to capital, the idea of protectionism for workers like affordable college or stopping companies from shipping jobs overseas is seen as profane but workers are not allowed to outsource where they consume.
Lol NAFTA.
How dare you command the loyalty of our great beast?!?!
If this reaches some arbitrary threshold of manufacturing above that which US capital is comfortable with they will begin restricting and rewriting what “free trade” means
Altering NAFTA and telling Mexico to “pray we don’t alter it further”? Wouldn’t put it past them.
All the free trade propaganda stems from a time when imperialist powers depended on it to steamroll native industries in the periphery. Of course, it was associated with all the liberty freedom democracy propaganda, so once it no longer became preferable and even enabled the possibility of the reverse happening, they have to materially oppose it, but still wax poetic about it to please their bootlickers and sycophants.
Flood of immigrant EVs over southern border threatens US billionaire manchild’s job
Forcing a cold war that doesn’t need to exist and that the rest of the world wants no part in, only results your “enemy” working with other nations?
It’s them or me!
No wait
When all you have is a hammer…
Hey! I spent $15000 on this hammer. You better believe in going to use it!
all you need is a sickle?
