Canada proposes 100% tariffs on Tesla, I have an alternative: open the door to Chinese EVs - eviltoast
  • NotLemming@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    China isn’t our friend. The whole ‘make it more financially appealing for the world to not war’ is not working. China isn’t influencing the world to be decent and at peace. They’re Putin’s allies and therefore our enemies.

    • turnip@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      China can buy our housing to rent it back to us, but we can’t buy their EV because other companies won’t make as much profit. Great trickle down.

    • stardust@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah China feeling more emboldened to invade Taiwan and talking about wanting to send in troops to gain experience in Ukraine shows they are looking to fill in the power vacuum left by the US and become US 2.0.

        • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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          4 hours ago

          The old American playbook was to ally with some local elites and then use media, secret service and economic support to bring them into power. Military force and hardcore sanctions were a tool used, if that did not work.

          Russia prefers to use military force to force other countries into doing what they want.

          China seems to work mainly with economic pressure, corruption and secret servcie work to set up favroable local elites. Their media game is not as good as the US, but TikTok is a clear sign that they are working on it. So far hard force is pretty rarer.

          To me China looks a lot more like the old US playbook. They know the Russian one is not as good, as they saw European Empires collapse by using it.

        • IceFoxX@lemm.ee
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          9 hours ago

          No, absolutely not like Russia 2.0 The Chinese are taking a completely different approach to the Russians. The fact that people still think the Chinese are stupid is unbelievable…