U.S. proposes ban on Chinese auto parts so cars 'can't be used against us'

[BrianTheEVGuy]

5. This sort of stuff is silly

Most everything we use is Chinese. Cisco routers are Chinese. Apple computers and phones are Chinese. Dell and HP computers are Chinese. And so on.

Big tech destroyed the working class in their supply chain and went to China to bolster their already huge profits.

Now that the Chinese are producing better phones. computers and cars than our lazy companies (and at a lower price), our oligarchs want protection from competition and wrap up such protectionism in “national security” nonsense-speak.

The truth is, if China wanted to attack us with malware, they could do it at any time with “American” products — which are mostly Chinese products with American logos tacked on.

Working class Americans have suffered from awful inflation and wages that haven’t kept up. The most patriotic thing to do is let Chinese companies compete with American companies and sell long-struggling Americans some of the amazing goods at much lower prices that they’ve developed.

If Apple, GM, Cisco, etc are concerned, they can focus on lowering their prices and finally innovating to compete. Warming over a ten year old design and calling it the “iPhone 16” ain’t competing.