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Biden urged to ban China-made electric vehicles (www.bbc.com)

submitted 7 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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President Joe Biden has been urged to ban imports of Chinese-made electric cars to the US.

The chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Sherrod Brown, wrote "Chinese electric vehicles are an existential threat to the American auto industry".

His comments are the strongest yet by any US lawmaker on the issue, while others have called for steep tariffs to keep Chinese electric vehicles (EV) out of the country.

In February, the White House said the US was opening an investigation into whether Chinese cars pose a national security risk. At the time, President Biden said that China's policies "could flood our market with its vehicles, posing risks to our national security" and that he would "not let that happen on my watch."

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The US could easily match what China’s doing

Not with the unions in the US they can't. Part of the reason China is able to produce cheap cars is because they have cheap labor.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Including widespread use of slave labor. It doesn't get any cheaper.

[–] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you referring to prison labor?

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm referring to Chinese slave labor, which is not even remotely comparable to American prison labor.

[–] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The US has roughly 0.3% of it's population as slave labor. China has 0.4%. That looks pretty comparable to me

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just to check your numbers:

5.8 million slaves in China in 2021 (0.41%).

800,000 prison laborers in America that same year (0.24%).

For as flawed as the American judicial and prison systems are, they are not even remotely as awful as China's - and neither is the labor performed by American prison laborers compared to China's slaves. They are not the same. Chinese slaves aren't even given a trial - they are just randomly picked off the street and forced to work themselves to death.

[–] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-still-have-slavery

800 000 isn't the total count of slaves in the US

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Report back to me when American prison laborers start hiding pleas for help in items they are producing.

https://lithub.com/on-receiving-an-anonymous-sos-letter-from-china-about-religious-persecution/

[–] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

So we've settled on the numbers are comparable, but some stuff in China might be more severe?