• Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    I already found three security holes in my pair of Chinese jeans. Two medium sized holes and one large one on the opposite end.

    Is there a number for a government agency so that I can report this threat?

    • TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Remember the onion/garlic security threat statement from that senator like a month ago? How Chinese onions are secretly like fentanyl killing USians or some bullshit lmao

      Edit: here - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67662779.amp

  • TimeTravel_0
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    5 months ago

    Free market but only if I get to win

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    It is interesting to see a reverse of the Soviet situation where it's the Communist country with the "blue jeans" and a capitalist one missing out on them.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      For sure, we're basically leaving through the reverse of USSR collapse here. China is rapidly outpacing US economically, it dwarfs US industrial base, and it's now pushing the bleeding edge of technology. Meanwhile, US is having compounding social and economic problems internally while being mired in forever wars around the globe.

      • besbin@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        Waiting for that moment where three military dudes meet in the middle of a field to illegally dissolve the country for personal benefits. Only this time it's gonna be better for humanity.

        • SSJ2Marx
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          5 months ago

          Instead of Eastern Europe turning into a bunch of dysfunctional capitalist countries, you get North America turning into a bunch of highly functional socialist ones. Texas will be our version of Belarus, hanging on to a bunch of capitalist systems in defiance of the trend.

    • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      They're hanging on to the "Chinese products are cheap and unsafe, so it is still better to buy American-made" line like it's a lifesaver.

      I still see people say things like "Wait til Huawei makes the shitty knock off of <insert tech device here>" like they aren't doing their own R&D and making better tech.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        I've seen Tesla buyers talk about going out of their way to source one made in China rather than one made in the US due to quality concerns.

        I think China is now hitting the point where "made in China" is considered neutral or even good by many people, like what Japan and Korea experienced.

        • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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          5 months ago

          BYD seems to be making inroads in my country, I test drove one and it was great. Most people I have talked to don't even care where it was made, they just see it as a good car. The government is still pretty protectionist, but the consumer ultimately just wants the best product.

  • الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Hypocrites. They know they can't compete and are far behind. They will abuse the fact that they are a big market for years, but the rest of the world is growing, so with time being locked out of the US market becomes less and less significant.

  • bazingabrain [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    seen-this-one remember the whole huawei spies on you thing? Oh yeah turns out that was spin to enable protectionist laws so cisco could slap 5g gizmos together and do actual r&d for once, instead of spending its entire annual budget on stock buyback.

  • SSJ2Marx
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    5 months ago

    Back when Japanese motorcycles were hitting their stride, the Reagan administration put tariffs on them to stop them from entering the US market unless they were below a certain size. The result of this is that Harleys got to get shittier and more expensive for like forty years.

    I predict the same thing will happen with US EVs as long as Chinese alternatives are subject to the same sanctions. In twenty years every single American EV is going to be a stupidly expensive crossover, truck, or SUV and only a tiny slice of the market will own them, meanwhile China will be midway through phasing out ICE engines entirely and producing multiple models of every single vehicle type in EV form.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      That's what I'm expecting as well. What we'll probably see going forward is a bifurcated world economy with US and China led blocs. China clearly saw this coming and that's the main reason they've been investing in stuff like BRI to create trade outside US control.

  • NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    "Biden warns CCP robocars steal your data and send it overseas."

    CIA/NSA out here like "You can't harvest Americans' personal data! We already called dibs!"

    • anonochronomus [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Amerikkkan cars are better at spying on you than they are at driving. https://web.archive.org/web/20231208031201/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/12/01/10000-cars-can-be-data-raided-by-police-ice-cbp-love-it/

  • Bitflip@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Nice! Glad to hear that Chinese EVs are finally getting more efficient and so much cheaper than the competition