Mar 06, 2024, 16:04
Visitors check out a Nio electric vehicle during an auto expo in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in November 2023. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The United States has expanded its so-called technology de-risking to Chinese electric vehicles, with the Joe Biden administration ordering an investigation into the potential "national security" risks of Chinese EVs.
Following a Feb 28 presidential executive order to deny "countries of concern" access to bulk sensitive personal data, the US Commerce Department now has its sights set on electric vehicles with Chinese technologies. The Biden administration wants to develop regulations, or restrictions, to address what it alleges are the security risks posed by Chinese EVs.
"It doesn't take a lot of imagination to think of how a foreign government with access to connected vehicles could pose a serious risk to both the country's national security and the personal privacy of US citizens," said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. In a Friday news release, her department identified China as presenting "a particularly acute and persistent threat".
To back up her scaremongering, she presented the imagining of a future in which there are millions of Chinese connected cars on US roads collecting the data on millions of Americans "every minute of every day" and sending that data back to Beijing. It is "scary to contemplate the cyber risks, espionage risks, that these pose", Raimondo said. She, like so many in Washington, sees Beijing as a foreign adversary capable of and with the intent to inflict harm on the US so it can take its place as world leader.
But there is another dimension to the "national security" threat narrative that paints a truer picture of US fears. Namely the economic competition between the two countries. As multiple Biden government officials have acknowledged, this is only a first step in the administration's bid to keep consumer-friendly Chinese EVs from "flooding" the US market, potentially driving US automakers out of business. "I'm not going to let that happen on my watch," Biden said.
Chinese EVs are no doubt a challenge for the Biden administration's attempt to help struggling US automakers. The US president has felt the pressure from Donald Trump, his immediate predecessor and possible rival in the November presidential election. Biden needs to appear tougher.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning accused the US of "trade protectionism". But this is not the protectionism of the past, which was less damaging without today's "national security" fearmongering, which is enabling the Biden administration to tighten the screws to such a marked degree.
Those spreading fears of China launching cyberattacks on US infrastructure via smart devices may want to count how many Teslas are running on Chinese roads and how many iPhones are being used by Chinese consumers.
Following their logic to its natural conclusion, the only way to address "security" concerns is to shut the doors of trade against each other completely. That will not serve the US' interests and those crying wolf about Chinese threats know it.
There are four pillars of the U.S as a superpower:
1. military hegemony
2. financial hegemony
3. cultural hegemony
4. technological hegemony ... In this case, it's technology and protectionism.
For more truths, pls read my informative and insightful, multi-page comments by 'Mister Lianghui' at, "The coming war on China": https://youtu.be/V42KtSeo3uI., on YouTube.
Head taxes on Chinese (which was also applied to Koreans and Japanese).
The Chinese Exclusion Act.
Chinese restaurant syndrome.
Internment of Japanese during WW2 (which was also applied to Chinese and Koreans), during which their businesses were looted, having started both World Wars to parasite with jew-confetti.
The burning down of "black Wall St." in Tulsa.
The Jim Crow era to hold back "people of color" including african Amerikans who were blocked from yooniversity even though they worked for NASA as detailed in the movie, "Hidden Figures", whilst peddling an imbecile such as, Albert Einstein, as a genius.
The Wolf Amendment barring Chinese from interacting with NASA or the so-called "International Space Station".
Harassing Chinese stewdents.
The China Initiative to accuse ethnic Chinese of spying.
Prosecuting Charles Lieber for collaborating with universities in China.
"Judge Rules Harvard Can Keep Discriminating Against Asians Using 'Race-Conscious Admissions'"
"Donald Trump called former US president Jimmy Carter to discuss fear China is ‘getting way ahead’ of US"
“The US focus has been on tripping up China rather than improving our own international competitiveness,” he said. “Without serious repairs to restore a sound American political economy, our future is in jeopardy, and we will be in no condition to compete with the world’s rising and resurgent great powers, especially China.”
- China-US relations: ‘let’s fix our own national messes before competing with Beijing’, says former diplomat
They're krap and they know it.
As they say in China, "success is a journey not a destination". But some species never learn. What kills you makes your species stronger. Both the Great Satan and poodle, however, admit they're breeding themselves dumber and dumberer. The "first time the mail-boat was a day late" they LITERALLY started eating one another. They started both World Wars to impose jew-confetti on the planet at Genoa in 1922, then Bretton Woods in 1944. Now they send their waste paper and waste plastic to Asia and Africa for recyclying. They think it's all over. They think they've won. They haven't the other shoe is now dropping and they're up poo creek without a paddle.
Here's more evidence of the Great Satan's belated plans to address it's twin deficits, budget and trade:
"Europe Is Wargaming a Food Crisis", reports Bloomberg BS.
Never mind that the EU's Common Agricultural Policy is notorious for paying farmers to leave land fallow.
The Great Satan's puppet, cokehead Quisling clown, Zelensky and his piano-playing penis are is also trying to overturn Ukraine's law banning foreign ownership of agricultural land.
Obviously, the Great Satan will be the buyer and the EU its captured customer, just as happened with the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines so that the Great Satan can sell Lucifer Natural Gas to the EU at three times the price Great Satan industry is paying.
BYD which has always led in China, the World's biggest car market, is now also the biggest worldwide by volume and that doesn't even include the hybrids, which Tesla doesn't make. This even had China subsidise Tesla's factory in Shanghai to the tune of $1.3bn and after building the factory in record time, now supplies over half of Tesla's self-crashing, self-immolating death-pods.
I'm guessing the major car manufacturers let Tesla "win" because the Great Satan needs to generate exports since BRICS has dumped the "worthless paper" USD in trade. China, the World's biggest trading nation, already uses yuan in over half her external trade. So now the Great Satan has to not only fund its HUGE trade and fiscal deficits, but has to balance the books.
However, with the ongoing s**t-show at Boeing, which is the Great Satan's biggest exporter, you could be forgiven for suspecting the Great Satan of trying to postpone the transition to a new monetary World order.
If Chinese EVs posed security risks to US, does that means, Tesla EVs also pose security risks to China? In the same regards, China should also impose on Tesla to use only Chinese-based operating systems in their EVs sold in China-market to make sure any data collections will be rightly monitored by Chinese government since it is data of Chinese citizens.
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