Yeah, the pressure comes from all over. It seems that the major issue here comes from China, though.

That’s a fair point and the union is under pressure because of trumps tariffs too.

Yeah, the union says that lifting the surtax now would risk undoing recent investments in vehicle assembly, battery production and critical minerals.

It's noteworthy that Chinese producer in the sector are struggling over the country own policy.

BYD global NEV sales down in September as company official warns of "bloodbath" in Chinese domestic market over price wars, overcapacity

The union specifically mentions the Detroit automakers who are engaged in a battle to see who can cripple their EV efforts the most.

This is not true.

At least in Europe and the UK, Chinese EV brands play a limited role as EV makers from other countries dominate the market. Just look at the numbers.

There are many brands outside China which are not heavily subsidized, don't use forced labour, ...

While I acknowledge the labour cost difference and the subsidisation of the EV industry in China, it might not be the best idea for the long term to protect the automakers who are steadfastly refusing to build practical EVs instead of pickup trucks and electric muscle cars.

“The Chinese are making a $10,000 EV that’s selling like hotcakes. What shall we do?”

“Build a $80,000 electric pickup truck and tell the government to block imports.”

Haha

Welp I guess it doesn’t explicitly say “don’t carpet bomb the road” in the rule book

Brazil sues China carmaker BYD over 'slave-like' conditions

Brazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD and two of its contractors, saying they were responsible for human trafficking and conditions "analogous to slavery" at a factory construction site in the country.

Did coerced labour build your car?

Thousands of cars ship out of factories every day. But at the other end of the production line, workers are shipped in – thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz every year – from Xinjiang, the western region at the centre of a long-running human rights crisis.

Moved as part of a labour transfer scheme that experts call forced labour, these ethnic minorities are coercively recruited by the Chinese state to travel thousands of miles and fill the manufacturing jobs that recent Chinese graduates have spurned. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found more than 100 brands whose products have been made, in part or whole, by workers moved under this system.

Chinese electric cars are capable of receiving commands

I'm sure you have some proof for that? Right? OTOH Tesla already did this which is way worse.

In the case of Chinese electric cars, these capabilities become potential tools for espionage

With the NSA spying on everyone, and Europe trying to stop E2E encryption every month, I'm not sure there is any difference.

If I had to buy a car, I would get a Chinese one because it passes all the safety tests of my country, and it's cheap. I'm not a billionaire and I can't afford another brand. Capitalism fucked us too much and now a lot of people can't afford local cars.

Last but not least, you are deliberately confusing privacy and safety which invalidates most of your post.

Because you can request a waymo with the app and it will come to wherever you tell it without asking any questions

Then you set it on fire

Bad actors can be in any protest in order to make it worse.

Ah I see. I thought they were anti trump protesters, but then they must be pro musk protesters.

Waymo are entirely driverless. Not so much for Tesla. Nuking a dealership would be a good idea, tho.

Cause the ones starting fires just so happen to like teslas.

Why Waymo and not Tesla?