That may be a factor, but Germany is maybe the country in the world with the most auto industry. Possibly tied with Japan.
And while Japan favors USA, which may be in line with your thinking, Japan has always had problematic relations with China. Which is a more likely explanation IMO.
Still Germany favors China, so that speaks against your idea. And what's notable is that most traditional American allies, now doesn't even favor USA over China which has been a strained relation to mostly all those countries for a long time.

I think what pisses people off is that USA is clearly abandoning their allies, friends and core values about international law and both political and trade relations, we've agreed on for more than 80 years.

USA abandoning Ukraine after they promised to protect Ukraine when they gave up their nukes, is a very strong political signal that USA can't be trusted as a friend or ally.

We don't expect much from China, as long as they don't invade Taiwan that's a plus!
With low expectations it's much easier for China to live up to them.
USA on the other hand, is failing completely with Trump threats lies and manipulation, and not only Trump, but the entire administration and MAGA and GOP. So USA is looking more and more as no better than China.
And with China being the more reliable of the two, the favor tilts towards China now!

It's really really sad that USA has fallen so deeply away from decency and respect of human rights, and have so little intention of following any promises previously made in international political agreements. Fuck Trump even abandoned his own trade agreement with Canada for no rational reason! And USA is threatening to invade an allied country!

IMO this has little to do with working in a car factory, but much more to do with Trump creating insecurity, and fucking everybody over, and looking more and more like a Nazi doesn't help either.

I give it 5-10 years, if that, before Brazil flips to China. Especially since Trump is trying to tell them how to run the country and China is proposing a transcontinental railroad.

So this is asking if you are a Sinophobe or Ameriphobe?

How problematic

I imagine that will be the case many places elsewhere also. Certainly that is in line with my own thinking.

Opinions on China haven’t improved, the US has just fallen that far.

Weeelll maybe not entirely, while I think you are right about public opinion not having improved much towards China, and most of it is because USA definitely has fallen.
There is a matter about pragmatic politics of necessity or "real politics" as we call it here, but I don't know if that term means the same in English. But in that regard China has REALLY shot up in popularity, as the option for cooperation to keep our economies afloat while USA is hammering everybody including themselves on the economy, and is causing grat instability.

EU has made many trade deals since Trump became president, Closer ties with UK, new deals with Canada within multiple areas including defense cooperation, and trade deal with Indonesia and Singapore.
Some of these deals have been negotiated over years, but after Trump, they have suddenly become "finalized". Meaning they will be written into law.

In the exact same way talks with China are now way more open about improving trade relations, to compensate for USA being unreliable. So in practical terms, relations with China are actually improving because of Trump!

Yes, we know. You were supporting US atrocities without a shred of guilt or empathy for as along as you've existed. You only flipped because you're now on the receiving end of it this time.

Not really surprising. China's not a particularly great neighbor since their govt seems to enjoy claiming territory it don't actually control.

I can safely report that is not the reason why the US is more popular in Brazil.

The US importing guns from Brazil has the same vibe as Saudi Arabia importing sand from Australia

I too fear the purge comrade

Terran privilege

Right, definitely not the cancer that is the US, let's compare the countries they invaded and how many deaths they caused.
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That would make sense considering that all of their neighbours were originally part of India before it was India and split off because of disagreements of some sort.

You aren't wrong lol but China is in that special group for us which constitutes Pakistan, and now Bangladesh is interested in joining that group for some reason of no fault of our own

Nobody even knows about them at the global level

I don't have to provide anything.
Just pointed out this source is BS.