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Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They did the same to Huawei and lots followed. This has nothing to do with security and all to do with preventing China's leap ahead of US as a global economic technology powerhouse

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It does have something to do with security.

For Huawei, the USA was concerned that China could build in backdoors to its communication technology similar to how the USA probably does with its local technology.

For EV, it is becoming apparent that battery and microchip technology has the same wartime industry power that oil and steel has, so the USA doesn't want to completely give up on those industries.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Everything has something to do with security if you're paranoid/creative enough. It's a useless thought.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

For Huawei , if that's the case why did US not target all Chinese manufacturers and only the one that, at the time, was becoming the most technologically competitive one.

As for EV the argument regarding takeover as a wartime industry whilst maybe true not it still smacks of US protectionist practice rather than a genuine security fear.