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You mean like the tariffs to EVs that Biden announced?
Yea, those are bad, too. Are you under the impression that we just don't have enough of them and that's the issue?
No, I mean that it's hypocritical criticising the other administration for following the same trend
A great deal of the Biden economic policy is focused on decoupling from China and moving outsourced corporate slave labor practices to US allies in India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
But the rub is that these countries are just importing cheap manufactured surplus from China, rebranding it, and shipping it to the US after collecting a transfer fee.
So a lot of this isn't hypocrisy as much as it is the nationalist geopolitics of DC running into the greed and deceptive practices of international business interests.
The "slave labor" thing about china is 40 years too late. China now has wildly better working conditions than India or Phillipines or Indonesia or Malaysia.
Aren't you concerned with the cold-war-like escalation that we're seeing the US adopt against china?
Right, but it's Lemmy. Talking about the universal housing, elimination of poverty, age 60 retirement policy, no chronic student debts or medical debts, blah blah blah makes you a far left anti-Taiwan tankie.
Terrified. But more for American East Asians, at the end of the day. They're already getting the Arab-American treatment by degrees. If we continue to escalate, it won't be long before they're full 2nd class citizens.
How dare you point out the hypocrisy?! Seriously though, people downvoting you need to understand that while democrats are better than trump on most issues, they're largely the same on this particular issue, so it's not exactly a point that can be pinned solely on trump.
Those taxes didn’t really impact many things that American consumers can already buy.
They mostly hit Chinese manufacturers that were on the edge of releasing sub-40k EV in the US. Example: Geely’s Volvo ex30. That thing is a very compelling alternative to what Tesla offers.
A cheaper ev hitting us market would impact what americans can buy,
My point is that Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese manufacturers EVs do not increase the cost of living in the US. It basically keeps it the same, since Americans really aren’t buying BYD or Geely cars coming from Chinese manufacturing lines.
Trump’s proposed tariffs would increase the cost of goods people in the US are already purchasing, not just the goods people might purchase.