Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs
iii@mander.xyz 2 weeks agothe guy alone has that amount of crushing power.
Nobody of right mind takes this at face value. This isn’t a pro wrestling heavyweight championship belt, with Jinping suplexing the Hong Kong protestors.
It’s obviously as head of an autoritarian communist regime, using corona measures and a militarized police, suppressing people for political reasons.
Pirate@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
But even that is incorrect.
Yes, Xi Jinping is powerful, but the communist party of China is not the military, and there is a fair amount of decentralization in decision making.
Further, the guy above goes “look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!” even though he isn’t because guess what, he doesn’t actually have the power to do so.
Also, none of that garbage has anything to do with the topic of EV production, which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government.
Which is why I said the dude is just spewing brainless propaganda and Red Herring.
iii@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I think you’re the only one reading it that way. The rest of us understand that it happens within a context of an autorirarian regime.
Independent untill the party decides they’re not independent. (Eg).
Pirate@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Again another non-sequitor that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Nobody disagrees that China doesn’t like people publicly criticizing their government.
That has rigorously NOTHING to do with the normal operation of companies that do not engage with politics in China, which is the topic at hand.
Also, it is the US that has been kidnapping people into unmarked vans and arresting people at airport, detaining them for however long, and deporting them to countries that aren’t their own for as little as having a meme criticizing the current US regime.
So really, which one is the dictatorship?
The sooner we stop seeing China as enemies, the better. We need them more than ever now that the US has decided to go full mask off.
So try to stay on topic. BYD is free to operate as it wishes in China, along with several millions of other companies. And their products are good.
iii@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
There’s no such thing. A person nor company can’t unilaterally decide “not to engage with politics”, as politics engages with them in thousands of ways. The best they can do is self-censorship, which, even when successfull, is in itself a form of political engagement.
False dichotomy 🙄
Who’s “we” in this case? And why would they “need” someone now, because of stuff in the US?