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Eventually the US auto market will be eaten alive. Lower cost vehicles cannibalize US manufacturers revenue and their business model requires large revenues, even when profits are low or nill.
The reason to be concerned is Chinese vehicles are equipped with all the sensors necessary for a distributed spy network. I don't think there's any way to guarantee data stays in the US. Chevy, Ford, etc will use this for reason to not change, given the government has an interest in keeping out Chinese vehicles.
The domestic automakers all have the same shit. Why would the Chinese go to all the trouble to build and sell cars here to run espionage, when they can just compromise a prebuilt distributed mobile camera and microphone service (aka all modern cars)?
I'm more okay with China spying on me than US companies. China doesn't really have a way or motive to effect my life.
They (say they are) are worried about national security. Like they don't want it being able to somehow map all military bases or whatever.
That's really a tall tale they are trying to sell though.
They don't want a cheap competitor in the American markets and they don't have a guarantee that Chinese companies will hand over data on a whim the way they can force American manufacturers to do.
At this point, the current clown government has been hacked by every adversary America has due to the gutting of all the people who managed opsec… wouldn’t really make much difference if Chinese EVs were sold here. Just don’t allow them on military bases is all you have to do.