• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I think that’s regular capitalism. At least at far as everyone plays it.

    The most popular Chinese EVs, the ones shipped internationally, are treated as rigorously as those if any other country and recently BYD specifically have begun receiving safety scores higher than cars from other countries.

    Market dumplings? Haven’t heard that one before, what’s that?

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      Yes, but democracy keeps capitalism in check normally, but not in China.

      I’ve heard nothing but good things about modern Chinese EVs. But they still need to be checked, and keep being checked, as the China has a terrible history with regs. Also, if they are market dumping again, there needs to be tariffs to counter it.

      Raw free trade is a tragedy of the commons nonsense. Protectionism is self defeating. In the real world, most places are between those two rails.

      Market dumping is flooding a market.with your goods at a loss. It can because you have excess you want to recoop what you can from. It can also be a weapon to take over a market and destory competition.

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        7 months ago

        Democracy keep capitalism in check? Woo, citation needed, I disagree.

        Unions keep capitalism in check.

        The safety standards I’m talking about are international safety standards tested internationally, not domestic Chinese safety standards.

        https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/latest-byd-models-score-top-marks-in-euro-ncap-safety-test

        Oh, dumping*.

        It says market “dumplings” in your original comment, I thought that there was some kind of cool new economic term I didn’t know about.

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          7 months ago

          Unions, regulations, etc. But none of that works without functioning democracy. That we barely have, but it’s better than none.

          Due to experience, I don’t trust Chinese goods comply unless they are independently checked. That is reputation they have earned and now need to unearn. I don’t just blame Chinese manufacturers but also Amazon, Ebay, etc for enabling the sale of goods claiming they comply to standards they don’t.

          Yes, dumping not dumplings, but yum. 😃

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            7 months ago

            I doubt a democracy can function without unions any better than a union could function without a democracy.

            It’s fine to be wary, but now that you’ve been made aware of the independent safety testing done in Europe by independent safety commissions of Chinese EVs, why are you still implying you need different independent safety testing?

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              7 months ago

              I’m not taking about democracy without unions. I agree that would be bad. I count unions as part of the democratic process.

              I hope the independent testing is done yearly, on random cars, not just once on the design. Chinese manufacturing has earned low trust from me and that will take time to repair.

              I also have lower trust in undemocratic countries. Trade alone doesn’t improve how the act, and China is an example of that.

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                Got it. A lot of European countries are ostensibly democratic, and the European auto safety testing is fairly rigorous, same as the states.

                Heres how they work:

                https://www.euroncap.com/en/about-euro-ncap/how-to-read-the-stars/

                Chinese arbitrary manufacturing mistrust is understandable, but their auto manufacturing standards are consistently independently affirmed as world-class while Tesla roofs and doors randomly fall off vehicles, for a bit of perspective on auto safety and manufacturing methods

                Neither the US or the EU had annual testing for tested car models, which I agree would be nice.

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                  It’s not arbitrary, it’s earnt. It’s been cheap reg breaking (and spec breaking) stuff for decades. Things made of “Chinesium” are known for amazing cheapness not quality. It’s going to take a while for Chinese cars to shake off that baggage.

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                    At this point, baseless prejudice against Chinese EVs is just that.

                    They have high safety ratings, BYD has the highest safety testing Europe offers, they’ve been selling for years in Australia and Europe, and Tesla has doors and roofs falling off, Plus they just issued a recall for literally all cyber trucks because they built the accelerator pedal wrong.

                    If you don’t trust euro automotive standards, say that, don’t complain about the safety standards set by Europe that Chinese EVs are exceeding.