The Wall Street Journal is reporting that U.S. automakers are seeking a workaround to avoid increased expenses resulting from President Donald Trump’s controversial tariff policy: relocating manufacturing to China.
“Four major automakers are racing to find workarounds to China’s stranglehold on rare-earth magnets, which they fear could force them to shut down some car production within weeks,” the Journal reports. “Several traditional and electric-vehicle makers—and their suppliers—are considering shifting some auto-parts manufacturing to China to avoid looming factory shutdowns, people familiar with the situation said.”
This is on-brand. In the same style Putin’s war to keep Ukraine from increasing the size of NATO with its inclusion caused traditionally neutral countries of Sweden and Finland to quickly join NATO.
Not all fuckups are fascist, but all fascists are fuckups. They just can’t help themselves - an authoritarian life is a a desperate life full of violence, hatred, and fear.
The problem with getting rid of everyone who tells you things you don’t want to hear is that bad things still happen to you but now they always come as a surprise.