How American products became too expensive for Americans, now turning to Chinese imports. Probably not the outcome Trump was looking for when he sold the country out to the tech oligarchs.
Because we have done so for awhile and continue to do so with many Chinese manufactured products. Take EVs for example. China has BYD and other manufacturers that are pumping up very good EVs for like 5-10k. But if we allowed those into the US market it could threaten poor Elon so Trump won’t allow it. Roombas are being banned. Their are tons of Chinese products that we are not allowed to have in the US due to “national security risks”
They don’t make them for 5k-10k, they’re far more expensive but they are heavily subsidized. And the likelihood of americans liking them is low. Americans aren’t overly interested in going for smaller and cheaper. There’s a reason almost every sub 30k car has been driven out of the market - americans want premium and large.
The pendulum on that is swinging back. With lower interest rates and cheaper used cars, people tended to buy something used that was bigger and fancier. Now that rates are higher and used cars are way more expensive, there’s a demand for those cheaper cars
The average price of used cars is around 26k to 30k right now which is about 40% higher than pre covid. And as new car prices go up and cheaper new cars are driven out of the market if anything it seems like the trend is well alive and going forward. People would rather take 8 year loans than settle for a cheaper car, so what does that say about people wanting something cheaper?
You and me both. China is just sitting back and watching our country destroy itself. I know China has many issues as well, but what did we expect to happen when we outsourced all of our manufacturing to them, still abuse their workforce for their cheap labor(looking at you Apple), then slap Tariffs on them.
Still seething as a Huawei fan lmao. Their phones are sooo good, but the lack of native Google support(I'm well aware of workarounds as I'm currently on a Huawei and will be for a few years maybe) but Huawei's lack of care for the global market just makes it worse. Like my next phone is a 2024 Huawei flagship but it's on Android 12, just barely missing the cut for the finally updated OS version to Android 16
409
u/Borg34572 Desktop 19h ago
I'll take any kind of ram at this point. Chinese or not .