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Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] hellequin67@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

For Huawei , if that's the case why did US not target all Chinese manufacturers and only the one that, at the time, was becoming the most technologically competitive one.

As for EV the argument regarding takeover as a wartime industry whilst maybe true not it still smacks of US protectionist practice rather than a genuine security fear.