Probably not.
It just makes sense to produce cars for the Chinese market in China. Consider the transportation costs for shipping a Jeep from Detroit to Beijing.
As an example, Nissan has shifted production of the Leaf from Japan to Tennessee. The batteries are produced there, too. In doing so, they've been able to drop the price of the car by five or six thousand dollars.
This just doesn't smell conspiracy-worthy.
Yes the US is becoming Japan’s Mexico.
“This just doesn’t smell conspiracy-worthy.”
The conspiracy involves the fact that our jobs have been shipped there (along with the incomes) because there are 1 billion+ consumers there (and 1 billion+ in neighboring India), and there is simply no way we can manufacture here with only 300 million consumers (with increasingly crappy jobs). Even leaving our borders open isn’t drawing enough people; there is no reason to make anything here anymore, and as a result there is no reason to try selling here either (since disposable income for most people disappeared years ago). We have traded positions with Red China, working for sustenance while they build a middle class in the same manner we did 60 years ago.
It is actually a creepy thing to behold.