Posted on 09/18/2024 6:41:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
The British government’s open-doors approach to electric vehicles from Communist China threatens to undercut domestic manufacturing and expose the country to national security risks, with a think tank warning that EVs could be “weaponised” by Beijing.
A report from the China Strategic Risks Institute (CSRI) warned that the growing market share of and dependency on Chinese-made electric vehicles in Britain presents both “economic and security risks” to the United Kingdom.
The report noted that the UK’s domestic car industry is responsible for 198,000 manufacturing jobs, representing 2.5 per cent of the country’s entire GDP.
However, given Communist China’s subsidization of its burgeoning EV sector, producing an excess of five to ten million cheaply-produced cars per year, the failure by Westminster to impose import restrictions will threaten the future of British car manufacturing.
This process has already begun to have major impacts, with the CSRI claiming that Chinese-made EVs have increased their UK market share from just 2 per cent in 2019 to 33.4 per cent in the first half of 2023.
The think tank warned that London’s refusal to levy tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, as opposed to the neighbouring European Union, could result in Britain becoming a “dumping ground and a potential backdoor into the European market” for Beijing. This could represent a point of friction between the UK and its allies in Europe as well as in the United States, potentially threatening trade with its closest partners, the CSRI said.
Yet, the threats posed by flooding the UK with cars made in China are not merely contained to the economic realm, with the CSRI warning that components within the foreign EVs could be “weaponised” by the communist nation.
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The precedent is set so people beware. May have been clever and got rid of some bad ones but the concept is now out there to be repeated.
israelis blow up beepers, china could do a lot more damage with EVs
Starman plans to flush the UK down the Chinese Communist Party Toilet . When they buy those EVs watch the Chinese turn the supply of spare parts and then the UK is really screwed
A lot of rolling incinerators.
EVs are the new snake-oil
Cellphones, computers and etc too.
Start fires that can not be put out.
My toaster is spying on me........My coffee maker is paranoid.................
Any product can be weaponize.
I wondered if Beanie Babies or Cabbage Patch Kids were Chinese bio weapons or incendiaries.
Maybe Tampon Tim is a Chinese Weapon.
Unfortunately, living in Upstate NY salt-laden winters, it eventually rusted down to the frame and I had to replace it.
I want my '95 F-150 back!!!
Thanks to all the network features, all they’d have to do is activate a kill switch which would jam up traffic everywhere.
That’s why democrats want kill switches in cars.
My Nissan and Ford gas trucks are fine and have a lot of miles left in them. My town has exactly one charger. Not one charging station, one charger. The same white EV is usually plugged into it when I happen to drive by.
The motor vehicle industry should be financially balanced by nation as the US/Canadian industry once was.
The US would send parts and cars north, Canada would send parts and cars south of roughly equal value.
So everybody knows who the Village Idiot is...............
What Israel did was not new but it’s scary and fascinating nevertheless. China could easily throw malicious code into their ekectronics products sent to America. We would never know until it is too late. I always thought Terminator was far fetched but I expect it to be closely replicated as time goes on.
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