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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I wonder if the DOD is smart enough to inspect its supply chains and the electronics in their weapons. I doubt it because they are likely stuck in gay orgies every day.
I am sick of the way ‘experts’ invent a new system, device, technology’. etc. and stupid idiots ... so greedy for money and power take the new ‘technology’ and run 100 MPH in any direction they want.
This is done before any oversight can establish whether it’s safe or sensible!!!
These same greedy, stupid ‘experts’ put millions of regulations on EVERY single aspect of our lives to impede business, prosperity and progress!
We now know they could make them blow up all at once.
Didn’t the Japanese do something like this with cars in a Tom Clancy book?
We’ve equiped our sea ports with heavy cranes from China. Wait until they shut those down remotely and we’re going to be really screwed. And you bet other nations are in the same situation.
Maybe it's not such a good idea to let china buy thousands of acres surrounding our most sensitive military sites.
Don’t know, never read any...............
They are ticking time bombs regardless of China.
I won’t go into their control of medical supplies and the base ingredients for pharmaceuticals. How do you fight a war against a country you are dependent on for your healthcare equipment and medications?
They can be driven remotely. The can be programmed to say drive off a cliff or drive into a crowd at top speed. Welcome to the digital age.
The precedent was set a long time ago. See: Fiery crash of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings's car. Not long after Hastings' takedown of General Stanley McChrystal, and as he was telling friends he was working on a big expose, Hastings' car inexplicably revved to high speed on a quiet residential street with no other traffic and he was incinerated. This was 2013.
With EV you get egg roll.
Another reason why the prices of old cars are going to skyrocket, as people will prefer them over EVs.
Very true! Not in mass proportions though.
Do they ‘pager’ too?
Not that you know of. They've had the capacity for a long time, and not just EVs.
Scary stuff this is.
And remember those smart meters they installed?
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