Western auto manufacturers are in trouble mainly because of restrictions placed upon them by western governments. China’s manufacturing is flourishing specifically because there are none of those restrictions, and the wages are borderline slavery-level.
Tariffs and other importation taxes combined with firm enforcement of vehicular safety standards are the only way to level this playing field, and incidentally the correct and constitutionally mandated method of raising money to operate the fedgov.
We all know that this will NEVER happen, though.
Smart as a brick...