Protecting automakers can be considered a vital business for national security. This is not good for consumers, but relying on China for everything also carries many risks.

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Jarwain 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If China could sell it's cars here, it would spur American automakers to innovate, no? Government protectionism causes complacency

	▲	lan321 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's a balance. If a country is investing severely in a specific industry you can either tax them out of your swamp, counter invest in your industry or, realistically, do a mix. It'd be difficult to compete with companies receiving large gov assistance without gov assistance and I find taxing them slightly safer than making it rain on specific people/companies.
	▲	surajrmal an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It definitely worked in the past with Japanese cars.