The entire article doesn't once stipulate that the grounds for banning a Chinese owned car is having telemetry that phones home to China.

Maybe Volvo still does and it's a mystery why they can still sell here. Maybe Volvo doesn't and there is no story here.

But if the car talks to China and gets updates from China, the US doesn't care if it's built here.

Honest question: what would prevent the CCP from buying telemetry on the open data market via intermediaries, from cars that were made in the USA?

But having my Tesla made in Europe phone the US is totally fine right?

Do you have an official announcement this is the case or are you just making excuses for this administration?

This is a remarkable opinion.

If we have problems with consumer-hostile behaviour like tracking users, remotely disabling vehicles, or other things like that we should outlaw those behaviours in products used in the US.

We will never do that because Western auto manufacturers want to be able to behave badly in the same way Chinese manufacturers might and they have a firm grasp on the American governments leash.

'Its from China' is a dumb reason not to allow a product into the market. If there are specific features, standards, etc that should be followed, enforce those.

What does it even mean to "get updates from China"?

Software these days is distributed and globalized in virtually every sense. Polestar is headquartered in Sweden and much of their software development is in the UK.

The audacity of the USA to do this to the entire world but banning anything foreign that does it to them.