[thevagrant]

Those are two separate issues.

A tariff helps balance the playing field for US manufacturing and does not try to solve the hacked car scenario

US needs manufacturing and tariffs unfortunately are in part necessary

[geysersam]

How can a tariff 'balance' the playing field? Isn't that slightly double speak a la 1984? I think the US has every right to impose the tariffs they want, but let's call it what it is: anti-competetive protectionism.

[bobthepanda]

The Chinese government is accused of subsidizing electric car manufacturing in which case it’s just two protectionist players.

China has the capability to support double the car manufacturing of its current domestic market, and plants have already been mothballed due to the glut https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/business/china-auto-facto...

[Nifty3929]

At the expense of the Americans who are not in the automotive business.

[wholemodern]

short sightedness. when your fellow citizens lose their jobs to foreign invaders, you will feel it eventually.