Led by the automaker BYD, China has established itself as the main car supplier in Mexico. The US worries China could use Mexico as a “back door” to sidestep tariffs and gain footing in the US market.

Foreign investment would be an economic boost for Mexico. The company has claimed that a plant there would create about 10,000 jobs. A Tesla competitor, BYD markets its Dolphin Mini model in Mexico for about 398,800 pesos—about $21,300 dollars—a little more than half the price of the cheapest Tesla model.

  • DeceptichumEnglish
    44·
    4 months ago

    Oh it knows how to cope, it’s why it’s pushing the neo-feudalism.

    They want a class of slave labor to use like China, not those pesky workers with rights like they have now. It’s a race to the bottom and China has the lead.

    • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      like China

      Not been to China recently eh? Or ever.

      They have free education and health care, affordable housing and government pensions. Things that taxes should be spent on instead of wars, destabilising governments you don’t like, and funding genocidal maniacs.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        4 months ago

        instead of wars, destabilising governments you don’t like, and funding genocidal maniacs.

        Instead they’re supporting Russia and Putin in the war, harass the Philippines at sea, infiltrate the government in Hong Kong and prepare to capture Taiwan.

      • DeceptichumEnglish
        19·
        4 months ago

        Last time I was in China was early 00’s. From everyone I’ve kept in contact with or met since, things have only gotten much worse for them.

      • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        4 months ago

        And they spy on every citizen they have and jail them for innocuous things or jail them for being a certain race then hide it from the world and use them as slave labor. Yeah, they’re just a utopia.

      • claudiop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        Didn’t they have some of the biggest house prices to income ratios? And wasn’t private tutoring out of control in there? And weren’t they fighting with almost every single neighbor they have?

      • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        affordable housing

        Last time I checked they had a housing finanical crisis and companies building “tofu” housing

    • DMBFFF@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Idk, Chinese workers might have it better than they did in decades passed.