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biofriendlyblogSep 18, 2010
I guess that's one way to get them to share....ban them from selling vehicles in China, if they won't.
wjappeSep 18, 2010
With all the Chinese imports of all varieties I'm surprised that they have not exported cars yet to to the US
bossm4nSep 18, 2010Submitter
Have you seen any of the crash tests of the Chinese vehicles? Not pretty. No way they would pass government standards to hit the highways. What they are doing in this case potentially sets an ugly precedent and could start an even uglier trade/tariff war.
drjekelmrhydeSep 19, 2010
That's why they brought Volvo
tabdelineatedSep 19, 2010
Watch the BMW E-Class Crashtest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYzYeeemLI4 ,
Then a chinese car Crashtest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A
isa9191Sep 25, 2010
Where can I buy a BMW E-Class? I want one!
thoughtsonthisSep 18, 2010
Well that's a plan! Not.
hbyrneSep 18, 2010
Combined with their heavy-handed control of rare-earth metals, which play into battery and ev technology, we can all look forward to China playing a significant role in the auto industry of the future.
eraptorSep 19, 2010
Look forward? Hardly. Nothing kills a vibrant market quite as much as anti-competitive behavior and the Chinese have no qualms about creating state-owned monopolies/oligopolies.
frazgoSep 18, 2010
holy crap...legalized theft
langfordSep 19, 2010
Technically patents are government invented monopolies to begin with, with no real reach beyond what other nations are polite enough to enforce. As much as I would dislike being an inventor that was stolen from, the world would still get by just fine without them.
bobosmitorSep 18, 2010
Just wrong. It is like blackmail.
"Give us info. or else!"
oboySep 19, 2010
Is it me or are Chinese companies and the Chinese government getting a little bit power-happy?
tyg10Sep 19, 2010
It is NOT just you.
shutupflandersSep 19, 2010
How many Fords and Chevys do the Chinese actually buy anyway? I thought they all walked or rode bicycles.
drjekelmrhydeSep 19, 2010
Buick is huge in China
o76923Sep 19, 2010
GM does better in China than the US
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business/global/22auto.html
Closed AccountSep 19, 2010
You mean it WASN'T a good idea to hand over the manufacture of everything from iPod Shuffles to giant loading cranes over to a totalitarian government?
isa9191Sep 25, 2010
Its not that it was all handed to them. Theres always the option of pulling out of china... so go ahead... pull out.
neotechniSep 19, 2010
Wait, since when did we have to abide by laws other countries make up?
The Pirate Bay was founded on the principle that you only have to obey local lawsComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
isa9191Sep 25, 2010
When you start selling to said country...
kaiosamaSep 19, 2010
Any country that has its industries threatened by a thieving chinese government should reciprocate by banning the selling of a number of chinese goods in returns.
These f**ks that live off exports are going threaten to literally steal foreign intellectual property? Good luck with that.
immediateactionSep 19, 2010
Dude, f**k you China and suck my dick.
spycatcherSep 19, 2010
More and More American jobs will be lost.
jdsteffenSep 19, 2010
Easy, first move to India and forget about China. If they want the cars, they can buy them from us, or india
o76923Sep 19, 2010
At least somebody is serious about going green...
berkanaSep 19, 2010
They're not serious about going green; China persecutes its own environmental activists, and even its green industries are horribly polluting. The cheap solar panels China is dumping in Europe and the US are cheap because they dump the toxic by-products of photovoltaic production into their filthy rivers, whereas every other nation rich and educated enough to develop photovoltaics has strict regulations on the handling and processing of the toxic byproducts. See this:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/solar_pollution_china.php
China isn't serious about going green; China is just so damn greedy and has such an inflated sense of its own entitlement that they don't care who or what they have to screw over to secure an unfair advantage.
rantusSep 19, 2010
f**k THEM. I never understood how people in this county rationalized giving away all of our nation's real work to a communist state. Oh yeah, because it made a handful of useless, politically collected junk peddlers rich, and then their spoiled rotten lowlife kids took over and they wanted to get even more rich so they did the same to the nth degree. Now China tells us what to do?
You reap what you sow.
eraptorSep 19, 2010
Just to be clear, the American people didn't support the country's economic direction, it was done without their understanding and consent.
As IBM's former HR executive once said, by the time the U.S. government realizes what the private sector was doing, it would be too late. He retracted that statement shortly thereafter, but the truth is now out there for all to see. The U.S. manufacturing migration to China was silently championed by corporate interests, NOT the American people, and it was driven by the greedy desire for CHEAP LABOR.
Closed AccountSep 19, 2010
china is basically legalizing industrial espionage and rather than stealing the data this time, they are demanding it.
look it takes money to research and develop s**t. millions. hundreds of millions. billions. and china already gets most of those specs for free by ripping off products and infiltrating companies. how would you feel if you invested 100 million into a company or even 50 thousand and your gains are practically nothing because china basically stole your product and competed against it.
china owes nearly 100% of it's profits as a country, to other countries. they need to start showing a little damn respect. If I had my way china would be embargo'd by every nation on this planet until they're on their knee's in poverty.
eraptorSep 19, 2010
One has to wonder if the U.S. government will EVER wake up to the dangers posed by our trading partners' anti-competitive market behavior?
Personally, I believe it's time to disband the WTO, renegotiate EVERY international trade agreement and establish trade relationships based upon mutually benefit. As it stands, U.S. trading partners are undermining the U.S. economy in every way conceivable, yet our President, economic "advisers" and legislators tell us to stay the course on trade because the U.S. economy will "magically" correct itself. As if...
eraptorSep 19, 2010
How is this behavior by China NOT a violation of trade? Isn't the theft of intellectual property and trade secrets a trade violation? If not, then the U.S. should abandon its trade agreements with China and former U.S. trade negotiators should be tried for treason.