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Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World (www.nytimes.com)
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Chinese technology companies are paving the way for a world that will be powered by electric motors rather than gas-guzzling engines. It is a decisively 21st-century approach not just to solve its own energy problems, but also to sell batteries and other electric products to everyone else. Canada is its newest buyer of EVs; in a rebuke of Mr. Trump, its prime minister, Mark Carney, lowered tariffs on the cars as part of a new trade deal.

Though Americans have been slow to embrace electric vehicles, Chinese households have learned to love them. In 2025, 54 percent of new cars sold in China were either battery-powered or plug-in hybrids. That is a big reason that the country’s oil consumption is on track to peak in 2027, according to forecasts from the International Energy Agency. And Chinese E.V makers are setting records — whether it’s BYD’s sales (besting Tesla by battery-powered vehicles sold for the first time last year) or Xiaomi’s speed (its cars are setting records at major racetracks like Nürburgring in Germany).

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[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I thought America was a democracy as opposed to China.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

US is the same as China now. Well that's not true, US foreign policy is way more batshit insane than China's. If you can even call it a foreign policy... it seems to me it's just the whims of a deranged old child molester surrounded by fucking Nazis.

And China is further away and there's pretty much zero probability China will invade my country. With the US, who knows? Kinda stupid to send money to a country I may have to be fighting against within a year.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago

Whenever I hear news of China, they built a new electric railway, invented something new, or made massive tech progress.

Whenever I hear of USA on the other hand...

...they are still following the philosoohy of the people who explicitly said they want the human race extinct.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

there’s pretty much zero probability China will invade my country.

Boots on the ground invasion? Sure, not likely.
But that's because China long ago realized the wars to be fought in the 21^st^ century are economic... and they're way ahead.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world -4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is following in china's footsteps. His longterm plan will fail because he is not authoritarian enough to retain power. If the CCP were in his shoes they'd have murdered millions of americans to ideologically cleanse the country.

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Trump is on it dummy

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

yeah this is a great example of him not being authorization enough to follow in ccp footsteps. For this to be a proper comparison it would have to be ice murdering 1000s of unarmed protestors not 1.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Using photo-generating AI has become a mixed bag for me.

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

It's not far from the truth