#MANUFACTURING: Moving away from the Chinese factory floor. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hil
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
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#MANUFACTURING: Moving away from the Chinese factory floor. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-europe-tour-eu-companies-china-economy-investor-confidence-low-2024-5
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with my friend and co-host |
| 0:08.9 | Gordon Chang at Gordon G Chang and we turn to the export of the Chinese EV called |
| 0:17.0 | B.Y.D. I have seen photographs of containerships filled to the top with B.Y.D. waiting to land in Long Porched, Long Beach, California, we can presume. |
| 0:29.0 | In Rotterdam, we can presume, in all the entry ports of Europe and America, waiting, waiting, |
| 0:37.3 | and yet there is news about BYD, this magical, cheap EV that's going to satisfy net zero by such and such a date. |
| 0:46.0 | Gordon, I read that BYD is suddenly going to be doubled in price. |
| 0:50.0 | What is happening? |
| 0:52.0 | Apparently, the Biden administration tomorrow will increase the tariffs on China's green products. |
| 1:00.0 | For instance, tariffs on BYID cars could reach 100%. |
| 1:05.3 | And President Trump said that should he get reelected, |
| 1:09.7 | he will raise the Chinese tariffs on Chinese goods as well. So clearly the United States is on a |
| 1:15.3 | tariff move and this would be death for the imports from China because right now those |
| 1:21.8 | tariff rates are going to have very are going to be very high. |
| 1:25.0 | We welcome our dear friend and colleague Alan Tonelson who blogs at reality check |
| 1:30.0 | our guide on manufacturing worldwide this last decade or more, as we've seen the Chinese |
| 1:37.0 | plan to export its way to prosperity, fail and fail and fail again. But but here one more time like a football team |
| 1:45.6 | that only knows one play off tackled left off tackle right they're going to use |
| 1:51.4 | B. Y D to reestablish their their power in Europe and America |
| 1:57.1 | except Alan a very good evening to you the BYD is said to be cheap a hundred |
| 2:02.4 | percent tariff it's not so cheap. |
| 2:04.7 | But in any event, are the manufacturers in America and Europe, to your knowledge, are they going |
| 2:09.6 | to watch this happen again the way it did with solar panels the way it's done with steel we |
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