The US is battling the environmental and human rights issues that so agitate them about China by promoting 'clean coal' and rounding up brown people in concentration camps without due process.

It's almost as if environmental and human rights issues weren't their real concern 🤔.

Right there on the top of Mount should. But we've seen the self destructive nature of my country and elected leaders.

At that point you're having tax payers subsidize failing businesses that only try to collect profits over innovation. Giving more money from the poor to the rich.

Not to mention how hard you'd have to subsidize. Aside from the huge amount of money in constructing plants capable of building like China, you'd be subsidizing pay differences to a huge degree. Automakers in the US average around $30 US an hour. Chinese average $3.75 US an hour. Our two economies can't really play together that well because the differences are so massive.

Tax the fuck out of the rich on anything over like $1.5 million a year, and close all the loopholes and the problems fix themselves. The rich and the corrupt government our the problem.

Who's going to build them though? GM and Ford have almost completely eliminated producing vehicles that aren't SUVs and trucks because nobody was buying them and Tesla is floundering with a Nazi leading the company. Most people are buying German, Japanese, or South Korean cars and they aren't able to compete against China either for all the aforementioned reasons.

The fact that nobody else in the entire world can match what they're doing despite hundreds and hundreds of collective years building and selling cars should clue you in to what's happening. It's like saying a city should subsidize their local general store to compete against Walmart and wondering why nobody is doing just that.

But what about the majority of cars sold in the US which belong to foreign manufacturers, and what's your answer for why none of those nations are able to compete with what China is doing either?

Apparently no other government in the entire world is "competent" by your standards, or perhaps it's about one nation leveraging their position and influence in order to build a monopoly and not about competency at all.

China does not control the vast majority of rare earths because they're only found in China (or even because they're particularly rare, they're not.)

China controls the market because they were the only people who actually bothered to build extraction and refinement capabilities.

If the US invested half the money it puts into "clean coal" or oil and gas extraction into rare earth extraction and processing, it would have its own supplies. But that would be woke, or something.

They did stop selling garbage which is precisely why they've almost completely left the passengar car market in favor of trucks and SUVs, which sell like hot cakes.

Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep is owned by Stellantis which is based in the Netherlands. They haven't been an American company for quite some time now.