China is only communist by name. They’re closer to state capitalism. But I do agree that BYD makes way better cars than Tesla, still doesn’t want one though. Chinese carmakers (and Tesla) wants everything done from the screen, and I hate that, give me some actual fucking tactile buttons and knobs.

China is technically a communist country but okay.

Far from it tbh. It's a one-party state ruled by a party that claims to be communist, but holds a monopoly on political power, controls the military and there are no free multi-party elections. It also is heavily market-oriented with a massive private sector and a stock market.

It's capitalist with a very authoritarian regime. It's closer to fascism than communism.

China is technically a communist country but okay.

China calls itself a communist country. But it has a leader for life, ethnic purges, and plenty of well documented prison/slave/child labor.

The US has plenty of problems too, and even a vehicle made here is full of Chinese parts made by the same laborers as the Chinese cars. Tesla specifically has terrible labor violations, especially since covid, but racism before that too.

I’d rather have small simple cars made by union workers and robots, with supported rights to repair and components that won’t total a vehicle if they break. I’m not sure late stage capitalism can support that, but China certainly isn’t any more interested in that future either.

China is technically a communist country

Look at the squalor!!

Oh right sorry its fine for China (who helped elect the current US Admin) to want to expand their borders and try to kill you because also some other country is bad.

China is communist because the workers own means of production EXCEPT for the tools, factory, natural resources, currency, housing, transport, imports and exports, media, and every other facet of their lives: the dictatorship and oligarchy owns those.

BYD are also pieces of shit.

I was referring to their support in the reelection of the Trump admin and AfD, and their election meddling in Canada and Australia as attempts to subvert democracy and weaken NATO, but while we're on the subject:

They sent tanks in to take over Hong Kong, sold guns and planes to Iran which were funneled to terrorist groups across the middle east including the Hamas fighters who reignited the war in Palestine with the October Music Festival Attack and also the IRGC used them to kill more civilians last year than the entire US Conflict so far, China have been preparing to invade Taiwan, Chinese single-handedly keep the war in Ukraine going by financially supporting Russia, and also prop up North Korea which have directly fought in the war in Ukraine and launch missiles into the ocean as a threat to everyone around them.

A couple years ago they attempted to covertly build an underground military city near Beijing 10x the size of the pentagon with massive layers of concrete. They've been expanding military and aerospace presence and political involvement across Africa.

China is the single largest threat to peace and safety on this earth. The only reason they aren't storming beaches is because of EU and NATO alliances.