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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    5 hours ago

    They brutally exploit their people. 6 days a week, 12 hours a day work in factories, for substinence wages, dumping their pollution, no protections, no unions, brutal one party state controlling every word spoken.

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      Really taking the shaft of capitalism and even getting the balls in. Impressive suckery from a gullible sucker. Kudos!

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        Says the guy stroking off one of the most repressive regimes in the world.

        Do not let a group of half witted tankie thralls convince you you are right, anyone in reality will ignore every opinion you have knowing you hold up china as a great government. And troll for them with gay terminology, something china would lock you up for.

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          So you think moving away from fossil fuels and moving to electric is a net negative not worthy of comment? It is possible to can praise the good without endorsing the bad. And cocksucking isn’t inherently gay that just seems to be part of some latent homophobia you harbor. But then you went and used cockfondling to what, insult me? I’m a decent cockfondler and bet you give toothy head. But not that good kind with a little drag on the backstroke rather that just stop and let it fuck your esophagus kind. Also, keep up, ‘Tankie’ has been so overplayed it just indicates you are a lazy and your argument is weak. But I’ll humor you. Defend your statements of China with proof…