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).
I hope this is satire, but this being Threadi I have my doubts.
I am serious. People from western countries are deep into anti China propaganda.
Have you ever lived in a non-Western country? Or are you parroting some random copytext you saw online?
Doesn’t it bother you that you’re wrong all the time? Don’t you think that after 15 failed “China is LITERALLY COLLAPSING RIGHT NOW” predictions you ought to think about whether your source of information (the CIA) is flawed?
Does it ever occur to you that to a neutral observer you appear identical to a doomsday cult leader on his latest “Um, well, I guess I was wrong, but the world really is ending next month” pivot?
Right, so because I don’t believe the following:
This makes me a “doomsday cult leader”.
Sure, thing! ;)
I mean denying those things just makes you equivalent to a flat earther. What makes you a doomsday cult leader is being on board with the “China is collapsing!!!” nonsense even though we’re on the 100th failed prediction already.
I know the reading comprehension skills of flat earthers and doomsday cultists tend to be stunted so I’m being patient with you.
Of course, of course!
You’re not at all engaging in demagoguery and trying cheaps tricks (no one can read the thread OP what it says specifically)! So what kind of discussion can there be about no one buying into your narrative, right?