I think for me, as a former CIA officer, I feel very strongly that these cars aren't just an average cheap car. It is literally a driving surveillance package. It's collecting data on US citizens, on our facilities, on our military bases, and sending it back to China. And then, by the way, their economic playbook on this is quite literally to subsidize the heck out of those Chinese vehicles, flood the market, push out all the other competitors, including Michigan companies, and then have a stranglehold on the market. (02:38–02:45)
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Asserts that Chinese cars collect and send data back to China.
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