For now.

No, they can't and won't. Your views do not represent the average American.

No, I'm pretty sure Italian automakers are worse.

Yeah right. Enjoy not selling any cars.

There are a lot of Americans that don't want public transportation and bike routes.

The CCP is disgusting! But make sure to buy their products! Oh and also, why are you singling out American auto manufacturers? The CCP has its sights set on Toyota and VW first . . .

You don't want the infotainment system being handled by the same control module as the engine or safety system/airbags. Realistically-speaking you want maybe three separate control modules. Anything more than that and it's someone either overengineering their cars or using cheap low-performance components featuring legacy chips that can't be relied on to handle multiple subsystems.

How cheap is cheap? If you're in the $20-$30k range there's still a lot available. The problem is people keep trying to buy SUVs or trucks, and those are NOT cheap.

Maybe among the wumao on Slashdot. Otherwise? No.

https://economy.ac/news/2025/1...

https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan...

It just means a). China often misrepresented how bad these deals would be prior to duping client states into signing them and b). the deals often don't provide as much benefit as expected, making it even harder to make debt payments.

Meanwhile IMF loans can be defaulted on repeatedly. They're a bit of a joke.

China will take their payment in other ways. Plus they have an excess of production capacity for solar panels so they need a place to send their product to keep their industry running.

The article seems to indicate that it won't, if Cuba has only met 10% of its power demands after massive expansion. It's a convinient place for China to ship excess capacity when saturating other markets.

Plus after what happened in Venezuela, it seems like Cuba is willing to make concessions to the USA.

Really? Why? Seen how well China has treated some of their partners elsewhere?

https://www.atlanticcouncil.or...

Chinese nationals are becoming widely hated in B&R partner countries for all manner of foul behavior.

Belt & Road loans are actually worse than your typical IMF deals.

The USA doesn't want China (or Russia) to have a launch platform for missiles or other weapons 90 miles off the Florida coast.