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Originally Posted by SFCM3
Why should China get any cars approved for sale in US? our market is tiny compared to theirs. It doesn't make any sense to jump through all the DOT and EPA hoops to get a car sold in the US when you can sell more than you can produce domestically.
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Not only that, but the be-all-end-all status car in China is a Buick -- one of the very few examples of a U.S. product being so coveted there that it officially (read: the State approves) dissuades the domestic industry in question from even trying to produce an equivalent in that import's market. Buick's state-owned parent company in China, SAIC-GM, even divested its majority share in the joint venture to GM a number of years ago.
Even so, the U.S.-market Buick Envision is made in China. So are a couple of coming Volvo imports. So is a Cadillac SUV (can't remember which one). And any Volvo or Polestar sold supports a Chinese company that, like many there, are at least partially owned by the government.