{"id":2656747,"date":"2026-09-09T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-must-stop-chinas-surveillance-machines-from-flooding-the-us-car-market-at-all-cost\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:05:03","slug":"we-must-stop-chinas-surveillance-machines-from-flooding-the-us-car-market-at-all-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-must-stop-chinas-surveillance-machines-from-flooding-the-us-car-market-at-all-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Stop China&#8217;s &#8216;Surveillance Machines&#8217; from Flooding the US Car Market at All Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-must-stop-chinas-surveillance-machines-from-flooding-the-us-car-market-at-all-cost%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2656747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content discusses the impact of China&#8217;s rise in the automotive industry and the geopolitical and security risks associated with Chinese dominance. It highlights that despite promises made when China joined the WTO in 2001, such as promoting democracy and protecting intellectual property, these goals have not been achieved. Instead, China has become the world&#8217;s largest vehicle producer, electric vehicle manufacturer, and battery cell producer, with significant advantages due to state-subsidized, unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, and cybersecurity concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The article emphasizes the importance of the U.S. maintaining its automotive industry, which is a major economic contributor and employer, by resisting Chinese competition and preventing Chinese vehicles-especially those with advanced sensing and telecommunications capabilities-from entering the U.S. market. It advocates for policy measures including tariffs and bans on Chinese vehicles, supported by bipartisan congressional efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the piece underscores the need for the U.S. to reject Chinese automakers&#8217; attempts to bypass restrictions by establishing production facilities domestically and stresses the importance of safeguarding national security and privacy. The author, with a background in national security, urges continued vigilance and policy action to protect American economic and security interests from China&#8217;s strategic expansion in automotive manufacturing and technology.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>When China was granted most favored nation status in 1997 and allowed into the World Trade Organization in 2001, the American people were promised such moves would lead to China becoming more democratic and peaceful, provide protections against theft of intellectual property, result in America manufacturing and exporting more goods to China, and there would be no loss of domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n<div>Of course, none of these things have happened.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In fact, it\u2019s been the opposite. Today China is the top threat to the United States of America, and they are working around the clock to overtake America in every industry. One of the most significant industries under threat is auto manufacturing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Automaking is America\u2019s largest manufacturing sector. Every $1 added to the economy by motor vehicle manufacturing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosinnovate.org\/posts\/press-release\/auto-innovators-data-driven-report-release\">creates<\/a> an additional $4.23 in economic value. Every direct job in vehicle manufacturing supports another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/money\/cars\/2025\/01\/30\/alliance-automotive-innovation-study-industry-impact-michigan\/78032087007\/?gnt-cfr=1&#038;gca-cat=p&#038;gca-uir=true&#038;gca-epti=z1109xxp001019c001019e1109xxv003157d--45--b--45--&#038;gca-ft=164&#038;gca-ds=sophi\">nine<\/a> American jobs. In total, the auto industry employs <a href=\"https:\/\/wanada.org\/auto-industry-supports-13-3-million-jobs\/\">10 million<\/a> Americans in all 50 states, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosinnovate.org\/DataDriven\">generates<\/a> 5% of GDP and drives $1.2 trillion into the economy annually.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But China\u2019s worldwide strategy of automotive manufacturing and supply chain expansion \u2014 directed by the Chinese government and rooted in state subsidized, unfair, anticompetitive trade practices, intellectual property theft, and documented cybersecurity and surveillance risks \u2014\u00a0has been successful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>China has become the world\u2019s largest vehicle producer, vehicle market, and automotive exporter, owning nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/carnewschina.com\/2026\/02\/05\/china-accounted-for-35-6-of-the-global-automotive-market-in-2025-a-new-record-high\/\">35%<\/a> of global production. In 2024 alone, China produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.best-selling-cars.com\/china\/2024-full-year-china-car-production-and-exports-by-brand\/\">31 million<\/a> vehicles, which is three times more than the United States.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This extends into the electric vehicle market, with China dominating global battery cell production. In fact, China is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/data-and-statistics\/charts\/current-and-future-committed-battery-manufacturing-capacity-by-technology-in-china-2030\">projected<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/data-and-statistics\/charts\/current-and-future-committed-battery-manufacturing-capacity-by-technology-in-china-2030\">account<\/a> for 4,402 GWh of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-reclaims-title-of-worlds-richest-man\/\" title=\"Musk Reclaims Title Of World...s Richest Man\">battery cell production capacity<\/a> in 2030 \u2014 more than North America, Europe, and Asia (ex-China) combined. Of course, in some ways we have invited China\u2019s dominance, especially when it comes to electric vehicles.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclimategroup.org\/our-work\/news\/us-announces-it-will-aim-achieve-least-50-all-new-car-sales-be-electric-2030\">50%<\/a> of new vehicle sales be zero-emission by 2030. Later in his term, he <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Technology\/biden-replace-entire-federal-fleet-electric-vehicles\/story?id=75488441\">pledged<\/a> that his administration would work toward the full electrification of the federal government\u2019s 650,000-vehicle fleet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These sorts of policies set the stage for Chinese automakers to flood the U.S. market with their cheap EVs. That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening in Mexico and Europe where Chinese automakers and suppliers have rapidly expanded their presence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/research-products\/report\/connected-and-autonomous-cars-security-risks-from-chinese-components\/\">Chinese vehicles<\/a> incorporate an array of sensors and significant computing and telecommunications capabilities. Allowing vehicles manufactured by Chinese companies into the U.S. market raises the risk that sensitive data could be accessed, aggregated, or exploited by the Chinese Communist Party.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In other words: We could have cheap, Chinese surveillance machines on our streets, in our communities, and near our military bases, spying on our families while parked in our home garages, and sending our personal data back to Beijing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thankfully, the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania gets it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On his first day in office, President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/trump-revokes-biden-order-that-set-50-ev-target-2030-2025-01-21\/\">rescinded<\/a> the previous administration\u2019s EV orders, signaling we would no longer be a pawn in China\u2019s quest for EV dominance game. The president and his administration have held the line, most recently at the Beijing summit back in May. But it is essential that the U.S. remain vigilant and clear-eyed about the economic and national security risks Chinese vehicles present.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>President Trump must reject any attempt by Chinese manufacturers to circumvent existing restrictions, including Section 301 tariffs and the Department of Commerce\u2019s connected vehicle rule, by establishing production facilities in the U.S. The market distortions and risks to the auto industry in the U.S. are fundamentally the same whether these vehicles are imported or produced domestically.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Congress must do its part, too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Perhaps surprisingly both houses (and both parties, no less) have already sent a clear message that China\u2019s strategy to dominate global automotive manufacturing deserves a national security policy response from the American government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Both the Senate and House are considering plans to ban Chinese vehicles from the U.S. In fact, the bipartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/4429\">Connected Vehicle Security Act of 2026 <\/a>was recently approved by the Senate Commerce Committee, and the House Energy &#038; Commerce Committee approved its own China vehicle ban earlier this year. That\u2019s a good start.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is critical that we come together and reaffirm to China and to the world that the United States remains the strongest and most powerful nation in the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let\u2019s start with ensuring no Chinese surveillance of American families here at home.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Mr. Gray is the CEO of American Global Strategies LLC served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff of the White House National Security Council, 2019-21.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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