Western Automakers Collapse, Japan’s Financial Gamble, and Middle East Turmoil

The global automotive industry is currently navigating one of its most challenging periods, marked by a series of disappointing financial reports from prominent Western automakers. Companies like Renault, Stellantis, and Ford have faced sharp declines in earnings and stock prices, with Nissan experiencing a dramatic 73% drop in quarterly profits, far below market expectations. These troubling figures highlight a growing concern: Western automakers are struggling to maintain their foothold in the increasingly competitive Chinese market. China, the world’s largest automotive market, registered nearly 26 million vehicle sales last year, yet Western brands are losing ground to local competitors like BYD and Geely, who are engaging in aggressive price wars.

Western automakers are hampered by higher operational costs, making it difficult for them to compete in China’s price-sensitive market. This issue is further compounded by the Chinese market’s rapid shift towards electric vehicles (EVs), where local brands are leading the charge with more affordable and technologically advanced offerings. As a result, even premium Western brands such as Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz are witnessing declines in their Chinese market share, with luxury brands like Porsche seeing a steep 33% drop in sales.

The video delves into the strategic dilemmas facing Western automakers as they navigate the complexities of the Chinese market. Should they exit China and concede the market to local competitors, or should they continue to compete, despite being outpaced in both price and innovation? The video also explores the broader implications of this shift for the global automotive industry, particularly in light of rising protectionist measures in the West, such as tariffs and taxes on Chinese EVs. Additionally, it touches on the economic challenges posed by the Bank of Japan’s recent monetary policy decisions and the escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, all of which add layers of uncertainty to the global economic landscape.

With the Chinese market proving increasingly difficult to navigate, Western automakers must reconsider their strategies if they are to survive and thrive in this rapidly evolving industry. This video provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the global automotive market and the critical decisions that lie ahead for Western automakers.

[paultsjan]

Legacy Automakers like Toyota, VW, Ford, and GM are having difficulties transitioning from traditional engines to electric vehicles due to the EV revolution and this has brought about significant changes in the automotive industry, forcing these companies to adapt.

The US and EU is using tariffs impose on China EVs cost-effective products with high quality and strong innovation in their inability to compete with China.

China has contributes significantly to the world's green and low-carbon transition with EVs as compare to Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles manufactured by US, Europe and Japan.

Chinese EV brands have been responding to US suppression by continuously innovating and gaining momentum.

The US is using trade war as an excuse for its own agenda and lay the blame on China for everything that happened.

The US actively used it as an instrument of coercion to enforce US economic interests and US hegemony.

The US is implementing protectionist policies in the form of trade barriers as part of its hallmark in its economic conflicts with China.

It is the prerogative of the US to impose new trade tariffs on EV’s and other China green energy imports.

The 100% tariff by the US on EV will hurt the lower income Americans most as it deprave the lower income Americans from owning an inexpensive and good EV for their daily transportation.

The 100% tariff is a tax levied on cheap China EV that the lower income Americans have to pay in order to owns an EV from China made models.

Other countries will be able to enjoy an inexpensive and affordable car within their means.

The major US objective is to safeguard US interests and promote US foreign policy.

The US accuses China of excess capacity in green energy.

The US like to use ambiguous words like decoupling, derisking, and tariffs in implementing trade barriers and economic sanctions against China.

The US sanctions has long been a diplomatic and economic tool used by US seeking to influence others.

The dense bureaucratic jargon and minute technical detail is a declaration of economic war on China.

The USTR report includes a summary Section 301 tariffs on the US economy.

Since their introduction in 2018,  US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has collected more than $200 billion in Section 301 tariffs on affected imports from China.

The auto industry is always consider by the US as the backbone of its industrial capabilities.

With the advent of the EV”s overhauling the auto industry from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles, the US and the West found themselves left behind with the inabilities to compete successfully with China.

The US tariff and multiple sanctions is a deliberate attempt by the US to obliterate China in its economic and trade war against China.

Europe allowed themselves to be screwed by the US as they are slaves to the US interest and the US foreign policy.

Europe are buddies of the big bully and the big bully maintains the system that they benefit from the carefully crafted US “so-called” US rule based international order that they want to keep the system in place in order to make sure that the various privilege that they have in the world economy are not taken away or threatened their privilege position.

The US is full of mischief by creating trouble and exerting its power and hegemony as well as economic dominance all over the world.

[thinkingtoomuch]

There's no turning back to US and European carmakers. The Chinese market has found something better, cheaper, greener and less genocidal.

[thinkingtoomuch]

I love seeing how Germany's vaunted engineering prowess _is suddenly something that you can do without._

[shambalkaran]

The country with nuclear weapons is scared of the country without?

[thinkingtoomuch]

You bash China at every available opportunity and *you wonder why they're not buying your brand?*
What, is your brand really _that_ hot?

[MyMikey]

why is everyone crazy to make full-electric cars? 1-there is no enough lithium 2-the batteries are heavy and expensive//Perhaps hydrogen cars are much better to do

[tikarai]

ASIA 🌏 DOSE NOT NEED USA AND EUROPEAN EXPENSIVE THINGS * AUTOMOBILE, LUXURY BRANDS ETC.... WE WILL MAKE BETTER AT LOW PRICE 😎🏖🍹🍷🥂

[petroldollarisover]

Bmw range rover bently rolls royce diamler are not worth 1cent

[petroldollarisover]

Mb I only give you 1 cent
N that is too much money for your junks