For a European country that’s a very unusual list.
Tesla at nr. 44 with only 4 sold.
Xiaomi at 26 with 49 sold, AFAIK not even available in most European countries.

Most sold model is VW ID UNYX, which is built by XPENG for the Chinese market?
This model is not available in Denmark where I live.

if it wasn’t desperately needed elsewhere.

That’s kind of the point no?

Absolutely moronic headline, it’s a gigantic straw man argument, as you say nobody wants to pay higher taxes just for fun.
Also it’s an absolutely shit article with near zero content for several full-screen page scrolls on a 32 inch monitor!!

It would make a hell of a lot of sense if Epstein worked for Mossad. It could also explain how Israel continuously has evaded backlash from USA.

You are dead wrong, Estonia is represented in many fora that has China’s acute attention.
Estonia is a small country, but they are a country with an independent voice, that is participating in decisions in for instance EU and NATO.

Estonia has been absolutely killing it the past few years on foreign affairs, and has the attention of many countries that are way bigger than them, especially in Europe.
Also they work directly together with Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania, on foreign policies related to the Ukraine war.

Your knee jerk reaction that a big country can just ignore a small country, is naive and wrong. Especially regarding Estonia which is very respected and influential. There’s a reason they are so often in the news on their political announcements.

USA is not touting free markets anymore. Trump pretty solidly ended that. But on EV the Democrats were in on it, preventing Chinese cars from entering USA at all, while allowing massive subsidies to flow to Tesla.
USA is all about protectionism now, and is the least free market for cars in the developed world now.

The story about new cars being sold as used at reduced prices is old, and the Chinese government tried to intervene on that already half a year ago.
That said the situation in the Chinese car industry is indeed crazy. With every possible financial trick they can think of being used.
Including 6 month delayed payments to suppliers, that instead get vouchers they can sell to be able to continue.
As the article writes, some of them should have been bankrupted by now, but “somehow” they all keep going.
The “somehow” possibly being things like regional politicians supporting the factories to keep the jobs. ( Which is common in mostly all countries to do. )

It’s very interesting to follow the current problems of car makers across the globe, with for instance even the mighty VW group also having problems. Difference is that last I heard, they have margin enough on sales to still remain profitable, although it’s only with 5%, which is a very narrow profitability for a market with heavy R&D cost.

Anyways, I’m personally betting this cutthroat competition which is currently also spreading in EU will last through next year too, so I’m still waiting a bit before going electric. Expecting ever better offers to come next year too.

We sure live in interesting times. 😱

You are right, I somehow confused six digit and six zeroes.
I was thinking of someone making a million.

Still keeping within your means, you should be able to buy a car without taking a loan.

I suppose this is the reason Republicans are no longer peddling freedom for the masses, but has switched to fascism.
Fascism is better to control the masses for a while longer, while the rich continue to bleed the country.

If you make 6 figures, you should be able to buy a pickup truck without taking a loan.

The top 10% of earners drive more than 49% of all consumer spending

This is insane, this is like apartheid South Africa, an upper class minority owns and gets and decides everything, while the rest are slaves to a system that only supports the upper class while oppressing the poor and working class, to maintain the status quo.

No what you are describing isn’t even really a politician, but just a demagogue.
A demagogue makes promises to win an election, a politician work to deliver on the promises, and help make things better.

A politician is a person who participates in policy-making processes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician

Winning an election is only a means to become a politician, not the end.

Politicians make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy.

Exactly the parts I described as determining whether a politician is good or bad.

A more formal definition:

Politician: 1: a person experienced in the art or science of government especially: one actively engaged in conducting the business of a government. 2a : a person engaged in party politics as a profession.[1]

So contrary to what you claim, not at all about campaigning or election by any definition, but the actual work that is done AFTER an election.

Thanks, that’s an amazing TLDR, and that sounds like a good fit to how it was IMO.
I think her plan to make it easier to buy a house, may have been part of how people thought she just doesn’t get it.

Thanks,

I only briefly skimmed the article - it is pretty long

Exactly, I ended up reading the first third or so, but thanks for the Paragraph, that seems like the author’s own TLDR.
The only one she would have been better than is of course Trump, but here we are…

I disagree, he is a terrible politician but an excellent demagogue.
People seem to confuse the idea of getting people to vote for you as the only requirement for being a good politician, but that is definitely not true.
To be a good politician, you need to also be able to improve conditions in the country,and create acceptance of the policies, and as president to be able to cooperate with congress for the good of the country, and to not be corrupt is pretty high up there in requirements too.

I have no idea how anyone can call Trump a good politician???

Oh, so you don’t like my summary of the article you didn’t read

I actually read quite a bit of the article before responding.

For instance her idea that having a gay running mate might be a problem, was in my opinion naive.
It’s like she thinks democratic voters will only vote for the status quo, when they are screaming for change.
But that so typical for many people, they are so obsessed with appearances, that they end up always seeming superficial and shallow and without substance.
Stupid when there was no way she could beat Trump on that aspect.

That does not ring true as the reason why she lost the election.
Trump is absolutely an even worse politician and way more out of touch with reality. But it didn’t matter because so are the people that vote for him.
I think it’s more that she is out of touch with the voters, and they absolutely were on Gaza. Not because they didn’t know, but because Democrats didn’t want to change their policy on Israel.

The above sounds more like your personal opinion than a result of reading the article.

Man that’s a long article.
TLDR anyone?

Welcome to the 1%. 😋
Yes there are some that switch, and also kudos to those who try, even when they find it’s not for them.
I’m just sad that the problems with Windows isn’t enough for more to abandon it? I simply don’t get “normal” people.

Backlash is actually losing business, what they are really getting is a lot of whining from people who never do anything anyway.
It was the same with Windows 95, XP, then Vista, then 8 and 10 and now 11.
Very few who are used to Windows will abandon it just because it’s becoming a surveillance hellscape of forced updates, advertising and other annoyances.
Microsoft is posting record profits on their way down, just like Intel did 10 years ago.
That said Microsoft is still in a better position, and while Windows may lose relevancy, Microsoft has way more revenue coming from other sources than Intel had without X86.