China's car exports rose by nearly 60 percent in the first quarter so the country surpassed Japan as the world's largest automotive exporter. Automobile exports from January to March – China🇨🇳 : 1.1 million units Japan🇯🇵 : 954,000 unitshttps://t.co/JslZ6CIEGp
The automotive industry in China has been the largest in the world measured by automobile unit production since 2008.[3][4] Since 2009, annual production of automobiles in China accounted for more than 32% of worldwide vehicle production, exceeding both that of the European Union and that of the United States and Japan combined.[5] .
While most of the cars manufactured in China are sold within China, exports – accounting for 11.5% of total production – reached 3.11 million units in 2022, making the country the world’s second biggest car exporter.[6] China’s home market provides its automakers a solid base and Chinese economic planners hope to build globally competitive auto companies[7][8] that will become more and more attractive and reliable over the years.[9]
This will come as no surprise, but generally speaking, Japan makes the most reliable cars out of any other country. You really can’t go wrong with Toyota, Honda, Lexus or Acura, and while they’re not quite as reliable as those four, Subaru, Nissan, and Mazda are good choices for reliability as well.18 Jan 2021
Five European automotive brands now owned by Chinese companies
Damien O’Carroll 06:59, Mar 04 2019
Do you think that, when it comes to cars, the Chinese are coming? Well, think again, because they are already here – here are five European car and car-related brands you can buy in New Zealand right now that are owned by Chinese companies.
Volvo
Probably the one most people know about, Ford sold Volvo to privately held Chinese company Geely in 2010 when it was busy bailing out of all of its non-Ford brands.
Geely has been extremely careful with Volvo, keeping production open in Sweden, while also continuing with its Belgian and Malaysian (yep, since 1967, in fact!) production facilities. It has, of course, expanded production since the takeover, opening manufacturing facilities in China, India and the United States. .
MG
MG very nearly became a victim of the whole messy, drawn-out death of the UK car industry, but was “saved” by BMW when it bought the Rover Group in 1994, only to be sold on to the dodgy Phoenix Consortium in 2000.
It was saved again in 2005 by the Nanjing Automobile Group that also wanted Rover, but Ford bought the name to protect Land Rover, that it still owned at the time, but has since sold to Indian giant Tata.
After a brief and thoroughly ill-advised period where MG stood for “Modern Gentleman”, a merger with Chinese state-owned SAIC Motor saw sanity prevail and “Morris Garages” was restored. .
Lotus
eah, that’s right – Lotus is owned by the Chinese.
Well, to be more specific since 2017 it is 51 per cent owned by Geely, with the remaining 49 per cent owned by Etika Automotive, a Malaysian truck body and trailer builder.
This came after several years under Malaysian ownership under DRB-HICOM, by way of its Proton subsidiary. Before that it was in the hands of Italian madman Romano Artioli – who also did his best to destroy Bugatti – who had purchased it from General Motors.
Geely also owns the company’s engineering consultancy firm Lotus Engineering, which has facilities in the UK, USA, China and Malaysia.
General Motors is back on top, selling more vehicles than any other automaker in 2022 in the U.S. GM took the crown back from Toyota, which sold the most vehicles in 2021 – the first time GM didn’t lead the nation in annual auto sales since 1931. Toyota was second in sales in 2022, trailing GM by about 150,000 units.10 Jan 2023
100% Of Kids 14-16 With mRNA COVID Vaccine Induced Myocarditis Had Damaged Hearts At 3-6 Month Follow Up | COVID Vaccines Linked To A 145-Times Increase In Reports Of Menstrual Abnormalities | ETChttps://t.co/MKtOc1MaP4
Social media users have been misinterpreting a small study of nine teenagers in Turkey, and wrongly saying it proves that there is a risk of long-term heart damage after COVID vaccinations.
According to the study, published in the journal Infectious Diseases in Dec. 2022, seven out of seven teens who had been diagnosed with heart inflammation following COVID-19 vaccination showed one possible sign of lingering heart-muscle damage in MRI images three-to-six months later.
But the author of the study said the results may not represent what happens in all teens with post-vaccine heart inflammation, much less all teens who get vaccinated.
Some social media posts misleadingly suggesting the study showed that all vaccine-related myocarditis causes long-term heart damage can be seen (here and here). Reuters contacted James Cintolo, the author of an article quoted in these posts, but did not receive a response.
100% Of Kids 14-16 With mRNA COVID Vaccine Induced Myocarditis Had Damaged Hearts At 3-6 Month Follow Up | COVID Vaccines Linked To A 145-Times Increase In Reports Of Menstrual Abnormalities | ETChttps://t.co/MKtOc1MaP4
The Turkish study (here) has been “misinterpreted,” its lead author told Reuters.
Dr. Seval Ozen, a pediatric infection specialist at Ankara City Hospital, and colleagues looked at nine male patients aged 14-17, who had a diagnosis of myopericarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination and were followed up at the pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric cardiology departments at Ankara City Hospital between Sept. 2021 and Mar. 2022.
Ozen said the study performed cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on each patient’s first admission, with control MRIs performed on seven of them three to six months later. It observed that late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), which indicates damage of cardiac tissue, was present in the seven patients who had follow up MRIs (two of the nine patients had only the initial MRI).
However, the prognostic implications of these results required further study, Ozen said. “There is no exact causality between these cases and vaccination.”
The case study also did not include pre-vaccination MRIs, so it is not known if any individuals had pre-existing heart damage.
Moreover, the study does not suggest what proportion of teens in the general population experience heart inflammation following vaccination, Ozen told Reuters. “Because of the low number of our cases, we are unable to report the precise incidence of myocarditis and [pericarditis] after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination.”
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VERDICT
Misleading. A case study of nine teenagers with myopericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination does not explain what caused MRI signs of heart-muscle damage in seven boys, or how often the condition occurs after myocarditis or vaccination in general.
— Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferzeng97) April 24, 2023
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We need to carefully examine 🇨🇳Ambassador to France remarks regarding international law and sovereignty of nations. First, his remarks are unacceptable. Second, doesn’t it shine a light on how Beijing envisions the contours of the “new order”? Smells a lot like spheres of…
It wasn’t a slip of tongue. https://t.co/lsQzKonTOr Lu was toeing the line that CN has embarked on since Xi came to power. Xi has been talking about reshaping world order for years “A great number of countries, especially developing countries, want to see a more just and…
China’s ambassador to France says former Soviet countries have ‘no status in international law’
The Kyiv Independent news desk
Sat, April 22, 2023 at 4:27 PM GMT+8·1 min read
In an interview with Swiss journalist Darius Rochebin, Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye said that former Soviet countries “have no effective status in international law.”
“In international law, even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have the effective status because there is no international agreement to materialize their status of a sovereign country,” he said.
“He denies the very existence of countries like Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc.,” Antoine Bondaz, a China expert at the Paris-based think-tank Foundation for Strategic Research, wrote on Twitter.
Also, when asked whether he thinks Crimea belongs to Ukraine, the ambassador said, “it depends on how you perceive the problem,” adding that “it’s not that simple.” He also said Crimea was “Russian at the beginning,” without specifying what he meant by beginning.
CCP Continues To Burn Bridges. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have demanded answers from Beijing, after a senior Chinese diplomat questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet states.
— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) April 23, 2023
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The Chinese ambassador to France openly questioned the sovereignty of Ukraine and other states that became independent after the collapse of the USSR.
The Chinese ambassador to France openly questioned the sovereignty of Ukraine and other states that became independent after the collapse of the USSR. https://t.co/TQBN6cJsSM
Chinese Ambassador to France Liu Chai: Crimea is originally part of Russia, and it was Khrushchev who offered Crimea to Ukraine during the Soviet era.
The countries of the former Soviet Union do not have an effective place in international law because there is no international agreement that would embody its status as a sovereign state.
The countries of the former Soviet Union do not have an effective place in international law because there is no international agreement that would embody its status as a sovereign state.
Ukrainian ambassador to France outraged by Chinese ambassador’s comment on former Soviet countries. Vadym Omelchenko called out the Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye’s statement denying sovereignty to post-Soviet countries, including Ukraine.
Omelchenko wrote on Twitter on April 22 that there were “obvious problems with geography” and that Shaye’s statement contradicted China’s official position.
Estonia’s Foreign Ministry summoned China’s ambassador to Estonia to clarify the country’s position over Estonia’s sovereignty, calling Shaye’s position “incomprehensible.”
⚡️Ukrainian ambassador to France outraged by Chinese ambassador's comment on former Soviet countries.
Vadym Omelchenko called out the Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye's statement denying sovereignty to post-Soviet countries, including Ukraine.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 22, 2023
Estonia's Foreign Ministry summoned China's ambassador to Estonia to clarify the country's position over Estonia's sovereignty, calling Shaye's position "incomprehensible."
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 22, 2023
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So not only does the Chinese ambassador to France consider that the countries of the former USSR aren’t internationally recognized, but he also embraces a total denial of the 20 million victims of the Chinese Maoist regime. These two revisionisms go as often hand in hand. #Laogai
So not only does the Chinese ambassador to France consider that the countries of the former USSR aren't internationally recognized, but he also embraces a total denial of the 20 million victims of the Chinese Maoist regime. These two revisionisms go as often hand in hand.#Laogaihttps://t.co/x6jjTXhUKr
The 80,000-ton cloud of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific Ocean known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an environmental disaster. It is also teeming with life. https://t.co/G1nNIfd5Id
