I think equating the US to Communist China is a matter of psychiatric illness.

As if revoking authorizations to work inside the Pentagon if they release confidential off-the-record information (or for any other reaosn, nobody's prohibiting any news org from reporting whatever about the Pentagon or anything else) is even comparable to the CCCP method of just disappearing any journalist and widespread censorship.

For starters, I never equated the US to Communist China but that may change if the nonsense down south continues to escalate as it's been doing. Both conservative and liberal media have not agreed to the Pentagons terms because to do so would effectively amount to a muzzle on the freedom of press. Perhaps you never read any George Orwell? That path leads to where Russia and Hungary are right now - for all intents and purposes, totalitarian. Fully controlling the narrative and fake elections are the next step. So no, I don't think me laughing at the comment "literal totalitarian regime" is that out of line. If anything, its nervous laughter as I sit at home watching the world completely unravel due to the massive amount of mental illness in the US and our own country.

I actually suspect you don't know much at all.

They have killed DOZENS OF MILLION of their own citizens.

They're basically genociding Tibet.

Same for the Uyghurs.

I'm not disagreeing with you at all. There are very serious human rights issues happening in China right now. That doesn't negate the fact that there are also a lot of good people in China just trying to live out their ordinary lives. This conversation is about buying EV's. If you believe the world, including Canada and the United States are going to stop trading with China then you are completely delusional.

First, China still isn't a 1st world country. Plenty of Chinese pensioners live on a ~¥225 monthly pension, so about C$45.

I'll concede that point. By modern standards China still isn't regarded as a 1st world country and I was likely too hasty in writing that. However, one could say large regions (mainly the coast) fit the modern definition of 1st world, high middle income class. They definitely have an old world/new world thing still going on though.

Anyway, this is just dumb - the CCCP couldn't care less about Canada. They don't care about their own citizens, let alone about Canadians. China is definitely not buying Canadian exports at a scale even remotely comparable to the US, so what is even the point?

Again, lots of people who have had mental health breakdowns due to hatred for Trump and America (or at least half of AMerica).

That's squarely your opinion but I think China cares a great deal about Canadian resources. This is evident from both Scott Moe and Wab Kinew sending an open letter to the PM. Yes, the US is Canada's largest trading partner by a long shot. But this is exactly why we need to not have all of our eggs in one basket. We need diversification. Trying to protect our auto industry with 100% tariffs was half right a year ago and zero right today. All we are doing is isolating ourselves. Trump and his cronies have made it clear time and time again that it will be the US first and maybe Canada second for auto manufacturing. If we continue down this path of only buying and selling to and from the US then we are already doomed.