Their production infrastructure is.
> the idea that China would turn off their EVs or starting to use them as weapons from the other side of the world is borderline absurd
Is it? If we got into a shooting match with Beijing, would we not try to hijack Tesla’s OTA features to disrupt their economy?
I'm confident that even if at war with China, the US would not hijack random civilian cars, yes. That's absolutely absurd.
The USA isn't at war with Russia right now, despite what Russia may think about NATO (despite Ukraine still not even being in it) and proxy wars.
You mean Ukrainian Teslas. We are currently on Russia's side.
Of course we fucking would. Maybe not in a shooting match, which I guess means a proxy war. But if we went to war? If Americans were dying? It would be ridiculous not to.
Do you think China would permit vehicles it could disable to allow Americans to travel to and from jobs that might involve attacking it? Do you think they have some moral obligation to allow that?
Yet we don't ban those on security concerns.
Thus, this points to the fact that it's merely being scared of competition, not security.
Sure about that?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressional-committee-...
https://www.techtarget.com/WhatIs/feature/Chinese-companies-...
Occam's razor suggests that the simplest solution is the most probable: they are scared of the competition, because they know that if those cars enter the market they will dominate it.