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Why the flying fuck would I want a western car spying on me here in China?
As I indicated by using first person singular in my comment, I was talking about me. What car you (second, singular) get is up to you.
While I did write "If a car has the option of spying on you[...]", I hope my usage of "you" as an informal pronoun was clear. I do realize that I could have used the word "one" instead, or rewritten the sentence entirely. I wrote like I speak, and I unfortunately do not speak like an English professor.
Please remind me, where did you tell me that you live in China?
In the same place you assumed I lived outside of it, I presume.
You're the one who got mad that I didn't know that you live in China. You hadn't told me, or given me any clues. I mean there's 1.450 billion people who speak English either natively or as second language. 10 million of those live in China. That means there's a 99.3% chance that a random English speaker doesn't live in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
But do go on, keep staying pissed at me for something you misunderstood. I never said that you (as in you, not one) or anyone else for that matter, should not buy a Chinese EV. I said that I wouldn't, and gave my reasons why. In the meantime, while you stay pissed, I'll continue to not own a Chinese EV, maybe while telling my students about what happened in early summer 1989 on Tiananmen Square, and how Winnie the Poo is treating the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Because some American car company won't disappear you for having the wrong political opinion.
I mean american aircraft companies wouldn't that is for sure!
...unless they are boeing!
No, instead they'll let the government use you to target a bomb because you drive near someone they don't like.
That has not ever happened (to my knowledge).
This specific one? Not yet. But there is a rather long history of nations, including the USA, using seemingly harmless items to target people for assassination, etc.
And an even longer history of the USA dropping bombs on civilians willy-nilly.
So, people should be more worried about your hypothetical situation than a powerful surveillance state with many millions of dead people in its wake?