The Fraudulent Foreign Auto Industry in China
By LARRY ROMANOFF – September 24, 2020
In the past 8 years in China, there have been about 170 auto recalls by joint venture manufacturers and foreign brands, with Mercedes, Toyota, Honda and Nissan doing most of the recalls. Out of about 9 million recalled cars, more than 7 million were Japanese; roughly one million were American and about one million European. By contrast, China's many domestic brands have had to recall products only 7 times in the past few years, recalling only about 200,000 autos. In light of these facts, it would seem that the current wisdom in the West about Chinese autos
In one year, about 19 million autos were sold in China, resulting in 80 recalls involving 2 million vehicles. In the same year 13 million autos were sold in the US, resulting in about 600 recalls involving 15 million vehicles. China has far fewer recalls compared to the US car market, though in some part this is true because foreign automakers are masters at 'misreading' China's laws and regulations, using those misunderstandings to evade consumers' claims. Japanese automakers Toyota, Honda and Nissan often exclude the Chinese market when recalling faulty models in other countries, and the Americans are known to do the same.
On their consumer day program, CCTV noted that auto recalls are common in the US, and credited the US with creating the world's first auto recall system. But they failed to perform any research and foolishly succumbed to American propaganda, thereby missing the fundamental point which is that the US government initiated these consumer protections only to avoid a popular revolution. Huge numbers of people were dying on American roads every year from cars that were fundamentally unsound, the problem reaching a crisis with Ralph Nader's book about GM's Corvair. It was only then that the recall system was legislated. The Americans didn't do it because they were morally superior or adhering to "universal standards"; they were instead forced into it because their automakers were criminally insane.
