TFW Chinese EV makers aren’t even competing with western ones anymore, only among themselves.

What? Having Chrome become Chromium and Android being degooglified would be pretty huge?

Sorry, I realise this is half-joking and not at all the point of your post, but I find it interesting…

Otoh, I really don’t want to learn chinese, meh

It’s unlikely to become the lingua franca over night, especially since Chinese already speak English (well, the ones you’re likely to come in contact with). Maybe your grand-children will learn it in school though.

Apart from the characters and pronunciation, the latter of which is probably quite easy if taught at an early age, Chinese is quite straightforward. There’s no regular vs irregular verbs because there are no inflections at all - no cases, no tenses, no plural forms. Just plop the words down in the right order and you’re done. And as a second language, I guess we would only use pinyin until quite late in school.

If a tariff falls on a product category but no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

Automating this system with some kind of algorithm is not right, but a nearly blind 70-year-old can still do damage? The angle here is weird.