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Peter Navarro is the White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.
WASHINGTON — The Chinese auto company BYD is plundering global car markets. In response, Europe is dithering, Canada is opening America’s northern gate, and Mexico is becoming the southern staging ground for China’s assault on the U.S. auto market.
This is how industrial wars are lost: not by surrender but by letting the predator encircle markets while its would-be victims temporize.
BYD is a microcosm of China’s pirate business model: copy, absorb, subsidize, scale, dump and dominate. It began life in 1995 as a battery maker. Today, it has blown past Tesla to become the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles, selling 4.6 million in 2025, including about 2.26 million pure battery-electric cars. Tesla, by comparison, delivered about 1.6 million.
