It is hard to pick the most cringe-inducing moment of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) vanity trip to China, but the best candidate may be when he sat behind the wheel of an electric SUV manufactured by BYD Company, a corporation that has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party and received billions of dollars in subsidies from the Chinese government.
“I want two,” Newsom said of the vehicle. “We got to get these in the States.” Someone might want to let the United Auto Workers know about Newsom’s endorsement of the competition. President Joe Biden might want to be read in too. The inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act was to spur American electric vehicles, not make it easier for the Chinese to dump their slave-labor-produced vehicles here.
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Newsom’s joy ride aside, his entire trip to Beijing was…
