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Your figures are way out of date. The average Chinese auto worker now earns 21900 CNY/month, or about $36000/year. Even the low end is ~$15k.

https://www.salaryexplorer.com/average-salary-wage-compariso...

Also, Chinese manufacturers will do the same as Japanese and Korean manufacturers before them: work around tariffs by building assembly plants in the US and Europe.

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Those numbers seem like the average for an auto plant manager. Seems like most of the rank and file make around $11-15,000/yr.

Cost of living is an important consideration. I dont know why people are comparing absolute values here. Wages are relative to cost of living.

That's not too far off what people earn here, in an EU country with cars as our main export

> Also, Chinese manufacturers will do the same as Japanese and Korean manufacturers before them: work around tariffs by building assembly plants in the US and Europe.

That's literally the stated purpose of Trump's tariffs, though.

It's not about hurting the Chinese. That's a bonus in some cases, sure, but the stated purpose is to encourage US economic growth in the industrial sector.

If BYD starts building factories in the US to hire American workers and sell to American consumers, Trump would be bringing it up every time he saw a microphone.

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