The article suggests that the US auto industry has been unfairly targeted by its competitors due to the rising costs of unionized labor and soaring material expenses. The average price of a new vehicle in the U.S. has shot north of $50,000, making it difficult for many middle-class families to finance their new car and the car they are trading in for. This has led to a frantic effort to stop Chinese vehicles from arriving in the US. The Trump administration has imposed heavy tariffs on these Chinese vehicles, and has also imposed regulatory bans on some Chinese-developed software used in the vehicles. The article also notes that decades of protectionist policies have not been beneficial to American consumers. It concludes that while China's relationship with the US and its history of strategic dumping for non-market vehicles is not in the national interest, it is not so so in turn for some U.K. manufacturers, like Tesla, since China has retaliated in the trade war.