While North American consumers have yet to feel the full force of the shift, a seismic transformation is quietly rippling through the global auto industry—one that originates not in Detroit, Tokyo, or Munich, but in China. Over the past five years, Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) have surged from the fringes to the forefront of the automotive world, triggering what experts increasingly describe as a market "tsunami" that threatens to upend the status quo

China's Ministry of Commerce has announced a sweeping anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into certain analog ICs imported from the US, in a move widely seen as both a retaliatory response to recent US tariff extensions and a strategic effort to bolster its domestic chip industry