The threat to domestic manufacturers and workers is immense, AAM argues in a new video. President Donald Trump is scheduled next week to visit China – the first trip there by an American president since the last time he went in 2017 – for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Before he leaves, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) is urging the Trump administration and Congress to make sure the U.S. auto market is not on the table during any potential trade negotiations. In a video released this week, AAM President Scott Paul lays out the threat to the domestic auto industry that competition from heavily subsidized Chinese automobiles represents. “Beijing engineered its auto dominance on a foundation of state cash and strategic overcapacity,” Paul says. “Now, it’s taking aim at the U.S. market. We’re asking every American who cares about their job, their privacy, their community, and their nation to make their voice heard in Washington before it’s too late.” Paul points to three big reasons surging Chinese automakers should be denied entry to the U.S. The first is its auto sector’s well-documented overcapacity – factories running on overtime despite weak internal demand – that effectively allows China to export its unemployment problems. The second are the national security concerns inherent in letting Chinese-made connected vehicles – loaded with software, microphones and cameras – roam the United States. And the third is the potential for a China Shock 2.0; the economic and political destabilization we risk by exposing the domestic auto industry and its extensive supply chains to import competition from vertically integrated Chinese rivals. AAM has long defended American workers from China’s attempts to seize control of the U.S. auto market. In February 2024, we identified Chinese vehicle imports as an “existential threat to America’s auto industry”