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In late 2010, General Motors agreed to sponsor a propaganda film celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP made film titled (translated to English) “The Birth of a Party” or “The Great Achievement of Founding the Party" is set to premiere all over the Communist nation on June 15 reported China AutoWeb last September. The auto website adds:

    "According to an announcement posted on Shanghai GM’s official web site yesterday, whose title reads "joining hands with China Film Group, Cadillac whole-heartedly supports the making of the Birth of a Party..."

The report goes further:

    "As the CCP marries totalitarianism with capitalism and fools the people with entertainment, only the "politically correct" or stupid–or those who pretend to be so–can get rich. And GM seems to know this very well. While Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Volvo have all rushed to please China’s rich and powerful through physical enlargement (offering models of extended wheelbases), Cadillac gratifies the party orally, singing praises through a film."

According to the above report, the film will discuss events that led up to the formation of the CCP following the 1917 Russian Revolution. When the movie first went into production GM signed up Cadillac as the “chief business partner” with the Communist Party, stating: “Cadillac whole-heartedly supports the making of the Birth of a Party.”

In fact, an AP article in early May points out, "Chinese TV regulators have reportedly ordered local broadcasters to stay away from spy and crime thrillers as part of a propaganda buildup for the ruling Communist Party's 90th anniversary July 1." Stars of the film are reportedly chauffeured around China in the Cadillac SLS in an effort to promote the movie all over the Communist led country.  

The United States government currently own 33% of the GM company following the auto-bailouts of 2009, and GM CEO Daniel Akerson describes China, as the "key to [GM's] success." (h/t The Detroit Bureau)

Presently, GM's business in China is selling more autos in the Asian country than in the United States. The Washington Post noted last week that China was GM's solution to help the car-maker recover from bankruptcy, so the company "is only expected to widen as an increasing number of Chinese grow rich enough to purchase their first car.”

Along with concern over China's ownership of trillions of dollars of U.S. debt, it is truly troubling that an American company financially supported now by the U.S. taxpayer is happily promoting Communist propaganda that glosses over the atrocities of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. What's next for GM? Selling military vehicles for the Chinese to threaten their own people with?

the new model. this is who the world now looks to. china is the new america...only worse.

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Originally Posted by Dødherre Mørktre:

Presently, GM's business in China is selling more autos in the Asian country than in the United States.

If the cars were being made in America by American workers and GM was exporting them to china, I wouldnt have a problem with that at all.  I'd LOVE to make cars here and sell them to the Chinese.

Not too crazy about China's human rights violations, but I'll sell em an automobile.  Only thing is I dont think we're making many of those cars here anymore.  My GM truck?  Made in Canada.  I understand there's a GM plant in Mexico too.  I wanna see legislation enacted to encourage GM to bring those jobs home.

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you know how many more commercials i see talking about how companies are helping make things awesome in china, than i do for america? i just think we're going the way of europe. the only reason european influence came to dominate the globe in the first place, was due their colonizing the new world. by the mid to late 1800s, the peak of their dominance was over. then through the world wars america picked up the mantle as the economic dynamo of the world. now, however, we're following in their footsteps, adopting the same big government, small private sector growth, socialist policies. and ironically enough, a communist country that's turned to capitalism, is the one growing by leaps and bounds.

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That was the only thing I liked about Trump.  The man's a cartoon. But at least he was tough on trade and our economy.  And I think we do need people who will work tirelessly to turn our trade and economy around.  Bush didnt do it.  Clinton didnt do it.  Bush Sr didnt do it.  And Obama hasnt either.

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well, it's almost this suicidal mindset by the west, that it's not fair that we're on top, and it's okay if we decline a little in influence, while other parts of the world are expanding. i think this perfectly explains what the term "globalism" means. it means our time is over, and it's time to take a backseat, instead of actually trying to outcompete.

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Just out of interest, have GM got a factory in China to build US cars and import them or do they have  GM  plant in CHina to build cars for the far East? Is the US assembling cars made from parts from the Far East?

I think you will find that China is more socialist now than the US or UK will ever be. We are all at fault because we killed off our manufacturing industries. China buys our expertise and capitalist forces mean that we now spend billions shipping stuff we uses to make around the globe using up vast amounts of resources and producing carbon so the consumer gets stuff cheaper. That's the whole point of a market driven economy. Sell more, buy more, earn more to buy more, make it cheaper...eventually China will raise it's standard of living to such a degree that manufacturing will probably move somewhere else again.

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gm cars for sale in america are all assembled in north america (though a lot of them are made in mexico and canada nowdays), but most of the parts do come from places like china. you are right lee, that it's not china's fault we're languishing. we did kill off our own manufacturing. the point is, china is competing economically, and looking out for it's own best interest, while we're not. we're content with sitting on the floor, fighting for whatever scraps we can get.

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aka the "services sector."