{"id":613591,"date":"2026-04-17T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613591\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:06:13","slug":"australia-and-china-are-gifting-cars-to-other-countries-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613591\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia and China are gifting cars to other countries \u2013 here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__link authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caradvice.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/ethan-cardinal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/duf4jdhfdskfsvbujwce.webp\" alt=\"Ethan Cardinal\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" class=\"image-module-scss-module__yfnysa__drive-image authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__img bg-gray-200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__description\">Ethan Cardinal graduated with a Journalism degree in 2020 from La Trobe University and has been working in the fashion industry as a freelance writer prior to joining Drive in 2023. Ethan greatly enjoys investigating and reporting on the cross sections between automotive, lifestyle and culture. Ethan relishes the opportunity to explore how deep cars are intertwined within different industries and how they could affect both casual readers and car enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__wrapper authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__link link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__float-right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caradvice.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/ethan-cardinal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more about Ethan Cardinal<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:20:20:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogIzI5NjBjNSAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons\/LinkIcon\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"LinkIcon\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-LinkIcon link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__icon\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Cardinal graduated with a Journalism degree in 2020 from La Trobe University and has been working in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,512,177422,31612,10786,1379,7604,38976,66609,297875,44,38978],"class_list":{"0":"post-613591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-cars","12":"tag-chinese-government","13":"tag-feature","14":"tag-features","15":"tag-ford","16":"tag-ford-ranger","17":"tag-gwm","18":"tag-gwm-tank-500","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-toyota-hilux"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}