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Two stories fused on Japanese boards: a report that EV giant BYD carries over 7 trillion yen in 'hidden debt' from delayed supplier payments, and the scrapping of 100-plus Chinese-made EV buses bought for the Osaka Expo. Distrust of Chinese EVs met anger at the officials who pushed them — though SNS users noted the scrapped buses were not BYD's.
On the same day, three China-adjacent stories converged: 190 Chinese-made EV buses at the Osaka Expo were pulled out of service over defects, SoftBank's 'Mimamori GPS' kids tracker was rumored to send data to a Chinese company, and a Trump delegation reportedly discarded everything they were gifted in China before flying home. Japanese reaction sites stacked all three together as evidence of 'China product risk,' though only the EV bus story is solidly sourced.