China voiced dissatisfaction on Wednesday at a demand by the European Union to engage within a “very short” time in consultations on the bloc’s inquiry into subsidies for electric vehicles.
The remarks came as the European Commission formally launched the investigation on whether to set tariffs to shield its producers from a “flood” of imports of cheaper Chinese electric vehicles (EV) it says benefit from state subsidies.
However, China was “very much dissatisfied” with the anti-subsidy investigation as it lacked adequate evidence and did not conform with World Trade Organization rules, the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement.
Ohh my sweet summer child. Yes, those are all good little independently owned EV businesses. Definitely not enterprises that are owned, sponsored and answer to the Chinese Communist Party. I’m sure they only have the best interests of the World environment at heart.
I guess you are right it is ok to destroy other people’s livelihoods as long as it isn’t your own job at stake. I’m sure the population will be in favor of outright product dumping that destroys local industries and puts them out of a job as long as it saves the environment. There is absolutely no way that same population would seek to preserve their livelihood…
What the fuck does an EV manufacturer that “answers to the CPC” even mean? That the government can use their industrial capacity in wartime? That if the company flagrantly breaks the law that the CEO will see real consequences like jail time? That the company is subject to import and export laws of the country it operates in?
Europe needs to wake up to the realities of climate change. Their ignorance of the impacts of climate change and their ignorance of the imminent EV transition led them down this path. European policymakers could see this from a mile away, yet of the top-selling cars in Europe how many are EVs?
While the US and China were dumping billions of dollars into EV startups to fuel the transition to cleaner air and reduced GHG emissions, European governments allowed their legacy industries to trundle on with ICEs instead: Peugeot, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW, Fiat, Citroen, Renault, Skoda. Now, European carmakers can’t compete.