• @Zehzin
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    7 months ago

    This is US car companies using their paid off politicians to make the US pressure another country into not making a deal that would increase competition in that market to their detriment .That’s many layers of fuckery deeper.

    • @[email protected]
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      107 months ago

      Is it that if they’re just blocking the vehicles that are subsidized? Let’s see what these EVs sell for without the Chinese government paying half the production costs.

      • @Zehzin
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        17 months ago

        If they’re blocking subsidized vehicles they’d have to block US companies

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          The subsidies in the US apply to companies of any nationality. The subsidies from China only cover companies controlled by the Chinese government.

    • @dogslayeggs
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      47 months ago

      Everything you said is true, except you are missing the context that this is for-profit US car companies not wanting to compete against state-owned car manufacturers who get all of their money from China and can take huge losses in order to outsell for-profit, private entities.