https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/
"In just the past few months, the rift between the U.S. and China has expanded
at an astounding rate. TikTok is set to be banned if it does not divest from
its U.S operations. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that “nothing is off
the table” when it comes to battling a surge of cheap Chinese clean energy
exports. The Commerce Department is cracking down on chips sent to Huawei.
And yet plenty of critics still insist China's advancements in its
manufacturing abilities—especially in developing and selling electrified
vehicles—somehow aren't legitimate. Or that they're just the byproducts of a
government with too much cash that wants to elbow its way into the rest of the
world.
I’ve personally been privy to conversations with auto industry insiders,
engineers and pundits alike. Many of them believe China’s industries are not
sustainable, and the cars it wants to foist on the public are cut-rate spyware
machines designed to murder American citizens whenever the Chinese Communist
Party flips the kill switch.
To these critics, if China had a truly open market, Chinese buyers would
continue to purchase Western cars en masse, and sales of their models wouldn’t
be falling off so dramatically.
It would be naive to assume that China doesn’t have its finger on the scale for
EV production. But believing that the success of China's electrified vehicle
industry is all the sole result of a brutish government forcing its citizens to
buy its domestic products rings false in an almost childlike, sour-grapes way."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
