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When Western carmakers win customers, it's called "the free market." When Chinese carmakers win customers, it's called "a full-blown assault."
10 upvotes, 13 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "When Western carmakers win customers, it's called "the free market." When Chinese carmakers win customers, it's called "a full-blown assault.""
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Anonymous 12w

To be fair the Chinese government is evil, but Volkswagen and most car companies is probably also evil

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Anonymous 12w

Well one is a market working freely and the other is a state backed venture competing unfairly

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12w

They don't get to simultaneously complain about Taiwanese semiconductor production capabilities while abusing their own battery production capabilities

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12w

Not to mention that this CCP enterprise would crumble under the slightest hint of anti trust laws being used

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Anonymous 12w

I do if its funding slave labor

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

*CPC

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Anonymous 12w

You can't "play" the free market, you're either in favor of it or not. China isn't but still relies on it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

Obviously it's advantageous for an entire country to go up against individual people, and thats what makes it unfair.

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Anonymous 12w

There is absolutely an anti trust issue and a subsidization from central government issue, they simply would not be cheaper than domestic EVs (and likely wouldn't even exist) without the yearly $200 billion+ in subsidies from the CCP.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

This is classic state protectionism

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Anonymous 12w

There may be very few options for subsidizing from the central government, but they still spend billions yearly on it.

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Anonymous 12w

Furthermore, localities standing in place of the central government in subsidization doesn't make it any less of state protectionism.

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