Europe
Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
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Some Asian manufacturers, particularly those in China, are able to offer lower car prices also due to state subsidies that are far higher than those in Europe, and not in the least to the exploitation of forced labor. There is ample evidence for this, and it is supposedly a major reason why China is opposing transparent supply chain laws.
The EU has established some trade barriers against some imports from China only recently and to protect its industries from just the high Chinese subsidies mentioned above. However, even these new EU measures are literally nothing compared to the protectionist measures applied by China to shield its domestic markets from European and other foreign competition. If European companies want to run a subsidiary in China, for example, they need a Chinese partner company to form a joint venture, and the Chinese partner would then own the majority of the company; and this is just one example of Chinese protectionism. If it's he case, it isn't Europe but China - where wealth concentration and inequality is higher than in the EU - that considers "free trade only beneficial when it behests the established oligarchy".
If BYD & Co wouldn't benefit from Chinese subsidies and their government's protection, the situation for Chinese carmakers would be more dire than it already is. We have seen many Chinese car manufacturers going bankrupt or halting production despite huge government support, and even China's EV champion BYD openly said of late that the EV price war in China's home market is 'not sustainable' (yet it still slashes prices),