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ericmay • yesterday at 4:22 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

They will increasingly not make it to European markets either though (Canada who cares the market there is tiny) because the EU won’t allow its domestic industry to be destroyed regardless of how good Chinese EVs are. It’s not “hard to say” it’s easy to say. Just yesterday the France and Germany announced changes to emissions standards. The writing is on the wall there.

The problem with China’s economic model is that you can’t just sell to everyone else and not buy their stuff too. As European automaker sales continue to collapse in China, the EU will find new protectionist policies to enact to preserve domestic manufacturing jobs.