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Chinese EVs and solar panels are dirt cheap. They become expensive because of tariffs. And western car companies really don't like to invest in EVs because planning ahead 10 years won't pay off right NOW.
Western countries give subsidies to EV buyers, Chinese government gives subsidies to EV manufacturers, including for cars sold overseas. The idea is to drown out competition and then they can drop the subsidies and raise prices.
The tariffs are protection from an unfair strategy and is used in other markets, not just EVs - and against other countries, not just China. The idea is that if another country makes things artificially cheap, you use tariffs to level the playing field.
So yes, tariffs do have a valid use case. Whatever the fuck Trump decided to do with literally all of USA's trading partners is not one of them unless you REALLY want to isolate your own economy for the benefit of literally nobody but a few billionaires. But protecting your own internal industries from unfair competition absolutely is one.
They're cheap because they're massively subsidized by the Chinese government.
This is just xenophobic propaganda. When we subsidize EVs and solar, that's just us stimulating new industries. When they do it, it's those devil foreigners up to their evil deeds again!
No. When China subsidizes EVs, it's stimulating their new industry. And it's working. But the fact is still that their EVs are super cheap because they're massively subsidized.