That’s just sound policy; the US-China rivalry never had much of anything to do with Europe.
There isn’t just Chery in Barcelona. Chinese battery and stationary-energy-storage company Hithium plans to invest in Navarra in the north of Spain and battery manufacturer CATL is involved in building a lithium iron phosphate battery gigafactory in Zaragoza, 200 miles west of Barcelona. Critics fear these projects are part of Chinese companies’ efforts to localise production in the EU to evade tariffs on imports of Chinese electric vehicles. Critics fear these projects are part of Chinese companies’ efforts to localise production in the EU to evade tariffs on imports of Chinese electric vehicles.
Isn’t that, like, the point insofar as there is a point other than rank oligarchy?
That’s just sound policy; the US-China rivalry never had much of anything to do with Europe.
Isn’t that, like, the point insofar as there is a point other than rank oligarchy?