https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/ContraPoints/status/1808529692405662047#m
Any fucking questions
major climate bill
Didnāt these ghouls put massive tariffs on Chinese EVās and solar panels? How the fuck is that helping?
Didnāt these ghouls put massive tariffs on Chinese EVās and solar panels? How the fuck is that helping?
Oh, okay tankie, I guess you just donāt understand how protectionist measures work, but thatās unsurprising as communists never even understand Economics 101. They boost US industry by encouraging domestic prodā
Will these protectionist measures work? While the previous tariff measures did reduce the number of Chinese solar panels coming to the US (with an 86% drop over the 2012-2020 period), the billions in subsidies, from first Obama and then Biden, did not revitalise the US solar industry. On the contrary, the American global market share of the solar industry has considerably decreased since the original tariffs were placed ā from 9% in 2010 to 2% today. Meanwhile, Chinaās share of the industry rose from 59% to 78%. Thereās no reason to believe that the recent tariff increase will reverse this trend. Thereās even less hope that they will help spur a domestic EV industry.
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It is thus no surprise that while the US government tries to block Chinese EV imports with tariffs, US firms are trying to recapture the EV market by licensing the superior technology of lead Chinese firms! Ford (in Michigan) and Tesla (in Nevada) are partnering with Chinaās CATL to make batteries. CATL says that it has structured its licensing deal with Ford so that it is compliant with āforeign entity of concernā rules. For its part, Tesla already uses Chinese BYD cells in Germany; Ford and GM use BYD batteries. Even Trump doesnāt like the idea of a āgreat wallā against Chinese FDI in America. Speaking at an Ohio rally in March, he signalled an openness to Chinese firms building plants āin Michigan, in Ohio, in South Carolinaāāso long as they were prepared to employ American workers.
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US manufacturing hasnāt seen productivity growth in 17 years. That makes it increasingly impossible for the US to compete in key areas, and Bidenās āindustrial policyā will fail to deliver unless it can end that stagnation. Chinaās manufacturing sector is now the dominant force in world production and trade. Its production exceeds that of the nine next largest manufacturers combined.
okay, well, look. itās actually very unfair to draw upon the history of uh, 14 years ago. what really matters here is that china is 1984 orwell 429,024,902 dead in tinyman square mao killed 1000 billion ughyurs.
Libs always fucking do this when comparing their āachievementsā to anyone who isnāt in a position of power.
We made this symptom of the problem 10% better while continuing and exacerbating the root cause! You activists and complainers havenāt done anything!
Perhaps not making the root cause worse is preferable.