Musk: Chinese EV firms will 'demolish' rivals without trade barriers

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Western companies like Tesla and Volkswagen enjoy full access to the Chinese market. The idea that the west somehow can prevent Chinese companies from accessing our home markets while we have access to theirs is not long term sustainable.

Besides it is in our interest to transition to electric cars as swiftly as possible. Climate change and being dependent on oil from the middle east or Russia is national security risk at least as urgent as a rising China.

I have no opinion about measures to take or not, but what can be said is that this access to the markets was bought with industrial espionage, technology theft and questionable cooperation practices (cases where some company basically just changed owners overnight and kept all the workers and machines and so on).

All this was of course known, but knowingly or not, the Chinese played the westerners weakness perfectly: greed.

Unfortunately that is not the case here. These cars are more advanced than what we can make.

It is called FAW-VW - Western companies are forced into a local partnership who will gladly steal their technology and production know-how only to years later exit the partnership and then compete with similar products.

Yeah I’m sure he would complain right quick if the CCP put trade restrictions on Tesla.

Why would they ? Tesla interior has no rivals. Who wants to pay 50k for a touchscreen and a steering wheel ?

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