Europe defies China’s ‘divide and conquer’ trade tactics
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- “It’s a message not just to the politicians. It's a message to the French industrialists as well, that: we have you in our sights.”
Despite China’s “divide and conquer” tactics, the EU is maintaining a “united front” in upholding tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, says former BBC China reporter Robin Brant.
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As always, a very clear but informative broadcast. It clarifies the EU vs China battle at the moment. We should boycott Chinese EVs as they are threatening our industrial base.
unfair competition indeed.
@@sunnypedaaland probably dangerous on roads. Korea has looked into this technology that easy to catch fire suddenly. EU should observe how the safety progress go. ❤❤❤ keep on its hard road ahead.
The Chinese make all the BMW's, Volvo's, Mercedes etc, they even own the brands that might be made elsewhere like Land Rover, Rolls Royce etc, so all this is just talk, closing the door after the horse has bolted!
China is in an economic war with the West. Autocrats like Russia and China play us for the long game, and our politicians are too weak to deal with it.
Rant over.
And they'll return the favor to you.
Either Germany that's reliant on Chinese market choose to go with their national interests or obey orders from Brussels.
Who are we?
The Chinese Hi-so buy Hennessey and Louis Vuitton because its expensive and they want to show off, so making it more expensive isn't going to have that big an impact.
99.9% of French people, and indeed Europeans in general, don't need or consume these luxury brands, so should not care what China does.
Never bow to the bully.
Why bully when EU and US imposed these tariffs in the first place and china is just retaliating. Does that make them bully too?
The Europeans are the bully. Just what is their motivation for inflicting a punitive trade embargo on Australia for generations?
@@CSILon96 The tariffs are the response, they are just retaliating to the subsidies. In Europe it's more likely to be luxury brands doing bullying that car brands. The US definitely does these kinds of subsidies on some of their exports, not usually on their cars, which are not in much demand in most parts of the world..
Western tactics: 1. Start a trade war 2. Play the victim.
That's the right mentality, but you misunderstand. France exports cognac to China. So for France it's about the money. And the way to counter this is deeper economic cooperation with other Western nations
let us just be honest. the democratic countries must just align and settle their squabbles and boost defense spending.
Capitalism from the Western nations until they can't compete ... China is not a pauper nation it used to be.
I am surprised that it was not mentioned how China's recession will make it unlikely that ordinary Chinese people will have any money for European luxury goods ... Did I miss something?
China recession? Where are you even getting your news from? According to the IMF China's growth is higher than the entire European Union.
What you missing is American propaganda.
You're missing Europe is the one in a recession not China. Germany's economy is expected to shrink for the second year in a row.
@@sarahdawson9339
Recession is just two quarters of negative growth
China on the other hand is facing economic catastrophe not even a depression but a catastrophe.
Big difference between the two scenarios 😅
If it is Africa now they will start talking about free trade because they have a competitive advantage , please guys compete and leave tariffs,
Former BBC reporter talks about China's divide-and-conquer strategy for Europe? Did I miss something?😂
If EU was truly defying China, they wouldn’t have the USA protecting the Red Sea trade route for them. This route is for EU-China trade interests, and you and I are footing the bill.
Insane cope.
EU attempting to sanction China is like a chihuahua taking on an elephant
All European governments do subsidize their "green industries". The difference is that China CCP directly subsadizes those companies wehereas EU governments do it indirectly by guaranteeing the companes' loans. At the end of the day, both mechanisms end up pumping money into this branch. We should instead learn from the Chinese how to produce efficiently with low costs.
Oh, yes.. Paying workers two bucks for an hour of work.?? 😅
stop drinking alcohol
@@panchovilla5940 Well, this is why manufacturing was transferred. Same jacket, at port, may cost you 50 euros. But when lifted at store shelve, it cost you 500 euros. It used to be made domestically, but profit was too small. So nowaways they are made in China and at the same price as before. That is called as profit (and capitalism).
@@panchovilla5940 labor cost is of course one of the major costs but it should not fool us. In today's modern auto industry, over 90% of the job is done by robots and highly-skilled engineers that program them. Their salaries are way higher than the 2 bucks you say. We have lost our R&D engineering capacity to China. They have learnt our know-hows and now they are doing things more efficiently than us. We should re-build our engineering and industrial base. Tariffs just enable the inefficient companies to keep going without seeing any need for increased efficiency, productivity and innovation.
@@panchovilla5940 They have an advantage of population therefore labour is always cheaper. FYI, BYD factory is run by robots.
Europe does not need to concern themselves with this, Russia will be telling Europe what they can do and can not do.🙃