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In every market China dominates, Chinese products are still inexpensive. Solar panels, batteries, EVs, drones,..
by slaw 4mo ago
In every market China dominates, Chinese products are still inexpensive. Solar panels, batteries, EVs, drones,..
- hsuduebc2 4mo agoBecause they are subsidized by the Chinese government. This is literally a tactic to destroy global competition. It's a smart move to make everyone dependent on them.
- manishsharan 4mo agoAny evidence to back that up?
- xyzsparetimexyz 4mo agoFact 1: that's terror Fact 2: that's terror
- hsuduebc2 4mo agoBack what exactly? That China subsided it's domestic companies? https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/subsidies-and-the-solar-panel-industry_68481900-en.html https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/subsidies-and-the-solar... https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/02/how-subsidies-shape-global-car-and-ev-production_fb4284cc/ef8aff4f-en.pdf https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...
- gmerc 4mo agoNow do Elon
- throawayonthe 4mo ago1. this seems to be based on misconceptions about how the chinese economy works 2. why haven't they done it yet? is the implication that they will wait until they're dominant in some x number of industries worldwide and then... raise prices? p.s. how would such "subsidization" work on a such a scale? if you think the EVs, PV panels, etc are cheap because the govt like, just covers the loss on every sale(?) where do they get all that surplus finance to cover labour and resources? have you considered 'subsidies' can be used for accelerating R&D for national interest rather than some monopolistic plot
- deaux 4mo agoYes, they learnt this from the US, who subsidized Uber for _14 years_, Amazon for 9 years and Youtube for many years until they had destroyed global competition and made everyone dependent on them. This is now happening again with Anthropic and OpenAI, of course. China's subsidies are comparatively much shorter.
- jimbob45 4mo agoYouTube has never seriously had competition and AliBaba has been around almost as long as Amazon.
- deaux 4mo ago> YouTube has never seriously had competition While saying this did you not consider that subsidized Chinese companies would claim the exact same, with at least the same amount of legitimacy? The whole idea of monopolization is that it becomes impossible for competition to arise. You also forgot to mention Uber which has had numerous competitors, both on the taxi front as well as food delivery. > AliBaba has been around almost as long as Amazon. No idea why it matters how long a company has existed. There are hundreds of thousands of companies that have been around for 2-3 decades.
- shimman 4mo agoHow is this not any different than US corporations only existing do to hundreds of billions worth of corporate welfare? Good grief, why are American corporations such sore players against actual competition? US elites are absolutely pathetic.
- Qhemlomo 4mo agoSooo if youg ive a country cheap solar panels and they save money and make themselfs independent, how is that making them more dependent on China? And how is that a bad thing in comparision to the current status quo? Solar panels are not high tech. You can build them yourself as a state in worst case. You cant make oil if you don't have oil.