anews·NewsbyassassinatedbyCIA Mexico, facing US pressure, will halt incentives to Chinese EV makershttps://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/mexico-facing-us-pressure-will-halt-incentives-chinese-ev-makers-2024-04-18/Open linkView original on lemmy.world48Comments8
RRagingRobot replylemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesIt wasn't a free market to begin with because the Chinese government has been subsidizing the building of these cars making it impossible for other companies to compete.18
jjonne replyinfosec.pubDo you have any source for that? All I can find is subsidies for the purchase of those cars (by Chinese citizens, and those are being phased out), you seem to be saying China is subsidizing manufacturers for exported cars, and I don't see anywhere that says that's the case.1
aassassinatedbyCIA replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyChina also didn’t insist that everyone has to follow neoliberal free market principles, or sign up to TRIPS intellectual property protections.-7
RRagingRobot replylemmy.worldOk but this isn't to punish them it is to help the others keep up so that doesn't really matter. That's how it works lol4
girlfreddy replylemmy.caIt's only free if you have to the power and money to make it free for yourself. As for the rest, too bad - so sad. You pay the price for this version of "freedom".9
Free market eh.
It wasn't a free market to begin with because the Chinese government has been subsidizing the building of these cars making it impossible for other companies to compete.
Do you have any source for that? All I can find is subsidies for the purchase of those cars (by Chinese citizens, and those are being phased out), you seem to be saying China is subsidizing manufacturers for exported cars, and I don't see anywhere that says that's the case.
China also didn’t insist that everyone has to follow neoliberal free market principles, or sign up to TRIPS intellectual property protections.
Ok but this isn't to punish them it is to help the others keep up so that doesn't really matter. That's how it works lol
It's only free if you have to the power and money to make it free for yourself.
As for the rest, too bad - so sad. You pay the price for this version of "freedom".
Think of it as free market at the national level.
Free to play but pay to win