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nekandro ,

You're not entirely correct: China had heavily subsidized their EV industry.

The purchase incentive is gone. Many tax incentives are gone. Tax benefits for setting up factories are gone (closed ICE factories are being decommissioned rather than sold).

If you had said that in 2019, you'd be entirely correct. Today? Things are different.

nekandro ,

Are we ignoring how China's top EU exports are made up by MG (a British brand) and Volvo (a Swedish brand)? How Mercedez-Benz partnered with BYD to release the hybrid GLC? How Stellantis partnered with Leapmotor?

Chinese carmakers are already sharing technology with Europe. All this tariff serves to do is push them to sell hybrids, which are excluded from the tariff.

nekandro ,

sigh

You know what the biggest cities in Xinjiang are? Urumqi, Korla, Aksu, Karamay. Those are some Chinese sounding names /s

Note that some towns have been switched to a Mandarin standard. This is especially true when Han populations dominate a particular city (e.g., Shihezi, set up by a Chinese general in 1951), or when a city relies on tourism from other provinces (e.g., Beitun, a ski towm). But... That's not what the article is discussing, really. The article is much more interested in Romanization of these names.

Officially, the Uyghur name shares equal right as the Chinese one, however, sometimes the Uyghur Romanization is a pain in the ass to pronounce while the Chinese one is far easier (Ürümqi vs. Wulumuqi). This is as true in Xizang as it is in Xinjiang (the name བོད་ is still used to refer to Xizang by official Chinese standards, but that doesn't phonetically map to Tibet). Of course, people are forgetting that English is neither the first nor second most common language in Xinjiang... In fact, given the number of ethnic minorities I doubt it's even on the list. The English name is selected for convenience rather than anything else because nobody except Western tourists will ever use it.

There's an interesting debate happening today in Canada as to whether this Romanization makes sense: while First Nations names like Squamish and Tsawwassen have been Romanized and are used colloquially, First Nations groups oppose Romanization because of its association with colonialism and instead would prefer names like "šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl'e7énḵ". The question is, which do you keep as the English public-facing name?

Of course, this is coming from the same The Guardian that reported that "the last major mosque in China lost its domes and minarets" when the Afaq Khoja and Id Kah exist and are widely known as holy sites in Uyghur Islam. The Guardian's reporting on China has consistently been sloppy because they don't have a correspondent in Xinjiang and their editorial teams don't speak Chinese or Uyghur.

nekandro ,

IIRC you're not allowed to set up territorial military outposts in EEZ, so OP is correct that the Philippines government is violating international law.

nekandro OP ,

There's too many boring US/China news stories. Just because an article talks about the US or China (superpowers) does not make it interesting on its own.

nekandro ,

BBC is on a roll today

nekandro ,

Lmao there's a guy who usually posts a long response to these "subsidies" claims bullshit, but I think they got into a pissing match with a mod in the comments and got banned lmao.

Jist of it is: China's subsidies are negligible compared to the US, and what they've actually done is created a competitive domestic market with a large number of players. Unless you think Chinese people are all puppets, even if China (as a country) owns the industry it would not prevent internal competition that drives down prices. Moreover, China does not offer per-unit subsidies on export. In fact, Chinese EVs exported to Europe are something like 40% more expensive than domestically for the same model.

nekandro ,

In this case BYD lacks a local factory and their profit margins are significant enough that they don't maintain region-specific frame SKUs IIRC.

FWIW the Chinese market is one of the biggest for Volvo because Chinese consumers care about (perceived) safety.

nekandro ,

hey shut up we're in a china bad brigade

nekandro ,

lmao you don't even want to know about Tesla battery fires I take it?

nekandro ,

It's an EV problem, not a China problem... Unfortunately

nekandro ,

and you're complaining about the batteries lmfao

nekandro ,

Oxford PV set up a 100MW plant back in 2021... But that was with efficiency barely better than traditional mono (23-26.81% for mono vs. 28.6% for perovskite).

The value proposition was never there before, but it might be now...

nekandro ,

It makes sense now how antivaxxing went from a fringe movement to a cornerstone of right-wing ideology lol

nekandro ,

uhh guys isn't this like really bad

nekandro OP ,

Israel is the single state most responsible for antisemitism since its foundation.

nekandro ,

The Comac/Bombardier C919 is so cool man. It's really the successor to Bombardier's commercial airline initiatives that got nuked by Boeing and the DOJ.

Seriously. Fuck Boeing and fuck the DOJ.

nekandro OP ,

BRICS, believe it or not, is not the world police.

nekandro ,

Rise up, we who refuse to be slaves...

nekandro ,

Shit headline for a very scary story

nekandro ,

But at what cost?

nekandro OP ,

They're stealing our IP!

nekandro ,

r/worldnews has always been astroturfed by State Department mouthpieces...

nekandro ,

If this is an Axios article, why not just post Axios?

nekandro ,

PPP GDP/capita is the metric for living standards, PPP GDP is more a metric of domestic output (in terms of the intrinsic value of goods produced).

nekandro OP ,

Yes, noble Japan, honouring the 2 million noble war criminals who died attempting to subjugate its neighbourhood in Asia and responsible for the massacre of millions of Chinese, Koreans, Indonesians, Malays, ...