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I wouldn't expect the EU and other countries and blocks to absorb China's overcapacities for too long in case the US business breaks down for Chinese companies. The rest will (and must) react accordingly to protect their industries. That aside, the US market is too large and too important for China. You can't simply pivot all products to other markets.
4 points ·
This is what tariffs always do, but China would undoubtedly hurt most if this tariff conundrum continues. Just look at the trade stats.
13 points ·
Russia will attack the next country. (If this country falls, guess what?)
28 points ·
Russia will attack the next country. (If this country falls, guess what?)
7 points ·
A quick reminder that 1.5 percentage points of the Nato countries' 5% GDP military spending target is earmarked for areas beyond traditional military defense such as arson attacks, cyber attacks, and the like.
4 points ·
Completely failing is too much imo. But China and Russia are interfering heavily, especially with the far-right and far-left in Europe, and that is a constant threat.
28 points ·
This website (which appears to have been created less than three weeks ago) consists of exclusively sensationalist headlines followed by very brief texts that all predict the apocalypse and are accompanied by AI generated images.
27 points ·
In other news, five German MAN e-buses coming in Bavaria, Germany, in April 2025, Italy's Iveco Bus provides 13 in France, and so it goes on.
Market leaders in Germany are eCitaro (by Germany's Daimer), followed by Germny's MAN, and the two Dutch companies Ebusco and VDL. Similar to the EV market, BYD has only a very small fraction of the market, but the propaganda goes on.
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Back in June, several media reported that Teresa Ribera is refusing to exempt any sort of operational cost when it comes to solar panel, wind turbine, and battery producers from the bloc’s strict state aid regime.
One such article is here, saying, amongst others:
>The powerful competition directorate of the European Commission is indeed going ahead and blocking a push that would enable the governments to subsidize their production costs when it comes to clean energy technologies, thereby flaring-up the tensions between the EU officials who are enforcing the state-aid rules and the ones who are working on the industry ... This internal battle underscores the EU’s executive struggle in order to navigate the barriers of supporting the emerging technologies in the global race between Europe and China as well as the US, but at the same time also holding firm to its traditional free market approaches when it comes to subsidies.