The time has come from Europeans to demand ToT from China for market access. I'm okay with this. As long as they are doing it in the open rather than hiding it as part of a subsidy investigation, it's fair game.
It says,
"Brussels is planning to force Chinese companies to transfer intellectual property to European businesses in return for EU subsidies as part of a tougher trade regime for clean technologies."
Do we need subsidies from them? And if we do transfer tech, I'd hope that it be limited to stuff they can't use to their advantage due to their inefficiencies with manufacturing, sorta like how Chinese restaurants can sometimes sell cooked dishes at less than what it would cost for you to make it yourself cus they have all the facilities set up and buy their ingredients by the 50 pound sack rather than shopping a Wholefoods.
All in all, I'm not in favor of setting up or investing anything in the US or EU because of how unstable and generally anti-China they are. Being robbed is too high a risk. I say give them the price for the cars shipped from China and let them figure it out amongst begging Russia for gas to go back to ICE cars, swallowing their own tariffs or designing and making them in the EU at prices suitable for only the financial elite.
