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China’s BYD to overtake Tesla as world’s most popular electric car maker (www.straitstimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you've seen some of the tactics of the ccp and familiarize yourself with how they use economic controls for political manipulation in non-humane ways you may be more inclined to find that them subsidizing any industry like that will be paid for in the blood of their own people and those afar. It's not exactly 'free' people manufacturing that 'cheap affordable solar energy' (which is still cheap and affordable from non-ccp manufacturers, just not artifically so) and they're not subsidizing it to be good global citizens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is 100%. Also add on the fact that reliance on an entire country that controls all the world's energy is very very bad. (See Russia and what they are doing to the UK).