Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "China Says EU Tariffs Won’t STOP its EV expansion across Europe" video.

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  5. Actually, it would be a lot worse without the tariffs, if history is any indicator, tariffs are a stop-gap measure to give EU car manufactures time to adapt, it's worked many times in the past to allow the companies to come out stronger on the world stage in time, but it takes time, especially when companies have been found to be sleeping lol. What China is really angry at isn't so much the tariffs, but the pressure that the tariffs will do on EU manufactures to force them to change and adapt, which makes them more of a threat to EV companies from China on the global scale, but again, that takes time, this has happened many times with the EU for industries that have been asleep, and the EU is likely warning EU car companies, these tariffs are only short term to allow them to adapt, the tariffs might even be on a percentage basis where they lower the tariffs per year to keep the pressure on the EU car companies. Sometimes this is needed to light the fire under their arse, others like the US have done the same and usually the end result is that your companies come out a lot stronger on the world stage, but that usually takes some time, probably around a decade, that's probably what China is really angry about, not the tariffs, but the impact that it could have in forcing the EU car companies to be more globally competitive on the world stage, which is a threat longer term to China's EV industry. But seriously guys, check history and you will see this has happened many times before and it's been quite successful in getting industries that are lagging behind to adapt and change over a short amount of time, sometimes a fire under there arse is all that's needed, and it looks like that is what the EU is doing, and probably the US as well.
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