Comments by "People Liberator" (@lvjinbin28) on "Biden Administration announces higher tariffs on Chinese EVs, other products" video.
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It seems The United States is practicing communist economy, but the CCP is practicing free trade? In fact, the United States has sanctioned hundreds of Chinese high-tech companies, but China still has not implemented same retaliation, like CCP hasn't even sanctioned Apple when Huawei got completely banned in the whole West, CCP even invited Tesla to set up a factory in Shanghai, gave subsidies to all EVs including Tesla, Why? Because China has experienced the failure of populistic economic isolationism during the Mao era.
Before the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty refused to introduce the Industrial Revolution, which led to a century of humiliation. Therefore, China knew deeply that Chinese companies and consumers need to touch foreign advanced technology and feel their products. If you don’t even know your opponent’s strengths, how can you compete? You cannot become a world champion in the swimming pool. You have to compete in the Olympics.
If protectionism was good, then Mao's China would not have starved, it's the US told Deng xiaoping to open up 1978, so ironic
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