• RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    It wasn’t a free market to begin with because the Chinese government has been subsidizing the building of these cars making it impossible for other companies to compete.

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      China also didn’t insist that everyone has to follow neoliberal free market principles, or sign up to TRIPS intellectual property protections.

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        Ok but this isn’t to punish them it is to help the others keep up so that doesn’t really matter. That’s how it works lol