Kinda like the EV situation in Europe (especially germany). European car makers benefited from cheap chinese labor force for centuries now while their executives, sitting in china, saw in real time how china started working on EV cars and thought nothing about it, riding high on their hubris since “no one could ever outpace them”. And now that china outpaced them the european coalition quickly released enormous tariffs on chinese EV imports to “secure the european car market” and “save themselves from the sheer wave of cheap (and nowadays also way better) EV cars.” When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Kinda like the EV situation in Europe (especially germany). European car makers benefited from cheap chinese labor force for centuries now while their executives, sitting in china, saw in real time how china started working on EV cars and thought nothing about it, riding high on their hubris since “no one could ever outpace them”. And now that china outpaced them the european coalition quickly released enormous tariffs on chinese EV imports to “secure the european car market” and “save themselves from the sheer wave of cheap (and nowadays also way better) EV cars.” When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.