5 pointsby alecco4 hours ago3 comments

pu_pe3 hours ago
> “Our companies are competing not only with Chinese rivals, but with the Chinese state budget,”
That's rich coming from the car industry in Germany. Volkswagen is partly owned by the government, and the whole industry has received all sorts of incentives over decades. The result is that they botched the electric transition and are now behind technologically.
- bell-cotan hour ago
  Yeah - but long before "electric" was a thing, the German car industry was screwing up in multiple dimensions. Just talk to a few mechanics about the traditional reliability and TCO of German cars, vs. Japanese ones.
alecco4 hours ago
https://archive.ph/NjXEd
How Germany fell out of love with China
Chinese industry is beating Germany at its own game. Cue panic
bell-cot4 hours ago
tl;dr; - Germany's situation and perspective is far more complicated and conflicted than the headline would suggest. Which is an especially bad situation to be in, when you're a (relatively) little democracy, trying to negotiate with a huge one-party state.