pull down to refresh

EU Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, considers doubling import tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars possible. This comes after EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, announced an investigation into Chinese EVs for market distortion due to subsidies. If the investigation finds China violating international trade laws, the EU could impose tariffs, potentially triggering a trade war.
We see more of this policy in the last months. The EU is also using the climate narrative to overragulate its market and reduce competition. We know this kind of behaviour that always led to deeper evonomic crisis and geopolitical tensions.
What China is doing is called dumping. And it's reminiscent of what Japan did to the US causing fear of the domestic industry getting crushed by a flood of cheap Toyotas and Hondas. Largely because of US tariffs, the Japanese transitioned to US assembly plants. That's reasonable. The difference is China is hyper-subsidizing their junk because they're experiencing a major contraction in their economy and are looking to foreign markets to dump on, and take up the slack in the manufacturing sector. You want to talk about over-regulated markets run by one-person governments that global investors really want nothing to do with anymore see China. I'd be more worried about them than I would the EU.
reply
The whole EU model is a neo-mercantilistic form of rent-seeking in favor of large european businesses. No way someone could glorify them. Small businesses get regulation, big ones subsidies. Rest of the world tariffs and ecological esg nonsense
reply
That's the fiat system though. No country is immune. Pushing Austrian ideals onto it is useless, those needed to be inviolable parts at the outset if they were going to work, which they couldn't be longterm because unfixed monetary policy means it can be influenced, and then you have to adapt to the competition outside your borders who exploits this best with their given demographics and resources. I believe that until you have cheap/free renewable energy, especially from highly distributed/decentralized sources (sun, wind, hydrogen, geothermal) there can't be a different system, and there will be no bitcoin standard.
reply
We need to dry this system one by one. And I guess we are on the path watching the slow but steady commercial adoption. Europe is falling behind
reply