I'm John Batsu with my colleague Judy Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a senior scholar.

She's in Berlin and we're observing China from the EU point of view. The headline in Reuters tells part of the story.

The EU, quote, once level playing field, end quote, but still negotiating with China on car

tariffs the cars are representing what China can do it has over capacity of its

factory floor.

That's a polite way of saying it manufactures to sell to the world

and overwhelm the markets with subsidized products that are then undercutting the market conditions in America and in Europe.

Cars now represent, because the EU is a big push for EVs, electric vehicles cars now represent a very

attractive product for European households. But Judy this story is growing in the US as well, pending the outcome of the election.

The candidates at this point have outlined how they'll deal with the Chinese competition if that's the

polite way forward.

But the European Union right now is still in negotiation.

Not only is the EU negotiating, but Germany is negotiating. What's in this for the EU?

How does it, it's mandates for EV or driving this? Are they going to adjust their mandates?

The EU, while... mandates. about competition, but she wants to close out the Chinese electric cars.

And in fact, if you close out the Chinese electric cars without having available electric cars for the domestic consumption, how are you going to do

with climate change? How are you going to deal with the Great Green Energy Plan?

And in some ways just cutting out China at this point and saying to the

German car companies oh well you better get your act together they have done nothing about this and the

writing was on the wall and all of a sudden the German government facing elections

next year under Chancellor Olaf Schultz the Social Democrat is now going to pour billions into the ailing Volkswagen car industry

and telling consumers, oh you get a big subsidy if you exchange a car for an

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