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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, August 26th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal,

filling in for Zoe Thomas. The Europe China Trade Rift continues to grow. We'll tell you what role

EVs and cheese have in this. And then, regulation

around deep fakes is still in early stages, but companies are putting more of them out

anyway.

We'll dive into how some businesses are exploring ways to do so safely with

W.S.J. Enterprise reporter Isabel Busquet. But first, what do cheese and electric vehicles have in common? Trade issues. Last week, the European Union affirmed its plan to impose high tariffs on China-made

electric vehicles. A day later China said it opened an anti-subsidy probe into dairy

products imported from the EU.

It was the latest tit for tap between the two increasingly hostile trading powers.

W.S.J. reporter Kim McCraille talked about this with T&B host Zoe Thomas.

Here's what they said about it.

So why is the EU planning to impose high tariffs on China-made electric vehicles?

The EU launched an investigation last fall into Chinese-made electric vehicles concerned that subsidies provided by the Chinese government to the industry might be resulting in vehicles that are cheaper than they otherwise would be coming

into the EU and displacing European-made electric vehicles.

So they did this investigation.

What they found in it was that they alleged that there are

significant subsidies throughout the supply chain in China and as a result they're

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