PREVIEW: PRC BATTERY SUPREMACY Colleague Elaine Dezenski of FDD reports the non-market practices that China advances unblinkingly with regard to many high-end products, but especially batteries for EVs. [MORE] NOVEMBER 1954
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Colleague Elaine Dezenski of FDD reports the non-market practices that China advances unblinkingly with regard to many high-end products, but especially batteries for EVs.
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NOVEMBER 1954
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| 1:00.6 | This is John Batchel, speaking with Elaine Dzensky of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, |
| 1:07.0 | producing a document to identify how non-market practices, that is, distortion of the marketplace. |
| 1:14.3 | Intellectual property theft is one, overproduction and dumping, undercutting, subsidizing, |
| 1:20.8 | all these practices by the People's Republic of China purposely to dominate export only economy, which has failed them, but they continue. |
| 1:30.8 | If I understand correctly, here's Elaine to describe how it works in the European Union and |
| 1:36.8 | the challenge, especially for Brussels. More of this tonight. |
| 1:40.6 | To some extent, they do. So the European Union has come out on the issue of dumping and the overproduction. So China is producing roughly twice as many EVs as the world is demanding. Some of that overproduction is going to places like Europe where there's quite a market for EVEs |
| 2:01.4 | and where the Chinese manufacturers definitely have a strong presence. |
| 2:07.6 | So the European Union has actually started some investigations into this |
| 2:12.6 | and have identified this challenge. |
| 2:17.4 | But it's complicated because you also see Chinese manufacturers |
| 2:21.4 | going into the EU or areas adjacent to the EU to establish new production. So that's a challenge, |
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