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China's move to manufacturing EVs has nothing to do with environmental awakening of Chinese and their consciousness of impact of gas cars on the climate. All cars manufactured by Chinese have either Nissan engine and transmission with diff and suspension from Mitsubishi, or the other way around. The rest of the vehicles are designed and built by Chinese themselves.

A huge portion of cost of every cars goes to Japanese pocket. Chinese don't have the knowledge or means of building a reliable and quality components that can last at least ten years. These components need high quality steel in order to make them last longer. What makes steel a good quality is the carbon that is used and the method during the production. Chinese don't have those. The natural path for them is to move away from internal combustion engines and move to electric that all components can be built by them, the fact that all Japanese manufacturing is moving out of China is showing this.

At this time China is struggling with the quality of their EVs but they will overcome the problems and fix the issues with reliability and batteries catching fire. In about ten years time they will be as good as European, Japanese or Americans. In long-term they will dominate the industry and destroy the traditional manufacturing that has existed for the past century. Unless, something happens that would stop them from moving forward. Something like a war, and that is the only forward for the West and that is the path we are moving towards. The war with Chinese is inevitable and is only a matter of time, the genie needs to go back into the bottle. The war most likely is going back to the cold war era deviding the world onto two poles with tariffs and sanctions at the center of the action.

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