[woodandsteel]

>The manufacturing of cheap junk that doesn't meet safety or reliability standards and stealing IP to bypass research and development is hardly leaving established car companies in the dust.

You have to look at overall trends. 25 years ago China manufactured hardly anything exportable to the West. So like Japan before it it started at the bottom of manufacturing and since then has been steadily moving up the value chain.

Now the government has a goal of first switching to EV's internally and then making them good enough to sell to the West. There is no reason to believe they will not be able to succeed.

You know, you are making the same mistake that Detroit and US manufacturers of all sorts of goods made when the Japanese first showed up, namely that they would never be able to match American skill. But they did, and countless US companies either went out of business or moved their manufacturing to China.