[WhereIsTheTruth]

> SpaceX told the U.S. Trade Representative in a letter dated Dec. 10 and first reported last week that European subsidies to Arianespace, Europe's primary space launch provider, created an "imbalanced competitive advantage that threatens fair trade".

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1QF2AR/

They want to hinder competition

It's moving very fast, yet you don't hear about them attempts here in the west

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ARxkXFp3Li8R0JgXBHy-Sw

Without subsidies, it's impossible to achieve, it's just like with nuclear power plants, if the public is not involved, nobody will want to invest, Musk knows that very well, he love them subsidies

He also wouldn't be able to be competitive if the government didn't offer grants/benefits for EVs

[JumpCrisscross]

> want to hinder competition

Of course. Everyone does. If you don’t, you’re an idiot or a non-participant in our market economy.

Very different from SpaceX “need[ing] trade barriers.”

> here in the west

ArianeSpace is French/EU.

> wouldn't be able to be competitive if the government didn't offer grants/benefits for EVs

SpaceX would. They wouldn’t exist without them. But their marginal economics don’t depend on them.