[josephcsible]

I'd call it "the way things actually were from 1994 until 2022": https://www.carscoops.com/2021/12/china-will-no-longer-requi...

[bdangubic]

so not “ban”? :)

[josephcsible]

Giga Shanghai opened in 2019 while that was still in effect, so no, not "ban".