[AnthonyMouse]

"Free market" implies regulators aren't picking winners and losers etc. If China subsidizes their export industry to make manufacturing in other countries uncompetitive then it's already not a free market.

Ideally what you would want is to get China to stop doing that, but now propose a mechanism to get them to.

[happymellon]

You make it sound like the US doesn't massively subsidise entire markets and then try to force other countries to accept these market distortions.

[AnthonyMouse]

Expecting other countries to do the right thing while not doing it yourself makes you a hypocrite, it doesn't change what the right thing is.

[decimalenough]

Have you seen Polestar's pricing? They're very much positioned as the premium EV option and their pricing is pretty much the opposite of dumping.

[AnthonyMouse]

Commercial airliners cost tens of millions of dollars, does that imply a company that makes them isn't being subsidized by their government?

China subsidizes (among other things) battery manufacturing, which is the biggest single cost for making EVs. If you get your batteries cheaper than competing companies then you can make premium cars with an electric range at the high end of the market and then use the subsidized cost to provide other amenities that cause customers to choose your product over alternatives even at a premium price. It allows you to take the high end of the market on value just as well as the low end on cost.