

I think you raise a lot of important points and am a little annoyed at the downvotes when you’re clearly participating on the level in this conversation.
I do want to add though that tarrifs in this situation are a bit of a bandaid on a bad wound that the western world allowed to fester for more than a decade now. China’s been doing some questionable stuff to gain market dominance, yes, but the west should have been answering in kind all along instead of trying to play catchup with even more questionable economic tricks.
Not reallu sure what to suggest as an alternative though. Just really a shame it was allowed to come to this when anyone with a brain ten years ago could see how important EVs would be in the future.
But I just want to sing