> It's basically a polite mob shakedown. All that the likes of VW have to do is call up Scholz on speed dial and say "Look at all these thousands of workers and voters that depend on us selling more cars. You wouldn't want anything to happen to their jobs and families, would you? Think on how they'd vote if their livelihoods were to be impacted."
This would be a lot more convincing if the companies you refer to were in favor of tariffs on Chinese EVs.
>This would be a lot more convincing if the companies you refer to were in favor of tariffs on Chinese EVs.
Who said they aren't? They also know it would be tit for that. All those German car makers who built unfathomable fortunes on sales in China would also now face increased tariffs.
This would be a lot more convincing if the companies you refer to were in favor of tariffs on Chinese EVs.