Alice Han

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Alice Han: Chinamaxxing · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

So in the last couple of months in particular, they're trying to get rid of some of the subsidies, the export tax rebates.

They're again trying to make it a bit more competitive domestically and globally because they now understand

hey, the Europeans and Brazilians don't like the fact that we're giving them cheap EVs.

We would have thought they would like it because this is great for green technology.

But now they're starting to understand it's not just about green technology and market competition.

It's also about a lot of these countries fearing the flooding of Chinese goods.

And so now you're starting to see them unwind some of these subsidies for the sector.

But in general, I think the problem is that the subsidies are so large.

This is the subsidies that China puts on, whether it's solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, batteries, much larger than, say, even the Europeans or other countries put on to support this sector.

that it is no longer seen as fair competition by a lot of these other countries.

And because China is still acting in the framework of a developing economy, even though in many respects, because of its technology boom, it's no longer a developing economy.

It uses that as an excuse to have the massive subsidies that it has for the green technology sector.

Okay, got it.

And that's the problem that the Europeans and Brussels have.

I'll say the Brazilians or the G7 countries like Canada or Australia have about sort of the flood of cheap electric vehicles is that the government has historically done huge amounts of subsidies to support its local industry.

Historically, it's control the home base.

And now more in the last couple of decades, it's about having influence globally.

We talked about commodity supply chains, even to some extent geopolitics.

But I look to history.

So the last time China went out to Africa-

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