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The two biggest factors affecting European production are their insanely crushing government regulation and having put all of their eggs in the EV basket. Government regulation not just regarding vehicle configuration, but manufacturing methods as well, almost entirely environmentally driven.
China has not hamstrung their manufacturing with the latter. As such, they are not on a level playing field. Those countries receiving imported Chinese automobiles (and other goods) need to start leveraging environmental (and other) regulations as a condition of import.
EU, UK, and our own environmental regulations are now squeezing fractions of a single percentile of improvement out of industry at a hugely disproportionate cost relative to the improvements realized. Meanwhile China and just a handful of major manufacturing countries contribute the vast majority of pollution in today's world. Impose on them the same environmental standards that we impose upon ourselves and the situation would change dramatically.
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