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>>g-mork+(OP)
SpaceX is too big to fail. It's important for national security.

I wonder if Elon wants to tangle all his businesses into SpaceX so they are all kept afloat by SpaceX's importance.

>>Button+C4
Elon can't legally financially entangle Tesla to SpaceX due to Tesla being a public company, so his hands are tied.

Tesla is clearly benefiting from protectionism and its sales would collapse if BYD were allowed to openly sell in the US. Most people just want affordable, maintainable and reliable cars.

>>protas+J7
> Tesla is clearly benefiting from protectionism and its sales would collapse if BYD were allowed to openly sell in the US

So would most of EU car makers in Europe. China is not playing by the same rules and everyone with car manufacturing domestically is slamming them with tariffs.

>>rafael+Eq1
How isn't China playing by the same rules? Every country subsidises and supports industry it thinks is important, surely nothing would stop Germany from investing into Volkswagen and BMW or the US from investing into Ford the same way China invests into BYD?

>>mort96+bs1
> How isn't China playing by the same rules?

one opinion is that tariffs on China was response of breaking rules by China (heavy subsidies on domestic EV and similar).

>>riku_i+V33
What rules? Is the US not subsidising its own industry?

>>mort96+ku4
The question is to what extent. Both US/EU and WTO have anti-dumping rules.

>>riku_i+Gx4
Has China been ruled to be in violation of those rules?

>>mort96+sg7
Sure, both US and EU run multiple investigations.

While in US, potus can impose tariffs at whim, until scotus decides otherwise, my understanding is that EU tariffs are results of such rulings.