Which are your top five SF books?

Ford can build that kind of car. They can't get batteries that cheap.

That is the argument Milton Friedman made.

Sounds like you know what the problem is. Think of it like the DeBeers diamond cartel on steroids.

Then the subsidies will start again until those new companies disappear.

The USA is able to develop batteries. China has taken control of the lithium pipeline, the same way they've taken control of the rare earths pipeline (through poor environmental and anticompetitive practices). The CCP doesn't care if they poison their own people.

Dumping means selling below the value.

You are wrong because you don't care what is true. You are a liar. You don't want to participate in conversation, you only want to spread your lies.

Do you mean this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's going to get worse in the future: https://m.xkcd.com/3167/

For the same reason people in the US complain about the lack of public transportation. We don't want to use public transportation ourselves,

we want other people to use it so the roads will be clear. https://psmag.com/economics/wh...

How do you compete fairly against a country that uses slave labor and no environment controls?

It's amazing how much your words sound like a Soviet apparatchik. You're not interested in truth, you don't care about that.

If your idea of style is "expensive = style" then you have no style. His watch would be indistinguishable from a $10k watch without close inspection.

Seriously, the idea that we know all the practically important physics there is is the kind of thing only somebody who's never done science or engineering would believe.

Industrial R&D is important, but it is in a distrant third place with respect to importance to US scientific leadership after (1) Universities operating with federal grants and (2) Federal research institutions.

It's hard to convince politicians with a zero sum mentality that the kind of public research that benefits humanity also benefits US competitiveness. The mindset shows in launching a new citizenship program for anyone who pays a million bucks while at the same time discouraging foreign graduate students from attending universtiy in the US or even continuing their university careers here. On average each talented graduate student admitted to the US to attend and elite university does way more than someone who could just buy their way in.

He would have gotten more functionality and style from a smartwatch.

China has been manipulating the lithium market the same way they've been manipulating the rare earths market (ie, poor environmental standards and anti-competitive practices by trying to build a monopoly). No other car company can acquire batteries at the same low cost as Chinese car producers. As soon as the supply chains are fixed (for both lithium and rare earths) this won't be a problem anymore.

China's dumping practices are well documented in the car industry. They overproduced and are now selling below cost.