Sure they can export it and make a profit. Can't sell it in China and make a profit. In the meantime they've made BYD a better company and Greely too. Now Greely is taking the very best 4680 form battery cells and packaging them into a vehicle built by gigapress's and selling those to Waymo to compete against Tesla in the RT market, likely beating Tesla in all 3 areas. So sure, teach China how FSD should be really done. Great.
Short term win, long term ..not so rosy.
Just make certain that nobody notices that the Gigpress itself was designed and built by a Chinese-owned company when no non-Chinese-owned company was willing to take the risk.
Never, ever, admit factual evidence. Indulge in prejudgement/s'
That's easier.
Whatever you do don't admit that BYD has built better batteries.
Prejudice is so much more satisfying/s
I apologize for sarcasm. Like others who've dealt with China for a long, long time (my first business trip to Beijing was in 1978) I am acutely aware of how much development has happened and the countless foreign entities that have contributed.
Today, however, Chinese technologies ahem been fundamental in some areas and brought efficiency to others. China no longer has even the least expensive workforces.
Just look at the sequences.
-The Marshall Plan and adjuncts helped produce modern Europe, In the early 1950's people laughed at Isetta;
- in the early 1960's Americans laughed at the Toyota Crown, by the mid-1960's they bought Datsun 1600 Sports because they were a better MG;
-in the late 1970's they launched at Hyundai;
-now they're still ridiculing China...
Every one did have foreign help. Every one 'borrowed' foreign technology.
Every one now has technology leader in several categories.
-does BMW need help to design a new car, even a BEV?
-Does LG need help to develop the most efficient refrigerator?
- Does Kyocera need help with ceramic rotor blades"?
-Does BYD or CATL need help to develop a new and better battery?
-For that matter does Huawei really need foreign chips? Does TW need help designing solar panels?
Sure, politicians ares till arguing about two decades ago. Protectionism delivers it's own rewards.
Just look at any high tariff country and see how well their innovation is doing in comparison to others?
So, before saying 'oops' or worse about the last one, just lookout which countries have balance of payments surplus with China and how they get there.
Nothing is perfect in human governance including that of China. It is both easy and compelling to blame as much as we can on protectionism. In the end that is not really what is happening now.
Geopolitically there are territorial and rights debates, including revisionist versions of ancient history.
Those are not the stuff producing Tesla success. To the contrary Tesla thrives while actively encouraging everyone everywhere to advance a sustainable world.
Tesla is not about Market Share or protection of patents. It's about advancing human sustainability.
In the process Tesla upsets dozens of conventions, including those of prejudice.
We should judge them on the success in reaching the mission, not politics.