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Comment on: BYD builds fastest car
> The Chinese automobile industry in 2011 is hardly relevant to the EV industry in China today. The EV industry was not built by technology transfer requirements.of course they are relevant and are built on tech transfer.> It was not only allowed, but actually viewed as a legitimate way for underdeveloped economies to develop.Again, this was illegal then and China was taken to the WTO in 2018 (WT/DS549 China — Certain Measures on the Transfer of Technology ) as I'd already explained (example #1).> The US has all sorts of "Buy American" provisions and subsidies, going way back before 2022.Sure,