While Western automotive industries are trying to figure out how to decouple their supply chains from the Chinese battery sector, Chinese commentators don’t seem particularly panicked.
In fact, the e-vehicle industry is being touted as a national victory. This becomes clear in this fascinating conversation between Yin Chengliang, an e-vehicle expert and the dean of the Automotive Engineering Research Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Zhang Weiwei, a Fudan University academic who’s emerging as a nationalist commentator.
