Beyond fear-mongering: the pragmatic case for engaging with China on electric vehicles

The greatest threat to auto workers is the active U.S. trade war shuttering plants, not hypothetical Chinese competition.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, left. We can engage with China on EVs with strong safeguards for data security and industrial policy, just as our allies do, writes Wenran Jiang.

A year into a damaging trade war with the United States, the debate over Canada’s economic future has reached a fever pitch. Nowhere is this clearer than in the fierce controversy over allowing a limited number of Chinese electric vehicles. The reaction has been predictabl...

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