Last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited China, and according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Scholz and China reached a number of consensuses during this visit, including stabilizing China-Germany and China-EU relations, controlling communication and cooperation, opposing "decoupling and breaking chains", and jointly addressing global challenges. As the pillar of the EU, Germany's position is, in a sense, representative of the EU's position. But who knows, as soon as Scholz left, the EU immediately turned its face, completely threw communication and cooperation out of the clouds, and began to frantically target Chinese companies in Europe. According to foreign media reports, on Tuesday, the European Commission conducted a surprise inspection of some Chinese companies in Europe, and the office premises of Chinese companies were turned over by law enforcement officers of the European Commission.
It is reported that before the inspection, the EU neither issued a notice nor provided the necessary inspection documents, but directly got started, first, to look through the office documents of Chinese enterprises, and second, to seize the operating equipment of Chinese enterprises, and the normal operation of Chinese enterprises has been greatly disrupted. It has been reported that the EU's search is aimed at obtaining evidence from Chinese companies that the Chinese government has provided financial subsidies to Chinese companies, so as to impose countervailing tariffs on Chinese companies. Statistics show that for a long time, the EU's trade with China has always been in a state of deficit, and the deficit is not small, many Chinese goods are very popular in the EU market, and the EU local enterprises can not gain a foothold at all, so the EU believes that Chinese goods are sold cheaply because they have accepted financial subsidies.
Originally, for a long time, China was the main destination for the export of many car companies in the European Union, but in the era of new energy vehicles, the European Union has become the main export market for Chinese automobiles, statistics show that in 2021, Europe will become the largest region of China's new energy vehicle exports. The new energy vehicle business of traditional car companies such as BMW and Audi has been greatly impacted. Although these car companies have also taken measures such as price cuts, they still cannot compete with China's new energy car companies.
So in September last year, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that it would launch a countervailing investigation into China's new energy vehicles, but for several months, the EU did not publish a clear and convincing finding. In other words, the EU's so-called claim that China's new energy vehicles have enjoyed huge financial subsidies, and they can't come up with conclusive evidence to support their claims, which is completely conjecture and purely a reason to suppress China's new energy vehicle companies. This raid on Chinese companies proves that the EU does not have any evidence, and it can be seen that the EU is in a hurry, and if the EU gets what it wants in the early investigation, it will not be in a hurry to raid Chinese companies.
This time, the EU is likely to be disappointed again. In fact, many Chinese goods, including new energy vehicles, are sold cheaply and cheaply, which is completely determined by Chinese human resources costs and supply chain advantages, not financial subsidies. The EU should look at Chinese goods rationally, so that Sino-EU trade can develop, and if it "can't beat it", it will play a scoundrel, and the final result will be to damage the legitimate interests of Chinese enterprises and dig a big hole for itself.