Many people don’t understand why the US has imposed tariffs on Chinese new energy vehicles. How many cars does China sell to the US in a year?

Last year, China exported only more than 10,000 new energy vehicles to the United States. The United States is not the main market for China's new energy vehicle exports! Let alone the 100% tariff imposed by the United States, even if it doubles, it will not have any substantial impact on the development of China's new energy vehicles.

So, didn't the US fire a wrong shot? In fact, this was not the case. The US fired a signal flare!

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has already visited Europe and used the same "overcapacity" rhetoric. She called on Europe and the United States to unite and jointly suppress the development of China's new energy vehicles and close the door to the European market to China.

This is the main reason why the Americans knew that there was little point in firing the gun, but still fired it. The Americans knew that their shot would not cause much harm. The Americans fired the gun for Europe to see, reminding the EU that they had already fired the gun, and the EU should not hesitate and take action against China.

Long before the United States imposed tariffs, the European Union had already begun to take action against China's new energy vehicles, and the big hand of anti-subsidy sanctions was already raised high, ready to use tariffs to suppress China's new energy vehicles. However, after so long, the European Union has not made any moves, which has made the Americans sit still!

Americans thought that the EU had grown up and would take the initiative to curb China's development. However, after waiting for a long time, what they got was not the EU's move to take action against China's new energy vehicles, but more and more European countries began to realize the consequences of worsening Sino-EU trade relations and began to calm down!

So the United States couldn't help it. Since it's not easy for the EU to fire this shot, let the United States fire it first, and then slowly teach Europe what to do!

It is obvious that after the United States fired this shot, the EU seemed to finally come to its senses and remembered that it had such a plan. Yellen went to Europe to teach the EU what to do, and von der Leyen, the "agent" of the United States, also fully played her role and began to send out signals of action, reminding EU countries to make a decision quickly.

In short, the United States let Europe do the dirty work, and then let China prove with facts that although Europe is the largest export market for China's new energy vehicles, it is not the only export market. Chinese new energy vehicle companies actively integrated into the European market and invested in building factories in Europe, but the result was still unwarranted suppression. Well, at worst, they will not serve, anyway, making money is making money, so let the "green double standard" EU "struggle" with its own new energy industry.

China has risen under the suppression of the West. Since the West has forgotten many lessons, let new energy vehicles teach the West another lesson! How many industries in China have been suppressed by the West? In the end, China got rid of its dependence on the West, and the West became dependent on China.