I get what you are saying but let’s not pretend for a moment China wasn’t stealing battery tech, wasn’t only allowing inferer batteries from China instead of abroad, wasn’t manipulating markets, isn’t using it geopolitical power to force smaller poorer countries into deals that futher helps it’s manufacturing.
China has done loads of shady shit and the problem is the west let it happen to make money. Well the chickens are coming home to roost and the West needs to do things to even the playing field.