u/Level-Reputation5050

I am an engineer working for Wuxi Lead, and yes, I was born in Wuxi, one of the most developed city in China(GDP per capita is over $30,000).

Wuxi Lead took Northvolt very seriously, as serious as big cusomters such as CATL. But Northvolt refused to pay for our technoloy supporting althogh they bought a lot from us. And Northvolt took every chance to ask for design drawings from us, they even tried to copy our products without our help, and failed.

Why not just pay more? We will solve every problem for Northvolt because of money.

Altough China has been a tech powerhouse and the center of manufacture, many observers in West always overestimate Russia and underestimate China. They take Russia very seriously and always make a concusion to avoid direct confrontation. But Chinese tech is always labeled as "temu" "unreliable""trash". Why? Racism?

I work in a Chinese lab, and we bought a lof of very expensive equipements from a German company called Rodhe&Schwarz. There are some local competitors which got subsidy from CCP, but we never bought from them because of performance.

In 2022, EU banned some models because the pressure from US. Six months later, nearly all of the equipments in our lab were replaced by local brands.

EU turned their comstomer into competitor.