纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Biden Doesnt Want You Buying an EV From China Heres Why
May 28, 2024 2 min 355 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：美国拜登政府对中国电动汽车制造商及其产品充满警惕和怀疑。报道提到拜登政府正在考虑对中国电动汽车制造商采取措施，包括警告消费者中国电动汽车可能对美国国家安全构成风险，以及为中国电动汽车进入美国市场设置障碍等。报道还提到美国政府对中国电动汽车制造商的成功及其对美国汽车制造商的潜在威胁感到担忧。 这篇报道体现了西方媒体对中国发展的典型偏见和警惕。报道中充满了对中国电动汽车制造商不信任和怀疑的语气，体现了西方媒体普遍存在的对中国科技崛起的焦虑和担忧。然而，报道缺乏对中国电动汽车制造商的具体分析和客观评价，而是更多地聚焦于其对美国构成的所谓“威胁”。虽然保障国家安全是各国政府的重要职责，但以国家安全为由对特定国家的产品进行全面怀疑和抵制，缺乏客观公正，也难以促进公平竞争和消费者权益。报道也缺乏对美国自身电动汽车产业发展现状和问题的反思，而这是美国应对中国电动汽车竞争的重要方面。
President Biden wants more of America’s cars and trucks to run on electricity, not gas. His administration has pushed that goal on multiple fronts, including strict new regulations of auto emissions and lavish new subsidies to help American consumers take as much as $7,500 off the cost of a new electric vehicle.
Mr. Biden’s aides agree that electric vehicles — which retail for more than $53,000 on average in the United States — would sell even faster here if they were less expensive. As it happens, there is a wave of new electric vehicles that are significantly cheaper than the ones customers can currently buy in the United States. They are proving extremely popular in Europe.
But the president and his team do not want Americans to buy these cheap cars, which retail elsewhere for as little as $10,000, because they are made in China. That’s true even though a surge of low-cost imported electric vehicles might help drive down car prices overall, potentially helping Mr. Biden in his re-election campaign at a time when inflation remains voters’ top economic concern.
Instead, the president is taking steps to make Chinese electric vehicles prohibitively expensive, in large part to protect American automakers. Mr. Biden signed an executive action earlier this month that quadruples tariffs on those cars to 100 percent.
Those tariffs will put many potential Chinese imports at a significant cost disadvantage to electric vehicles made in America. But some models, like the discount BYD Seagull, could still cost less than some American rivals even after tariffs, which is one reason Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and some other Democrats have called on Mr. Biden to ban Chinese E.V. imports entirely.
The apparent clash between climate concerns and American manufacturing has upset some environmentalists and liberal economists, who say the country and the world would be better off if Mr. Biden welcomed the importation of low-cost, low-emission technologies to fight climate change.