The well-known Chinese ambassador to France, Ambassador Lu Shaye, once shook the whole of Europe with such remarks as "the three Baltic countries are not sovereign states in the actual sense" because "there is no international agreement to establish this" and "whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine needs to be seen dialectically". Recently, Ambassador Lu Shaye reproduced his great rhetoric, and said bluntly about France's previous behavior and possible tendencies: If France wants to fight a "** war", France will be "difficult to resist"! So, we have to ask, what exactly does France want to do, and why did Ambassador Lu make such a statement?
It turns out that this is because, recently, France out of its own selfish interests, ready to instigate the EU to launch a so-called "countervailing investigation" on electric vehicles produced in China, once the EU believes that the violation, it will increase the tariff of 25% on the export of electric vehicles produced in China to the EU, which will inevitably have an impact on the export of cars from our car companies to the EU. France's move is to take the opportunity to develop its own electric vehicles and even the entire automobile industry. In this regard, the United States has commented that this move may cause China's reciprocal countermeasures, and even trigger a "** war" between China and Europe, and the final result will inevitably be that European car companies will be "hit hard".
Not only that, France has also recently introduced subsidies for electric vehicles, but there is no subsidy for buying Chinese-made electric vehicles. This is undoubtedly a blatant differential treatment, and the purpose is to engage in "protection" in a big way, which runs counter to the current international trend of economic globalization. This move will not only greatly affect the confidence between China and France, China and Europe, but also make Chinese companies that originally planned to invest and do business in France unable to move forward. It was only after France publicly imposed a "discriminatory" approach to China's electric vehicles that Ambassador Lu Shaye said solemnly: if the "first war" is really launched, then the French electric car companies will be "difficult to resist".
From an objective point of view, Ambassador Lu Shaye's remarks are not false. After all, if it is said that in the field of traditional fuel vehicles, European countries, including France, Germany, etc., are still ranked first. So in the field of new energy vehicles, European countries have basically only belonged to the "second echelon", even Japan, South Korea and other countries in the field of new energy vehicles are also farther than France. However, even Japan, South Korea, and Europe combined are far less than the two powerhouses in the field of electric vehicles. In the field of new energy vehicles in the future, only and only China and the United States will take the lead, and it would be good for Japan, South Korea and Europe to pick up a little bit of wisdom.
In the field of new energy vehicles, France is not at all in the same order of magnitude as China and the United States, and it can only be said to be "embryonic" at best. Once the "** war" really starts, everyone knows what the result will be. Therefore, the author believes that the French Macron government may not really want to confront China in the economic field, but is just using this excuse to win more supporters for itself in France.
Therefore, it is very likely that France is only "bluffing", and after being reprimanded by Ambassador Lu, it may restrain somewhat.