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As Starmer heads to China, Brits rush to by Chinese EVs
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As Starmer heads to China, Brits rush to by Chinese EVsSales of BYDs have surged in the UKA couple of years ago, I was invited to the launch of a new Chinese EV brand called Omoda.
We were given a presentation in which Omoda’s UK chiefs laid out some ludicrous sales projections.
And Chinese car sales in Britain could soon eclipse both European and American rivals.
This is the context in which Keir Starmer makes the first prime ministerial visit to China in nearly a decade.
Starmer has stopped short of resorting to the kind of tariffs on China that other world leaders like Trump have, somewhat erratically, applied.