China’s industrial regulatory body, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the European Union’s investigation into Chinese electric vehicles, according to a report by China Daily on November 15, 2023.
Xi’s own family is directly involved in the drive to expand China’s electric vehicle industry and stands to profit from government handouts and political patronage in building new factories to churn out the vehicles.
The key figure is Daniel Foa, a Briton raised in Wimbledon and now married to the president’s niece, Hiu Ng, the daughter of his younger sister, Qi An’an. Conveniently, elite Chinese families use a multiplicity of names but all this is documented in corporate statements and public records.
Foa popped up last summer when a struggling American EV maker, Fisker, announced it was to open a distribution center in Shanghai. According to its own publicity, Fisker is “driven by a mission to create the world’s most emotional and sustainable electric vehicles.”
On June 9, Fisker said it plans to open a delivery center in China in 2023 and begin delivering the Fisker Ocean in the first quarter of 2024.
Fisker's leadership team visited China and met with officials and business leaders in Shanghai to discuss collaboration and opportunities in the region, it said in a June press release.
"I believe we can get production up and running in China as early as next year, potentially adding capacity of 75,000 Fisker Oceans annually," CEO Fisker said at the time.
The announcement of the Shanghai Fisker Lounge builds on its China strategy, as Fisker Lounges are located in a high-traffic retail locations where consumers can experience the Fisker brand and get a closer look at Fisker vehicles, the company said overnight.
Fisker is currently delivering the all-electric SUV Fisker Ocean in the US and Europe, which starts at $37,499 in the Sport trim level.
The best-selling all-electric SUV in China right now is Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) Model Y, which starts at RMB 263,900 yuan ($36,130).
In China, the premium and affordable luxury segment is growing faster than the general segment, Daniel Foa, Fisker's China board member, said at the company's annual shareholders meeting on June 6.
How did a middle-class British entrepreneur find himself within the close circle of China’s first family? Daniel Foa, now 36, came to China to work and met and married Hiu Ng, the niece of China’s next leader, Xi Jinping. “There was a little gang of them who liked going to champagne brunches and playing tennis,” a friend said of their social networks. Now, the unassuming Brit is poised to be an insider in China’s notoriously closed inner circle.
EV maker Nio considers more job cuts after shedding 10% staff
(Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio (NYSE:NIO) Inc may undertake further job cuts after the company announced plans to cut 10% of its workforce last month, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Some departments were asked to prepare reserve lay-off lists, which may widen the original dismissals to 20% to 30% within the unit, according to the report.
The cuts would apply mainly to non-core businesses or ones that would not generate quick returns or require heavy investment, the report added.
Nio did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The additional cuts come after Nio said in November that it planned to eliminate 10% of its jobs, as it moves to improve efficiency and reduce costs in the face of growing competition.
Demand for EVs has weakened in China as consumers favour more economical plug-in hybrids.
Nio's QR Loss per share: 2.67 yuan per share loss versus 2.91 yuan loss expected. That was smaller than the 3.7 yuan per share loss recorded in the second quarter of the year. keeping on losing money even having CCP subsidies.
iPhone 16 batteries should preferably be made in India, Apple tells suppliers
As part of the company’s continuing work to reduce its dependence on China, Apple has reportedly told suppliers that it has a preference for iPhone 16 batteries being made in India.
One battery supplier which already manufactures in India has been asked to scale-up production there, and Chinese suppliers have been urged to establish battery factories in the country.
Toyota's Camry, best-selling car in US, goes all-hybrid
DETROIT, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The next generation of the Toyota Camry, the best-selling sedan in the U.S. market, will come with only a gas-electric hybrid powertrain, the boldest move yet by the Japanese automaker to push hybrid technology into the heart of the U.S. market.
The 2025 Camry will combine a 2.5-liter gasoline engine with an electric drive system tuned to deliver more power in both front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive versions of the car, Toyota said.
Chinese battery giant CATL hits back at Duke Energy disconnecting batteries
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese battery giant CATL has hit back at U.S. utility firm Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK)'s move to disconnect its batteries, saying that accusations about CATL batteries posing a potential security threat are false and misleading.
3 Moody's cuts China credit outlook Reuters December 5, 202310:27 PM GMT+8Updated 2 days ago
"We have been expecting downward pressure on the sovereign rating after the PBOC finally acknowledged earlier this year that China’s debt to GDP ratio was approaching 300%. Moody’s last downgraded China’s sovereign rating in 2017 to A1 vs. Aa3 previously due to the rising debt load."
Asian stocks sink on China weakness, Nikkei slides as BOJ talks pivot
Chinese bluechips near 5-year low, trade data offers little cheer Chinese markets continued to lag their Asian peers, with the bluechip Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 index sinking 0.5% to a near five-year low. The Shanghai Composite lost 0.5% and traded at an over one-month low, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index slid 1.9% to a 13-month low.
CCP EV supply more than demand. Due to import tax in EU and America, no stable power supply in 3rd world countries, CCP EV could only supply to developing countries. CCP EV killing each other most of them will go bankrupcy.
And the people who will suffer will be American consumers. Chinese consumers will have plenty of choices as China manufacturing prowess is irreplaceable
The decoupling of US and China will continue for 10 years. But it will hurt America consumers far more. Eg...cars of same specs sold at 60000 in US pwill be sold in China at 20000-30000
Moody’s cuts outlook for eight China banks on potential credit quality decline; downgrades Hong Kong too
-Moody’s Investors Service cut its outlook for eight Chinese banks to negative from stable. -This comes a day after it downgrades China’s credit ratings. -The ratings agency also lowered Hong Kong’s outlook from stable to negative, citing its linkages with mainland China. -Moody’s also slashed its outlook for 22 Chinese local government financing vehicles.
Moody’s Investors Service cut its outlook for eight Chinese banks to negative from stable on Wednesday, following an identical downgrade to China’s government credit ratings a day earlier.
The ratings agency also lowered Hong Kong’s outlook from stable to negative, citing tight political, institutional, economic and financial linkages between Hong Kong and mainland China.
The lenders that were downgraded included the the big four Chinese lenders, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China and China Construction Bank Corporation.
The other banks on the list were China Development Bank, Agricultural Development Bank of China, the Export-Import Bank of China, and Postal Savings Bank of China Co.
The downgrades highlight worries over China’s rising debt level and its effect on GDP growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
Moody’s also slashed its outlook for 22 Chinese local government financing vehicles to negative from stable.
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Euro Area Stock Market Index (EU50) 4470.100 5 years new high compare to CCP 5 years new low.
All strong and soild alliance stock market break new high (at least this year) recently eg. EU, Japan, Taiwan, US, India. Due to real estate bubble, high jobless rate, homebuyers loan payment defaults, 300% debt compare to GDP. CCP bluechips near 5-year low, this is the conclusion. Silly Xi brought the country to wrong direction.
Moody’s also slashed its outlook for 22 Chinese local government financing vehicles to negative from stable. EV is losing money, local governments in bad debts no more money financing EV.
China is undergoing a transition to make it more sustainable, more technology based, more self reliance and succeeding fast .. stock market is control by western media, western fund managers, emotional in nature and short term in nature
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China’s industrial regulatory body, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the European Union’s investigation into Chinese electric vehicles, according to a report by China Daily on November 15, 2023.