Global Macro Research
Global Macro Research

Why are Chinese electric vehicles disrupting the global economy?

How did China become the leading producer of electric vehicles? What impacts does this have on China's economy and trade tensions with the US and Europe?

Authors
Chief Economist
Deputy Chief Economist
Contributors
Lizzy Galbraith, Robert Gilhooly

Duration: 31 mins

Date: 13 June 2024

China has become a global EV superpower in very short order, with major macroeconomic repercussions. Paul Diggle and Luke Bartholomew talk to Lizzy Galbraith and Robert Gilhooly about how China overtook the US as the world’s pre-eminent manufacturer of electric vehicles, the ways in which this is changing the course of the Chinese economy, and why this is amplifying trade tensions with the US and Europe.

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