Financial Times | EU electric vehicles probe lacks ‘logic’, Chinese ambassador says

China’s ambassador to the EU has accused Brussels of hypocrisy and lacking “logic” by announcing a trade probe into Chinese electric vehicles.

“If finding an overseas market can be interpreted as overcapacity domestically . . . what are the European companies doing in the Chinese market, for instance, Mercedes, they have been selling cars to China for decades,” said Fu Cong at an event run by the Friends of Europe think-tank on Thursday. “I don’t think that logic [for the probe] stands.”

Deputy director-general of the commission’s trade department, Maria Martin-Prat, responded: “What is good for consumers in the long term is fair competition.”