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China's Build Your Dreams BYD has been scrutinised for intellectual property infringement, data security, and economic espionage, accused of copying designs from established automobile manufacturers. Now it's coming to Hungary (Photo: American Tobacco Campus)

Why a Chinese car battery plant in Hungary is not a good idea

Following concerns that Chinese EVs are flooding the European EV market, and amid the European Commission launching an electric vehicle (EV) probe, the Financial Times reported that German car suppliers are struggling to adjust to the shift from combustible engine to electric engines in vehicles.

But China is not the place to turn.

In November 2023, following the European Parliament issuing official no...

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Megan Khoo is research and policy advisor at Hong Kong Watch, a London NGO defending Hong Kong's democratic freedoms.

China's Build Your Dreams BYD has been scrutinised for intellectual property infringement, data security, and economic espionage, accused of copying designs from established automobile manufacturers. Now it's coming to Hungary (Photo: American Tobacco Campus)

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Megan Khoo is research and policy advisor at Hong Kong Watch, a London NGO defending Hong Kong's democratic freedoms.

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