The time horizons of the Chinese are the most important thing to bear in mind. They probably identified in 2016 that our estrangement from the rest of Europe and the resulting slow puncture economy made us likely to come to them as a supplicant at some point. The election of Trump is a bonus that will just accelerate the process. The changing of the sign at the Tesla garage probably isn't the only alteration to our landscape that is resulting from this - the huge towers to our north will be homes to large numbers of Chinese students. Although this relationship has some logic to it and we have things to offer the Chinese, we are very much the junior partner and, unlike us, they have not forgotten the humiliations we heaped on them in the past so the amity is just on the surface.

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former Tesla showroom acquired	22/12/24 12:12:00	Carl Johns
Re:former Tesla showroom acquired	22/12/24 23:31:00	Paul Campbell
Reply	23/12/24 09:30:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Reply	23/12/24 09:35:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Reply	23/12/24 09:38:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Reply	23/12/24 12:01:00	Craig David Mcdowell
Re:former Tesla showroom acquired	23/12/24 10:23:00	Michael Robinson
Re:Re:former Tesla showroom acquired	23/12/24 13:43:00	N V Brooks
Reply	23/12/24 13:56:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Domestic car industry	23/12/24 16:05:00	Richard Greenhough
Reply	24/12/24 07:25:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Reply	30/12/24 11:10:00	Jeremy Parkinson
Reply	06/01/25 09:59:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Tesla	06/01/25 11:20:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Tesla	06/01/25 11:46:00	Peter Evans
Reply	06/01/25 15:13:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Reply	06/01/25 17:11:00	Peter Evans
Reply	06/01/25 18:32:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Reply	06/01/25 19:31:00	Brian Coyle
Re:Re:Reply	06/01/25 20:20:00	Peter Evans
Re:Re:Re:Reply	07/01/25 10:55:00	Francis Rowe
Reply	07/01/25 14:46:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Reply	08/01/25 08:56:00	Jeremy Parkinson
Reply	11/01/25 09:42:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Reply	14/01/25 09:24:00	Jeremy Parkinson

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