A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.

A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.

Capitalism is all about waste.

Only if it earns a profit.

I thought china used communism

China’s system is technically communism in the same way the Bud Light is technically beer.

Then you are many decades out of date.

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