SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Europe does not want competition anymore. It wants moral protection for industrial failure.

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Ursula von der Leyen said she would explicitly raise the issue of “the massive influx of surplus Chinese products into Europe.”

Meanwhile, Chinese air conditioners are seeing a frenzy of demand in the European market, with demand far exceeding supply.

China’s response was simple:
trade is voluntary exchange,
and consumers are capable of making their own judgments.
Europe should abandon its zero-sum mentality.

At this point, Europe’s decline is not a mystery.

It cut off cheap Russian energy in the name of ideology.
It weakened its own energy autonomy.
It watched Biden’s subsidies pull industry toward America.
It got hit by Trump’s tariff war.
It lived off old industrial prestige for decades while refusing to update, compete, or scale.

And now it turns around and barks at China:
Why are you producing so many affordable, high-quality goods?
Why are Europeans buying them?
Why are Chinese companies making money?

Nobody forced European consumers to buy Chinese air conditioners, fans, EVs, solar panels, batteries, appliances, or electronics.
They bought them because the goods are useful, affordable, and competitive.

That is called a market.

If Europe wants to win, it can produce better products at better prices and sell them to China.

Europe tried before.

Did China scream about European car overcapacity?
Did China call Nokia’s dominance in China’s telecom market an existential threat?
Did China consider Siemens a market monopoly?
Did China accuse every successful Western brand of “flooding” the market?

No.

Because China competed.

Europe does not want competition anymore.
It wants moral protection for industrial failure.

China did not force Europe to become expensive, slow, dependent, and complacent.
Europe did that to itself.

Now Chinese factories are making what Europeans need, and Brussels calls that a crisis.

But China’s production capacity is not Europe’s problem.

Europe’s problem is that it can no longer build what its own people need at prices they can afford.