allowed China firmly control global battery battery supply chain.
Back to 15 years ago, EU bureaucracy asked German auto manufacturers to reach a significant production of EV by 2020, BMW, Volkswagen... have no choice but contracted with a China's company that is even unknown to most Chinese to supply their batteries. Before that, this company actually came to Japan asking some Japanese auto makers to cooperate in EV by supplying battery. Japan had no pressure to Japan auto makers to make EV then. So, Japanese auto makers said no to this Chinese company.