Original Title: Exclusive Interview | "The imposition of tariffs will ultimately only hinder the development of the US auto industry" - Interview with the Croatian political analyst Plesher

The Croatian political analyst Mladen Plesher said in an exclusive interview with the Xinhua News Agency recently that the United States announced that it would impose tariffs on China's electric vehicles and other products, which would not have a substantial impact on China's electric vehicle industry and would ultimately only hinder the development of the United States automobile industry.

Plesher was the chief editor of the Croatian mainstream media Morning Post, and was a well-known political commentator and analyst in Croatia.

Prischer told reporters that the US move is not conducive to the healthy development of the US auto industry, but also puts American consumers in an unfair situation. On the one hand, the American automobile industry has been "protected" by high tariffs, and lacks benign competition from outside, which is doomed to be difficult to progress; On the other hand, it is difficult for American consumers to buy Chinese electric vehicles with high cost performance due to tariff increase.

Pleischer pointed out that at present, the global automotive industry is accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation, and new energy vehicles are an important development direction. The US government's imposition of tariffs this time is not conducive to its own development, the global green transformation and the global efforts to tackle climate change, setting a "bad example" to the world.

He believes that the action of the US government is not so much to protect the US auto industry as to suppress the dominant position of China's electric vehicles in the international market. However, as China's electric vehicles are mainly produced domestically and the domestic market is huge, the imposition of tariffs will not have a substantial impact on China's industrial development.

"The US government's move reflects an important fact." Plesher said that China's rapid development in many fields, including electric vehicles, has led to the US no longer occupying a dominant position in many fields. "The United States is both anxious and difficult to accept this, so it tries to take various measures to prevent China's development."

Plesher stressed that in the face of external "headwinds", China has always shown "incredible" adaptability, and the US will not succeed in its plot. (Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xuejun)