The Great EV Glut

It’s not often that trade policy and sports culture collide, but this June, as European soccer fans gather for the UEFA European Football Championship, the current trade predicament facing the E.U. will — quite literally — be center stage. Illustration by Nate Kitch More in this series: The Japan Model

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Broken Promises

In 2021, after four decades of exponential growth in China’s economy, Xi Jinping revived the party slogan “common prosperity” in order to address the country’s glaring inequality. The policy priority was suddenly everywhere: in speeches, in newspapers and in schools. But now, three years later, it has all but disappeared from public discourse even as the country’s economic inequality festers. What happened?

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