Commentary: Chinese EV trucks will build the cities of the future

• Circumspect governments should be looking at ways to outcompete this shift. Instead, they’re raising the drawbridge.

• The European Union last month set tariffs as high as 67 per cent on Chinese construction machinery, while the UK has more recently imposed duties of more than 30 per cent on excavators made by Sany, Liugong and XCMG.