https://phys.org/news/2018-10-tesla-shanghai-factory.html

Those plans have gone ahead despite U.S.-Chinese tensions over Beijing's technology policy. Washington imposed penalty tariffs on Chinese goods and Beijing retaliated by raising duties on imports of American products including electric cars.

China is the biggest global electric vehicle market and Tesla's second-largest after the United States.

                                                            
                                    
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