Legislating against a hostile market takeover like this isn’t a bad thing.

I understand your point but your analogy would only work if Amazon were trying to convince the country that diapers were a sham, destroying the earth and inferior to swaddling your baby in poison ivy leaves.

I hope China continues to subsidize the fuck out of the cars and I hope the world starts buying them, Tesla goes under and my government is left trying to explain to their constituents how, exactly, petroleum fuel is still the only logical answer and then explains why we can't have a Chinese-made EV like the rest of the world.

in an attempt to take over global clean energy tech.

Don't look now, but that ship has sailed. They are the global leaders in that tech. We could have competed if the dolts that put our current administration didn't lack the critical thought to realize they were being lied to about solar, wind and electric. Now, the only card the US can play is to try to block the smarter countries from competing.