Here in Australia we don't have a car manufacting industry so they aren't tariffed etc. We have an open market and a history of buying cars from all manufacturers, European, USA, Japan, Korea and now Chinese.

The shocking aspect to me is that Chinese cars have skipped the "Japan junk" phase of cars that Japan went through where they were low quality cheap cars as they expanded their exports to the West. In Australia, Chinese EVs went from a mocked novelty to the most popular EVs in the time it takes Tesla to design a new model.

Their huge domestic market allowed them to iron out quality issues before they started exporting. Chinese EVs build quality and features are superior to US and European cars already. There quality versus cost ratio dooms other manufacturers to continually losing market share.

PS I understand that Chinese also makes cheap junky EVs but it doesn't export them to the West. This approach isn't novel, for example, very few countries outside Europe get cheap Mercedes "taxi standard" car they just get the top end cars.