And $45B in unchecked debt, and no payments to parts suppliers in 8 months.

They wanted to see if there were any cut corners that could help explain the low cost other than government funding and the general low cost of labour in China. Did not find any cut corners during their teardown and sang the cars praises.

This is probably some agreement witn the Chinese government to give good press in other parts of the world in order to get benefits on vehicles sold in China. Ford's CEO put out a nearly identical article a few months ago.

There actually is a myth in circulation in some places that China's electrical vehicle tech is somehow advanced over everyone else's (my father got sucked in by that one). Tearing one apart is one way to counter that.