@admitsWrongIfProven yes. all manufacturing industries get subsidies one way or another, whether by more direct programs or government tolerance / encouragement of consolidation and market power.
china has found a form of subsidy that is often terrible in many respects (make bad loans and pretend they are good pretty indefinitely), but encourages rather than limits competition.
the US like Germany subsidizes in ways that do not encourage competition. i argue we should reform that. 1/