Why are the electric bikes getting harder to sell?

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  Discussion keeps the world turning.

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  This is Round Table.

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  You've seen them everywhere,

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  threading through rush-hour traffic,

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  parked in clusters outside subway exits,

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  hauling everything from take-out to toddlers.

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  China's electric bike is practically a national mascot.

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  The new rules have been in play for over a year now,

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  and they're reshaping who rides,

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  who sells and who builds these things.

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  Is the little electric donkey,

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  as it's affectionately called,

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  still the cheap cheerful workhorse everyone knows,

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  or is it becoming something entirely different?

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  Coming to you from our studios in Beijing,

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  this is Round Table.

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  I'm Steve Hatherly, thanks for being with us today,

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  and for the show, I'm with Yuxun and Yushan.

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  First up.

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  In China,

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