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Caspar Busse, Elisabeth Dostert, Thomas Fromm and Christina Kunkel
Managers don’t like surprises, especially bad ones. They prefer things to be planned for as long as possible. So the way China has been up until now, it was ideal. Such a safe bank that you thought it would go on forever. The car manufacturers in particular had gotten used to bringing in a third of their business and more in the billion-dollar republic, they opened plants that were often larger than their locations in Germany.