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Fight For The Soul of Germany: Should Volkswagen Turn To China Or America?
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It is worth stating that we live in truly interesting times.
The old rules are being upended right before our very eyes, with serial winners made to look like losers.
And no other country on earth surmises this viewpoint quite like Germany.
The European Union would not have come into existence, if it weren’t for German efficiency and productivity and the single currency — The Euro — would have been a fanciful notion, if the Germans had not found a way to tame the all-powerful monster known as inflation, which had brought it to the brink of failure in the 1930s.
And while it is important to point out that Europe’s preeminent power was rightly punished for playing an outsize role in two major wars, which led to a hundred million deaths, it was clear to all that a strong Germany was central to the continent’s prosperity.
This thinking led to the creation of the EU, which for a specific period, rivalled the United States of America.
But that was a long time ago.
These days, Germany isn’t only having to contend with the Americans, but also with the Chinese, with the latter proving to be far more formidable than the former.