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How Volkswagen stalled in China

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 People walk past an SAIC-Volkswagen showroom in Chengdu, Sichuan province. (REUTERS)
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YILEI SUN and TONY MUNROE
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Reuters
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August 09, 2021 11:12 AM

BEIJING -- In late December 2019, managers at Volkswagen's headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, realized they might have a serious problem in China, the automaker's biggest market and ticket to its electric future.

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