Recall, to VAG’s major shareholders, it doesn’t matter where a VW is made since they would always collect and distribute the profit from its sale. To auto workers and their local communities on the other hand, it makes dramatic difference whether the VWs on their streets were made close by, or a continent away.

I’m afraid China hasn’t been playing fairly in the markets by producing certain goods at a cost to remove competition. It’s going to get even worse after the state just declared all mineral rights belong solely to the nation.

But why? Isn’t that their capitalism at work? If they are good, people will buy them. If they are not, then German manufacturers have nothing to worry about. Heaven forbid a free market act as initially intended, balancing out to reward manufacturers that perform well and consumers with competition driven high quality at reasonable prices.

It’s a bitch, aint it? Some times that Community Chest card ruins your whole Monopoly game.

Oh, wait… Lobbyist card hidden under the board. That’s the capitalism we all know and loathe.