[emsign]

At least I hope they leave the corporate culture baggage that has ruined the German car industry behind and do not transplant it into other companies. In which you stick to your old guns and hope that politics protects you with tariffs against any future developments from international competitors on the car market. (It failed. Now the Chinese make better cars than the Germans.)

[inigyou]

There is no chance that they will leave it behind.

[CrimsonRain]

No chance. Hiring these people will be toxic for any companies.

[nxm]

> Now the Chinese make better cars than the Germans.

Thanks to heavy subsidization of the industry by Chinese government to gain an competitive advantage.

[chewz]

If by heavy subsidies you mean - encouraging internal competition, securing cheap energy and educating thousands of engineers then yes, Chinese cars are subsidized.

If by heavy subsidies you mean pocketing 150 billions of dollars from EU R&D budget for innovation that have never happened then no, Chinese cars manufacturers are not subsidized.

[Johanx64]

> Thanks to heavy subsidization of the industry by Chinese government to gain an competitive advantage.

You can't have a functional government that serves the interests of it's people and enables the country to dominate increasingly more sectors!

It's basically cheating!

The government has to be dysfunctional, and should only collect disproportionate taxes with the idea that they'd be wasted extremely inefficiently.... on god knows what, some bullshit, some "social programmes" and "culture" and the dumbest things imaginable - whatever they might be, but not anything that's actually ... you know good for the country!