I don’t know what the German carmakers are going to do, but I’m wondering if they should put eyes on some Chinese EV carmakers that are going to go defunct — quite usual in Chinese manufacturing philosophy, and buy them cheap. Then they can use the tech to export cars back to EU.
They would just smother whatever is left of the Chinese company with their overbearing management.
China will not allow that. China is not as stupid as Germany and allows critical companies to be sold to the competitor. As an example, see
https://www.freshfields.com/en/our-thinking/case-studies/mid...