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Volkswagen Group may have announced a new partnership in China and also the deepening of another, but competitor Mercedes-Benz is uninterested in committing any further to an ‘in China for China’ strategy. Instead, it believes that its Chinese customers will see value in a Mercedes built by Mercedes.
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