Jinan Qingqi

[MJH]

I suspect that eventually something changes, without solely owned international operations in china it is difficult to see that transition happening. That being how does Ford continue selling in china if the partnership eventually is dissolved? Will they continue to offer new designs and technology to their partners, knowing that? The OEM role how does that change to solely Chinese or solely foreign owned. The former is the ideal from a Chinese perspective, but then if for example Ford remains in the market it must then import and in that it is regulated in the market by tariff policy and subsequent rates.

The result would be last years Ford sold as a Changan made in china and then an option is an imported new Ford version that is priced higher due to import tariffs.

The Chinese will always be a day behind, so to speak. They want the core technologies and the pool of designers, engineers and also operations staff that can support independent operations. That may take a generation to achieve or more, longer to ever get to the level that they can open the market to solely owned and operating foreign companies.

I would say holistically that others should help them attain that, and in an event contingent to eventual free global trade.

The USA and Europe for that matter need to lower the values of their currencies and subsequently lower their costs of living and that is basically lower wages across the board. I am sorry if you think prestige adds real value, that actually is a falsity, what raise value is legitimate scarcity and false or contrived scarcity is result of market manipulations to raise prices and is morally corrupt and to me deplorable behavior.