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Germany, Europe and the Asian ‘pivot’

November 1, 2012

China’s exponential growth in the last thirty years was crowned in 2011 with the performance of becoming the world number two as volume, right after the USA, unseating Japan. The performance as such speaks volumes, as such a fast economic development, climbing up the global economic ladder at exponential pace, threatening to soon breath down [...]

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