Rainer Gehnen, a Chinese business management consultant at the German-Chinese Business Association in Cologne, told the paper that China will remain strongly depended on the overall economic and financial developments in Europe and the United States.

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Timo Boll, the fifth-seeded German who is the world's top non-Chinese player, has profited from this.

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German industry cannot compete with Chinese labour on low-end items, it is argued.

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This expansion and the valuations of the established Chinese makers was in part built on hopes that China would implement a German-style feed-in-tariff subsidy program, something China was talking about around the time of the Copenhagen climate meeting.

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It even does offline single-word translation between Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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