This chapter explores Germany's economic success in the 2010s, Angela Merkel's leadership, and the challenges it faces in transitioning to electric vehicles. It also touches upon the decline in interest in learning Mandarin as a foreign language.
Owing to a host of deep-rooted economic and political challenges, it could be the only G7 economy to contract this year. How might it turn the tide? More people want flashy, bigger electric vehicles, but are the added environmental costs counterproductive (10:00)? And examining the decline in Mandarin learning (18:18).
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