'No Second China': EU Firms Face Coronavirus Fallout
Executive Summary
The general economic and business impact on European firms from the coronavirus in China is widespread and severe, and companies must consider diversifying, warns an influential European trade group in a just-released business survey. But it concedes there are no China alternatives.
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