News Analysis Volkswagen (VW) doesn’t seem to care much about China’s support of Russia during its Ukraine invasion. Neither, apparently, is the German company showing exceeding concern about the genocide in Xinjiang (where it has a factory that employs about 650 people). VW is not quite committed to an increase of its manufacturing in the United States, where in 2021 it sold over 375,000 vehicles, plus additional “units” from its subsidiaries, Porsche, Audi, and Skoda. China, on the other hand, is the company’s “gold mine,” according to a former executive quoted in a March 16 Financial Times (FT) article. VW deliveries in China peaked at approximately 4 million per year between 2017 and 2019. That number fell to 3.3 million in 2021. VW is working to rebuild sales there, perhaps in vain given the increasing Chinese competition. The strategy for countering this in a nationalist state like China is to …