Following on from my post above I am rather coming to suspect that German industry had, in its arrogance, decided that a greater prosperity lay in promoting the great green revolution and making billions from the engineering required. Unfortunately, that plan is now unravelling and it's world is falling apart as China is scooping up whatever winnings there are.
Seen through this prism all sorts of things start to make sense, for instance, Trump attacking climate change as a scam completly undermines the plot and drops Germany deeply in the poop, as we are seeing.
We might also allow the notion that China was considered a partner in all this, yet it has decided to do whatever serves its own purpose, and if that means dumping on the Germans, and the Russians, then so be it. It has the west by the balls anyway now that we have handed all out manufacturing over to them.