{"id":9923,"date":"2026-07-04T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:00:00","slug":"germanys-midsize-mittelstand-companies-once-thrived-by-making-niche-machines-for-factories-everywhere-now-fierce-competition-from-china-is-spreading-panic-among-those-manuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=9923","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s midsize \u201cMittelstand\u201d companies once thrived by making niche machines for factories everywhere. Now fierce competition from China is spreading panic among those manufacturers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-51247728\" \/><br \/>Midsize companies that employ millions of workers are now shedding jobs and relocating overseas to cut costs.<br \/>\n2026-07-04 02:00:00<br \/>\nTom Fairless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midsize companies that employ millions of workers are now shedding jobs and relocating overseas to cut costs. 2026-07-04 02:00:00 Tom Fairless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}