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The maker of spark plugs and other auto parts collapsed with around $10 billion in debt in September.

There’s an upside for Dyer, too: “It helps that I’m not so plugged in to America’s relationship to the DMV. I don’t have a preconceived notion that people think the place is terrible.”

As the shaky finances came into focus this year, James’s backers pulled the plug.

For the first time since the 2019 political showdown that hamstrung the National Basketball Association’s aspirations in China, both of the league’s biggest stars returned to the basketball-crazy nation to plug their shoe brands.

And 60% said they wished they “could go back to a time before everyone was ‘plugged in.’”