VW sells assets to address political risks and cut excess capacity, while extending its partnership with to regain market share in China Volkswagen's (VW) sale of a controversial plant in China will come as a relief to the German carmaker,

Volkswagen is to sell all its operations in China's Xinjiang, it said on Wednesday, after years of mounting pressure to abandon its presence in a region where rights groups have documented abuses against the Uyghur population.

The move will bring to an end years of mounting investor pressure to abandon VW's presence in the region, where rights groups have documented abuses including mass forced labour in detention camps. Beijing denies any such abuses. The transaction value of ...