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Shared Harmony

Before he left China for the United States for a meeting in February, Sebastian Schmidt, CFO of WindMW, a joint-venture company that owns one of Germany’s largest offshore windfarms, recorded a song that he wrote himself. Titled We Will Win, it was meant to cheer his colleagues in China who were battling the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The lyrics went, “Chinese, Germans stand united/There’s no way to get divided./Help each other through the night,/We will win the virus fight.’’

“Music is an international language… Every time.

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