Carmaker Nissan says it is open to sharing factories around the world with its Chinese state-owned partner Dongfeng, as it shakes up business.
The Japanese firm which employs thousands of people in the UK, told a US media house that could bring Dongfeng into the Nissan production ecosystem globally.
This week the struggling company said it would lay off 11,000 workers and shut seven factories, but did not say where the cuts would be made.