An increasing union of \(q\)-complete manifolds whose limit is not \(q\)-complete (Q1912822)

Here for all integers \(q \geq 1\) the author constructs a complex manifold \(M\) which is an increasing union of \(q\)-complete open submanifolds but which is not \(q\)-complete (or even \(q\)-convex). The manifold \(M\) is constructed in the following way (modifying a construction made for \(n = 2\) and \(q = 1\) by Fornaess). Fix integers \(n\) and \(q\) with \(n > q \geq 1\) and let \(E\) be a complex linear subspace of \(\mathbb{C}^n\) with \(\text{codim} (E) = q\). Let \(\{a_i\}_{i \in \mathbb{N}}\) be a sequence in \(\mathbb{C}^n \backslash \{0\}\) converging to 0 and let \(\pi : X \to \mathbb{C}^n \backslash \{0\}\) be the blowing-up of this sequence. Let \(E'\) be the strict transform of \(E\) into \(X\). Take \(X \backslash E'\) as \(M\).