“Investors have been on edge as the world’s two largest economies, the U.S. and China, tiptoe toward a trade agreement,” Avi Salzman and Nicholas Jasinski write for Barron’s. “Yet even if President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping reach a deal, a tariff peace won’t mean a return to the old ways of doing business.”
“The global system of trade is being realigned. A decadeslong drive toward freer trade across borders has begun to reverse. Globalization is being overwhelmed by populism, nationalism, and protectionism. Brexit threatens to erect new trade barriers between the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. India just moved to limit foreign operators selling goods online,” Salzman and Jasinski write. “An eroding global consensus on free trade has led U.S. companies to modify their supply chains, often bringing suppliers closer to their end markets.”
“A recent Bain & Co. survey of more than 200 executives at multinational companies who do business in China found that 60% felt that the recent trade war had given them a chance to recalibrate their business strategies. Over the next year, 48% said, they expect to seek out new suppliers, and 42% expect to find raw materials elsewhere,” Salzman and Jasinski write. ““I do think the area with the most potential is going to be Southeast Asia,” says Robert Horrocks, chief investment officer for Matthews Asia, a mutual fund outfit… A manufacturing boom benefits local economies, which opens other investment opportunities. ‘Therefore,’ Horrocks asserts, ‘the best way of investing is to invest in local businesses with a strong competitive moat that can feed off the increased purchasing power from the new industrial workforce.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: One need only look to Apple’s increase in Indian production to see this global trade realignment in action.
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This is a different kind of WOKE for MSM. Finally a news analysis that is mostly positive for MAGA.
“Globalism” arose because there was an almost universal consensus between roughly 1945 and 1970 that populism, protectionism, and nationalism contributed to colonialism, World War I, the Great Depression, fascism, World War II, and the excesses of the Soviet Union and Red China. However, now new generations have risen that did not experience any of that and aren’t required to learn much about it in school. So, we get to take the ride again, except this time with relatively abundant weapons of mass destruction. Fun.
Globalism started as soon as the first hominids crossed the Tigris River. Only corrupt racist asswipes refuse to work toward a world where all mankind can connect on a fair playing field and prosper sustainably.
Isn’t this just more countries joining the globalism bandwagon?
Bloodsucking idle rich discussing future blood-sucking opportunities. They used to be local, then global, now return to local. No allegiance, no patriotism but to borderless wealth accumulation. I call that subversion. No wonder the popularity of Trump populism on one side and AOC/Sanders on the other.
Sounds like this “Artist” is looking for someone to hate. Hey, let’s hate people who have been successful! We can gang up on them — and feel less like a failure.
This is a time-tested strategy. What could go wrong?
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