Globalism 2.0

Episode18. The Way of the Kazakh

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Your Business Environment Analysis has to react to growing STATIST influences.

  • China and Russia prefer making strategy at senior party level, and having private and SOE players execute.
  • The US flips that – overall strategy is usually corporate/financially driven, and legislative agendas (and executive orders) get built around those economics.
    • Europe is someplace in the middle.
  • Your job is not to change governments or policy-making methods. Your job is to assemble the datapoints you need to make better decisions than your competitors and win in the marketplace.
  • Your job is to build bridges between different actors and navigate the shifting landscapes.
  • Your job is to be Kazhakstan
    • Main Links from today's episode:

    GM to invest $1 bln in Mexico to build electric vehicles

    Move draws immediate criticism from United Auto Workers union

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/gm-to-invest-1-bln-in-mexico-to-build-electric-vehicles

     

    Foxconn Shrinks Plans for Wisconsin Plant  WSJ 

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/foxconn-shrinks-plans-for-wisconsin-plant-11618959964

     

    EU efforts to ratify China investment deal ‘suspended’ after sanctions

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/04/eu-suspends-ratification-of-china-investment-deal-after-sanctions

     

    What Kazakhstan Can Teach About Medium-State Diplomacy How the self-styled “Asian Geneva” successfully navigated among Russia, China, and the West—at least for now

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/04/what-kazakhstan-can-teach-about-medium-state-diplomacy/

     

    World Factbook (CIA) – Kazakhstan 

    https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kazakhstan/

     

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    Globalism 2.0By globalism2 / Andrew Hupert