In the article by John Micklethwait, Jeff Immelt on DealingWith Trump and Globalization, BloombergBusinessweek, February??09?, ?2017, how does Immelt’s respond the question about whetheror not he worries about the prospect of a trade dispute between theU.S. and China?
a. Immelt says that a unilateral relationship is important—forthe whole world.
b. Immelt says that there’s no good case for the two biggesteconomies on earth being in a trade war.
c. Immelt says that the Chinese are good with a worldview, andit is under a good communist rule.
d. Immelt says that it does not matter, since Trump is to fixit.
e. The president is yet to understand that having some kind ofday-in-and-day-out relationship between the U.S. and China iscritical.
In the article by David Barboza, How China Built ‘iPhone, NYTimes, December 29, 2016, the presences of Apple and Foxconn andtheir relationships between Apple and Foxconn are describedas
a. Apple is Foxconn’s largest supplier.
b. Foxconn is Apple’s largest customer.
c. Apple is China’s largest private employer.
d. Foxconn and Apple are intertwined in Zhengzhou, as sellerand buyer, and Apple is also the main exporter using the customsfacility here.
e. Foxconn, a Chinese company, has enormous leverage in thenegotiations for those incentives.
In the article by David Barboza, How China Built ‘iPhone, NYTimes, December 29, 2016, some examples that China has penalizedoverseas companies include all the following, except
a. China is also scrutinizing Western technology companiesover national security issues.
b. China forced American mobile chip giant, Qualcomm to reduceprices for companies that sell smartphones within thecountry.
c. China wants Chinese brands like Huawei and Xiaomi toundercut Apple and Samsung on price.
d. China requests Apple to store more of its local data onChinese servers and Apple must undergo “security audits” on newmodels of the iPhone before gaining approval to sell theproduct.
e. China pressed Apple to hand over its source code.
In the article by David Barboza, How China Built ‘iPhone, NYTimes, December 29, 2016, worker recruiting for Apple’s contractmanufacturer Foxconn is described as:
a. Provincial officials call townships and villages to ask forhelp finding potential workers.
b. As part of its deal with Apple, the state recruits, trainsand houses employees.
c. Every city’s department of labor and ministry of humanresources is involved, according to Foxconn personnel.
d. The government pays the new hires a subsidy, and if thedemand is high, the subsidy is high, if the demand is low, thesubsidy is low.
e. its labor force, the size of a national army, reliesheavily on the generosity of the Zhengzhou government andApple.
In the article by Susan Berfield, Domino’s: Delivering a $9Billion Empire, BloombergBusinessweek, Mar 15, 2017, some of thenegative operations at Domino the company went public weredescribed as
a. Domino had several fatal accidents in the deliveries thathad led to two lawsuit verdicts that cost the company millions ofdollars.
b. Domino’s went down after the economy in recession.
c. In 2006, the company reported its first full-year salesflat in the U.S.
d. Domino’s pizza remained expensive, but the recipes andingredients hadn’t kept up with the foodie movement.
e. A Domino’s employee at a store in North Carolina filmedanother putting cheese up his nose and adding snot to asandwich.
