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Dear Members, 灏????????
Our research for the 2020 White Paper on
the Business Environment in China and analy- ??滑瀵广??2020骞翠腑?借????澧????功?????
sis of data for our 2020 Special Report on the 绌跺?瀵广??2020骞村?????虹?娴???电???????????
State of Business in South China showed signs of ?????〃???涓??渚???惧凡缁??瑗???????浜??绉?
the world?? supply chain being overstretched. ???锛???戒?涓?互????????ぇ澶??浼???戒?璧??
American companies as well as most compa- 杩??渚???俱???澶??涓??????界?瑁??璐х?渚??浜?
nies on the planet depend on this supply chain ?ヨ?涓??涓??澶?????瀹剁????????堕?浠躲???濡?
for various reasons. Many goods assembled in ??滑???????功??腑???????凤???瑕????2-3涓?嚎缇?
China or the US depend on raw material from ????藉?浠ｇ????渚???俱???瀵圭?????碉?杩??涓?
and parts manufactured in many different ???????垮???唬浠枫???姝わ??冲???????锛????滑
countries in the world. As it is also presented in 澶??COVID-19???宸茬????????介???????ラ?
our White Paper, it will take 2-3 trillion US dol- 棰??锛??濡??浠??涓?堪涓ら」??┒?ュ?涓?缓璁??锛??
lars to replace the current supply chain. A cost 涓?渚???句腑??袱涓?富瑕??娴??蹇?』????卞????
which the world, in the face of today?? prob- 绋冲??ㄧ?瑙????
lems it cannot afford. Therefore, it is of para-
mount importance that, as we deal with the 杩?唤???浜?OVID-19???瀵逛?搴??褰卞????
immediate problems already caused and to ????????缁??寮哄?浜??杩拌?浼般???浠芥????浠??
be caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the two ???浜??绗??绌跺?绱ц揩?э????浜??????寸?璀????
major economies of this supply chain must sit 涓??浠??瀵归?浜??涓????骇??????渚???＄?浼?
down to establish the stabilizer we have sug- 涓???? ?? 涓? ?? ?? 姣? 涓? 涓? 浼? 涓? ?? ?? 搴? 棰? 瀵? 浜? ?? ?? 浜?
gested in the above referenced two studies. 璀? ?? ???? ?? ?? 涓? ?? ?? 宸? ?? ?? ?? ?? 涓? ?? 涓? ?? ?? ?? 澶?
宸ワ?32%???璁垮??稿凡缁???板??撅?骞朵?宸茬????
The above assessment is reinforced by 灏??涓存??????浠躲???搴??/??????瓒崇???????
the results of this Special Report on the Im- ?镐俊杩???板北涓?瑙???
pact of COVID-19 Outbreak on the Supply
Chain. This study sounds not just a loud alarm ?界?涓????ぇ?ㄥ???????浜?腑?界??╂?涓?
but rather blurs out a siren not unlike the 灏???㈠?涔??????ユ按骞筹?浣??澶???歌??版?????
ones used during the cold war. This should 澶ч??╄?瀹??浠????????姐???澶у?????藉??猴?杩?
be a wakeup call for every business and govern-
ment leader around the globe and not just for
those producing goods and services in China.
Considering the fact that factories in China only

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