First, CEOs should understand the rapidly changing U. For decades, U. They came for the cheap labor and lax regulations, but many also saw themselves as the tip of the spear in modernizing the country.
Now, instead of encouragement from Washington, U. Second, get the facts. CEOs need to know if their supply chains run through fields and factories that use forced labor or if their technology could be used to bolster repressive security services. If your company is profiting from human rights abuses -- even inadvertently -- the reputational and regulatory risks back home are only going to get more acute. Too many companies fail to map their supply chains all the way to the farm or mine level, looking beyond the middlemen and persevering through Chinese interference.
Companies weighing how and when to speak out on human rights also need to do the due diligence to understand how dependent they really are on Chinese production capacities as compared to alternative locations in Southeast Asia or at home in the United States, and how vulnerable they are to a backlash from Chinese consumers. But the potential damage depends on factors such as the level of competition from local brands that can provide an alternative, and those factors must be weighed against the consequences of silence in the U.
Third, companies that decide to take a stand should consider ways to maximize their impact and minimize their risk. Align around a strong message and specific actions that go beyond U. Backtracking or equivocating, as too many brands and coalitions have done recently , will undermine the message and invite more attacks. Better to be clear and firm, and have a crisis plan in place to deal with the fallout, including protecting local employees on the ground.
The costs of conscience are real, but not necessarily fatal, and most backlashes eventually fade. Finally, the trajectory in China may continue to worsen, so CEOs should begin building up production capacity in other markets and reinvesting in America. Already, the widespread discrimination against foreign companies in China is prompting some Western executives to say enough is enough.
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EST Friday after the big drugmaker announced its third-quarter results. Ding said former president Hu Jintao and former premier Wen Jiabao sought to address the disparity between the rich eastern and impoverished western regions, as well as the disparity between the agricultural and industrial sectors. As part of that process, the government would alter the tax and social security regimes and make a range of fiscal transfers to allow for greater upwards mobility and better access to education.
That number is projected to reach million by China also had 5. In , the wealthiest 1 per cent of Chinese people held That has resulted in a widening income divide in the country.
A level of 0. The wealth gap is even starker. The wealth Gini coefficient, which rose from 0. Most of the millionaires or billionaires, particularly in the last decade, have emerged in coastal regions and the private sector.
One of those richer areas is Zhejiang, a coastal province home to a thriving private sector and the headquarters of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the South China Morning Post. In July, the province unveiled details of its plan to build itself into a pilot zone for common prosperity by China is now more inclined to fairness.
But fairness does not mean returning to the egalitarian practice of everybody eating from the same big pot during the Mao [Zedong] era. China is trying to narrow the excessive disparity between the rich and the poor. Ding Xueliang, from the BoYuan Foundation, agreed that China needed to learn from the past without returning to distant doctrine.
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