Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis - Local Mobility Controls Point to a Re-Fragmentation of the China Operating Environment for MNCs
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Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis - Local Mobility Controls Point to a Re-Fragmentation of the China Operating Environment for MNCs

The COVID-19 pandemic – and the myriad market, societal, and political economy shocks it has caused – portends many changes in the future operating environment for MNCs and foreign investors in China. This first piece in a series explores and examines what the mobility situation may be after the COVID-19 crisis subsides. We foresee some reversion back to the historic norm of constrained personal mobility, enhanced with powerful technology tools for individual tracking. This will impact talent and commercial flows, and how domestic markets and supply bases develop geographically.


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