The data show that producing and selling locally for the Chinese domestic market is becoming a vital component of global operations of many Japanese companies.
We also have made it a vital component of our operations to utilize culturally sensitive patient navigators and promotoras, community health workers who help Latinas navigate the complex world of cancer care.
More recently, Australia has found itself drawn into much smaller-scale operations with a big civilian component in the Solomon Islands, in Papua New Guinea and even in Nauru: all countries that became independent only in the late 1960s or 1970s, and have signally failed to prosper.
The influence of regional power systems has quietly become a critical component of the competitive calculus that firms consider when evaluating where to expand, start or scale back operations.