O mundo que conhecemos nos últimos 20 anos pode mudar drasticamente (parte II)

Parte I.

Um exemplo:

"A senior US official has hit out at countries including Germany, Russia and Turkey, that have rushed to introduce export controls to limit trade in medical supplies as they respond to the corona-virus outbreak - Peter Navarro, the White House's trade and manufacturing adviser, told the Financial Times that the moves showed the US was "alone" in confronting the outbreak and would have to reduce its dependence on global medical supply chains to "defend our citizens". "Just as in the H1N1 flu pandemic of 2009, actions by strategic competitors and putative allies alike once again demonstrate that in a global public health emergency, the US is alone," he said. "Such behaviour is precisely why it is important for the Trump administration to bring home its manufacturing capabilities and supply chains for essetial medicines.""(1)

Outro exemplo:

"Most downturns are Darwinian moments for capitalism: out go old, lumbering companies that failed to move with the times; in come their disruptive rivals in a blaze of creative destruction. Hardship focuses the mind, and companies find more efficient ways of running their businesses. The economy that emerges should be more productive than its predecessor. Yet in this crisis the opposite may be happening. The most efficient, which is to say the cheapest, way companies have found of manufacturing products is to use supply chains that straddle the globe in search of cheap labour. If something could be made for less on the other side of the world, so be it. Yet coronavirus, which threatens to constrain the free movement of people and goods, will deny companies this cheapest avenue. Companies will have to think long and hard about whether intercontinental supply chains make sense. Already some companies are shifting production back home and opting for home-built components. On the one hand that spells enormous disruption and could make all our lives more expensive.
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Of course, it’s quite possible life returns to normal after coronavirus. But one consequence of this disease could be that it forces us to take a long hard look at the way we run the world, and change it." (2)

(1) - "US official hits out at hoarding of coronavirus medical supplies"
(2) - "Coronavirus can trigger a new industrial revolution"