They completely shut down almost any inbound flight for foreigners for almost three years. A western company producing overseas can’t base their products only relying on a video chat with the factory. If it’s just Alibaba rebrands ok, but for anything else you need to physically go in the country, meet suppliers, touch and see the materials, inspect the goods, watch if preproduction is ok. Do everything remotely is insane.
Everyone moved production to neighboring countries like Vietnam not because of political issues but because at any time a manager can just take an airplane and go to see what’s going on instead of relying on emails and samples sent by FedEx.
They completely shut down almost any inbound flight for foreigners for almost three years. A western company producing overseas can’t base their products only relying on a video chat with the factory. If it’s just Alibaba rebrands ok, but for anything else you need to physically go in the country, meet suppliers, touch and see the materials, inspect the goods, watch if preproduction is ok. Do everything remotely is insane.
Everyone moved production to neighboring countries like Vietnam not because of political issues but because at any time a manager can just take an airplane and go to see what’s going on instead of relying on emails and samples sent by FedEx.