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In the article by David Barboza, How China Built ‘iPhone, NY Times, December 29, 2016, to win Apple’s contract manufacturer after the first iPhone rolled out, many Chinese governments did the following:
a. Officials from various regions camped out at hotels in
Zhengzhou, where Foxconn had its main operations.
d. The Zhengzhou government also pledged to spend more than $10
billion to build a new airport, just a few miles away from the
factory.
e. Zhengzhou City officials lavished money and favorable investment
terms on Foxconn, and they promised discounted energy and
transportation costs, lower social insurance payments, and more
than $1.5 billion in grants for the construction of factories and
dormitories that could house hundreds of thousands of workers.
In the article by David Barboza, An iPhone’s Journey, From the
Factory Floor to the Retail Store, NY Times, December 29, 2016, the
factory that builds iPhone is described as all the following,
except
e. Foxconn’s facilities in Zhengzhou cover 2.2 square miles and can employ up to 350,000 workers, many of whom earn about a third of the minimum wage of NY workers.
In the article by Matthew Campbell, Is Emirates Airline Running Out of Sky? BloombergBusinessweek, January 05, 2017, Emirates’ superconnector model faces which of the following challenges?
a. In Istanbul, an airport that may be as large as Dubai World
Central is under construction and could eventually allow Turkish
Airlines to become a global challenger.
c. The superconnector model itself might fall apart, as the
proliferation of lighter, fuel-efficient jets such as the Boeing
787 are making maximum long-haul routes which are less than 4,000
nautical miles between smaller cities economical, reducing the role
for megahubs of all stripes.
In the article by Matthew Campbell, Is Emirates Airline Running Out
of Sky? BloombergBusinessweek, January 05, 2017, the major
international hurdles may include the following:
c. The U.S. Big Three are intensifying a lobbying campaign against Emirates.
In the article by David Barboza, How China Built ‘iPhone, NY Times,
December 29, 2016, Apple has experienced the following with the
Chinese regulators and authorities:
a. Apple is now engaged in the corporate version of shuttle
diplomacy with Mr. Trump in New York, part of an effort to gain
support from the incoming administration.
b. The Chinese authorities fined the technology giant for failure
to fully pay its taxes.
d. Regulators shut down Apple’s Store last spring, just six months
after the services were introduced in China.
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