According with the attached simulation, - At a macro level, news coming out of China would give any firm pause before deciding to do business there. With the trade turmoil over the past few years between the U.S. and China, the CEO is interested in the degree to which China will remain a stable place for foreign firms to do business. Of course, most of the attention of late has been on its slowing economy and the trade tensions with the rest of the world, but there may be other problems or issues on the horizon as well.

how sift through all the noise and present a balanced view of where China is, and where it's likely to go ?

Global Business Offshoring Simulation The Simulation KaBoom Technology, Inc. (trade name "KaBoom Supersonic") is a Denver, CO based company designing a Mach 1.7 (1,000 kn; 1,800 km/h), 65-88-passenger supersonic airliner. Named the KaBoom Adagio, the airliner is planned to have a range of 4,250 nmi (7,870 km) and to be introduced in 2030. As of August, KaBoom has orders for 35 aircraft with options to purchase 35 more. KaBoom, however, has a small problem. At the end of August, Rolls Royce announced that they would not be pursuing engine development further, and the KaBoom Adagio currently has no engines or manufacturers. You work for WhisperPower, LLC., ("WISP") a Spartanburg-based start-up that, since its inception in 2020, has raised roughly 4.5 billion dollars in funding to design, build and market high-efficiency electric motors for use in the aerospace industry, specifically focused on motors that will provide enough thrust to propel a passenger aircraft at supersonic speed. WISP was the brainchild of the CEO, Kelly Johnson, a brilliant and determined American aerospace engineer and executive who was part of the U.S. management team with Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. While there, she had been a driving force in the recent innovative upgrade concepts for the SR- 71 Blackbird, which holds the record, set in 1976, as the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft. Industry analysts have recently reported that major jet engine manufacturers including Pratt & Whitney, GE Aviation, Honeywell and Safran Aircraft Engines are not currently interested in supersonic aircraft. With Rolls Royce stepping away from KaBoom, Kelly wants to capitalize on the growing regulatory pressures around the world to move to electric transportation and provide just such a solution for KaBoom. WISP has recently had a technology breakthrough that could solve the efficiency problems in aerospace electric motors; they need to ramp up production. While WISP had always taken pride in its stated ambition to conduct production principally in the U.S. (South Carolina to be precise), your team has been charged with examining if other locations might prove better suited for WISP. (WISP's investors are keenly interested in finding the most cost-effective solution for production.) It seems that the most senior executives generally have a preference for France, though the CEO has begun to mention the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Viet Nam, and Mexico as possible alternatives. You have been given the following issues to address, each of which will be the subject of an independent report. At this early stage of the analysis, management seems to want a more macro view of the issues. For example, one approach would be to simply go out and find, e.g., a French manufacturer with a good reputation for producing quality goods, and simply see what terms could be negotiated. But, again, at this early stage, the management team wants to examine, and learn about, some of the larger questions that an offshoring solution raises. There'll be time enough to operationalize once the firm identifies where its products will be produced