Canon, a Japanese manufacturer of photographic equipment, decided against offshoring and kept its manufacturing and new product development processes in Japan, which has relatively high labor costs. In contrast, GM, headquartered in the United States, has a joint venture with Shanghai Auto Industry Corporation (SAIC) to produce cars in China. Given our discussion of outsourcing, offshoring, next-shoring, and supply chain design, discuss how these two seemingly diverse decisions could be supportive of each companys operations strategy.