Bremmer Guarded Globalization

Bremmer discusses “guarded globalization”, where governments from developing countries are resisting larger multi-national industries from expanding into their countries in order to protect the local infrastructure. These negative impacts can be managed in multiple ways. One of which is for some companies to stay home. The article explains this is an easy decision for companies that benefit government. After all, you don’t want to be building the countries defense equipment in the very country you may be at war against. The second strategy is to become too diversified to fail. By continuing to develop new programs and ways to gain market share the company is ensuring their existence in the market. For example, in China, GE has multiple