Firms Are Adapting to Rising Protectionism and Shifting Geopolitical Alliances

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The fifth annual Trade in Transition 2025 study surveyed over 3,500 supply chain executives across the world. The findings reveal firms are being forced to adapt at speed to rising protectionism and shifting geopolitical alliances.

Research unveiled by Economist Impact and DP World at the World Economic Forum highlights this strategic pivot, driven by geopolitical uncertainty which is likely to grow with the ‘America first’ policies of the new administration in the United States.

Click here to view the study.  We are in a new era of globalization. 

Today in Global Small Business: America First

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• How to take your real estate business global.
• How do you get nearly a million (1 mil) followers on Twitter or more than six-five thousand (65K) on Instagram?  Easy.  CamMI Pham will educate us on how to be bold in 2018 and get the world to notice you in the next WEGGinar™ held on Wednesday, February 7 at 11:00 a.m. Central time. The WEGGinar™ is no charge but you must sign up to attend: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2297562974983287811.
• Louis Vuitton wants to buy stakes in Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved and take it global.
• A new company you've probably never heard of that sources, warehouses and ships products for many of the biggest names in e-commerce, including Amazon, Walmart and Target.
• United States President Trump takes 'America First' message to global elite in Davos.
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U.S. Puts the Brakes on Entrepreneurship From Other Countries

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Shameful.  The Trump administration has put the brakes on a program to encourage entrepreneurs from other countries to start and grow businesses here. It's now on hold and the delay could be damaging and possibly permanent.

The discouraging signal  to entrepreneurs may well crush their interest in America and send them to India, Ireland and other countries eager to reach the innovation big leagues.

If we care about creating jobs, we must let foreign-born founders work their magic in America.  Immigrants such as Elon Musk, of Tesla and SpaceX fame; Sergey Brin of Google, Aart De Geus of Synopsys, Jerry Yang of Yahoo, Lyndon Rive of SolarCity, Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai of Marvell and Patrick Lo of NetGear, all have created great enduring enterprises.

Here's a perfect ending to the article below:

A global economy has built America’s success over the past 50 years. If “America first” translates to isolationism — discouraging even legal immigration of the best and brightest — it will not make us “great” again.

Read more here.