Case Analysis: Big Business (IBM) Conflict
with China due to
Corona virus
Pandemic. Connect the writing with China in terms of Supply-chain, economy,
Geo
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political
situation etc.
Please see the assignment
requirement
and additional class reading
materials
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Case Analysis: Big Business (IBM) Conflict with China due to Coronavirus Pandemic. TASK You are a C-level manager of a big business organization {an example: to choose the IT firm (IBM & Lenovo} and have been asked to write a 10-page big business case analysis report refers to the Coronavirus and how China’s supply-chain, geo -political etc are affected in North America and its impact into your business. Identify problem and recommendation Developing the Report 1. Begin preliminary background reading through searches of the news media, industry publications, etc. · You may choose to write about firms that are contemplating entry or firms that have already entered China. · 2. Describe the specific challenge faced by the company. · Be extremely economical in your description, including only relevant information, and homing in directly on the challenge that will need to be resolved. Step 3: Continue your research on the case and specify at least three different approaches the company could have taken to resolve the challenge it faced in China. · · Make sure to assess the upside and downside risks of each strategy, the potential costs and benefits involved, etc. Step 4: Based on your understanding of the alternative paths that were available, develop a critique of the actual approach that the company took. · Format Time New Roman, 12 font 10 pages, double space. Citation: MLA Identify the Problem: pages 1-5 Recommended Actions: pages 6-10 Plus Appendices and follow the class reading as reference purpose. One of the reading link: https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/20460/can-xi-pivot-from-china-s-disrupter-in-chief-to-reformer-in-chief Rest Reading matrials are attached as PDFs. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun.rdo 17.547/& The Government and Politics of China Ed Steinfeld ~ 7IJan Pencil drawing 'bj Tao Yuan-ching SELECTED STORIES· OF LUHSUN FOREIGN ~ANGUAGES PRESS PEKING Ant edition 1960 Third edition 197J Second printil18 1971 Translat~d by Yan, Hsien-y; lind Gladys Y lin, Printed In tin Peopl~'r 1«Jpublit 0/ Cbind C O N TE NTS PREFACE TO THE FIRST CO.LLE CT ION OF SHO RT STORIES, "CALL TO ARMS'! A MADMAN'S DIARY KUNG I-CHI MBDIC I NB TOMORROW AN INCIDENT STORM 'IN A TBACUP MY OLD HOME THE TRUE STO RY OF AH Q VILLAGE O PERA THE NEW YEAR'S SACRIFICE IN THE WINE S HOP A HA PPY FAMILY SOA P THE MISANTHROPE REGRET POR THE PAST THB DIVORCE THE PLIGHT TO THE MOON FORGING THE SWORDS -. . . 1 7 19 25 " 42 45 54 65 113 12' '" 156 ". 176 197 216 226 231 PREFACE TO THE FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. "CALL TO ARMS" When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may some- times . also make you lonely, arid there is no point in clinging in spirit . to lon"eiy bygone days. Howeyer, my trouble is that I plnnet forget completely, and these stocies have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from .my memory. Foc morc than four years I . used to go, almost. daily, to a pawnbroker's and to a medicine shop. I cannot remember how old I was then; but the cou~tcr in th~ medicine shop was the same height as r. and "that " in the pawnbroker's twice my height. I used to hand clothes and trinkets up to the counter twice my height, take the money proffered with con- tempt, then go to the counter the same height as I "to buy medicine for my fa"ther who had long been ill. On my "return home I had other things to keep me busy, for since the phy- sician who made out the prescriptions was very well-known, he used unusual drugs: aloe root dug up in winter, sug!lr-cane " that had been three years exposed to" frost, twin crickets, "and ardisia: . . . all of which were difficult to procure: But my. father'! illness went from bad to worse until he died. I believe those who sink from "prosperity to poverty wilf probably come, in " the process, " to understand what the wbrld is really like. I " wanted to go to the K - school in N - ,*- perhaps because I was in search of a change of scene and faces. There was nothing for my mothc"r to do but to raise eight dollars for my travelling expenses, and say. I might do as I pleased. That she cried was only natural, for at that • The Kiangnan Naval Academy in Nanking. 1 2 SELEClED Sl'ORlES OP LV IlSUN time the proper thing was to study the classics and take the official examinations . . Anyone who studied "foreign subjects'" was looked down upon as a fellow good for nothing, who, out of desperation, was forced to sell his soul to foreign devils. Besides, she was sorry to part with me. But in spite of that, r went to N - and entered the K - school; and it was there that I heard for the first ' time the names of such subjects as natural science, arithmetic, geography, history, drawing and physical training. They had no pbysiology course, but we saw woodblock editions of such works as A New Course on 11M Human Body and Essays on Chemistry and Hygiene. Recalling the talk and prescriptions of physicians I had known and comparing th~m with what I now knew, I came to the conclusion those physicians must be either un· witting or deliberate charlatans; and I began to sympathize with the. invalids and families who suffered at their hands. From translated histories I a lso learned that the Japanese Reformation had originated, to a great extent, with the intro· duction of Western medical science to Japan. Th~e inklings took me to a provincial medical college in Japan. I dreamed a beautiful dream that on my return to China I would cure patients like my father, who had been wrongly treated, while if war broke out I would serve as an army doctor, at the same time strengthening my countrymen's faith in reformation. I do not know what advanced methods arc now used to teach microbiology, but at that time lantern slides were used to show the microbes; and if tbe lecture ended early, the instructor might show s.lidcs of natural scenery or news to fill up the time. This was during the Russo-Japanese War, so there were .many war films, and I had to join in lhe clapping and cheering in the lecture hall along with the other students. It was a long time since I had seen any compatriots, but one day I saw a film showing some Chinese, one of whom was bound, while many others stood around him. They were all strong fellows but appeared completely apathetic. According to the commentary, the one with his hands bound was a spy working for the Russians, who was to h'ave his head cut off PREFACB TO THE FIRST COLLEcnON OF SHORT STORJES , by the Japanese military as a warning to others, while the · Chinese beside him had come to enjoy the spectacle. Before the · term was over I had left for Tokyo, because after this film I felt that medical science ~as not so important after all. The people of a weak and backward country, how· ever strong and healthy tbey may be, can only serve to be made examples of, or to witness such futile spectacles; and it doesn't reaUy matter how mllny of them die of illness. The most ·important thing, therefore, was to change their spicitr and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this . end, I determined to promote a literary movement. There were many Chinese students in Tokyo · studying law, political science, physics and chemistry, even police work a nd engineering, but not one studying literature or art. However, even in this uncongenial atmosphere I was fortunate enough to find some kindred spirits. We gathered the few others we needed. and after discussion our first step, of course, was to publish a magazine, the title of which denoted that this was a new birth. As we were then rather classically inclined, we called .it Xin Sheng (New Life). When ·the time for publication drew near, some of our contributors dropped out, and then our funds were withdrawn, until finally there were only three of us left, and we were penniless. Since we had started our magazine at an unlucky hour. there was naturally no one to whom we could complain when we failed; but later even we three were destined to part, and our discussions of a dream future had to cease. So ended this abortive New Life. Only later did I feel the futility of it all; at that time I did not really understand anything. Later I felt if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response, neither approval nor opposition, just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert. So I began to feel lonely. And this feeling of loneliness grew day by day, coiling about my soul like a huge poisonous snake. Yet in spite of my unaccountable sadness, I felt no indignation; for this ex· .4 SI!LEcrnO STORIES OF LV HSUN perience had made me reflect and see that I was definitely not · the heroic type who could rally multitudes at his call. However, my londiness had to be dispelled, for it was causing me agony. So I used various means to dull my senses, both by conforming to the spirit