Question

In the article by David Barboza, How China Built ‘iPhone, NY Times, December 29, 2016, to win Apple’s contract manufacturer after the first iPhone rolled out, many Chinese governments did the following:

a. Officials from various regions camped out at hotels in Zhengzhou, where Foxconn had its main operations.

b. Zhengzhou created a special economic zone for the project and provided a $250 million loan to Apple.

c. The Shenzhen government saw the factory as a huge opportunity for development in an area that had been bypassed by China’s boom, and officials wanted to rebrand a place derided as a source of migrant laborers and unfairly tarnished as a land of thieves and counterfeiters.

d. The Zhengzhou government also pledged to spend more than $10 billion to build a new airport, just a few miles away from the factory.

e. Zhengzhou City officials lavished money and favorable investment terms on Foxconn, and they promised discounted energy and transportation costs, lower social insurance payments, and more than $1.5 billion in grants for the construction of factories and dormitories that could house hundreds of thousands of workers.

In the article by David Barboza, An iPhone’s Journey, From the Factory Floor to the Retail Store, NY Times, December 29, 2016, the factory that builds iPhone is described as all the following, except

a. The operation does what is called F.A.T.P., or final assembly, testing and packaging.

b. Roughly 350 iPhones can be produced each minute in the factory of Foxconn, Zhengzhou.

c. There are 94 production lines at the Zhengzhou manufacturing site, and it takes about 400 steps to assemble the iPhone, including polishing, soldering, drilling and fitting screws.

d. After the iPhone rolls off the assembly line, it is placed in a sleek white fiberboard box, wrapped and put on a wooden pallet, and then wheeled out to waiting trucks.

e. Foxconn’s facilities in Zhengzhou cover 2.2 square miles and can employ up to 350,000 workers, many of whom earn about a third of the minimum wage of NY workers.

In the article by Matthew Campbell, Is Emirates Airline Running Out of Sky? BloombergBusinessweek, ‎January‎ ‎05‎, ‎2017‎, Emirates’ superconnector model faces which of the following challenges?

a. In Istanbul, an airport that may be as large as Dubai World Central is under construction and could eventually allow Turkish Airlines to become a global challenger.

b. In Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the major Chinese airlines are using the same geographic advantages to expand, as the passengers from Europe and America are directed to the Chinese cities then redirect them to their destinations in Asia or other parts of the world.

c. The superconnector model itself might fall apart, as the proliferation of lighter, fuel-efficient jets such as the Boeing 787 are making maximum long-haul routes which are less than 4,000 nautical miles between smaller cities economical, reducing the role for megahubs of all stripes.

d. Qantas airlines is using the same geographic advantages to expand, cloning the “superconnector” model pioneered in Dubai.

e. United Airlines use its hubs in Denver and Chicago as superconnector model, and its strategy works out very well.

In the article by Matthew Campbell, Is Emirates Airline Running Out of Sky? BloombergBusinessweek, ‎January‎ ‎05‎, ‎2017‎, the major international hurdles may include the following:

a. The bigger threat may lie in the U.S., the world’s most lucrative travel market, where Emirates has been expanding aggressively, and in China, the world fastest growing air travel market.

b. The challenges from around the world major markets claim that Emirates make the world less hospitable.

c. The U.S. Big Three are intensifying a lobbying campaign against Emirates.

d. The major Europe airlines argue that deep-pocketed foreigners are threatening local jobs by flooding the market with subsidized capacity.

e. The U.S. airlines, including Big Three, JetBlue and Alaska Airlines are lobbying against Emirates and many other foreign airlines, seeking to curtail their access to American airports unless “unfair subsidies” are eliminated.

In the article by David Barboza, How China Built ‘iPhone, NY Times, December 29, 2016, Apple has experienced the following with the Chinese regulators and authorities:

a. Apple is now engaged in the corporate version of shuttle diplomacy with Mr. Trump in New York, part of an effort to gain support from the incoming administration.

b. The Chinese authorities fined the technology giant for failure to fully pay its taxes.

c. Apple’s Cook will be on good-will tour in China in the near future to mend its relationships with the Chinese authority.

d. Regulators shut down Apple’s Store last spring, just six months after the services were introduced in China.

e. Apple went through a national security review in China for the iPhone 7, delaying its release in the country.