Malaysia’s trade minister says companies will inevitably need to build two supply chains to cater to both US and Chinese demands.
As the world’s two largest economies drift further apart, Malaysia’s top trade official has reached a sobering conclusion about what that means for Southeast Asia: businesses must build not one, but “two kitchens” to survive.
“Our factories, our companies have to start preparing for having two kitchens,” Tengku Zafrul Aziz told This Week in Asia – an allusion to the reality that firms must now simultaneously cater to both American and Chinese demands and their increasingly divergent rules.
