> Finding manufacturing locations close to coastal ports for the purposes of distributing their productive capacity across the globe in a bid for redundancy. Au

> Finding manufacturing locations close to coastal ports for the purposes of distributing their productive capacity across the globe in a bid for redundancy. Automating everything they can. And more. Automation does not necessarily imply offshoring. Germany has highly automated industrial production within the country because it still has a high demand for qualified technicians in its factories, and has a highly integrated supply chain within the country and its neighbors. This is still part of the same trends we have been experiencing for the past couple of decades. If anything it will force strategic thinking from governments of the very real second-order effects, many of which have been ignored.