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Felix Arndt, John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph

How companies should respond to U.S.-China tensions and global supply chain disruptions

Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a building during a meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing in 2019. Tesla is a company with both high reliance on North American technology and Chinese supply chains. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Ongoing tensions between the United States and China have affected many companies around the world, including those in Canada.

Canada’s relationship to China has suffered due to the legal saga involving Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. The COVID-19 pandemic has also made it very clear that a reliance on Chinese suppliers — for companies everywhere — can have disastrous consequences when these supply chains are interrupted.

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