Which of the Following Best Explains Why Many Foreign Companies

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains why many foreign companies find operating in China a difficult experience from a business perspective?

• A)China lacks the financial and legal systems needed to support the country's foreign trade.
• B)China's local market is not large enough to support its extensive exporting to the United States.
• C)China's government mandates that workers receive high wages and benefits.
• D)China's exchange rate changes too frequently for U.S. businesses to compete.

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Definitions:

Synapomorphies

Shared derived characters or traits that are used to determine evolutionary relationships among organisms.

Exoskeletons

External skeletons that support and protect an organism's body, found in arthropods like insects, crabs, and lobsters.

Marsupial Colonization

The process by which marsupials, a group of mammals typically characterized by premature birth and continued development in the mother's pouch, spread and establish populations in new areas.

Vicariant Events

Geological occurrences that physically separate organisms, leading to speciation by dividing ancestral populations into two or more reproductively isolated groups.