Does Chris Kempczinski want the U.S. to go war with China? It’s easy to answer for the McDonald’s CEO that he hopes for peaceful relations now, and well into the future. That is so because McDonald’s presently has 5,500 stores in China, with plans to nearly double its store count over the next several years.
The simple, blindingly obvious truth is that the more that American businesses of all kinds enter China, and prosper there, the safer the country is from war with the United States. Call the ubiquity of American businesses throughout China, and the voracious appetite of Chinese consumers for all things American, a peaceful shield of sorts that make a U.S. invasion of the mainland highly unlikely. In other words, the U.S. could only invade China insofar as the U.S. economy and its stock markets would take hits that would make the 1929 stock-market crash and the 1930s economic sluggishness seem exuberant by comparison. War is seriously bad for business.
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