Sam's Club has been popular in China recently, not because of any brand new products, but because of his shameless operation of removing Xinjiang products from the shelves. A supermarket selling goods actually regarded itself as the protagonist, deliberately mixed up the political issues between China and the United States, and became a pawn of the United States against China.
For sam's clubs that eat and smash pots, Chinese consumers have also launched a boycott offline while condemning. Chinese consumers have shown with practical actions that companies that eat Chinese food and smash Chinese pots will have less and less room for development, and there should be no such thing as pointing their noses and scolding their partners in this world.
The problem with Sam's Club is not only that the political position is not firm at a critical moment, but also the quality of his own products. Recently, Sam's Shanghai store was fined 10,000 yuan by the Shanghai Market Supervision Bureau because he was found to have used additives that did not comply with the regulations, and there were also problems with the production date and shelf life of some goods.
This is the end of eating and smashing the pot, and in the eyes of Sam's Club, such a punishment may not be a big deal, but it is difficult for him to calm consumer doubts about him. At that time, Carrefour supermarkets in France and Lotte supermarkets in South Korea had a good development in the Chinese market, but after the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay incident and the THAAD incident in 2016, they encountered resistance from Chinese consumers, and their performance in China plummeted and has not yet recovered.
Judging by Sam's club's arrogant attitude after the fact, he is likely to repeat the mistakes of the past. From an objective point of view, a commercial company should not and does not need to be involved in the political confrontation between China and the United States, which is the bottom line of doing business, and all multinational companies should understand this. But in recent years, anti-China forces in the United States have gained the upper hand, and they have been on the line on all China-related topics.
Anti-China has become politically correct in the United States, which will not only jeopardize Sino-US relations, but even American companies that have long done business in China have been hit by incidental blows. However, there are also some smart people who know that eating and smashing pots will not have a good end, so they choose to support Xinjiang and do not follow the example of Sam's Club.
According to foreign media reports, Tesla from the United States is recently being besieged by his American compatriots, the reason is that he opened a new exhibition hall in Xinjiang, China, which is a very normal business behavior in itself, but the famous anti-China congressman Rubio of the United States expressed his anger on Twitter on the 4th, because the United States just passed the so-called Xinjiang-related bill, Tesla opened a store in Xinjiang, which made the anti-China politicians in the United States quite embarrassed.
Such accusations have made Tesla bitter. China is Tesla's most important overseas market, and most of the models tesla delivers in overseas markets are currently produced by the Shanghai Gigafactory. It is precisely because of the start of the Shanghai Super Factory that Tesla has come out of the quagmire of the previous two years and sat firmly in the top position of new energy vehicles in the world.
Tesla knows the importance of the Chinese market, so it would rather violate U.S. law than support Xinjiang, and it is important to make a stand. The United States will certainly put pressure on Tesla in the future, which is where the United States is annoying, and he has always regarded himself as a beacon of the so-called free world, but he actually likes to put obstacles to the normal trade of other countries for political reasons.
What multinationals need most is a stable political environment and a complete supply chain in order to achieve a global division of labor. And the United States releases bombs from time to time, and today's bill, tomorrow's bill, arbitrarily convicts other countries, resulting in serious damage to the global trading system. The chip shortage that plagues many industries around the world in 2021 was first triggered by the US chip ban on China.
A world's first power, but repeatedly against the tide of history, nominally the representative of Western civilization, but in fact the world's biggest troublemaker, this is the united states now, whether it is Chinese people, or those multinational companies, are tired of the perverse behavior of the United States, this kind of ideological behavior, will eventually drag the United States into the abyss.