Chris Tang serves Faculty Director, Center for Global Management at UCLA. The port challenges are in his backyard but solutions could be found domestically - including a major advantage that comes from farmland.
The links and layers of the supply chain are complex. Getting simple answers to why a hiccup of a potential rail strike or on-going invasion of Ukraine by Russia and calls to bring more manufacturing and assembly back to the U.S. can wrinkle the flow of goods. Chris Tang has global experience in personal and professional. He gives some insight about how the U.S. should lean into their advantage that’s in the middle of America. He gives his viewpoint from the Center for Global Management based at UCLA.
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