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Brazil: dreams of competing with China

Categories: East Asia, Latin America, Brazil, China, Economics & Business, Technology

Writer and analyst Bradley M. Gardner [1] weighs in on billionaire entrepeneur Eike Batista's plan [2] [pt] to bring Appleā€™s manufacturing process to Brazil. Gardner writes that Batista “wants his country to be China”, where Apple's products are currently manufactured. He adds that he “wouldn't put it past” Batista, the world's eighth-richest man, “to recreate Taiwan in the Amazon rainforest.”