The Great Unravelling of Globalisation?
Let’s be clear, this isn’t some fit of patriotic fervour. This is cold, hard, strategic calculation. The pandemic taught everyone a rather brutal lesson about putting all your eggs in one very distant basket. Suddenly, the idea of a supply chain stretching thousands of miles across politically choppy waters seems less like a stroke of genius and more like a liability waiting to happen.
When a company like Apple, the undisputed master of global logistics, decides to source chips from its own backyard, you know a fundamental shift is underway. They are effectively buying an insurance policy against a world that feels increasingly unpredictable. This creates a powerful ripple effect. It’s not just about one factory. It’s about creating an entire domestic ecosystem, from raw materials to the finished product, that has been dormant for decades.