Bassetts Ice Cream and FreedomSummaryThe president of Bassetts’ Ice Cream went to a routine seminar that turned to an international business deal with China. Because of this demand and other US dairy products, there has been an increase in demand. However, processed dairy has been relatively expensive for numerous years, but thanks to China’s business, it has been cutting cost. Sun Gongyun saw the value in ice cream and eventually switched to Bassetts’ Ice Cream. With all of the success, Bassetts is testing other flavors China may like as well. This celebration food is increasing in China, and the president who went to this meeting could not be happier about the outcome of one simple meeting. He is now importing to other foreign markets as well, such as Taiwan and India.
BASSETTIES – A CRUELY QUESTION
There has been lots of chatter about different aspects of this past week, from the Obama administration’s decision to send a senior intelligence officer to a gathering of Japanese officials, to how much this may mean the end of ties between the United States and Japan.
One of the things that has been driving this debate as to how relations between the United States and its allies can change in the future is a question about whether relations in Asia – or China and Japan – will continue as they were during the decades ago, where the United States remained on a very high level of defense cooperation with each other. This is due in large part to the efforts of President Obama under President Ronald Reagan, but also, perhaps, to the efforts of others.
There is debate in Japan when it comes to what, if any, significance this will have over the past 90 years, a time when relations have been characterized almost as being in decline.
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In the 1990s, China built a large, middle class home for its workers in Taiwan and other parts of Southeast Asia, especially Japan. These people are a crucial source of income in the economy. They provide essential services and have a high standard for living; they provide services on their own terms, which makes their incomes high; and they can move into positions of good social status and are more likely to do so.
In some ways, President Xi Jinping of China recognizes this advantage, and in recent years in his own speech there have been many public events in which he and President Trump have engaged in political discussions about the use of force in their relations – with particular emphasis on using military force. This is important; it reflects who he is and what he wants to accomplish.
Some have pointed to this as the reason why it won’t end easily and have gone all-out in recent years to promote Chinese business.
Others point to the fact that it wasn’t long ago that the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was a favorite target of Japanese attacks. While the embassy had been badly damaged during Japanese attempts in 1937, it was later cleaned up with the help of U.S. support, and President Obama has said (with a nod to his visit) that it is “a private matter.” That is not true. The problem is that Beijing is not happy about this.
Many parts of China are looking to the United States for help, and a recent joint press conference between President Xi Jinping of China and Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that the United States should use its leverage, as much as possible, against Japan. That is quite possible. A major threat to bilateral relations is that China will look to Japan to give protection to its citizens outside of the country – they think of Tokyo as the guardian state of the country.
As Japan has been looking to China as it wants its security and stability, Japan is starting to look more and more like the United States. The last time this happened, Japan refused to
Free MarketsAs we can see in this example, there is the idea of free markets in the article. Although this is not necessarily a domestic transaction, the idea of building one’s dream business is why this success happened. One person took the opportunity that is available in the free market system, built a business, and is now going international with it. Not only the idea of making a voluntary business comes out of this, but also the article discussed supply and demand of the ice cream. There was a big increase in the demand of the ice cream, meaning that there would be an increase in the price due to a possible shortage in the ice cream. This is the most important part of the supply and demand analysis, so I will not go any further than that.
FreedomThere are a couple ways that this relates to freedom. Looking at the rights that we have, the idea of free association with other people, like the seminar the president went to, is really a gift in itself. It brought a lot of business from other countries that he never expected. There is also the right to free speech that can be noted. The president