The disruption in FDI flows has not stopped the trend of globalised production.
All of which suggests that there is an American audience who yearn for movies that speak directly to them, rather than globalised Hollywood product.
Encountering this movie after the dreck and dross of most of the globalised Hollywood product sloshing about at the moment is like being allowed to drink Dom Perignon after being force-fed gallons of flat Vimto.
In a globalised economy, products move repeatedly across borders, typically in an unfinished state: a shirt without buttons, a car without a transmission, a wafer without a chip.
In this highly globalised manufacturing ecosystem, product design and verification activities, production and inspection processes, and technical support services are spread across global supply chains and customer networks.
It's worth noting that the UK has always been a leader in this sphere, animal testing, for example, has been illegals since 2013, but in our increasingly globalised world where a product might be designed in London but produced and packaged in Asia, the cruelty-free label still carries weight.
And in today's globalised world, people and products are travelling more than ever, affording unprecedented openings for animals, plants and pathogens to spread and wreak havoc.
And shouldn't we be concerned that one of the by-products of globalised labour is that parents from the Philippines to Poland are having to leave their children to travel further and further in order to find work?
Lax regulation in China was a contributing factor: the contaminated products may have been mislabelled to avoid inspections, but such inspections were rare in any case.So was it the industrialised, globalised, outsourced food-production system that killed thousands of pets?
"We have to realise that the problem of slavery is one that touches us all, as in a globalised economy we all buy products likely to be tainted by forced labour," he said.
