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The 2018 briefing document spells out the strategic stakes of the China Books project for Jay Carney, the global head of Amazon’s lobbying and public-policy operations, ahead of a trip he took to Beijing.
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The 2018 briefing document advised Carney to raise the government’s request on Guo when meeting a top Ministry of Commerce official in Beijing, and stress that China shouldn’t make requests that involve data stored abroad.
That briefing document, and interviews with more than two dozen people who have been involved in Amazon’s China operation, reveal how the company has survived and thrived in China by helping to further the ruling Communist Party’s global economic and political agenda, while at times pushing back on some government demands.
Analysts say the labour squeeze may raise costs beyond the summer, but it is too early to tell whether the industry must step back from the pre-pandemic model of ever-rising volumes and cost-cutting, which generated new routes and kept fares low.
Djeffal offers a taste of what airports and airlines across Europe are up against as they race to hire thousands to cope with resurgent demand, dubbed «revenge travel» as people seek to make up for vacations lost during the pandemic.
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There, he told an alternate member of the Communist Party central committee that Amazon would make «every effort» to promote China Books and make it «bigger and stronger,» according to a CIBTC press release. And Carney, the top public-policy executive who then reported to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, went to China in April 2018.