FDI & Investment Strategy
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Summary
Indonesia barred the iPhone 16 under conditions designed as direct leverage over Apple.
The timing mattered: the US–China trade war had companies looking for new production bases anyway.
Behind it is a national investment strategy rather than an improvised reaction.
Key points
A sales ban is an instrument that takes nerve
A country afraid of losing investment will not close its own market, which is why this works only for some.
Timing is half the strategy
The same demand made when a company did not need to relocate would not have landed like this.
The conditions have to be specific to be negotiable
Saying precisely what you want lets the other side compute, which is what moves a negotiation.
The lesson for Thailand is continuity
This kind of strategy has to hold across administrations rather than being a single measure.