The Art of Navigating Global Disorder

Renault plant near Tangier, Morocco.

Photographer: Brendan Murray/Bloomberg

Despite being battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, rising US-China tensions and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, globalization isn’t dead.

A burgeoning industrial zone outside the Moroccan city of Tangier offers a prime example. It’s home to Africa’s biggest car-assembly factory and is powered by investment from companies from Europe, the Middle East, China, Japan and the US.