"Do you think they will agree to our request?" In Wang Yuye's office, the two looked at Pierre's departing figure, and Wang Yuye turned to Qi Zheng and asked.

Qi Zheng's request to Pierre for the alliance of pharmaceutical companies to support Jiagu's acquisition of the American grain trader Gao Hong obviously surprised Pierre, so much so that he could not give a clear answer for a while.

"It depends on how hungry they are for Kagu's milk. Qi Zheng still left a certain amount of leeway to speak.

But in fact, he is quite confident. In the final analysis, milk containing "high-energy growth factors" is his greatest confidence. The alliance of American pharmaceutical companies had spent so much energy to "force" Jiagu to the negotiating table, and when you think about it, you know that it is impossible to give up so easily.

And Wang Yuye obviously thinks so: "As long as we insist on taking this condition as the bottom line of negotiations, it should not be a big problem." For them, this condition is a little more troublesome, but it is not too difficult. ”

Qi Zheng agreed. Pierre's appearance, on the other hand, is also just right, especially after the American Gao Hong revealed his flaws.

Jiagu International has long been eyeing Gao Hong.

Gao Hong is a grain trader integrating grain procurement, storage and sales, with a distribution network covering the whole of North America, Caribbean countries, Central America, South America and Europe, and these regions are almost the "blind spots" of Jiagu Group's development.

Last year, Gao Hong became the third-largest grain giant in the United States after ADM and Cargill after acquiring DeBruce, another large grain trader.

But it was this acquisition that put Gao Hong in a difficult situation.

The acquisition had already made Gao Hong's funds tight, and then Gao Hong also misjudged this year's grain harvest in the United States. It could never have imagined that the drought in the United States this year would be so severe. Especially in Gaohong's grain purchasing area, it is almost miserable to the point of no harvest - of course, this is indispensable to someone's push. Is it really true that Qi Zheng's black hand against the United States is just to vent his anger?

In short, under the attack of the internal and external situation, Gao Hong was burdened with a lot of debts, which gave outsiders the opportunity to acquire.

What the Qi political pharmaceutical company alliance did was to provide support for Jiagu's acquisition of Gaohong. This support is more of a political support.

"Without the support of Pierre, I dare not say how sure I am about the acquisition of Gao Hong. Wang Yuye muttered.

Qi Zheng shrugged: "I understand, this is also the reason why I did not put pressure on this acquisition of the company. ”

Don't look at Jiagu's previous acquisition of two large-scale sugar factories in Brazil in Australia, which can be regarded as starting the pace of "going out". But compared to Gao Hong, the volume is completely different.

The purchase amount of the latter may exceed $4 billion, not to mention its position in the US grain trade community. This is also destined to be more blocked by Jiagu's acquisition of Gaohong.

How difficult is it for a rising country to develop?

No matter how the times develop, the world will always be in the form of a pyramid.

In this day and age, the top of the pyramid is inhabited by Anglo-Saxons, who have created countries that form alliances, share world resources and maintain national leads. Next to the Anglo-Saxons stood smiling Jews, arm in arm, eating hot pot and singing, controlling the world's oil, finance, top military technology, and discourse. They have the sacred expression of a savior, and occasionally throw a piece or two of fat at the bottom country or nation, and a jubilant sound of tearing each other can be heard below.

There are only so many resources in the world, it is impossible for everyone to climb the spire, the people on the first floor walk around with guns on it, full of vigilance, whoever dares to climb up a little more, they will shoot and knock down the people behind. I love to read

China, which once struggled at the darkest bottom, was able to climb up from poverty to whiteness, relying on the people who fought tenaciously, by not being bewitched by the people at the top of the tower, and finally by being able to pretend to be grandchildren...... before climbing to where it is today.

But China, which has climbed to the middle of the pyramid, can no longer be ignored by the upper echelons - China is so large that as long as it climbs a small step up, a large number of countries will fall down like dumplings.

In the "globalization" dominated by the capitalist system, there has never been any "equal and free" market competition. Our country needs to import high technology, but it is strictly controlled by the developed countries; our country has the advantage of low labor costs, but it has been severely sanctioned by the developed countries on the grounds of dumping; and the developed countries want to freely enter all the industries of our country, but they strictly restrict the entry of our country's capital into their important industries......

When China transforms from a capital-deficient country to a capital-surplus country, allowing capital to go overseas, outsiders only see that the capital (most of which is state-owned) that goes to sea has collapsed and sunk into the sand, and then starts the "big mockery" or scolds the leaders for wasting resources – they don't understand the difficulties.

Qi Zheng acknowledges that there are certainly many wrongs with those failed overseas acquisitions, but he knows better that in many cases, the main reason for the failure is the conflict between Chinese capital and global capitalism.

The operation of the global capitalist system is a typical system of political economy. Well, to put it simply, "Any economic transaction must contain or produce political significance." ”

Let's not talk about other areas, let's take the grain trade as an example.

In the parallel time and space without Jiagu, the national grain group, as the leader of domestic grain merchants, basically concentrates on Europe, which is in sharp contrast to the main mergers and acquisitions of international grain merchants in island countries concentrated in the United States.

Is it because the National Grain Group does not want to enter the United States?

Of course not. Who would refuse to enter the world's largest exporter of agricultural products?

In addition to the lack of suitable opportunities, the most important point is that it is difficult for the National Grain Group to break through the "political barriers" of the United States - as the stronghold of global capitalism, the United States has always paid special attention to the acquisition of American companies by Chinese companies (especially state-owned enterprises), especially high-tech enterprises, and has often politicized economic issues such as mergers and acquisitions to suppress the expansion of Chinese capital.

For example, there is a CFIUS in the United States, or the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which has discretion over transactions in which foreign acquirers invest in U.S. infrastructure, technology, or energy assets.

——Jiagu's acquisition of Gaohong, because it involves infrastructure such as warehousing and terminals, it also cannot avoid the "roadblock" of CFIUS.

The situation in Jiagu is much better than that of state-owned enterprises, but Qi Zheng certainly does not dare to bet on the "conscience" of the Americans.

In this case, it is inevitable to spend money to lobby the trade committee, and even to public relations the two houses.

If it's just spending money, Qi Zheng really doesn't care, but if he's afraid, he can't find the temple gate with a pig's head - Jiagu's power in the United States is still too tender.

At this time, the role of the alliance of American pharmaceutical companies is highlighted. Their terrifying influence in U.S. politics is a strong guarantee for Jiagu to pass the most important security checkpoint for mergers and acquisitions in the United States.

"When they are against us, the more terrifying their influence is, the more pressure we have. But when they are on our side, we want their influence to be as great as possible. Wang Yuye shook his head.

"Doesn't it have to be on our side?" Qi Zheng reminded with a smile.

Wang Yuye pouted: "They also ask us for it, right, besides, our direct competitors this time are not Americans, but island people." ”

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