Chapter 016, The Devil's Meeting
() When it comes to "GM", most Chinese can think of "Shanghai GM" running all over the street, think of American "Buick", and think of business legend Welch
But few people would have imagined that another "general" arms giant, General Dynamics, an integrated defense conglomerate headquartered in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, has 20,000 employees and claims to be the world's sixth-largest arms dealer, and its boss is Nicholas
After coming out of the White House, the giants of several major arms companies sat in an extended Hummer H2 and raised their glasses and touched each other, and it is rare to get together like this, but once the heads of several major arms dealers gather, there will inevitably be big moves, such as asking the president to convene a national security conference today, bringing together most of the political leaders in the United States
And the so-called national security meeting is to sit together, drink tea and chat, but it is not as serious as in the movie
The person who brought several giants together to ask the president to convene a meeting was not Nicholas, but the fat man sitting next to Nicholas, Ronald Hugh, who is fifty-nine years old and claims to be the standard-bearer who leads the arms industry to climb the future scientific and technological peaks
In fact, although several arms dealers are in competition, each has its own field, so the competition is not very large, but the arms sector is firmly monopolized by five companies, and it is almost impossible for other consortia to get a piece of the pie
Several arms dealers gathered together, perhaps no one thought that they were not talking about famous cars, not famous wine, not even arms, but China, a country very far away from them
China has always been a hot topic, and these topics often revolve around a theme "threat", such as China's rise, the threat of the United States, the threat of Europe's power, the threat of China's neighboring countries, etc., these are all topics they talk about, and even some of them are made out of nothing, and the purpose of talking about these topics is very simple, so that those countries that are "threatened" by China buy their arms
In some regions and countries around China, the biggest injustice is Taiwan, for example, Taiwan ordered two of the latest E-2T "Hawkeye 2000" from Northrop Grumman At that time, Grumman released news to Taiwanese dignitaries that China's bombers and fighters could cover Taiwan and could reach Taiwan within half an hour after takeoff, and easily destroy Taiwan's air defense system, but if they had a pre-JNG plane, they could easily monitor the take-off of China's planes, and they could have at least 20 minutes to prevent possible strikes from the Chinese Air Force
As a result, the Taiwanese army's pre-jǐng machine unit began to be established, and it was single-handedly equipped by Northrop Grumman
But everyone knows that as long as Taiwan does not engage in ***, the mainland will only maintain **** and will not deliberately create tension, and the mainland really wants to attack Taiwan, and it will definitely not bomb Taiwan with the air force first, and the missiles of the Second Artillery Corps alone can easily sweep away all the obstacles in Taiwan, so close to the distance, Taiwan's pre-jǐng system is simply impossible to prevent
Therefore, the US fire dealers like the ** elements to be in power the most, because they always like to use the ** to provoke the nerves of the mainland in order to increase military spending, and Taiwan officials can get kickbacks from it
The most famous case was done by General Dynamics led by Nicholas, and at that time, in Nicholas's eyes, Taiwan was a big piece of fat, but he didn't know where to start
The nuclear submarine in his hand, the United States, will not let it be sold, after all, it will upset the balance, so he pondered selling the Aegis warship and the M1 tank
When a senior official of the Taiwan "authorities" went to the United States to attend the US-Taiwan arms procurement conference, he immediately instructed his subordinates to invite Taiwan generals to visit the "Aegis" warships, and in private they "communicated." Within a few days, the Taiwan "authorities" began to clamore for the purchase of "Aegis" warships, and also encouraged the media on the island to clamor in a big way about the benefits of buying "Aegis" and how many benefits "it can overwhelm the mainland at sea."
But everyone knows that General Dynamics' M1A2 main battle tank is huge and unsuitable for use in terrain like Taiwan, while the Aegis battleship can only become a target for the Second Artillery Corps in coastal waters
But Nicholas claimed that in recent years, the mainland's main battle tanks have made rapid progress and have entered the ranks of the world's top five in one fell swoop, and the M1A2 must be used to "counteract" the navy, which is always threatening Taiwan
As a result, the Taiwan military hurriedly submitted an application for arms purchases amounting to billions of dollars, naming the General Dynamics M1A2 tank by name, and the military media on the island were surprised when they heard about it, and even said that the senior officials of the Taiwan military really had a problem with their brains, and if the M1A2 "giant" tank went to the island, I am afraid that it would not be able to go anywhere else except for a few highways, but Taiwan still bought a few of them and said that they were used for experiments
And this incident became a joke in the world arms circles, which is equivalent to selling refrigerators to Eskimos
Although the Chinese "threat" is nothing more than a cover for the arms dealers, the arms dealers are still happy to do so, because there are always a few hot-headed wrongdoers who feel that they have the strength to fight with China, and the buyers who are tired of it are of little use to themselves
After clinking glasses and drinking, the big arms dealers talked again, but this time it was different from the last time, and the arms dealers were always making money, because there was always a war in the world, but since the stupid president who started the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan stepped down, they found themselves making less and less money
So they had another plan, which came out of the whim when they got information that the Chinese were coming to steal their carrier engines and nuclear-powered carrier reactors
The arms dealers had their own intelligence channels, and even the CIA had their own people, so Natasha knew something they knew before Natasha, and they knew such important information for a few hours that they immediately gathered together to discuss countermeasures
This is still in the consultations a few days ago, and the content of their discussions is not how to prevent China from obtaining these technologies, but how to make China reasonably obtain these technologies, and then wait a few years for the Chinese to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and it is also a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with extremely complete technology
Some people may say that they are not amused by their brains, and they will actually let China get such a critical technology
No, they don't have a show in their heads, because this is a very clever plan, at least they themselves think so, because once China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, won't the countries and regions around China have to jump their feet, and when the time comes, not only Taiwan, the big wrongdoer, will buy their arms, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, the Philippines, South Korea and other countries will buy their arms to deal with China's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers
As long as they advocate that the arms will be sold, the most important thing is the public opinion in the United States, and when China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and it can do it very well, then the US Congress will have no reason to oppose the resumption of some important projects in the important arms industry, or even speed up research and construction
This means that the United States will increase its military spending, and the increase in military spending means that arms dealers can make a lot of money, and everyone knows that the United States has the largest military spending in the world, and it is far easier to earn money from its own people than it is to make money from other countries, and it is a large sum of money to make a profit, and it only needs the country opposite to become an enemy enough to "threaten" the United States
So they need a reasonable reason to send these two key technologies of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, although it is cheaper for China, they have better technology than China, and both Russia and China are still far away from them, so they will not worry about being caught up by China at all
As soon as everyone discussed it, they found that as long as China became a qualified opponent, they could make a lot of money, so why not do it, so they divided their labor and began a secret operation
Natasha's profile first appeared in front of their desks, as the owner of the Newport News shipyard, Hugg could have kept Natasha's one of them from entering his shipyard, but in order to plan him, he had to do it, and in order to do it very realistically, he even made the head of the shipyard do some obstacles, and as expected, it was all played out very realistically, and Natasha had no doubts
But Hugh knew very well that he could only give the Chinese the technology of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and not other technologies for the Chinese, otherwise China would take it all and his company would have to go out of business, so he had to do it without leakage
He was terrified when he learned that the dragon had broken into his database, but Hugh was relieved when Natasha had captured him
It wasn't until the Chinese successfully rescued the chief engineer in charge of the aircraft carrier's engines and nuclear reactors, Hugh, that he knew it was done
But they had to give the Chinese a way out, otherwise with the location of the shipyard, their escape would be a problem, so after various deals and struggles, a legitimate posture appeared, and the president's order was indeed limited to the inside of the shipyard and not to the outside of the shipyard, although Natasha knew that it was the arms dealer who was behind the ghost, but there was nothing to be done
When she knew very well who was behind the trick and let them go, in the end, she couldn't tell the truth, and even had to cover up the truth for these arms dealers, which was what Natasha was most angry about
But the arms dealers are still in trouble, and Hugh is in trouble, and Natasha sends SOG out to hunt down those mid-**** people
Now they are faced with a choice whether or not to send someone to stop them
When they arrived, the arms dealers were silent, and they knew very well that they had been armed with them, and they had trained and fought with weapons made by them, and even when they finally felt threatened by them, they were behind the scenes that sent people to hunt them down
The entire SOG brigade originally had hundreds of members, and in the later Great Purge, the sick and the dead were killed, and only the current five remained
"No, we can only help the Chinese to this point, if we go further, we don't care about any national interests, I don't want to be assassinated by a group of crazy people when I get old," Nicholas shook his head
Hugh looked at the other old fellows and saw that they all had the same expressions
"But," Nicholas said suddenly, "this killer can't stay, now he's been anesthetized, it's not like before"
"I agree," Hugh nodded
"I agree too"