A campaign site in Texas, USA, in the fall of 2012.

The Republican presidential candidate, Mapp, stood on the podium and delivered his campaign speech in front of thousands of voters in the audience. Sitting in the front row of the audience were dozens of journalists from around the world, who were authorized to ask questions about Mepp on the spot, which was also needed for Mapp's campaign propaganda.

"In the past year, Chinese have launched more than 1,200 mergers and acquisitions around the world, with a total value of nearly $50 billion. At present, China has reached or at least approached the world-class level in nuclear power, high-speed rail, thermal power, hydropower, wind power, solar energy, petrochemical industry, and marine engineering, which in turn threatens the global position of the United States. In 2012, the trade deficit between the United States and China reached $150 billion, and the Chinese grabbed at least 3 million jobs from Americans through this unreasonable trade, which is the root cause of American poverty!"

"Mr. President, what do you think is the reason for the huge trade deficit between the United States and China?" asked an American reporter who raised his hand.

"Of course, it is the unfair terms of trade adopted by the Chinese. Without thinking, Mepp replied, "The Chinese have stolen American technology, and they have also violated international commitments to expand production frantically." In 1990, for example, China generated 600 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equivalent to one-fifth of the United States, but last year, it generated 5 trillion kilowatt-hours, 20 percent more than the United States. Chinese consume a lot of resources, and if China continues to develop in this way, the world economy will be seriously affected. ”

"However, what does Mr. President say about China's population being four times that of the United States, and even though its total power generation is 20 percent higher than that of the United States, the per capita population is still lower than that of the United States?" asked a reporter from Europe timidly.

Mapp replied, "That's a good question, Mr. Journalist. In fact, your question should be formulated in this way: China is a country with a large population, and even if its per capita resource consumption is lower than that of Western countries, its total consumption will far exceed that of Western countries. If the consumption level of Chinese is the same as that of Western countries, then the resources of the planet will be depleted by them. ”

"President Map, you're so right. I also think that there are too many Chinese, which determines that Chinese cannot consume like Americans, otherwise it will endanger the welfare of all mankind. A female reporter with black hair and yellow skin said in an appreciative tone.

"I'm sorry, may I ask this lady...... You're not going to be a Japanese journalist, are you?" a fellow Western reporter next to him whispered to the female reporter that the female reporter's English pronunciation was so standard that she didn't sound like a Japanese person.

The female reporter showed her badge to the other party, and the name of a newspaper in Chinese mainland was prominently written on it.

"You're a Chinese journalist, but you just ......" fellow Western reporters were a little messy.

"Do you mean my position?" the female reporter said proudly, "Yes, I am a Chinese journalist, but that does not mean that I do not have universal care, I have always believed that news is borderless, and Chinese people really cannot live like Americans, otherwise the earth's resources are not enough." ”

"Admire, admire. The Western reporter nodded with emotion, "Your behavior, when I think about it, I remember that a Chinese friend of mine taught me a word, well, by the way, its Chinese pronunciation should be Fanjian!"

This episode in the audience naturally did not affect Mape's speech on the stage, and he waved his arms and shouted loudly:

"The Chinese are economically invading our European and Japanese allies, and the Chinese are buying up American companies on a large scale and turning them into tools to plunder the wealth of the American people." Politicians sit idly by and watch the US-China trade deficit continue to widen but do nothing, our people are losing their jobs, and our economy is declining! It's time to change all this, we want to contain China's development, we want to change the irrational trade rules, and we want to make the United States great again!"

"Make America Great Again!"

The nursery, who was arranged by the campaign team among the voters in the audience, chimed in loudly.

"Make America Great Again!"

"We want to be employed!"

"Contain China!"

The audience shouted along with the voters, some of whom didn't know what Mapp's economic propositions were, but the notions of employment and greatness re-energized their hormones that had been paralyzed by opioids for years.

In the past, politicians campaigned on how strong the United States is and how small the world is. American GIs have run rampant all over the world, overthrowing one so-called evil regime after another, which has filled the American people with a sense of pride. In addition, Hollywood blockbusters are also brainwashing the American people all the time, telling them that Blue Star may encounter alien challenges at any time, and it is the American heroes who fight the heavens and the earth, while soaking in girls, while killing tens of thousands of invaders, which defends the peace of Blue Star.

However, no matter how beautiful the dream is, it cannot defeat the reality of all evils. Since the 90s of the last century, the wage level of blue-collar workers in the United States has risen by less than 50%, and social wealth has continued to accumulate on Wall Street, but the living standards of ordinary Americans have not improved significantly. Americans once found satisfaction by pitying the poverty of Chinese, but in recent years, they have found that more and more Chinese are traveling to the United States, Chinese are well-dressed and have the latest cell phones in hand, and they spend a lot of money shopping at the mall. This sensory shock has made the American people begin to feel frustrated, and they have begun to doubt the propaganda of politicians and begin to express their dissatisfaction with the government.

It was at this time that Maple came into being, changing the tone of his previous presidential candidates, bluntly claiming that the United States was lagging behind, predicting that the United States would soon be defeated by China, and that the American people would be reduced to the world's second-class citizens - unless everyone could vote for him to become president, because only he could lead the American people to revive industry and make America great again.

It has to be said that Mapp's anxiety-selling marketing method has been a great success, and everywhere he goes, thousands of people are empty, and voters come to the campaign site with banners with the words "Make America Great Again" and cheer him wildly.

According to polls in the United States, Map's approval rating has risen by more than 1 percentage point, and it is less than 5 percentage points short of Drayton of the Democratic Party. ”

In the small courtyard of the Feng family, Leng Feiyun, who came to visit, said to Feng Xiaochen.

After Feng Xiaochen resigned as the general manager of the equipment company, Wang Genji took his place as the new general manager, and Leng Feiyun served as the deputy general manager. However, Wang Genji and Leng Feiyun are also Benliu's people, and they are only making a brief transition in this position, and younger cadres will replace them in the future.

Although Feng Xiaochen has left the equipment company, Wang Genji and Leng Feiyun and other old people will still come to his house from time to time to sit down, sometimes asking him to help put forward ideas for some work in the company, sometimes it is pure chatting, exchanging some views on current affairs, of course, these are often related to the work of equipment work.

This time, Wang Genji and Leng Feiyun came to the door together, and after chatting about a few things about equipment research and development, everyone's conversation turned to the US election. Mapp made a lot of remarks against China during the campaign, and Wang Genji naturally paid more attention to him.

Perhaps because Feng Xiaochen's crossing disturbed the earth's magnetic field, this US presidential election is quite different from the history that Feng Xiaochen remembers, and neither the two candidates, Maple and Drayton, have ever appeared in previous history. However, Maple's campaign platform is quite similar to the American president Feng Xiaochen knew in his previous life, except that Maple is younger and is not from a real estate developer.

At the beginning of the campaign, Drayton, who came from the Democratic Party, received a high number of votes, and his support in the polls once fell by more than ten percentage points behind Mepp, and everyone thought that Drayton would definitely win. But who knows that Maple threw out the slogan of "make America great again", using the revitalization of the manufacturing industry and increasing the employment of workers as bait, which won the appreciation of a large number of blue-collar workers, and the approval rating went all the way up, with a faint implication of replacing Drayton. What Leng Feiyun just said is the latest election information from the US media.

According to high-level think tanks, the probability of Mepp's election has risen to more than 50 percent, and if this momentum continues, he is likely to overtake Drayton and win this election. Wang Genji said.

"Isn't it too early to say that the probability of his election is more than 50 percent?" Leng Feiyun said, "I look at the media analysis, although the campaign momentum is very strong, but it is only more influential among the blue-collar workers, and the white-collar class is still inclined to Drayton." The poll results are also still higher for Drayton. ”

"The poll results don't say anything. Feng Xiaochen said, "This round of the U.S. election is different from the past. In the past, the differences between the two parties were mainly on some trivial social issues, such as eating tofu brain, putting salt or sugar, and the accuracy of the polls was still relatively high. But this time, Mapp is playing the economic card, pointing the finger at the class struggle. Most of the people who support Meipu are the people at the bottom, and these people are usually disdainful of the media, and the polls conducted by the media often ignore this group unconsciously. ”

"Xiaochen's analysis is exactly the same as that of a high-level think tank. Wang Jiji gave a thumbs up and praised, "The top management believes that Maple's campaign platform caters to a kind of anxiety among the American people and has great appeal to voters in the middle and lower strata of society." These people have had a low turnout in previous elections, but it is not ruled out that this time they will vote in favor of Mepp. If the turnout of this group increases, the election of Mepp is a high probability event. ”

"If that's the case, it's very bad for us. Leng Feiyun said with a calm face.

Feng Xiaochen said with a smile: "I judge that Meipu's election is a 100% thing. However, even if Mepp is elected, it will not be a big deal for us. The rise of China is not something that he can stop. ”