"China Chaoheng Company has launched three industrial control chips one after another, which can perfectly replace the LNC4028 series of Lanna Company and the SID377 series and HEL670 series of Plastic Company. This means that the chip offensive launched by our president against China has been cracked by them. The president won't care about it, and we're going to face a very bad situation, and the Chinese have cultivated a chip company that can compete with us. ”

In the small negotiation room of the American semiconductor giant Lanna Company, Luo Yin, the marketing director of Lanna Company, said to Rivna, the marketing director of Plast Company, in a helpless tone.

The three chips he said happen to be the three key industrial control chips that the Meipu government restricts exports to China, and Meipu originally hoped to hit China's construction machinery industry through this embargo. Who would have thought that this just gave China the opportunity and motivation to vigorously develop the semiconductor industry, and the state-led integrated circuit fund raised several trillion yuan of funds and quickly smashed a large number of results.

Ruan Shouchao's Chaoheng Company is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary in this trade war. Due to the inability to obtain chips from American manufacturers, Luo Ye and other equipment companies had to accept the chips developed by Chaoheng Company. The first generation of chips developed by Chaoheng Company is not mature enough, but with the accumulation of production experience and user feedback, the second and third generation chips produced by Chaoheng Company have improved by leaps and bounds, and the latest chip has been able to be equal to Lanna and Plaster chips.

"I've heard about it, Logo, and you know what the quality of their chips is?" Rivner asked.

"From what I've learned, their chips are of very good quality," Login said. The Chinese have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in building their semiconductor industry chain, and their semiconductor equipment is even more advanced than ours. In addition, China's semiconductor companies have also recruited talents around the world, and many senior engineers in Lanna have been hired by them with high salaries. ”

"Their equipment, the Europeans sold it to them, right?"

"Part of it, and the other part of it is made by themselves. You know, when our president was fighting a trade war with the Chinese, the Europeans were on the side of the Chinese. They sold the best equipment to the Chinese and helped the Chinese defeat us. ”

"But what good is it for the Europeans that the Chinese have defeated us?"

"That's what Europeans are used to. In fact, they just hope that the Chinese and us will fight to lose, and then they can sit back and reap the benefits. ”

"What a bunch of bastards!" Rivner scolded, then retracted and said, "Logo, what should we do now? ”

"I think we have to mobilize all our forces to urge the president to lift the ban on chip sales for certain Chinese companies," Loin said. In fact, Luo Ye has always been our loyal user, and if it weren't for the president's ban, they wouldn't have purchased Chaoheng's chips. It was the president who helped the Chinese complete the counterattack on us. ”

"He's always so self-righteous!" Rivner commented hatefully, "I'll go back and report back to the company, and we'll mobilize all our forces to put pressure on the president." In addition, we need to enlist the help of the media to criticize the president's absurd policies. ”

Those who share the same ideas as Login and Rivner are still found in major companies in the United States. Transactions are a win-win situation, the buyer needs to get the product, and the seller doesn't need the market? Mapp restricts US semiconductor companies from selling chips to China on trumped-up grounds, and this has certainly led to difficulties in the production of Chinese companies, but US semiconductor companies have also had the problem of not being able to sell their products.

Imposing sanctions on other countries in the form of a ban on sales is a trick that the US government has tried and tested. But this trick clearly doesn't work in 21st-century China. Because China at this time already has a very complete industrial system, the vast majority of industrial products can achieve self-sufficiency, buying American goods is just the pursuit of higher performance or better quality, if you can't buy American goods, the Chinese themselves can also cope with the products, but also can be improved in use, and finally get rid of the dependence on American products.

More importantly, China enjoys the reputation of the world's factory, is the world's largest manufacturing base, and is also the largest market for chips, machine tools and other products. If the United States does not sell chips to China, it means that more than half of the global market is lost, which is a loss that semiconductor companies cannot afford. In today's world, it takes a lot of courage and a low IQ to dare to say that you don't care about the Chinese market.

"What, lift the ban on chips? How is this possible!"

Hearing Fitzel's report to him, Mape raised his eyebrows and said:

"I promised Regine that I would limit the chips given to China until Haifei can snatch back the lost market from the Chinese." The Chinese are about to be unable to hold on, how can the ban on chips be lifted at this time?"

"Mr. President, in fact, the Chinese have held on. Fitzel said expressionlessly, "The Chinese have invested at least $100 billion in developing alternative chips, and they have also invested three times as much to transform their integrated circuit industry chain." Not long ago, a Chinese company released three industrial control chips with independent intellectual property rights, which can perfectly replace the products of Lanna and Plast. China's Luoye, Chenyu, Lin Zhong and other companies have produced new construction machinery equipped with this chip, and have recovered the market that was taken away by Haifei. ”

"The Chinese are so shameless!" Mei Pu said angrily, "This is a naked government subsidy, which is against WTO rules, and the Ministry of Commerce should go to the WTO to prosecute them!"

Fitzel shrugged his shoulders and said, "It didn't work. The Chinese have already sued us at the WTO. They accused us of restricting the export of chips for no reason, which affected the competitiveness of their enterprises, saying that this is an act of unfair competition. They claim the freedom to retaliate. If we sue the Chinese government for subsidizing chip development, they can use that argument to hit us back, and the WTO will not necessarily be on our side. ”

In Fitzel's heart, there was a lot of disdain for Mapp's words. After taking office, Mepp introduced many policies that violated WTO rules, and he even openly claimed that the WTO was outdated and threatened that the United States would withdraw from the WTO. After making so many harsh remarks in the past, and now he wants the WTO to support him, is this really treating the WTO as a tablecloth? Fitzel is doing business practice, and he knows too well the image of the United States in the minds of WTO committee officials, and it is already good that people do not step on the United States a few times, and they still expect the WTO to help the United States speak?

"What does the Commerce Department mean?" asked Maple instead.

"Lanna and Plaster have jointly asked the Commerce Department to lift the chip ban on China so that they can resume the supply of chips to their old customers," Fitzel said. They pointed out that the Chinese company that launched the new industrial control chip is not as well-known as them, and if they remedy it in time and then compensate the customer as necessary, then it will be very likely to snatch the customer back and let the Chinese company go out of business because there is no market. ”

"If so, then promise them. Mepp said without hesitation, as if the original chip ban was not issued by him at all.

Fitzel nodded and took note of Maple's instructions, and continued: "In addition, some other companies have proposed that the government will put some goods originating in China on the list of tariff exemptions, including products manufactured by American companies in China's branches, and some products that the United States cannot manufacture itself and must import from China, some of which are spare parts for machinery and equipment. ”

"How can we have a product that we can't make ourselves?" asked Mepp dissatisfied.

"The St. Fernandes Bridge in New York is in disrepair. The New York City government decided to replace all the steel plates on the bridge in the near future, but such steel plates are currently only available to Chinese. ”

"It's ridiculous, why can't we even produce steel plates?"

"That was 40 years ago," Fitzel said. The New York City government wanted to replace the old model with a new model of steel plate to enhance the wear and corrosion resistance of the bridge deck. However, American steel companies cannot manufacture this new type of steel plate, and if they are allowed to develop it from scratch, it will not only take two years, but the price of steel plate produced after research and development will be more than twice that of Chinese steel plate. As you know, China's infrastructure construction in recent years is very large, and the annual steel production is equivalent to half of the world's, so they have the most complete variety of steel products, and the production cost is far lower than ours. ”

"This is a shameful thing!" Mepp stomped his foot and scolded, "I want to sign a decree immediately to support American companies to build new steel plants, we can't let Chinese steel beat us." ”

Fitzel ignored Mapp's outburst, and he still said calmly, "This is what I want to report to you. Detroit's Sandy Steel is preparing to build a new 1,700-millimeter hot-rolled steel production line, which will need to be imported from China, and they want the government to give tax incentives to the line. ”

"You're saying that U.S. companies can't build rolling lines?" asked Mepp.

"To be precise, American companies cannot build a rolling line in the most economical way. "As early as 40 years ago, American manufacturers did not build rolling lines, and American steel companies used production lines that were built by German companies or Japanese companies. And now, the rolling mill technology in Germany and Japan has also lagged behind, and the most advanced and economical rolling mills are made by the Chinese. ”