Chapter 292: Breakthrough of the Eagle Country
The 2020 general election is in full swing.
The first half of the year is the pre-election stage of the general election, and the candidates of the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party compete separately for the nomination of candidates from their respective parties, and the second half of the year is the real decisive battle.
But it was this step that Plante walked with great difficulty.
His rivals in the Elephant Party were also difficult to entangle, and until April, Plante was unable to establish a decisive advantage.
As the current owner of the White House, this is undoubtedly extremely humiliating.
If you can't even unite within the party, how can you deal with national affairs?
Plante had just finished a three-hour intrapartisan debate and was exhausted in a bespoke golden custom Rolls-Royce with his eyes closed.
"The bad news is that David Roosevelt has officially raised more than $1 billion in campaign funding, which his campaign office has just announced and is now organizing a celebration. The campaign chief of staff sent the message to Plante's DT1.
$1 billion!
"F**K!" Plante's face was extremely ugly, his campaign funds had only raised more than $200 million so far, and the other party was five times his own!
Remembering that the Shensi Group alone provided more than $600 million in campaign funds, Plante couldn't help but scold angrily:
"Is David the president of the Eagle or the president of the Chinese?"
At that time, the announcement of the news did cause a lot of trouble for David, but Davy reacted quickly.
He first publicly attacked the Shensi Group and Jiang Yuan on various occasions, and severed the cooperation between the Roosevelt Foundation and the Shensi Group, and tried his best to express his loyalty to Yinglijian and his attitude that he would not be bought by Huaguo businessmen, and promptly calmed down the doubts of ordinary people about him.
Moreover, the Roosevelt family is not one of the old political families of the Eagle Country, and seeing that the most promising talent of the family is about to ascend to the throne, he resolutely uses the favors accumulated over the years to operate privately, and gets rid of most of the media.
As a result, this matter was actually fooled by Davy without danger!
It's!
Plante was indignant.
The chief of staff looked at Plante pouting and muttering something, and reminded the most powerful stubborn old man on earth:
"We have to fight back immediately. The competition within the Elephant Party is sure to win, and many of the elders have turned to your side tonight. So, David is our worst enemy, and it's always been like that!"
"How to fight back?" said Plante with a gloomy face.
"Am I announcing a $100 million injection into my campaign fund?"
After Plante ascended to the throne, his own business made a lot of profits, and the profit was 200% higher than before.
$100 million is nothing, it's just distressing.
"Of course you can't do that, you'll become the laughing stock of the whole Eagle Country!" the chief of staff almost didn't catch his breath, and quickly vetoed it categorically.
How can this be!
David raised $1 billion, but Plante had to pay for it?
Could it be that the current owner of the White House has been reduced to the point of being a fat man with a swollen face?
How else does this give confidence to supporters?
"We need good news, preferably good news on technology development, and that's where you've been under attack. The chief of staff hastened to put forward his opinion, for fear that Plante would say something unreliable:
"Now that David Roosevelt has a bad relationship with the Deep Thinking Group, this is our opportunity. If a negotiation team is sent to Huaguo to resume the previously interrupted cooperation on photoelectric algae fertilizer, it may be able to ease up a lot with Jiang Yuan. As long as we come up with enough benefits and reduce the tariffs on 102 goods, Huaguo will definitely be willing to pay a certain price, and we may be able to take the opportunity to get some technology patent authorization from Shensi Group. ā
The chief of staff has always disagreed with the previous tariff increases, the sweater war has always been a double-edged sword, and he has noticed a crack in the dollar order.
"NO!" Plante flatly refused, the tariff order had just been executed, and now it was withdrawn?
Isn't it a slap in the face?
Of course, the main thing is that the situation is not dangerous enough to slap yourself in the face.
Regardless, no matter how short-sighted the strategy was used, Plante's reign was marked by a steady economic development and record low unemployment.
In particular, after the overall contraction, the domestic economic conditions of the Eagle Country have further improved, which has greatly compensated for the side effects of multiple military spending increases, and the unemployment rate has decreased again in the past two months.
So, despite the constant opposition, sarcasm and sarcasm of the media, Plante still holds a slight lead.
His campaign committee also used the media's remarks that 'Eagle is lagging behind China in technology' to make a big fuss, and succeeded in arousing the national sentiment of Eagle Country.
Even though the problem of surpassing Eagle Country in the Deep Thinking Zone was always a big problem, he didn't worry too much.
Ordinary people are more short-sighted than the ethereal and expensive new technologies of the Shensi Group, and they are more concerned about whether they can eat better, dress better, and live better if they can afford to live better.
The more Plante thought about it, the angrier he became.
F**Kļ¼
Scientific research is my business!
I didn't give them a penny!
He asked angrily:
"On the military's side, how is the progress of lithium battery research and development? Didn't you say that there was a breakthrough some time ago?"
The chief of staff checked the information for a while, and then said:
"The progress is very good, the lithium battery of Shensi Group has given them a lot of inspiration, although there are materials that have not been able to crack, but we have found a replacement. At present, it has reached 63% of the capacity of the new lithium battery, which is a great improvement over the previous generation of products. ā
Plante turned his head and closed his eyes:
"Then let them post the news, we need a good news, and this is the good news. ā
Chief of Staff is in a hurry:
"But now the technology is not mature, 63% is still low. The head of the military believes that it can reach 80% of the lithium batteries of the Shensi Group by the end of this year, and we can wait a little longer. In addition, it is now only laboratory technology, and there is still a long way to go from large-scale industrial production. ā
"It's not certain that I won't be able to sit in this position at the end of this year!" Plante said resolutely, closing his eyes:
"We need to prove that Eagle is still the most technologically advanced country, and what better news could there be than a breakthrough in self-developed technology? In addition, the method you mentioned can also be done synchronously. We have our own lithium battery, the next step is to apply it on a large scale, it is best to reduce the patent licensing fee of the T9 charging pile in the negotiation, if this requirement is met, I can reduce the tariff on the products of Shensi Group. In that case, GM, Ford, and Chrysler will definitely be willing to increase my campaign funding, so I'm going to talk to them now. ā
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"The Eagle Nation Military Lithium Battery Laboratory has made a major breakthrough, with a capacity of 63% of Shensi Group's lithium batteries, and is expected to exceed 80% by the end of the year!" --The New York Times
"China's lithium battery technology breakthrough, by the end of the year can reach 80% of the lithium battery of Shensi Group, we have no generation gap with the Chinese people's technology!" --Washington Daily
The news of the breakthrough of the lithium battery of the Eagle Country military spread rapidly, and the entire Eagle Country media was as jubilant as the New Year.
The Eagle Country's scientific research community also breathed a deep sigh of relief.
It's not easy!
For more than a year, Shensi Group has been hovering over everyone's heads like a shadow, and countless new technologies are constantly emerging, each of which is so unimaginable that they still can't catch up.
Well, now, there is finally an area that is close to the level of the Deep Thinking Group!
The Eagle Country media praised this as the first and most important step in breaking the hegemony of Eastern technology!
Yes, with the first step, will it be far behind?
In fact, there are only a few technologies of Shensi Group, such as application conversion tools, ultra-high compression algorithms, low-manganese steel foam, brain control, DT1, DTOS, photoelectric algae, nerve recovery agents, wireless charging, and deep thinking areas......
it!
How are there so many!