According to information collected by Li Xuan, William Winton's wife, Carolyn Winton, worked as an editor for the Sunday Telegraph in Australia for three years before coming to the United States. After resigning from The Sunday Telegraph, Caroline left Sydney to pursue a master's degree in journalism at Harvard University in the United States.

After graduating from Harvard, she joined the New York Post, where she met William Winton in an interview. After marrying William Winton, Ms. Caroline resigned from the New York Post to join William Winton's political team, handling communications and other aspects of the account.

The Sunday Telegraph and the New York Post, where Carolyn Winton previously worked, were News Corp newspapers. It was on the Lady route that Murdoch established a close personal relationship with William Winton, a young figure in the Republican Party in the United States.

William Winton is said to be running for the Senate seat in Maryland next year on behalf of the Republican Party. If there were media groups behind him to cheer for him, his campaign road would undoubtedly be much easier. News Corp. failed to acquire Maryland's most influential Baltimore Sun, but it did acquire several regional tabloids in the state.

The political election in the United States is actually a game of competition and burning money. Those who spend a lot of dollars may not be able to choose, but those who do not spend dollars will definitely not be selected. And Murdoch has been one of the main financiers behind William Winton in recent years. This is also an important reason why William Winton is willing to come forward for Murdoch this time and stumble on Oriental Electronics.

News Corp. can't afford to take NBC now, but it won't have to wait another year or two. Although the premise of acquiring NBC is definitely the need to acquire the entire RCA company. This is not what News Corp. needs. But Murdoch could have found a few partners interested in RCA's non-media business to work together to acquire RCA.

So. The real reason for Murdoch's obstruction is to reserve an opportunity for News Corp. to buy NBC broadcasters in the future. But things to come. Who can say clearly! In the case that Li Xuan had already reacted and came to the door, Murdoch thought that there was no need to continue to fight with the other party, after all, he did not have a direct conflict of interest with the Eastern Bloc.

So Murdoch chose to reconcile with Li Xuan very rationally. It was a surprise for him to take the South China Morning Post to establish a fulcrum for News Corp to expand its business in Asia.

For Li Xuan, his first priority now is still to eliminate a qiē interference for Dongfang Electronics' acquisition of RCA. Selling the South China Morning Post would break up an enemy, and it would be a good deal for him. In addition to recovering a sum of cash, it will also allow News Corp.'s newspapers in the United States to stop attacking the RCA merger.

Back in early November. Under the unified coordination of the headquarters, the various companies under the Oriental Group began to intensively sign advertising cooperation agreements with NBC, ABC, and CBS, the three major public television networks in the United States, for the next year. After receiving the benefits of real money, the three major TV stations naturally will not turn their heads and turn their faces and deny people. When reporting on Dongfang Electronics' acquisition of RCA, the positions of the three TV stations were relatively fair.

However, the newspaper field in the United States is relatively fragmented, with more than 20 large newspapers with a daily circulation of more than 500,000 copies. The Eastern Bloc placed only a few advertisements in the most circulated and influential newspapers, such as the Daily News, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.

Because in this acquisition, there were various malicious attacks against the acquisition of RCA by the Eastern Group. Most of it comes from the paper media. After News Corporation's newspapers turned from black to pink, it could greatly reduce the pressure of public opinion on Li Xuan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, for the previous Minister of Defense, His Excellency Rodriguez, regarding some of the projects within the RCA company. Issues related to cooperation with the US military. Oriental Group is willing to divest these sensitive businesses under the supervision of the relevant authorities. And with the consent of the Department of Defense, find a suitable new seller for these businesses in the United States!

And in the process. The Eastern Bloc is willing to accept strict supervision by the U.S. government and military to ensure that relevant secrets are not leaked. thereby harming the national interests of the United States!"

At the special hearing held by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Oriental Electronics Group for the acquisition of RCA Company, Li Xuan stepped into the fore for the first time. As the chief representative of the Eastern Group, he was questioned by the Committee.

Previously, the Oriental Group had submitted tens of thousands of pages of detailed information related to the merger and acquisition to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Foreign Investment Jurisdiction. After completing its preliminary examination, the committee questioned Oriental on a range of issues of concern.

The first challenge that the Eastern Bloc needs to face is to prove to the executive committee members that NBC, the largest public television network in the United States, will still maintain its objective and impartial media stance after being acquired by the Eastern Bloc, and will not be exploited by foreign hostile forces.

Except for some of its subsidiaries that have some external shareholders because of their listing and cooperation with other companies, the entire Oriental Group is completely Li Xuan's personal assets. Li Xuan has successively established a number of offshore companies in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and other places to control the entire Oriental Electronics Group.

In order to convince the U.S. government that the acquisition of RCA by the Oriental Group was a simple commercial act, Li Xuan for the first time showed the complex shareholding structure within the Oriental Group to the outside world.

If Li Xuan hadn't taken the initiative to make it public, I believe that with his financial team through a number of offshore companies, after carrying out a complex equity swap, even if the FBI came to investigate, it might not be able to sort it out.

Previously, some tabloids in the United States had published articles speculating that the Eastern Bloc had a large amount of government capital from Red China, and Li Xuan was just a puppet put on the table by some shady forces.

According to Li Xuan's understanding, this kind of remarks not only has a market among the American people, but even the American political circles have become prejudiced against the Eastern Bloc because of this. As the world's number one power, many Americans feel a little unacceptable that it is a Chinese rather than an American to become the richest man in the world. They don't want to believe that Li Xuan's wealth myth is simply relying on his own ability.

And this time. Li Xuan not only disclosed all the information of the Oriental Group to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Foreign Investment Committee, but also did not omit the entire development history of the company over the years. If there is a choice. Li Xuan was naturally reluctant to show the entire Oriental Group in front of others without reservation.

After all, the more hole cards you keep, the more mysterious your image will be in the eyes of your opponents. The more likely it is to be taken by surprise when competing. As it is now, after all its information is made public, although the hearings held by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Foreign Investment in China are not open to the public, all documents submitted by Dongfang Electronics will also be included in the classified information processing. However, Li Xuan believes that competitors only need to spend some means and are fully capable of obtaining these materials in their entirety.

Not to mention anything else in the various materials about the Oriental Group, Li Xuan has made a total profit of more than $5 billion in the past four or five years in the arcade business alone. Such a number of ungodly jù is enough to make countless people's jaws drop. I believe that after reading these materials, the executives of those large companies should no longer underestimate the seemingly inconspicuous game industry.

This is naturally not good news for Li Xuan, because of his current move. The gaming industry is likely to attract more giants to join the competition. The price he paid to buy RCA seemed a little too great.

But the reason why he is willing to disclose the details of the Eastern Group is really not entirely because of the acquisition of RCA. The current Dongfang Electronics Company is no longer the fledgling new company of two or three years ago. With Li Xuan becoming the world's richest man for two consecutive years, and with the group's total assets rapidly expanding, it is impossible for the U.S. government to continue to ignore the influence of Oriental Corporation.

Compared with other foreign companies that are ready to do business in the United States, Li Xuan has a natural disadvantage, that is, he is a Chinese. Despite the fact that Hong Kong is still under British rule, even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher does not believe that the British Empire can continue to retain this pearl of the Orient.

In fact, after the Hong Kong dollar crisis. After the British government found that Beijing's position was still tough, it began to make all-round concessions, and they no longer put forward the idea of "exchanging governance for sovereignty". Hong Kong's return to the motherland has become the trend of the times, and the focus of negotiations between the two sides. It has moved on to the follow-up questions of how to complete the handover.

Regardless of the overall improvement in US relations with China in the past two years, it seems that it is now entering a honeymoon period. But Americans' wariness and vigilance against the communist red regime never disappeared. Hong Kong is too close to the mainland and is about to be taken back by the Chinese government after 97 years.

This also leads to the fact that Li Xuan and the Oriental Group are likely to be affected by the pond fish. Become one of the targets of the U.S. government's defense. Therefore, he had to cut off the Eastern Bloc from the mainland government in advance and prove to the US government that he was a simple businessman. Otherwise, once on the blacklist of the U.S. government. The future development of the Eastern Bloc will certainly be difficult.

In fact, in the past two years, there has been American capital extending an olive branch to Li Xuan. If Li Xuan wants to solve the problem once and for all. The best way to do this is to accept the offer of the American consortium. Don't look at Li Xuan as the richest man in the world now, but in front of those big conglomerates, he is like a baby who has just learned to walk.

As long as they were allowed to put their tentacles in, Li Xuan would not be able to stop the other party's continuous infiltration at all. Maybe in two or three years, the Eastern Bloc will no longer have the surname Li. Therefore, Li Xuan has not agreed with other capital's peeps into the Oriental Group, and chose to develop independently, which is obviously a much more bumpy road.

It is precisely because of this choice that he needs to control an influential media company in the United States to resist some shady off-screen moves.

And now that Li Xuan has put a heavy bet on President Reagan, and under the favorable conditions of good relations with the other party, after the Eastern Bloc has proved his innocence naked, Reagan has enough reason to refute those who have put colored glasses on Oriental Electronics.

The hearings of the Foreign Commission on the Eastern Bloc lasted one day. As soon as Li Xuan walked out of the venue, he was surrounded by the long guns and short cannons of dozens of media.

"Mr. Li, it is said that after Dongfang Electronics acquires RCA, there will be large-scale layoffs! Some union leaders have even sent a letter of protest to the Foreign Ruling Council, expressing their determination to take over the takeover! Is this true?"

Li Xuan glanced at it and found that the question was asked by a blonde female reporter wearing an NBC TV badge.

He smiled at the other party before saying in a confident tone, "These are baseless rumors. Long before the signing of the acquisition agreement between the Eastern Group and RCA, I had a friendly meeting with the leaders of several major trade unions involved in RCA on the recommendation of Mr. Bradshaw, Chairman of the Board of Directors of RCA.

Oriental Group has always been very willing to listen to the voices of its employees. In my philosophy, every employee of Oriental Company is an equal member of the whole group family. Whether in Hong Kong or Silicon Valley, several subsidiaries of the Oriental Group have been ranked at the top of the survey of the most desirable companies for graduates for several years in a row!

I can solemnly promise here that after the completion of the acquisition of RCA, Dongfang Electronics will not carry out large-scale layoffs in the United States for at least two years! On the contrary, Dongfang Group will increase investment to create more jobs for American society!

We have already explained in detail the specific plan to the executive committee members, and those groundless and malicious rumors can be curbed! I hope that all friends in the media circles will abide by the necessary professional ethics and will not distort the facts without a bottom line in order to grab news, and the Eastern Bloc will reserve the right to take legal weapons to defend its reputation!"

After answering a few questions, Li Xuan finally escaped the continued harassment of reporters and left in the car under the escort of his assistants and bodyguards.

"Old Han, when will the result come out at the earliest?" asked Li Xuan after getting into the car and asking Han Peng, who was sitting next to him.

"At least wait until next week!" Han Peng said with a frown.

According to the repeated simulations of the behind-the-scenes team, the probability of Dongfang Electronics' acquisition of RCA being approved by the United States International Investment Committee is more than 90%. But until the final outcome is settled, there is no guarantee that there will be no accidents.

"If we spend so much manpower and material resources, and we are still vetoed, we can only accept our fate! If you continue to stay in Washington for the last few days, I will go back to New York first, Ah Hong's due date will come tomorrow!" Li Xuan said very calmly.

The Oriental Group spent more than $50 million on media and public relations. This was definitely a lot of money in 1983. You must know that in the 1980 U.S. presidential election a few years ago, Reagan received only $29.4 million in public campaign funding.

If the acquisition of RCA is not approved by CFIUS in the end, it will definitely be a heavy blow to Li Xuan and the Oriental Group.

But for the current Li Xuan, this qiē did not cause the arrival of his first pair of children to be more important. That's right, according to the doctor's examination, Zhong Chuhong was pregnant with a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses this time. The first birth was a dragon and phoenix fetus, which was definitely a big test for Zhong Chuhong, a new mother. Just in case, she was admitted to one of the best private obstetrics and gynecology clinics in New York.

And Li Xuan naturally didn't want to miss it, and accompanied his wife to welcome the great moment of the birth of a new life. For him, career and money are just a string of tens or arbitrary digits on a bank account, and even if Dongfang Electronics' acquisition of RCA fails, the wealth he now has is enough for him to squander for a lifetime. (To be continued......)