"Li Sheng, do you seem to be optimistic about the future development prospects of the mainland again?" On the way to the capital city government residence, Ke Lilun, president of Huaxing Technology Company, who was in the same car as Li Xuan, hesitated, but couldn't help but ask.

In fact, it is not only Corillan who has such doubts, but also the top brass of the Eastern Bloc generally have the same confusion. Just two years ago, the Eastern Bloc suddenly and quietly began to shrink from the interior without warning, and then the country experienced a period of chaos last year. Just when everyone was worshipping Li Xuan's foresight, Li Xuan suddenly made a 180-degree turn, ready to let the Oriental Group start expanding in the mainland again!

"Hehe, do you think that I am too casual to change my order, I knew now, why bother in the first place?" Li Xuan smiled, "You also saw what happened last year, the Americans suddenly started to cross the river and tear down the bridge." Previously they needed to use China to contain the energy of the Soviet-Soviet Union, so Sino-American relations were in a honeymoon period throughout the eighties!

Now that there are drastic changes in East Europe, even the Soviet Union is about to disintegrate, China has lost its usefulness, and it happens to be a communist-communist red country like the Soviet Union, so naturally it has instantly become the target of the Americans' great suppression, and they don't want China to become the second Soviet-Union!"

"Since the United States has imposed a complete blockade on China in the name of Palestinianism, shouldn't we continue to avoid the limelight at this time?"

"Logically speaking, yes, but China is not the Soviet Union after all, do you think China can replace the Soviet Union and become a global competitor of the United States in the short term?" Li Xuan asked rhetorically.

Curillen frowned and thought for a few seconds, then quickly shook his head. It is not only that Clillan did not expect that the current US President George H.W. Bush, or even George W. Bush, who will become US President 10 years later, could not have guessed that China would develop into an even more terrifying opponent than the Soviet Union in just 20 years.

"You think it's impossible, and the capitalists in the United States also think it's impossible! But because the US Government suddenly changed its face last year, almost all the investment projects of American enterprises in China were forced to stop, who should be responsible for these losses? You must know that the United States is a democratic society, and the capitalists are now crying out their grievances in Washington!

And we are not an American company, if we do not take the initiative to shrink, we are likely to be regarded by the Americans as a typical example of killing chickens and monkeys. Not only will the losses be greater, but there will not even be a place to complain!" Li Xuan explained the reasons for the strategic contraction of the Eastern Bloc in the interior over the past two years.

Ke Lilun somewhat understood: "Do you think Sino-US relations will soon warm up?"

In fact, the Bush administration never thought of really deteriorating relations with Beijing from the very beginning, and he was only forced by the pressure of Congress to make some gestures!

If the elder Bush is really ready to take a ruthless attack on China and revoke China's most-favored-nation trading country status, it may even be more effective than passing Pakistan-unification sanctions! You must know that large-scale economic construction is underway at home, and cracking down on China's exports will seriously disrupt the pace of China's development!

However, China is not just a cat or a dog to be bullied; it not only has a huge market of 1.2 billion people, but it is also one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council! The US Government needs to communicate with China in global politics, and the American capitalists need China's huge market even more!

Of course, Sino-US relations have now entered a frozen period, and if they really want to return to normal, they will definitely need a certain buffer period, and they will also need one side to bow its head! The Americans are about to kill even the huge polar bear of the Soviet Union, and it is naturally impossible for them to take the initiative to make concessions at this time, so they need the Chinese side to make some compromises!" Li Xuan said with a sigh.

"What compromise?"

"For example, we should further open up to the outside world and relax restrictions on foreign investment entering China! At present, the focus of China's reform and opening up is mainly concentrated in the experimental field of the deep-sea special zone and the surrounding Pearl River Delta region! The transfer of low-end light industries from Hong Kong and Macao accounts for the mainstream of foreign enterprises, while large European and American enterprises are still subject to relatively big restrictions if they want to enter the Chinese market. Not only do they need to set up factories in China through joint ventures, but they are also limited to less than 50%!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

"Li Sheng, are you sure that China will soon expand the pace of reform and opening up?" said Ke Lilun with a slight skepticism.

From the very beginning of its founding, the Eastern Bloc attached great importance to the collection and analysis of political and economic intelligence. Li Xuan also set up the Institute of Oriental Economics, a non-profit organization that has now grown into Asia's most prominent unofficial think tank. The study of China's economic development has always been one of the most important topics of the Oriental Economic Research Institute.

As a senior executive of the Oriental Group, Crillum reads various analysis reports sent by the Economic Research Institute every week. According to his understanding, there are still quite a few differences at the decision-making level of the Beijing-Beijing-Central Government on China's next trend. Most foreign observers believe that China is likely to become conservative again after last year's chaos.

"In the past 40 or 50 years, the pattern of the whole world has always been that the United States and the Soviet Union have competed for hegemony! Because the United States and the Soviet Union have restrained each other, the vast majority of the forces that have enabled China to watch the drama behind closed doors in the 60s, when both sides were hostile to each other at the same time!

However, with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union is about to come to an end, and the world has entered an era in which the United States is the sole superpower! If China does not take the initiative to bow to the United States, the world hegemon, it is very likely that it will be excluded from the global system under the leadership of the United States, and it will soon be abandoned by the whole world! The bitter lesson of the Qing Dynasty in closing itself off from the country is only 150 years ago, do you think the domestic leaders have any other choice?" Li Xuan's expression finally began to become serious.

The nineties can be described as a period of national brand death, such as Tianfu Cola, Megajing, Xiangxuehai and a large number of domestic famous brands, after being acquired by foreign-funded enterprises, they were hidden and disappeared from the public's field of vision. These are the pains brought about by reform and opening up, but if we do not continue to reform and open up, China will not rise again in 20 years.

It is precisely because we have obediently joined the global economic system formulated by the Americans that we have the opportunity to become the world's factory, reunite our national strength with a steady stream of exports, and finally realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, giving the Americans a huge "surprise"!

"According to my guess, the top level in China will definitely agree in a year or two. And once China announces that it will continue to open up, European and American companies are likely to no longer be satisfied with just selling products to China, but may move the entire production system or even part of the R&D system, after all, China's labor costs are too low!" Li Xuan continued.

.。 m.