On the issue of favoring the country, Li Xuan just casually mentioned it, and it was not the focus of his concern today. Although some far-left Democrats in Congress do not stop using this issue to pressure the president. But it won't be easy for them to succeed, because there's so much going on behind the scenes.

For example, the textile agreement signed by China and the United States is based on the mutual favorability of China and the United States. Last year, China exported $3 billion in textiles and apparel to the United States, accounting for nearly half of its total trade with the United States.

And once the United States cancels China's most-favored-nation status, import tariffs on Chinese textiles will immediately soar. While China has suffered heavy losses, the U.S. market is also likely to be volatile as a result.

Moreover, the United States has also included China's entrepot trade through Hong Kong and Macao in the statistics of China's export trade to the United States. Therefore, this issue will also indirectly trigger trade disputes between the United States and the United Kingdom and Portugal.

And if China retaliates, it will be the first to suffer from the US export companies to China. For example, Boeing, China can completely replace it with Airbus planes in the future.

The first step in the legislative process in the United States is for the Senate and the House of Representatives to pass a bill at the same time. With as many as 435 seats in the House of Representatives, such a large number of seats will naturally lead to a relative decentralization of power, which in turn will directly lead to an increase in public relations costs.

By comparison, the Senate, which has only 100 seats and serves a six-year term, is more concentrated. Therefore, the cost performance of a PR senator is obviously higher than that of a PR representative.

This is even more prominent when there are certain times when it is necessary to get in the way. Because even if a bill passes in the House of Representatives, as long as it is rejected in the Senate, it can also make the bill stillborn!

On the issue of favoring the country to China, Li Xuan believes that before the Senate votes, many other stakeholders will definitely jump out and go all out to tackle key problems. For example, the Boeing company mentioned earlier is certainly not willing to lose China, a huge emerging aviation market with great growth potential.

But that doesn't mean that members of the House of Representatives lack influence. The American political arena is a place where seniority is very important! Some evergreens or old monsters in Congress can even directly determine the party's presidential nomination.

For example, Ao Guanhai was nominated as a presidential candidate by the Democratic Party before he even finished serving as a senator, and the biggest promoter behind it came from Edward Kennedy.

The eldest of the four Kennedy brothers has been firmly in Massachusetts' seat since 1962.

Edward had no political experience before entering Congress, and he was elected because his brother John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. As a result, John F. Kennedy's former position as a senator became vacant, and Edward's younger brother was simply called to fill his vacancy.

This can also show how blind American voters are, just because Edward's brother was a popular president among Americans at the time, so he, a new political rookie, was also jumped to a senator by Aiwu and Wu.

Since serving as a senator from Massachusetts in 1962, Edward has never lost a race. Now in 28 years of Congress, he is one of the most senior and influential members of the Democratic Party.

And Li Xuan is now in a level of trouble that is no less than that of Edward Kennedy's opponent, John Dingle, a congressman from Michigan.

This guy has been in Congress since 1956, and he has been firmly nailed to the chair of the House of Representatives like glue under his buttocks. You must know that the U.S. House of Representatives is re-elected every two years, which means that Dingle has won 17 consecutive election victories.

In the most recent 1988 election, no one on the Republican side was even willing to challenge him. So Dingle, as the only candidate in his constituency, won without a fight!

If we want to say that the most powerful people in the US Senate and House of Representatives, they are naturally the party leaders and whips in the parliament. In addition to the distribution of power within the party, another distribution of power is through the various special committees under the parliament.

For example, the Appropriations Committee, the most powerful committee in the Senate, is completely capable of dictating the government's budget. For example, if Bush Sr. wants to launch the Gulf War next year, he will certainly need a huge amount of military spending, and this military budget needs to be approved by Congress.

That's where the power of the appropriations committee comes into play! Because Congress will first have it organize a hearing.

The hearing can even be handed over to the Minister of National Defense and other government officials to personally come to the Diet to explain a series of issues such as the purpose and size of the budget. And if you can't pass the first hurdle of the hearing, you don't have to think about it to be discussed and voted on in the plenary meeting!

American politics has always been about winner-takes-all, so both the Senate and the House of Representatives are the majority party that selects its own party to chair all committees.

The department that Li Xuan did not deal with this time was the Energy and Commerce Committee under the House of Representatives. The committee, chaired by John Dingle, is the one in the House of Representatives that is directly responsible for matters related to telecommunications.

Mobile communication business is one of the most important and core businesses of Oriental Group in Li Xuan's next planning. It has a higher priority than even the computer business, for which the Eastern Bloc is now most widely known.

As a person who has come over, Li Xuan knows very well that in the next 20 years, mobile phones will not only be limited to the tools people use to make calls, but will gradually replace computers as the most important port for people to obtain information in the mobile Internet era.

In order to promote the mobile phone from the era of analog communication to the era of digital communication, Li Xuan first invested heavily in the research and development of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology. After the CDMA technology matured, he built the world's first commercially operated digital mobile phone communication network in Hong Kong through the Hong Kong Telephone Company, a subsidiary of the Oriental Group, as a model for promoting CDMA technology.

At this stage, the mobile digital communication technology can be divided into two types, one is the code division multiple access technology developed by the Oriental Research Institute as a representative - CDMA. The other is the time division multiple access technology developed by Ericsson, Nokia and other companies in Europe - GSM.

Compared with time division multiple access, code division multiple access has considerable technical advantages. What's more, the CDMA technology developed by the Oriental Research Institute is also being commercialized faster! The Hong Kong Telephone Company opened a digital mobile phone communication network based on CDMA technology two or three years ago.

The GSM, the fastest of the time division multiple access technologies, has only just been described. The first full-fledged commercial operation is still under construction in Finland.

It stands to reason that CDMA has such a big first-mover advantage, and it should be like the original ABC series of computers, defeating competitors to the ground. However, the actual situation is far from simple, and CDMA technology is now only implemented in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore, and has been put into commercial operation.

In Europe, North America, and Japan, Asia's largest market, CDMA technology has been greatly hindered. A large part of this is due to the fact that countries have strict regulations on the communications industry. It's not like the PC industry, which is a completely open and free market!

The department responsible for the management of the communications field in the United States is called the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This is an independent government agency that is directly accountable to the U.S. Congress, and this is the source of Li Xuan's troubles.