"When you negotiate with the Taiwan authorities, you should be appropriately tougher when you should be tough! We are willing to cooperate with the government in dealing with the aftermath, but we must not completely lose the lead in the matter!" Li Xuan said to Han Peng, who was sitting on the side.

"I understand, Li Sheng! When I met with Committee member Zhan Minshan today, I proposed that RCA Company would completely shut down the Taoyuan General Plant as soon as possible to make room for the subsequent remediation of soil and groundwater pollution.

Li Xuan also smiled freely: "Committee member Zhan has thought very carefully for us! If we really shut down the Taoyuan General Factory all at once, then the 13,000 unemployed workers in the factory will have to immediately go out into the streets to make a fuss! However, if the factory resumes operation, it will certainly have a considerable impact on the follow-up ecological remediation work, and this point must be made clear to the government in advance!"

The two smiled tacitly, and the Eastern Bloc was willing to take responsibility for the ecological remediation of the contaminated area. But the extent to which it should be remedied is a very interesting question.

After the incident came out, the Oriental Group also invited two professors who have research on ecological pollution prevention and control from the University of Hong Kong to Taoyuan General Plant for evaluation as soon as possible. According to the two professors at the University of Hong Kong, it is almost impossible to completely remove the pollution and restore it to its original state.

In particular, those pollutants that have penetrated into the subsurface layer of the earth, because these pollutants do not dissolve with the water, so they will only slowly and gradually diffuse into the water source. This has led to the problem of contamination of groundwater in the surrounding area. It is likely that it will be a long-term process. RCA is not likely to be responsible for the pollution control work for many years, so it is important to reach an understanding with the government.

Li Xuan paused. He continued: "After this incident, RCA is a signboard. In the future, Taiwan will definitely be completely rotten! Moreover, wages and benefits in Taiwan have been greatly increased in recent years. I remember that a Hong Kong newspaper reported before that a company in Taipei with good efficiency paid its employees 20 months' wages every year, which made countless Hong Kong workers envious!

Although RCA's factories are not so exaggerated, they are also paid double salaries in the two months at the end of the year! Fortunately, there is no such bad atmosphere on the mainland, and transferring some low-end manufacturing industries to Chinese mainland with lower labor costs is also one of our most important development ideas in the future!

We can now hold off on the closure of these factories in order to accommodate the employment pressure on the part of the government, but the divestiture of RCA's Taiwan branch must be carried out as soon as possible!

Then wait until the pollution incident subsides. Quickly transfer all the assets of the RCA Taiwan branch to the new company by means of sale and transfer! In the future, the RCA company will completely withdraw from Taiwan, and the current branch will be directly deregistered!"

It has been several days since the RCA pollution incident was exposed, but on the island of Taiwan, it has not caused as much uproar as Li Xuan had imagined. The media coverage of the incident was carried out under the unified guidance of the government's propaganda and propaganda department.

In 1984, Taiwan was still under a ban on newspapers and the party, and anyone who contradicted the authorities was sent to Green Island to be imprisoned. And this also made Li Xuan feel a lot less pressure.

Ecological remediation is troublesome, but for the Eastern Bloc and RCA. It's not the biggest headache. What is truly frightening is the issue of compensation for the victims of the incident. You must know that the groundwater pollution of this incident may involve dozens of square kilometers, and who knows how many victims will run out in the end.

Long-term consumption of contaminated groundwater will not only cause various harm to the body. The most fatal consequence is that people will develop various cancers. According to the information provided by the Department of Health to RCA, the cancer fatality rate in the area near the Taoyuan main plant is indeed much higher than the average for the whole island of Taiwan and Bay.

But if let's RCA indemnity coverage. Expanding to hundreds of thousands of residents within a radius of tens of square kilometers is basically the same as letting RCA go bankrupt directly!

According to the preliminary consultation programme between the Eastern Group and the Government. Compensation will be strictly limited to those who have sufficient evidence to confirm that the RCA contamination resulted in death or disability.

And Li Xuan was even reluctant to use the word "compensation". He would set up a bailout foundation. Then, in the name of RCA and himself, he injected a sum of money into this foundation.

This foundation will operate under the supervision of the government, and any confirmed victim of this incident can apply for a relief fund from the foundation! This is tantamount to allowing the government and the foundation to take over the follow-up compensation and let RCA completely break free from this quagmire.

But in Li Xuan's view, this is not safe, and it is necessary for him to set up another firewall to allow RCA to withdraw directly from the Taiwan market after divesting its assets. This is because the Taiwanese authorities are not prepared to impose heavy fines on RCA for various reasons.

But that doesn't mean the authorities will always be so friendly in the future. For example, 20 years later, when the blue and green parties began to tear apart desperately, those politicians tried to attract voters, and those politicians did not bring up the old story again! Only when RCA completely withdrew from the Taiwan market would those who wanted to extort money from it be held accountable.

And if those victims want to hold other companies in the Eastern Group accountable, then I'm sorry that the property rights are separated by several layers, and they have nothing to do with RCA at all, and the difficulty for the other party to win the lawsuit will definitely increase geometrically, after all, the Eastern Group is not at the mercy of others!

"Originally, I thought that the issue on the Taiwan-Gulf side would be the most troublesome, but I didn't expect that everything would be calm here, and I just needed to talk with the government step by step, but the chaos on the US side is getting bigger and bigger!

When Charleson called me yesterday, he had already revealed that he wanted to resign! Next, Taiwan's aftermath work can only be handed over to you to continue to follow up, and I am ready to fly to New York tomorrow!" Li Xuan sighed with a somewhat helpless Han Peng.

As the CEO of RCA, Charleson naturally has management responsibilities. But what's worse is that Charleson, who previously served as the general manager of RCA's Taiwan branch, argues that when he worked in Taiwan, he focused on developing the Asia-Pacific market and did not pay too much attention to the actual operation of the factories below.

But these explanations still did not allow him to completely extract himself from this pollution scandal. Newspapers and magazines in the United States have gradually pointed the finger at his character and morality! (To be continued......