Chapter 42: Rabbit fights goshawk
When Gu Cheng returned to China, he didn't go back to Qiantang, but asked people to make a good way in advance and went directly to the capital.
It has been more than half a month since the collapse of the two-house subordinated debt and AIG, and the financial emergency strategies of various governments are basically clear.
In another period of history, because this incident broke out more than a month later than now, the little undead president has completely given up treating the superficial symptoms and doesn't care about whether he "whitewashes the peace" when he responds - because 2008 is the election year of the United States, and it happens to be the little undead president who has been in office for 8 years, and it is impossible to be re-elected according to the law, and the republic-and-file must push a new candidate out.
Originally, if there was a contingency plan in October, the final vote would be held in November, and the Republican file polls would fall behind by a large margin, and there would be no need for Xiao Immortal to whitewash his party. As we all know, whenever the economic situation suffers badly in an election year, the ruling party basically eats the jujube pill, while the opposition side can lash out.
The two fathers and sons, the big and small immortal presidents, both stepped down in the miserable rain of economic decline.
And now in this world, because in 08, the Republican side seemed to have a fight with the dark horse, so the little undead government reacted very quickly, thinking that "it can be rescued".
Before August 20, a "$400 billion bailout plan" was thrown out. It was introduced much faster than at the same time in history, but the size of the amount was a small one.
On the one hand, it is because the scale of junk money that has been trapped in the subordinated bonds of the two houses in this time and space is indeed smaller, and on the other hand, the government hopes to make the public feel that "the scale of this financial crisis is actually not that large".
After the "400 billion US dollar rescue plan" came out, the Fuso people also hurriedly put together a "15 trillion yen rescue plan", the European Union made a "200 billion euro XXX", and Huaxia also issued a "3 trillion yuan XXX" - of course, these plans are still in internal negotiations and have not been officially announced.
Gu Cheng easily got the letter of inquiry from the State Council by releasing all kinds of goodwill, and was able to observe the meeting, slightly influencing the economic policy and the deployment of the 3 trillion capital pool - this is not surprising, and in another time and space, Ma Teng Ma Feng can often follow the Prime Minister to attend various economic forums, and talk and laugh privately to influence decision-making. The political identity is either a good and evil committee or an RD representative, but it is not that early, and it will not be so influential until after 2013.
But Gu Cheng is now the richest man in Asia, and he is a representative of high-tech and the new economy, so it is normal for him to be invited.
In 08, I have just replaced a batch of deputy XX who are ready to take over in five years. Gu Cheng and Cardinal Qi used to know each other a little, and the five years when Cardinal Qi was in charge of Wuyue Province were also the five years when Gu Cheng was doing a booming business in Qiantang. Gu Cheng contributes at least two or three points to the growth of the province's GDP every year, and his noble character has always been heard by heaven.
Therefore, this time I entered Beijing, and there were many opportunities to make speeches.
In the middle of the 3 trillion meeting, he first made some detailed comments on "taking advantage of the heavy decline in foreign trade and exports to transform the economy, expand the cultural industry, and serve the domestic demand", and then mentioned a matter that should be mentioned in the government work report every year:
"Mi Guo Ren - Rights Record".
Most of the Chinese people think that the people of the United States will issue the "Human Rights in China - Report" every year in a-for-tat manner, but in fact they do not do it so bluntly and explicitly - they only publish the "Human Rights of the World - Report", and they will make a full statement on all other countries in the world except for the United States itself, not just against China.
To put it another not-so-good analogy, it's like a black bear slapping the table on the table: "Who are you talking about?"
In the end, in exchange for the senior brother with an eraser in one hand and a correction solution in the other, he apologized very sincerely: "Eh, don't get me wrong, who are we targeting?" I mean, all of you are ......."
And that document was not "deliberately" disseminated publicly. De jure it is just a decision-making consultation document of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, which is roughly equivalent to some "internal references" in China, for the senators and representatives to look at idlely.
It's just that the people of the United States are more arrogant and don't keep it secret, so the outside world can also find out. But the U.S. foreign ministry (secretary of state) has never publicly stated in its foreign affairs activities that it cites the report to condemn other countries (which is useful in bilateral negotiations).
And most Chinese people don't know that in fact, as early as 1999, China has begun to carry out-for-tat confrontation against the United States people who point fingers at the world, and regularly issue the "United States People-Rights Record" (of course, it is still 30 years later than the United States, and the United States people have been pointing fingers at the human rights situation in countries around the world since 1969).
At first, it was released once every two or three years, and after '03, it gradually became an annual release. It will be launched approximately in September each year, and may be increased or decreased as appropriate.
However, this document was only an internal reference document of the Huaxia "Parliament", and in the early years, it was also "confidential" and was not to be distributed, and although the level of secrecy was lowered later, it would not take the initiative to publicize it. It wasn't until Cardinal Qi came to power and the relationship between China and Mi gradually became reciprocal and tough, that the domestic media began to report on this report on a large scale, so that many people who eat melons still think that this kind of document report was only started by rabbits in the 2010s.
In fact, it was more than ten years ago, but it was low-key, "quietly enter the village, don't let go of the gun".
However, it doesn't matter what all this was or what "international practice" only talks about.
Since Gu Cheng is here, he has to add material to the report.
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ZN Sea, ZG Pavilion. After Gu Cheng and Li Cixiang made some suggestions on economic investment, the second minister left a deputy director of the general office surnamed Wang to talk to Gu Cheng about the rest of the things - this kind of thing, of course, it is impossible to talk directly to the second minister, in that case, if he is not persuaded the first time, it will completely collapse.
Gu Cheng also brought a helper here, who is his effective legal consultant over the years, and the person in charge of Tiance Law Firm, Fei Wenqing. In Apple's case, she kept an eye on the progress throughout the whole process, and the tendencies and opinions of all parties were very clear.
Fei Wenqing stated her opinion on behalf of Gu Cheng, and Director Wang of the General Office was taken aback when she heard this:
"Do you hope that in this year's "Records of Human Rights in the United States", the analysis of basic consumer freedom in the United States will be added to the "freedom of voters" section?"
"Yes, I'm just suggesting that for the specific legal basis, Director Wang can read this material slowly. Vivien Qing took out a document and helped on the side.
In recent years, the responsible unit for each release of the "Records of Human Rights in the United States" by the state is the Information Office of the State Council. However, the Information Office is only an executive body that speaks to the outside world, and the specific decision on this matter is still decided by the General Office of the State Council, the competent unit at its higher level. Basically, after the office forms an opinion, it is reported, and the cabinet boss will not change it.
Therefore, Director Wang, as a veteran who has been handling the business for several years, naturally knows what level the country's criticism of the United States has mainly stayed at over the years:
The first is to criticize the United States for not banning guns and the high crime rate.
The second is the indiscriminate use of violence by the police, and the proportion of "shooting/injuring suspects in the process of administrative law enforcement before the trial is much higher" is much higher than that in China.
Then there is the painless routine "rice class divide between the rich and the poor, racism" - but these two points have disappeared with the strong pursuit of political correctness after O'Black Horse came to power, white people are overwhelmed, and LGBT equality. The problem of the gap between the rich and the poor has become "50 steps and 100 steps" and "crows and pigs laughing" with the soaring housing prices in China.
Finally, it is to criticize the "bribery of elections" in the politics of the United States, the politics of money/money and power, and the distortion of public opinion caused by the guidance of capital.
Generally speaking, one, two, five are commonly used, and three or four are about to expire.
According to the above intentions, the most willing situation is that the fifth point is magnified and sprayed - that is, the so-called "free will of the electorate" of the people of the United States is false, which is actually the same as that advocated by Murdoch, the boss of Fox in the 20th century: Of course, the people of the United States have freedom of speech, and of course they have the right to know what they want to know, provided that they choose among the options I allow them to know.
Gu Cheng's current entry point, Director Wang can see at a glance that he wants to bring private goods and help spray Apple.
However, if the Shanggang line envisioned by Gu Cheng can really be linked, it is quite consistent with national interests.
Director Wang is not a legal expert, he scanned the materials provided by Fei Wenqing several times, and he was a little unclear, so he decided to ask directly, and then find the relevant experts and think tanks of the National Academy to corroborate.
"Ms. Fei still makes the legal logic behind this a little clearer, so that I can judge. ”
"Absolutely. Vivien knew that this was an opportunity to show her professionalism, and replied energetically,
"I won't say much about the recent case of the EFF Foundation v. Apple. Judging from the current theoretical tendency of the prosecution and the adjudicator, the rights and interests of the people infringed by the Apple case are mainly reflected in one point: that is, the deprivation of the sanctity of private property, which is the basic principle of capital attention, also infringes on the basic freedoms of citizens.
China passed the "Property Law" in 06 and officially implemented it last year. If it is before this, it is not appropriate for us to talk about this point, because of the national nature of our country, the absolute protection of private property was not enough before. Now that we also have the "Property Law", it is very appropriate to talk about this topic in the United States. ”
Director Wang felt that Fei Wenqing's words were still a bit too much foreshadowing, so he interrupted the other party and asked urgently: "Don't talk about these big situations, you just say that Apple's actions are infringing on private property and citizens' basic freedoms." ”
Fei Wenqing paused slightly, roughly mastering Director Wang's level, so she reorganized her language and said concisely: "As we all know, private property rights are divided into intangible assets such as property rights, creditor's rights and even other intellectual property rights. Property right is an absolute right, in which the most obvious manifestation of 'ownership' is that the person who possesses the complete property right has the right to arbitrarily possess, use, benefit and dispose of his property.
I bought an iPhone, I can shoot it with a gun, smash it, press it with a 10,000-ton press, crush it, whatever you do. YOU CAN ALSO UPLOAD VIDEOS OF YOUR PHONE DESTRUCTION TO NICONICO/YOUTUBE TO GET EYEBALLS AND CLICKS.
Apple's restrictions on consumer use are actually abstracted to the level of jurisprudence, which is an infringement of citizens' right to dispose of their property with full property rights. IT'S EQUIVALENT TO JOBS WARNING CONSUMERS: YOU CAN BUY AN IPHONE IF YOU WANT TO, BUT AFTER YOU BUY IT, YOU HAVE THE 'OBLIGATION' TO PROTECT IT WELL, AND YOU CAN'T DELIBERATELY DROP IT OR SMASH IT INTENTIONALLY - THESE TWO THINGS ARE OF THE SAME NATURE.
In the consistent political logic of the United States, the freedom of the people to dispose of their political rights and property rights at will is considered to be the highest value in the free world.
A voter who doesn't know who he is going to vote for – for example, this year, there are many illiterate black voters who haven't voted in decades, because they heard that a black presidential candidate has appeared for the first time in history this year, so they rushed to vote, and they didn't understand O'Hema's platform at all, they just glanced at O'dark horse's skin color and decided to vote for him. But the U.S. government must not obstruct the people from exercising this right, because this is the free will of the electorate. This is the foundation of rice-style democracy only if every vote of each person is 'what I think in my heart and I decide how to vote'.
In the same way, a consumer may not know the performance of the product he bought, but he can use it as he wants or even spoil it, as long as he does not infringe on others in the process of exercising it, as long as the ownership of all the property disposed of absolutely belongs to the consumer himself, he has this freedom. These two fundamental freedoms, as the foundation of the United States, are of considerable importance......"
"Wait!" Director Wang felt a little confused when he heard this, "If this matter seems so self-evident, wouldn't it be that the judicial system of the United States itself will correct this mistake? When the time comes, they will themselves judge Apple against the lawsuit, right? In that case, what is the use of us criticizing? As soon as we issued a report here, the judicial system of the people of the United States over there corrected it by itself, wouldn't it have no attack effect at all?"
"You're right, judging from the current operation of all parties, Apple is indeed about to lose the case, and maybe they have one last chance to appeal, but the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has at least an 80% chance of continuing to rule against them.
However, we don't think that there is no point in attacking -- if China first releases the human rights report of the United States, and then the United States 'hastily' judges Apple in defeat, what will the international community think? Won't other countries feel that the United States is under pressure from our public opinion on this issue? This is very helpful in enhancing its international prestige. ”
"This kind of thing...... I am afraid that it will affect diplomatic relations in vain. Director Wang groaned, as if he hadn't thought it through.
However, at this moment, Gu Cheng, who had been silently listening to the lobbying of his subordinates, spoke rarely:
"Director Wang, I don't think the problem can be seen like this - Xiao Immortal is still 5 months away, and according to the current situation, the Republic-Peace file has made a mess of the economy of the United States, and it has been rolled. As a black man, the new O'Dark Horse will surely bring the United States into a four years of extreme political correctness. No matter how hard we attack now, then Olympian will also have a step down, and he can shift the responsibility for doing these bad things to the former government. ”
"No, it's not that simple. You asked me to do it again. "It is impossible for Director Wang to be a gunman for Gu Cheng, so he naturally wants to prevaricate first, and then ask the think tank of the National Academy to analyze it.