Chapter 424: Ma Taiji

After dozens of Japanese guests entered the venue, Xu Teng took a general look and knew that the former finance minister Ma Taiji was first aiming for Vice President Borden, and he wanted to take this opportunity to continue to deepen Japan-US diplomacy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Xu Teng is the main family, there is no need to stay here to disturb the communication between the guests, nodded to Mr. Borden, and left.

Although Mr. Xu and Xu Ma were present today, the most important guests still wanted Xu Teng to thank him personally, in fact, the Xu family was just using this opportunity to provide a broader communication platform for everyone.

This is called social responsibility and the provision of public service products.

For example, the United States moderately sacrificing its own interests to promote the TPP, and China moderately sacrificing its own interests to promote the RCPE (Comprehensive Economic Partnership for the Asia-Pacific Region), both of which are social responsibilities that international leaders must undertake and provide public service products.

As the world's largest chaebol family, Xu Teng's role in the international world is similar to that of JP Morgan a century ago, and the feast he organized at Mabur Manor, in addition to holding high the political banners of the global charity movement and global progressivism, and inviting the world's wealthy and top elites to gather and celebrate, the real value is to provide a "public" service platform for this level of advanced human beings to get to know each other and expand their social relations.

In fact, Xu Teng did not decide who to invite, but the international public relations department of Huateng Company, the global asset custody division of AIG and Fuxin International, and more than 20 international super political committees.

Many guests, Mr. Xu, Xu Ma, and Xu Teng don't know each other.

There is no doubt that the other party must be very rich, and the top 100 richest families in the United States basically participated in this Marble Manor gathering, and the public relations department of Huateng International also invited the world's best soprano singers, ballet companies, modern dance companies, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and jazz orchestras to participate in the performance.

In China, the masters of the Chinese Acrobatic Troupe, Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera were invited, and several singers from the General Political Art Troupe arrived at the scene to sing some folk songs and traditional folk songs with Chinese characteristics, including "Kangding Love Song" and "Jasmine" are sure to appear in the program list.

On July 28, 2014, the Marble Manor party can basically be regarded as an art festival, and the entire art show lasts from 4 pm to 9 pm, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival Gala program, but there is no language program.

Except for a few particularly important dignitaries, Xu Teng needs to pay a personal visit to thank him, most of the time he sits at the table of Xia Li and Miss Elizabeth Holmes, and there are also the Bush family, the Cliton family, the Koch family, the Walton family, and the Drape family, all of which are the most prominent families in the United States at present.

Many "international friends" came to Xu Teng's side one after another to toast and congratulate, and had a short conversation, there are many people who Xu Teng does not know, and there are always intermediaries who introduce the two sides to each other.

At Xu Teng and Xia Li's table, it is generally Miss Elizabeth Holmes' Katia sorority social circle, Xia Li has no friends in the United States, so she joined them, because Mei Jiali and Deng Wendi, who she is more familiar with, are also in this circle of girlfriends, including Vice President Borden's little granddaughter, the very beautiful little girl also sits at this table, and she is very familiar with Deng Wendi.

Everyone needs social relationships and a special circle, and women are no exception.

Mei Jiali also has several acquaintances in this circle, who are very close to each other, doing business, living, shopping, and entertainment.

In addition to Xu Teng, the only two male guests at this table are Chris Hughes, and his partner, Sean Eldley, president of Hudson River Investment Fund, these are young and handsome young Americans in the new era, embarking on a path of life that reassures men and makes women happy.

Chris Hughes is the CEO of SVB Silicon Silver Group, served as the head of online organizing during Obma's first presidential campaign, and was one of Obma's main sponsors in the candidacy.

Over the years, the relationship between the Huayin consortium and the White House has been stiff and unbroken, and a very important factor is that Chris Hughes and SVB Silicon Silver Group, including the White House twice stopped the investigation of The-ShunFamliy's assets in the United States.

Because the Republican Party has the advantage in the Senate and the House of Representatives, if it is finally found out, many of the sources of Obma's political contributions for the two presidential campaigns came from the Huayin Consortium and The-ShunFamliy, and it is not clear that he will be impeached.

This is political suicide at the presidential level.

Xu Teng has three major partners in the United States, AIG chairman Verence Wotander, a Wall Street Jew; Chris Hughes, CEO of SVB Silicon Silver Group, a key supporter of the Democratic Party and President Obma, and a key coordinator of the Democratic Party's elite and progressive factions; Ms. Elizabeth Holmes, co-founder of SVB\Youtube and chairman of Vanguard Energy, is a leading supporter of the Republican elite and oil energy factions.

Americans always say that the United States is an exceptionalism in the international community, but in fact, the American elite society also holds a similar exceptionalism towards Xu Teng and The-ShunFamliy, and in the final analysis, this is determined by strength.

In fact, most of the American media are well aware that The-ShunFamliy has a special influence on American politics, but they will not take the initiative to expose this issue, which is similar to the British side, which is also a kind of political correctness.

Because you have exposed this problem, there are a lot of people who have offended and hurt, and most of them are positive figures that the American media has been singing the praises of, such as Chris Hughes and Elizabeth Holmes, who are regarded as the new generation of models of the American dream in the 21st century.

For example, those senators and representatives of the progressive political group of the Democratic Party.

Of course, The-ShunFamliy's international image is also very positive and positive, and every year it devotes a large amount of money to support the global charity movement and the operation of international NGOs, which is basically a symbol of global progressivism.

What is global progressivism?

The global movement for environmental protection and earth protection, the global fair and just education and social security, the global universal higher education, the global charity and health movement, and the global progress of the times require governments to expand spending on education and poverty alleviation to ensure that everyone can not be eliminated by the progress of the times.

To put it simply, it is pure idealism, the white left of the white left.

Shouting slogans, who wouldn't?

Xu Teng is very good at this, and it doesn't hurt to spend more than a billion dollars a year to support it, and it is a stable support force for sustainability.

He has made the situation very complicated, and neither the European and American media, nor the European and American political circles, are very easy to deal with, so they can only put him on the list of exceptionalism, and in addition to promoting the theory of ***** and collapse, he always has to separate him and the Huayin consortium to eulogize him.

Life is like a play!

Objectively speaking, Xu Teng and his Huayin consortium have done the most serious damage to the economies of Europe and the United States, Japan and South Korea, but he is also an indicator figure advocated by the European and American media, and he is widely praised and popular.

So far, Xu Teng has been on Time magazine three times, and all three times he wore a crown, that is, "TIME" is in front, which is also an indicator hint of European and American media-oriented.

All this, in the final analysis, is still a matter of strength.

Money is not everything, but there are definitely more than 10,000 things and troubles that money can solve.

The event at Mabel Manor is sure to be a once-in-a-decade gathering of the world's top elite, with many international media tycoons on hand and many movie stars and fashion industry personalities invited.

Xu Teng sat at the table between Xia Li and Miss Holmes for a long time, chatting about a lot of topics, and in the middle, the Bradpitts also came over to chat a few words in the name of toasting.

Xu Teng didn't know until this time that the couple were die-hard supporters of Liverpool, and he didn't know the specific reason, in fact, the Xu family's investment in Liverpool has not been high in recent years, and it must not be compared with Manchester City and Real Madrid, and can only roughly maintain the top four in the Premier League and the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

This year is a bit of a surprise, and it should be possible to win the Premier League title.

This is The-ShunFamliy, which is already a worldwide symbol of elite culture.

After a few minutes of chatting with the Bradbitts, Xu Teng took their offer and decided to fund the purchase of the struggling Los Angeles Dodgers instead of the Oakland Athletics supported by Chris Hughes and Sean Eldley.

It's still interesting because Brad Pitt had just starred in a movie about the Oakland Athletics, but the team he actually supported was the Los Angeles Dodgers.

How to put it, this is the baseball culture of American society, basically everyone has a beloved baseball team in their hearts.

Xu Teng agreed to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers for the simple reason that the Dodgers have been the main sponsor of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and after Ford acquired Chrysler, the Dodge Motors Company was also included in the entire Bowford Automotive League.

Today's Marbur Manor gathering is actually like this, and it's an occasion to sell each other, to sell themselves, to sell their opinions.

Shortly after the Bradpitts left, after two hours of wandering around the entire Central Ball Hall, Japan's finance minister, Mataikichi, finally led his team to the final stop — for Xu Teng.

Xu Teng had seen Minister Ma Taiji before, because he was completely unfamiliar, and the other party went directly to Vice President Boden, so he left first very decently.

The Japanese came to the meeting this time, they had no intention of congratulating at all, nor did they have the intention of participating in various charitable activities at the Marbur Manor, and they were purely political, first for the most important political relations, and finally for Xu Teng, and they were bureaucratic translators from government departments.

Japan is characterized by a very utilitarian nature, whether it is a corporate or a Japanese social organization, there is basically no interest in international charity movements, and every penny Japan spends on the international community has clear political goals and profit goals, and if it does not achieve results, it will immediately withdraw its investment.

The same East Asian chaebol, Japan's chaebol, South Korea's chaebol, and China's chaebol such as the Xu Teng family are quite different in this regard.

Xu Teng's personal feeling over the years is that it is not very difficult for China's wealthy class and elite to integrate into the world, but Japan and South Korea are basically unable to integrate into the cultural system dominated by Europe and the United States.

South Korea is heavily influenced by Japan, which is typically self-contained, heavily influenced by the traditional notions of chaebol and domination in Japanese culture.

The simplest example is that there are more than 200 Chinese entrepreneurs, politicians, businessmen, gentry and celebrities in Marbur Manor today, and in general, their English proficiency is okay, and they are all willing to take the initiative to integrate into the atmosphere of the whole manor.

The dozens of guests in Japan have basically been taking the time to meet with important people everywhere, bowing and saluting everywhere, and then talking about topics that are completely different from the theme of "global progressivism and charity" in the entire venue.

How so?

Xu Teng couldn't say clearly, anyway, he had been silently observing these Japanese VIPs, which gave him a bit of a sense of unfit drama.

Xu Teng has always had this feeling all these years, although Japan has always emphasized that China is a threat to the democratic world, and Japan, the United States and Europe are the Western society, but Xu Teng obviously feels that China and the United States are actually easier to talk about together, and the relationship between China and Europe is not bad, but the Japanese elite has not been able to integrate in, and it is a bit of a strange characteristic of self-talk and isolation.

Xu Teng can also give an example, the think tank exchanges between China and the United States have been very frequent in recent years, and the bilateral think tank exchanges supported by him and the Huayin Consortium behind the scenes are hundreds of times a year, and there are countless large and small bilateral fairs, and the frequency of Sino-European exchanges is also not bad.

The exchanges between Japan-US think tanks and Japan-Europe think tanks are much less than they can count, but the exchanges between social institutions between Japan and ASEAN are very frequent, most of which are funded by Japan, unilaterally promoted and supported, and more of them are indoctrination propaganda based on the background of the Japanese government.

In essence, Japan is a kind of "unity" from the government to the chaebol, to various think tanks and social institutions, and the chaebol generally intervenes in the funding of think tanks and NGOs, which limits the value of think tanks and the reciprocal exchanges between Japanese think tanks and overseas think tanks.

When Japan's think tanks and social institutions want to promote Sino-Japanese friendship, their goal is very clear, that is, to support the export of Japan's culture, views, and economy.

Xu Teng's feeling is that Japan has autism, and it is too utilitarian. In other words, Japan is basically a very closed society, which rejects outside opinions behind closed doors and windows, obsessively promotes its own views, and rarely reports on the international community, from the elite to the people, does not care about the international world, but only pays attention to how Japan .......

Why is this the case?

Xu Teng also doesn't know, he hasn't let domestic think tanks study it, and he hasn't found any domestic scholars to have research reports on this, which is normal, because 80% of domestic think tank scholars are studying European and American issues, followed by Africa, ASEAN, India, South America, and not many of them...... In the past, there were more and fewer scholars, and now there are fewer and fewer scholars, who are still mainly studying Japan, and as far as Xu Teng knows, many of them have been receiving yen meal tickets for a long time, and those things they say cannot be taken seriously at all.

Seeing the dozen or so Japanese guests led by Minister of Finance Ma Taiji coming in a hurry, Xu Teng couldn't help but think of a lot of things, and soon, the other party came to Xu Teng's side.

Xu Teng and Xia Li immediately got up, as the host, they still had to thank the other party for accepting the invitation and coming to participate in the Marbur Manor event.

"We are honored to accept your invitation, and we would like to take this opportunity to express our country's Prime Minister's congratulations to you and your family." Minister Ma Taiji bowed twice, this time on behalf of Prime Minister An Jin.

"Oh, thank you." Xu Teng just nodded simply, he has actually always wanted to complain about this kind of bowing ceremony in Japan, it is always such a big gift, forcing others to respond with a big gift, how embarrassing.

What's more, Japan's "ceremony" is purely a face-saving project, just like today's solemn appearance in a tuxedo, and everyone else seems to have insufficient respect for the main family and this occasion.

"Chairman, can I have a private meeting with you?" Minister Ma Taiji made a reluctant request, and basically did not give Xu Teng a reason to refuse.

"Yes!" Xu Teng could only nod in agreement and asked the female assistant next to him to arrange a small living room.

The central ball hall of the Marbur Manor is very spacious, belonging to the traditional European arch hall structure, in addition to the heavy walls on both sides of the hall, there are four rows of marble columns more than ten meters high on the inner side to support, the momentum is very magnificent.

There are dozens of lounges in the corridor around the hall, which are basically full at this time, and many VIPs are talking in secret.

Therefore, Xu Teng could only arrange a relatively remote small living room and make a pot of Longjing tea.

The conversation between the two people was basically a one-sided narrative of Minister Ma Taiji, and one person accounted for most of the conversation, and they talked about the growth trend of economic and trade between China and Japan, and they were full of interest.

In the past, Japan exported equipment, high-precision industrial basic components, semiconductor materials, chemical materials, automation systems, including steam turbines for power generation systems, ultra-high voltage substations and other complete sets of large-scale equipment to South Korea and Taiwan, and South Korea and Taiwan produced industrial products on this basis, and then exported them to China.

On this basis, China produces and assembles electrical appliances, electromechanical, automobiles, clothing, toys and other products, and exports them to Europe, America, ASEAN, Africa, South America and other markets.

In the past two years, with the rise of the Huateng Industrial Consortium and the gradual dominance of industrial competition in South Korea and Taiwan, the trade structure of Northeast Asia has undergone great changes.

The specific characteristics are that the total import and export volume of Sino-South Korean trade and cross-strait trade between the mainland and Taiwan is shrinking, while the total volume of trade between China and Japan is expanding.

In fact, there is no change for Japan, the industrial upstream products that were originally sold to South Korea and Taiwan are only sold directly to China, and the only change is that the economic and trade relations have become bigger and closer at the same time as the political confrontation between China and Japan.

On the other hand, Japan's share of foreign exports is also shrinking, because the procurement power is in China's hands, and the main suppliers are the three developed economies of Europe, Japan and the United States, especially the Huateng Industrial Complex, which itself has a complete supporting system in Europe, and can purchase in Europe, and generally gives priority to purchasing in Europe.

Minister Ma Taiji obviously does not know much about the scale of the layout of the Huateng Industrial Complex in Europe, and knows very little, so what he and Xu Teng are saying now is basically the self-righteousness of autistic people, and they overestimate the importance of Japanese industry to the Huayin Foundation.

To put it simply, the subtext of Minister Ma Taiji is...... If Sino-Japanese relations continue to deteriorate and eventually bilateral economic and trade sanctions appear, once our Japanese products are not exported to you, you will be doomed, and bankruptcy will be a matter of time.

In this European and American 19th-century classicist decoration lounge, with exquisite sofa chairs, luxurious carpets and fireplaces, Xu Teng sat in a chair, his legs a little high, his posture was very casual, drinking a cup of tea, and listening to the nonsense of Minister Ma Taiji casually.

Life is like a play, Minister Ma Taiji acted very highly, seriously, and talked about Sino-Japanese economic and trade relations with Xu Teng very seriously.

After the Anjin cabinet came to power, the new foreign policy pursued was very simple: on the one hand, it was necessary to actively undermine China's diplomatic, economic and trade strategies, actively compete, and become enemies of China; On the other hand, it is necessary to use economic and trade relations to maintain Sino-Japanese diplomacy, and it is best to achieve normal meetings between leaders and prevent China from resisting Japan's attack.

Japan's strategy is to advocate ****** actively create trouble for China, and if China does not fight back, they will be more active in creating trouble and making China's development more difficult.

If China strikes back, they will shout, the whole world will hurry up and see clearly, we are right, China is a supervillain, it is the second Soviet Union, everyone must unite with Japan to bring down China.

This is a perfect plan for Japanese politicians, and whether China retaliates or not, they will win.

Minister Ma Taiji took advantage of today's occasion to have a private meeting with Xu Teng, and it was not important what he talked about, but what was important was to show that the Anjin cabinet was communicating China's "attitude" in various ways.

By the way, Minister Ma Taiji also hopes that Xu Teng will use his personal connections to persuade the Chinese side to invite the Japanese prime minister to visit China, and in view of the importance of Sino-Japanese economic and trade cooperation to the Bank of China Foundation, he believes that this is definitely very beneficial to Xu Teng.

Mataiki, Japan's finance minister, was not only the heir to the chaebol who personally experienced the glory of Japan in the 80s, but also entered the political world at that time, when Japan and at that time, he seemed to live on clouds, confident, rash, fanatical, and convinced that Japan's miracle would completely rewrite the history of the world.

The human world is like this, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

Minister Ma Taiji's heart at this time is unbalanced, jealous, even at the peak of Japan's economy, no Japanese entrepreneur has enjoyed such treatment as Xu Teng, raising his arms, the world's elites and aristocrats gathered, like a pilgrimage of all nations.

Minister Ma Taiji really wants to shout in this magnificent and magnificent Mabur manor, are you insane, don't you understand, there is no China after Yashan, and the current Chinese are a third-class people without cultural inheritance, except for many people, except for copycats and plagiarism, they are simply useless, sooner or later they will lose and die!

Of course, these are just little devils in the heart of Minister Ma Taiji, who only dare to say such things in the country.

Xu Teng didn't know the inner world of Minister Ma Taiji, he just knew that this person was actually a well-known Japanese right-wing politician who was anti-China every day and anti-American in his heart.

At this time, Xu Teng was also very calm, and after Minister Ma Taiji fully expressed his views on the importance of Sino-Japanese relations and asked him to come forward to promote the request for the restoration of Sino-Japanese relations, he still considered it very seriously and did not rush to answer.

"Chairman, we believe that the mutually beneficial nature of China-Japan economic and trade relations will eventually resolve the ice between the two countries, but if you are willing to coordinate and lobby, you will be able to quickly melt this ice, which is also very important for your business, right?" Minister Ma Taiji couldn't help but repeat his opinion, and the subtext was more clear.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't." Xu Teng will not have trouble with money, but after carefully weighing the pros and cons, he concluded that the political and economic relations between China and Japan are going to a deep cold at the same time, which will have more benefits to the Huateng Industrial Complex, and can speed up the government's promotion of larger-scale industrial policies and scientific research plans, and gradually disintegrate the advantageous industries of the Japanese economy.

If Xu Teng said, I'm sorry, my main target of competition and attack now is the Japanese industry, Minister Ma Taiji will definitely not believe it, he will say, just you?

"Why?" Minister Ma Taiji was a little puzzled, he had just talked to Vice President Borden about this matter, and Vice President Borden was convinced that Xu Teng would come forward to coordinate Sino-Japanese relations, and the two of them had the same view, and both believed that Xu Teng needed to maintain the stability of Sino-Japanese relations more than any Chinese entrepreneur.

"Our point of view is very simple, the main party responsible for the crisis in Sino-Japanese relations is the Japanese government, so we should not be the one responsible for coordinating this kind of thing." Xu Teng made the truth clearer, although he knew that the Japanese would never think so.

"We believe that China should bear full responsibility for the deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations...... Perhaps, Japan has not taken into account China's political needs well in some matters, but China has not taken into account our feelings either! Minister Ma Taiji was quick to make it clear that he would not make peace with him on such an issue.

All right!

Tear your face!

"Your Excellency, I do not comment on your point of view, and at the same time, what you say is beyond my ability...... So, let's get to that point. Xu Teng put down the teacup, still able to keep smiling and getting up gracefully, raised his hand with Minister Ma Taiji, and invited the other party to leave the small living room together.

The conversation is over.

Xu Teng is an elegant wolf after all, and he still has to take into account his identity, and personally send the indignant minister Ma Taiji out of the small living room, he did not leave in a hurry, but asked the chief assistant officer Han Dai to call over and simply ordered a few things.

This Minister Ma Taiji did not offend Xu Teng, he was not so stingy, but the Japanese Finance Minister reminded him that the industrial competition against Japan must be accelerated, and there must be a more comprehensive offensive strategy.

Japan is a very special country.

A country of cherry blossoms that is beautiful, clean, orderly, and polite on the outside, and a country of darkness that is selfish, self-interested, arrogant, and arrogant on the inside, is very deceptive and special.

Of course, it is undeniable that there are still many advantageous industries in Japan's industrial complex.

After upgrading the Huateng Industrial Consortium to South Korea's industrial level, Xu Teng's next goal is to focus on Japan, and to use Sino-European industrial cooperation to slowly squeeze Japan's existing advantageous industries.