Chapter 941: Both politics and economics require the existence of compromise
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After listening to the explanation, I already had an idea in my heart.
In fact, from the very beginning, he did not have the idea that Coca-Cola must be driven out of China's big 6 market, and drag the domestic carbonated beverage industry into his own private property.
After all, Coca-Cola is an old beverage company, with hundreds of years of marketing experience around the world, which is an intangible wealth in itself, after all, in the Western world, there are still a large number of people who are willing to choose Coca-Cola, and regard the drinks from China's big 6 as a flood beast, as if they looked at ** decades ago.
The rise of national enterprises is not to shout two slogans can be done, that requires long-term practice and enterprising to be able to achieve, now it seems that Coca-Cola is cornered, but in fact it is not necessarily a good thing, at least it will arouse the vigilance of the world's leading forces, and then make Fan's investment group in the world investment has a certain negative impact, so that their global integration business process has been greatly affected, which is very unfavorable.
The old saying is very clear, that is, the gun shoots the first bird, no matter which company with a Chinese background occupies the limelight, the result will be the same, will suffer from the heavy pressure and unfair treatment of all kinds of people together, this is very clear in Fan Yuanzhi's heart.
This is also an important reason why there are quite a large number of foreign employees among the senior executives of Fan's company, because the existence of these foreign employees is itself an important measure for Fan's investment group to integrate into the world economy, and it is also a powerful tool to counter the persecution of the other party.
Today's business war between Fan's Coke and Coca-Cola is easily reminiscent of the business war between Very Coke and Coca-Cola a year ago.
At this time last year, the United States missiles bombed the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and college students in Beijing took to the streets, lit candles in front of the US Embassy in China, held vigil for the victims, and instead rushed to the multinational companies that could represent the United States in their hearts.
The mood of the students was very good, and the computer department of Peking University posted a sign on the school to boycott American goods, except for computers.
And many more students go to the lights to review the TOEFL at night after the daytime parade.
Anti-American sentiment is also very quickly projected on business; Hangzhou Wahaha, which is already the country's largest children's dairy beverage company, has just launched a carbonated drink very Coke, and after the accidental bombing incident, Zong Qinghou immediately produced a crude and timely patriotic advertising film, three American-made missiles roared in, and the Chinese missiles incarnated by very Coke took off to meet the battle, and the G1 tone was a sonorous and powerful tenor "Very Coke, Chinese's own Coke."
The Internet observer Fang Xingdong, who published a book this summer, "Rise Up and Challenge Microsoft's Hegemony", accused Microsoft of "undermining the fairness of the market" and being an aggressor "in the cloak of sacred intellectual property". ”
At the same time that anti-US sentiment is so high, the United States and Japan have also announced the new "Japan-US Defense Cooperation Guidelines," which regard the neighboring countries in Asia as imaginary enemies.
However, at a time when many international media were already very disappointed with the Sino-US talks, the agreement was reached dramatically.
"Politics is always the hardest thing to understand." Fan Wuxian thought of last year's events, and he couldn't help but shake his head, he knew very well that he could shout and kill Coca-Cola, or he could be aggressive and seize the other party's market share, and he could even go to court and blame him, but it was definitely not suitable to kill it all and force it to launch the big 6 market.
All the things that have happened before are nothing more than normal business debates, but if Coca-Cola is completely driven out of the Big 6 market, it will be tantamount to slapping Americans in the face in the face in front of the whole world, and Uncle Sam, who is embarrassed and angry, will certainly not accept such a shameful result, and Sino-US relations will naturally enter an uncontrollable period of time.
The situation this year is a bit peculiar: the NASDAQ stock market, which has been proudly swaying all the way, suddenly turned around and fell without warning, and the composite index fell by 40 percent in just a few months, and the market value of the company of $8.5 trillion has steamed, which is more than the annual income of any country in the world except the United States.
AOL-Time Warner alone has lost more than $100 million in book assets, and a decade ago, no company in the world had a market capitalization that was worth more than that.
Nearly all of the major interconnected hoarding companies suffered heavy losses, with Cisco's market capitalization falling from $5.7 billion to $41, Yahoo falling from Q37↑ to $700 million, and Amazon falling from $4.2 billion.
The economist Stiglitz writes in a tone that "the bubble bursts, the economy falls into recession, and the result is inevitable: the tumultuous nineties built on false foundations will eventually come to an end." ”
With the bursting of the global dot-com bubble, several Chinese companies listed in the United States were not spared, with Sina's share price falling to a low of $1, Sohu's stock price falling to 6o cents, and NetEase's share price being even worse, at one point only 53 cents.
China's immature Internet economy has entered a trough of disillusionment early. Although it may be a painful time to go through in the future, and the first sprouts can only mature after a frost test, for now, it is really a miserable fog.
As Clinton, who is about to end his term of office and has been president for eight years, he himself also hopes to continue to defend a certain role in international affairs and not be marginalized by others.
Fan Wuxian can imagine what will happen to the Americans if they are forced to become embarrassed and angry, and this is not in line with the overall situation strategy that China has always pursued, and it is also contrary to China's policy of peaceful development, so he cannot cause irreparable consequences just because of a momentary impulse, so compromise is still the last choice.
"In fact, the reason why the world has become the way it is today is because of one compromise after another." While packing up his bags with Shen Ying, Fan Wuxian said to his little wife, "Today, even Americans need to compromise, let alone us who have just been launched. ”
"What does Daddy mean?" Shen Ying asked with some interest.
"There must be some insider trading between the top leaders, so we also have to live some benefits, after all, we are taxpayers, they are civil servants who are supported by us, and this big truth can still be explained." Fan replied with a smile.
Shen Ying suddenly laughed and said, "You should be in the United States, what about the taxpayers, just laughing and laughing, Fan Wuxian has some considerations in his heart, mainly because his father Fan Heng has something to do with the two major oil companies."
Although a while ago, Fan Heng started to attack the two major oil companies, but the progress was not great, and there were many obstacles, and the opinions of the high-level leaders were different, which also led to Fan Heng's futile efforts and the key to the little gain; without the full support of the majority of the Standing Committee and committee members, it is obviously unrealistic to want to shake the two largest enterprises in China, after all, the relationship network is quite complex, and the personnel relations are as dense as a spider's web, and there is no clue at all.
That is, this month, PetroChina has just been listed on the second share of Hong Kong. It is planned that after half a year, Sinopec will be listed on the Hong Kong, New York and London stock exchanges at the same time, and plans to list on the 6A-share market next year to become a domestic company! $ The largest blue chip stock in the market.
Later, according to inside information, Sinopec's senior management visited Hong Kong's Chinese fortune and Hutchison Group chairman Li Ka-shing three times, and the latter was moved by sincerity and immediately decided to buy two shares of Sinopec for $100 million. The market price of Sinopec's shares caused a controversy at that time, when the company sold 16.7 billion shares and two shares, the price was A6 Hong Kong dollars, while when the company sold A shares, it was priced at 4 yuan, and the A shares were two times that of the two shares.
In addition to Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing family, Warren Buffett and Goldman Sachs investment, there are also the world's most important oil giants, among which ExxonMobil, Shell and BP Group have become strategic investors in Sinopec.
The three companies bought half of Sinopec's global sales and spent about 3.2 billion shares of PetroChina as strategic partners, accounting for nearly 20% of the outstanding shares at that time. According to later calculations by financial observers, in five years, Sinopec's 2 shares are equivalent to creating 1 net bsp for overseas investors; In a sense, these overseas investors have become one of the biggest beneficiaries of China's grass reform. There are no pop-ups