Chapter Seventy-Three: Strength and Weakness
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", or search on Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network] Throughout the night, Fan Wuxian was the focus of people's discussions.
Although there were many nobles, royal families, and even royal families attending the dinner, as well as many business and political figures, among these half-aged so-called successful people, no one could shine a more dazzling bright spot than Fan Wuxi, even if there were some so-called young talents, they just relied on the grace of their fathers to make one or two businesses, and relied on hype to make a name for themselves, which is really nothing.
Compared with Fan Wu's disease, most people need to be ashamed to review their failed lives.
The head of the delegation is a vice minister surnamed Jiao of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, although it is only a vice minister, but the status of the Ministry of Foreign Trade is special, and this position can be regarded as hot, at least when China's economy still has to rely too much on imports and exports to drive GDP growth, this position is more important.
Vice Minister Jiao was also very interested in Fan Wuxi, and Boss Zhu briefly told him about Fan Wuxi, so he was more aware of Fan Wuxi's family situation and his own situation.
There are not many people in the world who can directly spend two billion dollars to buy airplanes, especially now that the dollar is still relatively valuable, and it has not depreciated as continuously as later.
The first novel 520 But what he didn't know was that Fan Wuxian now had more than just the dollar in his hands.
Other places, such as the pound, the mark, the yen, and so on, are all being hoarded, and even the Hong Kong dollar, he has also made a lot, and if he throws it out all at once, the currency exchange market will not be able to afford it.
"Mr. Fan, tomorrow we will officially start negotiations with the French, although you are not a member of the negotiation team, but I always feel that about this negotiation. You should give us a little advice. Vice Minister Jiao said to Fan Wuxian with a straight face.
"I've always been a very simple businessman, well, a school student. There is really nothing to say about this kind of national event. Vice Minister Jiao probably thinks too highly of me. "How could Fan Wuxian point fingers at such a thing?
This is very taboo. Although in some countries, businessmen are often the invisible hand behind the government, and the big business groups are the baton of successive governments, in China, this rule does not hold.
Fan Wuxi's ideal is to make more money. He was not stupid enough to interfere in government affairs, but the issue mentioned by Vice Minister Jiao went beyond the concerns of a businessman, and he didn't want to be involved in this kind of thing.
Although his father Fan Heng was already a ministerial-level official at this time. And has some foundations, but Fan Wuxian cannot be involved in politics in an open way, and the bottom line he has set for himself is to do business as he should.
It is possible to form personal friendships with government officials, and it is also possible to put yourself in the shoes of friends and give them some methods and advice, but it is very unwise to formally intervene in these government affairs.
China has its own specific national conditions. It is not suitable for this kind of thing where both the political and business worlds are mixed like fish in water.
Otherwise, Shen Wansan, Hu Xueyan and others would not have lost in the end. Do things in China.
We must master an iron law, and we must be a man. Don't go too far and cross the line, that won't do you any good.
"It's always good to give some advice from a private standpoint, right?" Vice Minister Jiao is also an old cadre, and after a little thought, he knew what Fan Wuxi was avoiding, so he asked in a low voice.
Starting (5) 20.0 He said this, that is, he showed his attitude, and he really wanted to be close to Fan Wuxi, but Fan Wuxian was not good at dispeling people's enthusiasm all of a sudden, so he thought for a while and said,
"The new French government needs to get orders from China too much." When Vice Minister Jiao heard Fan Wuji's words, he pondered for a while, and then understood what Fan Wudi meant.
Normal Sino-French relations are very important to the governments of the two countries, and the reason why the previous government made such an irrational move as selling arms to Taiwan was that it did not have the confidence to win in the general election.
As for the source of huge profits, they certainly cannot go through normal channels, so selling arms is the only option, so they would rather offend Beijing and risk damaging Sino-French relations, and they should first put the money in their own pockets through arms sales to Taiwan.
As for the consequences of the damage to Sino-French relations, that is what the next government needs to worry about, if it can pass smoothly, then it is necessary to spend a little time to repair Sino-French relations, if the election is lost, then let the winner go to the nerves!
The new government has not offended the Chinese, but it has to pay for it, and Beijing has no reason to continue to trouble the French government, because there are unjust debtors and owners, and this matter really has nothing to do with them, and the only thing that can be vented is to demand sanctions against the two arms dealers and make the French government make a promise that it cannot sell arms to Taiwan.
But this kind of commitment between governments is worse than bullshit, and God knows one day a madman who will tear up the agreement will come.
In this case, it is more important to seek some practical benefits for yourself. Therefore, Fan Wuxi's remark that the new French government needs China's orders too much was immediately understood by Vice Minister Jiao to mean that the French are now in a weak position, and he immediately has a set of his own operational roadmap.
You have to make the French realize their mistakes! Vice Minister Jiao nodded, and then thought of the reason why Boss Zhu let him come to Paris with the intention of purchasing three billion US dollars of aircraft this time, which was nothing more than scratching the itch of the French all of a sudden, so that they had to make some concessions.
After all, the influence of the French business community, especially the aircraft industry, on the government is too great to ignore.
Starter (5) 20.0 "How are you talking?" The ambassador walked over and said to the two men with a smile.
"Just talk about it." Both replied.
"Well, I'm more unlucky, and now I'm going to have to talk to the president about some diplomatic rhetoric." The ambassador said with some regret.
"That guy doesn't seem to be a very broken mouth, does he?" Fan Wuxian glanced at Mitterrand, who was standing there talking with the envoys of several countries, and asked with some suspicion.
"Then you're wrong, every time he sees me, he always talks about human rights." The ambassador muttered with some distress.
Human rights?! Fan Wuxian smiled, the current French president Mitterrand, who is seventy-seven years old, like Foreign Minister Roland-Dima, was once a fighter of the French underground resistance, once imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Germans, and later successfully escaped from prison.
This is already his second term as president, and he will be honorably retired in two years. It is said that this president is also a romantic seed, has a lot of lovers, never stayed in the president's official residence for a night, and always spent every night with his lovers.
Fan Wuxian suggested to the ambassador,
"Your expression can be cool, as long as he talks about human rights, you can talk to him about orders."
"That sounds like a good idea." The ambassador laughed. After the ambassador left, Fan Wuxian said to Vice Minister Jiao,
"The French are very different from us, and most of the senior officials have lovers, even the president and ministers, and they are above board, which is unimaginable in our country."
"Well, it's nothing." Vice Minister Jiao said disapprovingly. After a while, the ambassador and Mitterrand appeared in the hall at the same time, and the two of them gave a briefing to a large group of reporters about the close cooperation between China and France under the new situation, both of them smiling.
Then a reporter came to ask,
"Mr. Ambassador, during today's talks, what did Mr. President have to do with you on human rights issues?" After asking this question, Mitterrand's face suddenly felt a little embarrassed, but the ambassador's face was relaxed.
Most of the official reporters know that Mitterrand has always regarded himself as a human rights defender, and whenever he meets Chinese officials, he always has to express his opinions on human rights issues.
But this time the ambassador replied very blandly,
"Human rights issues? Sorry, we didn't have time to talk about that. Or, next time! The reporters were all surprised, and it seemed that the president, who had always been tough, had finally relented at this moment, otherwise how could he not talk about this issue that he was best at?
It seems that the new government can't wait to repair relations with the Chinese. Fan Wuxi looked over there, and then said to Vice Minister Jiao with a smile,
"See? The French are very sincere, and Vice Minister Jiao's task is estimated to be well accomplished. ”
"Grandma is a bear, they also have times when they are soft! They weren't so talkative in the first two years! After listening to the ambassador's words, Vice Minister Jiao felt more relieved and couldn't help but complain.
In fact, the strong and the weak are always in the process of transformation, two years ago France was very important for China, but now the relationship between China and the United States is being repaired, and China's development momentum has become unstoppable, China's market has been urgently needed by all countries to enter, and the importance of France to China has weakened.
In this case, it is also an inevitable choice for human rights fighters to bend their waists for five buckets of rice.