Chapter 550: Opportunities Brought by the New Economy
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After the Habibie government took action against the soldiers and police who participated in the May anti-Chinese incident, it did not show any mercy at all, arrested and killed no less than thousands of people, but did not make a high-profile announcement, and the charges used were also treason or rebellion, not to accuse the other side of participating in the anti-Chinese riots.
Fan Wuxian felt a little embarrassed about this matter, he didn't expect Habibie to be so neat, with him as a technical official to rise to the position of president, Fan Wuxian felt that Habibie was a little weak, but he didn't expect that after he came to power, his means would be so thunderbolting, and he would be ruthless when he ruled out dissidents.
In this way, his current government was able to sit down smoothly.
In fact, the Habibie government also has reasons to take action against the soldiers and policemen of these different forces, although Habibie used to have a very close relationship with the Suharto regime, but it cannot be denied that by the time of the May Chinese exclusion incident, he was basically the betrayed party, not only Suharto himself had ignored him, but even Suharto's son-in-law and others were secretly manipulating the domestic forces to overthrow Haharbie, so Habibie did have a reason to retaliate.
It can be said that if it weren't for Fan Wuxian's support for Habibi in Jakarta at that time, his current situation would be very embarrassing.
If it weren't for Fan Wuzhi, it would be just right. Habibie would not have been as prosperous as he is now if tens of thousands of people had been mobilized to help Habibie control the situation in Jakarta and get rid of the military top brass who had gone to a nearby base to take refuge in one fell swoop.
Today's situation in Indonesia, in addition to the economic also. In addition to being unable to stand on their own, the various political forces have been fully integrated by the Habibie government, and the control of the military has reached a relatively high level, at least on a few large islands near the capital, dissident forces have been eradicated.
This time the anti-Chinese riots in May were incidental. In fact, after the Habibie government completed the division of power at the top, it once again demonstrated on a large scale that it is the one who controls the situation in Indonesia today.
Fan Wuxian was still a little proud in his heart, after all, he could pry. Moving the political situation in Indonesia is in itself a matter of pride, so he said to Boss Zhu, "The Habibie government is in danger and is ordered, I see that this person still has certain political means, in view of the current situation that they have to ask for others, our country might as well communicate with them more and expand its influence overseas, since the military base can be leased to the Americans, then it should also be leased to the Chinese, not to mention anything else, if you are willing to do this, I am willing to pay for it." ”
"Why are you suddenly willing to give up money again? Funding military bases is a word to be. That's a lot of money! Boss Zhu suddenly felt very surprised and asked.
Fan Wuxian has known him for a long time, and he can't afford early sex. Ge He knows very well, every time he pays seems to be gratuitous, in fact, he has a plan and a purpose, and today he suddenly mentioned the matter of being willing to sponsor a military base, which is obviously purposeful, so Boss Zhu looked at Fan Wuxian very cautiously.
"With the development of the country. At present, the Strait of Malacca is very congested because the passage is too narrow, and there have been repeated pirate hijacking incidents, which is very unfavorable to shipping security, so I think that in the future, large ocean-going cargo ships will be changed to the Lombok Strait. Fan Wuzhi did not shy away from his purpose, and said to Boss Zhu, "So when the situation of the Habibie government is in an embarrassment now, and the Americans are unable to take care of this, it is very important for us to intervene in and build our own military bases. ”
What he said is indeed the point, one is that Indonesia itself is a little bit overwhelmed, and the other is that the Americans are really focused on developing the economy at home. Not to mention the situation in Indonesia, the United States has been paying attention to President Clinton's zipper-door incident recently, and it is in the midst of a new economic boom.
For the whole world, this year has officially kicked off the merger and acquisition storm in the new economic boom.
Germany's largest commercial bank, Deutsche Bank and the U.S. Bank of the United States, jointly issued a press release announcing that the former would acquire the latter for $9 billion. The two banks have a combined turnover of $820 billion, and Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that Deutsche Bank will become the world's largest commercial bank. It was also the largest foreign acquisition in the history of U.S. banks.
Spokesman for the Board of Directors of Deutsche Bank, Rolf Ernst. Breuer said the acquisition has created a truly global financial services business. Frank Brown, President of the Bank of America, Frank Brown. Newman spoke highly of the merger of the two banks.
Cift Bank is a bank specializing in investment business, ranking eighth in the United States and employing fifteen thousand people. Deutsche Bank employs 76,000 people. According to reports, after the acquisition, Deutsche Bank will jump from seventh to fourth place in asset management, and its total assets under management will increase from $332 billion to $632 billion, improving its position in stock trading.
Public opinion here believes that Deutsche Bank's move is mainly aimed at entering the US investment banking market.
In addition, AOL, one of the world's largest Internet service providers, is currently in talks with Netscape Communications for a merger. Under the terms being negotiated, AOL will take over Netscape's famous World Wide Web browser software and will take over Netscape's web site and rename it Web Center.
In addition, SUN Microsystems, Inc., which is also involved in the acquisition, intends to purchase Netscape's business software division and pay AOL a fee to use Netscape's technology. Netscape currently has a market capitalization of about $4 billion, and if a merger agreement is reached, Netscape's value could rise.
To say that the online service industry is really fickle, not long ago, AT&T, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, was still planning to acquire AOL, but I didn't expect the wind to become so fast, AOL in the acquired position suddenly became an acquirer, and the old browser manufacturer Netscape was in the position of a mermaid.
People who have been surfing the Internet for a long time know that since 1995, when everyone played the Internet, it was because Netscape came up with a browser that the Internet became a simple and easy-to-use thing, and the Internet became a space that ordinary people could enter at will and was extremely widely used.
However, in the space of two or three years, that all changed.
Putting everything else aside, from the perspective of ordinary Internet users, you may be able to feel the impact of this incident on the future development of the Internet.
First of all, the Internet belongs to the masses, and only when the masses go online, can businesses make money, and if the masses do not access the Internet, or if the Internet cannot become a part of people's daily life, then all struggles will be meaningless. Secondly, no matter who it is, merchants are meant to make money, and businessmen who don't want to make money at all are not called merchants.
Again, how do you make money? The Internet is special, a website can technically support everyone's access, so if there is a website that can have enough visitors, whether it is from online advertising or e-commerce, it is possible to get huge profits, or even monopoly profits. Conversely, if a website has no or very few visitors, then it is almost impossible for it to earn revenue and profit.
AOL is not only the largest Internet access service provider in the United States, but also the most influential content service provider in the United States, long before the Internet was widely used, AOL was the largest online service provider in the United States, and then its service was transferred to the Internet, and then it occupied an absolute advantage in access services.
But AOL still has a problem, users connect to the Internet through it, and there is no guarantee that AOL's site has a higher number of visits, the network is free, everyone can go wherever they want, so AOL needs more visitors to stay on its website, the main reason for the AOL acquisition is Netscape's Netcenter website, because there are a lot of visitors here, not the acquisition of Netscape browser software, That's why AOL continues to work with Microsoft's browser software, Internet Explorer.
It's clear that AOL wants visitors, not technology.
As for what SUN is going to do, it's also very simple. In the beginning, SUN mainly produced mainframe computers, and later their engineers developed a java software system, this software system can even run on a washing machine at home, all you have to do is make a phone call to your washing machine at home, and it can do work for you, but java can do more than that, it also has a wide range of applications in e-commerce, and e-commerce is an extremely important part of online income in the future, so for SUN, As long as more people use java-based applications, SUN can make money by selling software and technology, and AOL is likely to have an overwhelming majority of visitors.
All in all, there is a global M&A frenzy, and this M&A frenzy is just the beginning.
Fan Wuxian knows very well that with the deepening of the new economic boom, there are still cases with larger mergers and acquisitions to come, such as the acquisition of Time Warner by AOL, which has a merger and acquisition amount of hundreds of billions of dollars, which is an absolute snake swallowing elephant move.
"In general, the capitalist countries in the history of the United States, all their actions revolve around the operation of capital, and in the current situation, the big capital in the United States is keen on mergers and acquisitions and new economic promotion affairs, and does not have much interest in paying attention to the affairs of poor countries like Southeast Asia." Fan Wuxian made an in-depth analysis to Boss Zhu, "So this is a great opportunity for us, at this time it is of great political and economic significance to meddle in Southeast Asian affairs, and it will not cause a strong backlash from the Americans, as long as things are done in a low-key manner, when the Americans react, we have already gained a firm foothold, and when the time comes, we can attack and retreat, but it is not so easy to be able to send away." ”
Boss Zhu heard Fan Wuxian say so much, but he thought about it for a long time in his heart, and then said, "What you said is very constructive, but there is also a problem now, that is, my country has always advocated an independent foreign policy of peace, and if we build military bases overseas, it will be convenient for the past propaganda to be inconsistent, and it will easily cause attacks by hostile forces in Western countries, and it will not end well." ”
Fan Wuxian suddenly shook his head and denied, "Political propaganda is used to deceive people, and it is much better to build a military base overseas than to build a military base at our gate, right?" As for what kind of attack or something like that, if we sit still, people won't attack? If you are afraid of wolves and tigers, you can't do great things. ”
"This matter needs to be considered in the long run, even if you want to send troops to garrison, you need to find a name, it is impossible to openly appear in the name of the military, I think it is much better to set up an economic cooperation organization with Indonesia and use it as a name to station in the base?" After Boss Zhu thought about it, he proposed to Fan Wuxi.
"That's nature, everything needs to be flexible, as soon as you are flexible, your thinking will be broadened, and there will be a way." Fan Wuxian smiled.
"However, I am more interested in the new economy you are talking about, is there any more systematic research material that you can show me?" After Boss Zhu paused, he asked Fan Wuxian.
"I don't have any readily available material on this, and it's likely that my opinion is very different from that of the mainstream experts." Fan Wuxian replied that although he knows the situation very well and knows the pros and cons of this era, he has never carefully sorted out the materials that are too specific, and besides, some cases have not happened yet, and they are not easy to put forward as examples.
However, since Boss Zhu is more interested in this matter, and he is from an economic background, it should be more beneficial to sort out some things and show him some of his own annotations.
Especially now that the country's foreign exchange reserves are growing rapidly, it is indeed a pity that so much money is not taken out to increase the value of investment, you must know that if you catch up with the express train of the new economy in the United States now, before the bursting of the Internet bubble, there is always a lot of silver to earn, nearly 200 billion US dollars of foreign exchange reserves to take out a circle, quadrupling should be very easy, right?
So Fan Wuxian agreed, saying that he would sort out a piece of things for Boss Zhu, and would give him a copy of his financial investment analysis for reference.
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