Shock is shock, incredible is incredible, but John Corning is still not familiar with the situation in China after all, so he cautiously asked Edward Williams: "So, you mean, Nucor Steel went to China to invest in exchange for their government's pressure on Runhua Industrial?" ”

"There's no need to be so troublesome, why is it so troublesome?" Edward Williams waved his hand: "Chinese at this time is easy to deceive...... Mr. Corning, this matter is very simple, but I need to confirm one thing to you: Can Nucor acquiesce to you, in your capacity as executive vice president of Nucor Steel, to tell the Chinese that Nucor is interested in cooperating with their domestic steel companies to provide them with international advanced steel technology? Of course, it is not really to let Nucor Steel invest in China, but just to make such a gesture. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"Just making a gesture?" John Kearnin thought for a moment and nodded, "If it's just a gesture, it should be fine." ”

"That's easy," said Edward Williams, relieved that $20,000 was not easy to earn. He continued: "As long as you can get Nucor's tacit approval, with my understanding of the Chinese, they should send an official at the level of vice minister to talk to you about this next." ”

"A government official at the level of a deputy minister?" John Können was a little shocked, it was a bit more than he could have imagined.

Edward Williams said: "The first person who will contact you will not be an official at the level of a deputy minister, it should be the director of a department at the level of a ministry, but it does not matter, there will be at least an official at the level of a deputy minister who is paying attention to this matter, and you can convey your meaning to the deputy minister...... It is not excluded that it is the minister. ”

"Why?" John Konen really couldn't understand the technical cooperation between a small steel company. How could it be possible to alarm the attention of such a high-level government official?

In the United States, this level of cooperation, let alone alarming senior government officials at the ministerial level, is expected to not alarm the governor of the state in the coming year.

Edward Williams smirked: "Because of the great American economic sanctions against China." ”

"Economic sanctions?" John Könnin was at a loss.

He knew that Washington had imposed economic sanctions on China since the summer of 1989, but John Könnin could not understand what the US government's sanctions against China had to do with himself.

"No one can withstand the sanctions of the US government! The Chinese, of course, are no exception! ”

Edward Williams waved his hand, a look of pride, of course, the collapse of the Soviet Union, as the foreign counsellor of the most powerful country on the Blue Star, Edward Williams has enough reason to be proud of his country: "So now, the Chinese are like lost bees trying everything to find a way to get the US government to access the sanctions against them, you Nucor Steel is the second largest steel company in the United States, the first largest scrap steel recycling and smelting enterprise in the United States, you say, If Nucor's executive vice president appeared at this time, what would be the reaction of the Chinese? ”

John Könnin's eyes are scary!

The following words do not need to be said by Edward Williams, John Corning also figured it out: "For the Chinese, Nucor Steel, the second largest steel company in the United States, is the best channel for them to talk to the White House, and they will regard Nucor Steel as their savior!" So getting Runhua Industrial to apologize to me or something, it's not a matter at all! ”

"That's right, that's it!" Edward Williams shrugged: "So this matter is not too simple, Nucor Steel does not even have to invest in China at all, the only thing you need to do is to find a way to convince Nucor Steel's senior management to let Nucor Steel cooperate with you, this should not be difficult, right?" ”

"Of course it's not difficult." John Könnin laughed and extended his hand to Edward Williams, "Mr. Williams, happy cooperation. ”

For Nucor Steel, let them spend millions of dollars for an executive vice president to fight a private lawsuit, of course, it is impossible, but they are the executive vice president of Nucor Steel after all, even if they are publicly apologizing to the Chinese in their private capacity in the media, Nucor Steel is also faceless, if they can not apologize, of course, it is better not to apologize.

Now, you only need to acquiesce to something, not only do you not need your own executive vice president to apologize, but you can also make the Chinese pay the price, how to calculate this account is earned.

John Corning suddenly felt a little sorry: why did the Chinese only target themselves personally? If what they asked for was Nucor to publicly apologize to them in the media, I guess they would be able to lose their pants at this time, right?

"It's a pleasure to work with." Holding John Kearnin's hand, Edward Williams nodded with a smile.

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John Konen was right, for Nucor Steel, its executive vice president was forced to apologize publicly in the newspaper, which is not a face-saving thing after all, even if the newspaper that publicly apologized was distributed in Ukraine, a place thousands of miles away from the United States.

Previously, the Chinese were very smart to focus on John Konen himself instead of Nucor Steel, although Nucor Steel was unhappy, but they could not spend a huge amount of money on this matter with a company with annual sales of billions of dollars, so for Chen Geng forced John Konen to publicly apologize in the Ukrainian media in a private capacity, Nucor Steel was very unhappy, but tacitly agreed.

But now that John Kearnin has found a new solution to the problem, it is different: if the Chinese can be forced to apologize to John Konen without paying any price, of course, it is better - the Americans who have done the wrong thing can also force the other party to apologize to themselves and make compensation, which in the eyes of the Americans is a manifestation of their own strength, and it is something worth bragging.

Nucor executives almost without hesitation agreed to John Kölnning's acquiescence to his request to engage with the Chinese government, and their only demand was that Nucor would never really invest in China or engage in technical cooperation with Chinese.

John Kernin, who got the permission of the group, couldn't wait to look up to the sky and laugh three times: surnamed Chen, you also have today?!

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Since they are all ready to "" each other, Chen Geng has naturally been staring at John Könnin's every move, and John Könnin took his secretary to the US Embassy in Ukraine naturally did not hide from Chen Geng's eyes, in Chen Geng's view, John Könnin is nothing more than trying to put pressure on himself through the US Embassy in Ukraine.

For John Körning's thoughts, Chen Geng has two words: hehe......

If it's in the country, it's fine, but here it's Ukraine!

Ukrainians regard you Americans as ancestors, but in the eyes of Lao Tzu, who are you?

But what Chen Geng didn't expect was that he didn't wait for the action of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, but the Embassy of the Republic in Ukraine called him, and Ambassador Zhang Hua wanted to talk to him.

"It must be the U.S. Embassy that talked to our embassy about this, hoping to make a deal about it," Gong Jianjun immediately made a judgment, he frowned and said to Chen Geng: "Third brother, it's a bit troublesome now." ”

Chen Geng nodded, indeed, there is some trouble now, the Americans can not give face, but the embassy still has to give some face after all?

"No matter what, let's take a look first," Chen Geng made up his mind after a while: "The ambassador's face must be given, but we must first see what kind of price the Americans are prepared to pay." ”

If the Americans are smart enough and ready to solve this matter privately, then it doesn't hurt to give them a face, but if the Americans really think they are uncles, hehe...... Dude doesn't care who you are!

The plan was to do so, but when I arrived at the embassy and saw Ambassador Zhang Hua, Chen Geng felt a little wrong.

Knowing that when it comes to going around in circles, he is by no means an opponent of officials, Chen Geng simply shook off this point and said directly: "Ambassador Zhang, I think you must have understood a little dispute between our Runhua Industry and Mr. John Kölning, we Runhua Industry has never liked to be aggressive, let alone you have come forward, you must give face, so let's take a step back, and I don't need Mr. John Kölning to publicly apologize in the newspaper, as long as John Kölning apologizes to me in private, And promised that such a thing would never happen again, and that the matter would be in the past. ”

Ambassador Zhang Hua was also a little embarrassed.

Just like Chen Geng said, he is actually very clear about the reason for this incident, it is purely that the Americans have nothing to do, to put it bluntly, the Americans owe it, and Chen Geng is not too much at all, not only is it not excessive, on the contrary, he has been very restrained, just positioning the contradiction at the private level, and now he has given himself such a big face, as long as John Körning apologizes in private and promises that this will not happen again, this matter will be considered in the past - no matter how it is calculated, this is the most perfect. A solution to the maximum.

But this matter can't be solved in this way.

After hesitating for a moment, Ambassador Zhang Hua simply thought to himself: What kind of circle do you have to go around at this point? Just say anything. He looked at Chen Geng and Gong Jianjun with a wry smile: "Comrade Chen Geng, let me say it bluntly, not only will John Corning not apologize to you, but you may have to apologize to the other party......

"Why? Why?! ”

Before Ambassador Zhang Hua finished speaking, Gong Jianjun immediately exploded: "Ambassador Zhang, don't you understand who is right and who is wrong in this matter?" I don't know? Let's apologize? Why?! ”