Chapter 456: Pattern and Treatment
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The agreement with Murdoch and John will be of great benefit to Li Mingbao to further expand his market share in the United States. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info* Basically, as long as Li Mingbao's side does things according to the agreement, it means that he has two big backers at once, one is Twentieth Century Fox and the other is News Corporation.
Don't look at News Corp. in the United States now, it is still a newcomer, and even the time for them to really enter the American market directly is not as good as Li Mingbao. But their strength is not comparable to Li Mingbao, after all, European and American consortia are basically not that kind of national consortia, that is to say, unlike those consortia in Japan, rooted in Japan, wherever their investment goes, they are not considered international consortia, their roots can only be in Japan, and without Japan, their influence will at least decline by more than half.
The so-called capital has no borders, although this is good, but it is not complete, after all, in this world, there is not only one capital model, there are countless subdivisions, and in general, there are only three types of influential capital.
One kind of capital is capital without borders, and the representative of this was Rothschild at the beginning. At that time, they were capital without borders, and their capital model was directly reflected in the market, and no country could represent their interests, at most, it was just a left-handed change of right-handed. And this kind of capital is also the mainstream capital of modern society.
The other kind of capital is represented by the capital of the Nippon Foundation, whose capital, although privately owned, is to a large extent backed by the state. There is also South Korea's Samsung, their roots, in fact, are limited to a certain country, although the foreign investment is very large, and it seems to be very international, but this kind of internationalization, in essence, relies on the country, not on the strength of the consortium itself, so this kind of capital is usually very deeply related to their country, if the country does not support such capital, they will soon decline. Of course, under normal circumstances, the state will not do such a thing, because the relationship between their government and the consortium is too close, and it is definitely not a good thing for the government to hang up the consortium. So at most, it is to change the leaders of the consortium, not to attack the strength of the consortium.
Of course, there is actually another extreme manifestation of this kind of capital, which is represented by Morgan and Rockefeller in the United States. Speaking of them, in fact, there is not much difference in essence from Japan's Mitsui and South Korea's Samsung. The reason why many people regard them as capital without borders is because their investment environment is much better than that of consortia such as Mitsui and Samsung. Who called the United States a superpower?
Even with the local consortium, in terms of actual investment, there is no difference at all from capital without borders, but in essence, these consortiums are capital with national borders. Of course, their capital is more powerful than the state, and the country is completely under the control of these capitals, and only a strange country like the United States can give birth to such capital. In fact, these consortium capitals in the United States are doing the two-in-one thing of the consortium and the state, the consortium is the state, and the state is the consortium. When they need to be a consortium, they are a consortium, and when they need to be a country, they are the country, anyway, how to benefit and how to come, and other countries that have undergone complex evolution, are completely different things.
And the last kind of capital is public capital in the usual sense. The representative is a country like the Soviet Union and China, such a country, not that there is no capital at all, but that their capital is in the service of politics, that is to say, such capital, at the political level, belongs to a subordinate position, and does not occupy the initiative.
These three types of capital are the mainstream capital in the world today. As for the smaller capital, they are also subordinate to these three types of capital. And Murdoch's News Corp., in general, they are now borderless capital, although at the beginning of development, they can be regarded as Australia's bordered capital, and their main forces and industries are in Australia.
But when Murdoch began to vigorously develop News Corp., the investment abroad became larger and larger, and the investment in Australia began to remain the same, such capital was already borderless capital. And Borderless Capital, for the consortium in the United States, is welcome. Because the more such capital is absorbed, the stronger the capital power of the United States will be, and it is also very convenient to collect taxes or something, so they welcome this kind of capital, and Murdoch's entry into the American market is completely different from the entry of Li Mingbao and those Japanese consortia into the market.
The reason why people in the United States do not welcome the Japanese to come to the United States is not that they are really disgusted with skin color and Japanese people buying things in the United States, nor is it that they really care so much about the Japanese products occupying the American market, which has led to the collapse of many American enterprises.
The most critical point is that Japanese companies are not international consortia, they have national borders, and the profits they earn in the United States, although they also have to pay taxes to the United States, but the bulk of the money they earn is not put into the U.S. domestic market, but will flow into Japan, which is basically equivalent to Japanese companies constantly bleeding the U.S. market, rather than enhancing the U.S. domestic strength. You've used knives against me, so why can't I shoot at you? The pigs raised are better than the owners who eat better, and if you don't put your blood, whose blood will you put it?
Based on this principle, China in later generations also took the same road as Japan, in the beginning, the Americans did not care much, after all, China was only the most basic products at that time, by selling labor to make money, and the money earned was not as much as the United States sold a set of slightly higher level of industrial products to make more money, so at the beginning, the United States for this kind of trade, is supportive, after all, they have long passed the years of selling labor to make money, into a more advanced stage of industrial products.
But when China also began to sell similar products from the United States, the high-end industrial products of the United States could no longer make money, and the low-grade products were also occupied by China. But after all, China is not like Japan, which can cut meat at will, no matter how it is said, it is also one of the five hooligans, so it is not possible to use the method of treating Japan to do anything against China, but the United States is not only such an economic means, so in other aspects, it can also implement a meat cutting policy against China, but it is a little more elegant, and it is almost the same in essence.
Of course, what Li Mingbao needs to consider now is not these high-level economic issues. The problem he faces is actually the problem of the nature of capital. News Corp is a borderless capital, and the United States welcomes them to join, thereby increasing the strength of the United States, but although Li Mingbao's capital is smaller than that of News Corp., it stands to reason that the attention will not be so great, but the reality is that the resistance encountered by Li Mingbao in the United States and the resistance encountered by News Corp. are completely different things.
The most fundamental reason why there is such a big difference on this issue is that although Li Mingbao's capital is small, the nature of Li Mingbao's capital is not international capital, but local capital, and his capital base is actually in Hong Kong, not in the United States. Therefore, the money that Li Mingbao makes in the United States is, in essence, no different from those companies in Japan, that is, for this reason, the treatment of Li Mingbao and News Corp. is completely different, and it has nothing to do with the scale of capital, but only because of the form of capital.
Li Mingbao made it clear that he was not preparing to continue to develop in the United States, but was preparing to treat the American enterprises as cows, and the capital in the United States would naturally exert more pressure, either to make Li Mingbao give up his capital model, or to kill Li Mingbao directly, and then embezzle Li Mingbao's assets in the United States.
On such a principled issue, Li Mingbao will not be able to relax at all, although the industry on the US side seems to be more promising than that on the Hong Kong side, and with Li Mingbao's ability, it may not be impossible to make a big difference on the US side. But capital and strength are not simply reflected in the capital, the capital to Li Mingbao's current level, in fact, is a bunch of data, even if he can earn 10 billion US dollars on the US side, his strength on the US side, it is impossible to be as awesome as those old conglomerates, simply put, on the US side, Li Mingbao earned a billion US dollars, and earned 10 billion US dollars, in terms of comprehensive strength, there will be no essential difference, after all, the total capital of the United States is very large, 10 billion is an astronomical amount for ordinary people, but for the consortium, it's not that they can't get this money, even the Japanese can get it, the consortium in the United States, can't they get it?
So money is actually data, not strength. But if Li Mingbao puts this money in Hong Kong or the mainland, he will be able to influence the economic structure there, and then sit in the position of the rule-maker. Just like in the political circles, the head of a small African country, the strength of their entire country may not be able to catch up with a county town in China, put it in China, that is, the level of a county party secretary, in China's internal officialdom, the number of such people is definitely not small, and there is no big deal at all.
However, if the head of state of this small country comes to China for a state visit, then the people who receive him will at least be at the level of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the general level of the provincial party committee will not have this qualification, although in fact the strength of this small country is at most equivalent to the strength of a county in the country, but the rules are the rules, not determined by strength.
Put it here Li Mingbao, the rules are actually very simple, he has assets of 10 billion US dollars in the United States, and in the United States, that is, the scale of a small consortium, he can't control the pattern or anything, but in Hong Kong, he can directly talk to the governor of Hong Kong, and the right to speak is definitely not small. That's the pattern, that's the treatment. Therefore, when Li Mingbao has small arms and legs now, he will not put his foundation in the United States at all, because he has no sense of existence here and cannot get more benefits.