"Ambassador Joseph, I have a piece of information here, do you have time to look at it?"

The commercial counselor of the U.S. Embassy in China, whose Chinese name is Cai Ruide, pushed open the door of the office of Ambassador Joseph to China and walked in with a deep frown.

"William, what's the problem?" Joseph raised his head and looked at Cai Ruide suspiciously.

Cai Ruide is just his Chinese name, taken from his surname Zarit. Inside the embassy, Americans prefer to call each other by their English names. Cai Ruide's English name is William.

As the Commercial Counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, he is tasked with gathering business intelligence in addition to supporting U.S. companies in their business matters in China.

With the continuous improvement of the scale and technology of the Pan Han Group, the monitoring of it is one of the tasks that Cai Ruide is most concerned about.

"Joseph, you'd better take a look. If you just say it, you probably won't understand the meaning of this information. ”

Cai Ruide placed a stack of bound texts on Joseph's desk and patiently sat down across from his desk.

Joseph curiously picked up the text, opened it and looked at it, and then frowned.

Time passed, and his brow not only did not loosen, but became more and more wrinkled. After spending more than half an hour reading this article, Joseph raised his head and said in disbelief.

"William, is what is said in this article true? A Chinese company, how dare they do this? This is a provocation against the United States, this is a declaration of war! ”

"I know, apparently the other party has been planning this for a long time." Cai Ruide said carefully: "It can be seen from the hype about the ban of the Pan Han Group some time ago that this is the so-called hijacking of public opinion by the Chinese. Through guò public opinion to build momentum and grasp the righteousness, and then launched this plan. If anyone dares to rebel against them. Then they will be labeled as traitors and ostracized by other Chinese. ”

Joseph banged on the table. He groaned, "William, is this plan popular with the Chinese?" I saw in the information that it seems that Fanhan Group has mastered a lot of advanced electronic technology, is this true? ”

Cai Ruide shook his head and said with some embarrassment: "I have no way to verify this situation now, you know, I am not a CIA." If the information is obtained from open sources, it is not yet possible to know what technical preparations of the Pan Han Group will be spread. Either way, this is a threat to U.S. companies opening up the Chinese market. ”

"I see. So be it. Joseph nodded and said simply: "Report the situation to the country, and let the relevant departments know the specific progress of the matter." At the same time, in accordance with the old rules, the State Department is asked to protest to China and ask them to stop the behavior of Chinese companies, especially against American companies, which is a provocation to the United States! ”

According to Joseph's experience, normally if the United States issues a harshly worded diplomatic protest, the Chinese will always give in. The U.S. State Department is their Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the embassy transmits the situation back. The targeted consortia will push and rush to ask the Secretary of State to send a note to China like their butts are on fire.

It's just that this matter seems a little unusual now, and the Chinese have reacted very much to the news that the Pan Han Group has been banned by the US Congress. Although the embassy contacted the North American Division to ask for a solution, the situation has not only not abated. On the contrary, it is becoming more and more strict. By now, the ghost knows that the problem here is probably not simple.

However, it was only a notice from the embassy, which was different from a note of diplomatic significance. No matter how careless you want to come to China. Don't dare to ignore the request made by the US Secretary of State, right?

The embassy's debriefing soon informed that the diplomatic correspondence had been sent back to the United States, but not before. However, the major conglomerates in the United States have already received the information.

Since the end of the Cold War, the CIA has long been a small second black year after year. Lackeys cook, good bow hidden. The business intelligence of these large enterprises is also a big help.

Unlike the U.S. Embassy in China, Zhou Shuo's speech at the Panhan Research Institute was specific, the technology diffusion form provided, the list of invited companies, and the analysis of the industry alliance that interested in joining the industry......

These things have long been placed on the conference tables of various consortia, and have been studied in detail by the Americans.

"Mr. Kling, Mr. Kevin from Motorola, Mr. Nehru from TI, and Mr. Schultz from Intel are waiting for you."

Clint Powell closed the information sent by the embassy in China and the CIA this morning, and suddenly understood in his heart the intention of these three people to appear here today. But to be honest, he was scratching his head a little about it.

It is said that the U.S. government is a wage earner of big business, but Klin, secretary of state, is not something anyone can meet if they want to. These three people are not important executives of their respective companies, but they are quite connected in political circles, and they are professional lobbyists raised by the three companies.

In the face of this kind of person, even Kling is a little unwilling to get into trouble. But to have the U.S. Secretary of State send a note to China about a company's business practices is a bit of a cannon hitting mosquitoes.

He thought for a moment, and finally nodded, "Arrange them in Conference Room 3 and wait for me for another five minutes." ”

……

When Kling walked into Room 5, three Caucasian men in suits were standing together and talking softly. When they saw him push the door in, they quickly ended the conversation and greeted him with a smile.

"Please sit down, we have limited time." Clint waved his hand and let the three of them onto the couch. It is said to be a conference room, but in fact it is more like a living room, with a circle of sofas placed casually, very American pastoral style.

"I've got another meeting in fifteen minutes, let's make a long story short, what's the matter with you?" As soon as Kling sat down, he took the initiative and said strongly.

The three of them looked at each other, and finally it was Motorola's Kevin who said, "Mr. Klin, we've noticed something very angry going on in China. The Pan Han Group, the same Chinese company that Congress had previously banned us, seems to be intent on retaliating against our American companies. He contacted a number of Chinese semiconductor and consumer electronics companies to launch an industrial alliance to promote the diffusion of technology......"

Kevin quickly gave a general introduction to the situation, and Kling mentally compared the information he had received, and found that there was no difference between the two.

Either their intelligence energy is comparable to that of the CIA, or the CIA has made a little extra money by the way......

Kling threw his troubled feelings out of his mind, patiently waited for Kevin to finish speaking, and nodded: "I will verify this situation, so if it is really as you said, the Pan Han Group has taken such a confrontational behavior, what do you want me to do?" ”

"We hope that the State Council will come forward and ask the Chinese government to stop this kind of behavior of the Pan Han Group. This kind of unfriendly behavior against US companies should not be beneficial to the development of relations between the two countries. ”

Kling raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "I have a question, I would like to ask the three of you to explain." Normally, business competition and division of alliances are different in all markets. But why do you care so much about this behavior of the Pan Han Group? IMHO, we Americans have never been afraid of competition. ”

"Ahem—"

Kevin coughed pretending to be a little embarrassed, and said: "Mr. Klin, I think you should know that a small part of the reason for the House of Representatives' ban on the Pan Han Group is actually that Cisco is afraid of competing with Chinese in the communication equipment market......"

Nehru and Schultz, who were next to Kevin, rolled their eyes, where is the half? When the Pan Han Group has released the source code of the equipment, it has also issued a ban on the grounds of national security issues, which is completely because someone has killed someone in the international market.

Of course, the eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother. Since the three of them are sitting here, it shows that they don't have much confidence in the company behind them in direct competition with the Panhan Group.

Kling took his little toe and thought about it, and these unfinished words were all clear to him. But this made him a little surprised, although judging from the newspaper, this pan-han group's public opinion campaign did coerce many people, and it looked amazing. However, in the past, China has not had similar situations, and there have been boycotts of Japanese and American goods. The end result? It's not like it's all over nowhere.

The key point is that there is no substitute for American goods in China, and as long as China's economy continues to develop, it will absolutely not be able to do without American products.

Standing on the threshold of the 21st century, what is the most competitive field of American products? Of course, it is in the field of electronic informatization. People all over the world know that semiconductors are the dominant industry in the United States.

And in this industry, Motorola, TI and Intel are the three cornerstones. It is believed that they represent the highest technical level of American semiconductors, and I believe that they can still convince the public.

Well, at most, add IBM and Applied Materials.

Kling didn't have time to play in circles with them, so he asked straight to the point: "So, the reason why your three companies also have a 'small half' is because they don't want to compete with the Panhan Group?" ”

The three of them all smiled bitterly and nodded, it really looked like that.

Kling was stunned for a moment, spread his hands, and asked curiously, "Gentlemen, you guys are exaggerating, aren't they?" That's just a Chinese company, don't you even the Chinese have the confidence to win? April 1st has passed, right? This joke is not funny at all. I'm sorry, but state diplomacy is a very prudent matter, and I don't think there's any reason to waste it on dealing with a Chinese company, unless the Chinese government officially supports such targeted behavior. (To be continued......)