Chapter 304: Global Supply Chain Disruption
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Introduction: In this book, Yan Xishan, a youth member of the League, asked Sun Yat-sen: "Prime Minister, what do you mean by equal land rights?" Sun Yat-sen said: "Do you think that equal land rights are to divide the land equally among the peasants?" That's not true! When I say average land rights, I mean that the part of the urban land that has increased in price will be owned by zhèngfǔ! —"Memoirs of Yan Xishan's Early Years", Taiwan Biography Publishing House, 1968 edition, p. 6.
Since the resumption of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan in early January 2014, the two sides have successively engaged in large-scale air battles, ballistic missile attacks, and al-Qaeda's involvement, India, a powerful South Asian country, has been at high risk of sudden illness, and it has fallen into great trouble and danger. In addition, Indian Defense Minister Anthony suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, the domestic army system lost its leader, and the surviving officers of various Indian units also lost their systematic contact and unified command with each other from top to bottom, making Prime Minister Singh, who hopes to turn the tide and turn the situation around, is alone and unable to hold on.
In addition, the various states that were caught up in turmoil and turmoil were all faced with problems such as the collapse of military institutions and the depletion of reserve forces. Tens of millions of rebels, however, carried a large number of light and heavy weapons of the Indian standard, and attacked the city. However, a rabble is a rabble, and the insurgents in different states are not only fighting each other, but even armed groups in the same state are constantly fighting and suffering from internal strife. This allows Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to finally breathe a sigh of relief when encountering a major national crisis, control the small number of troops around New Delhi, and temporarily maintain the existence of zhōngyāngzhèngfǔ, so that he will not be in danger of being subverted in the short term.
As for the future direction of India, many staff officers in the world, such as Yanhuang, Russia, Stars and Stripes, and the European Union, have made a lot of deductions and analyses, and all of them believe that if there is no external force to intervene and exert influence, all parts of India will temporarily fall into a state of inability to implement government decrees in a short period of time.
As for whether to send troops to aid India and quell the rebellion, there are serious differences among the developed countries in the West and other developing countries. At this time, India could not quell the chaos in the short term if it did not have a sufficient number of ground troops. But India, with a population of more than 1 billion people, has a vast territory of 3.2 million square kilometers, and without more than 1 million ground troops, it will not be useful at all. And the huge cost of requisitioning and maintaining 1 million ground troops is a headache for both Western Europe and the Stars and Stripes.
On the part of the developed countries, due to last year's Leonid meteor storm, the Japanese invaders suffered a major blow, the export-oriented economy had to suspend exports due to the severe damage to the factories, the domestic economy has been sluggish since then, the millions of refugees in Hokkaido have not been properly resettled after the disaster, and how to deal with the large number of damaged houses and factories along the coast, all of which have left the Japanese Kou Zhèngfǔ powerless to take care of it, and also unable to act as a money bag similar to the Stars and Stripes when launching the Gulf War. The countries of Western Europe and the Stars and Stripes are also quietly recovering, and neither the fiscal budget nor the support of the people in the current year are in favor of investing their own public resources, which are already scarce, into the direction of huge aid to foreign countries.
As for the developing countries, the countries of Southeast Asia are simply unable to recover their national strength in a short period of time due to the extremely large-scale humanitarian disasters caused by the tsunami and the serious shortage of food and drugs in their homes.
Moreover, in addition to aiding India, another serious problem that countries around the world did not expect has quietly surfaced:
The world's main production bases are basically concentrated in Asian countries such as Wako, Yanhuang, India, Southeast Asia and Brazil in South America. the large-scale reduction of production by the Japanese and the sharp contraction of exports in Southeast Asia due to disasters; Brazil, on the other hand, was also severely damaged by the tsunami because of its large area by the sea. There was no major incident in the whole Yanhuang, but because of the strong "domestic demand", and Yanhuang zhèngfǔ decided to greatly cancel the export tax rebate policy, and even the high export tax on departmental goods since January 1, 2014, and finally coupled with the national unrest in India just now, the final result of these factors is that the world's commodity supply began to have problems, and the global logistics supply chain that has been smoothly maintained for more than 30 years began to collapse.
Stars and Stripes Republic, Walmart Supermarket.
As a typical representative of the Star-Spangled Banner citizens' centralized shopping supermarket, Wal-Mart hypermarket, which is positioned as a shopping and entertainment complex, is always full of dazzling displays filled with tens of thousands of high-quality goods from all over the world. From the toothpaste and soap you usually use, to the luxury RV, happy Star-Spangled citizens can always choose their favorite styles and styles among dozens or nearly 100 brands, which is really rich and convenient to come home! But all of this began to change a little as the end of January 2014 approached.
"Why is Head & Shoulders shampoo gone?" An older Caucasian woman with a bloated body because she often eats high-calorie foods asked the manager on duty at the service counter.
"I'm very sorry, Ms. Kathlin, the products of Head & Shoulders have been sold out, and there is no stock in the regional dispatch center for the time being!" The reception manager stretched out his hands to make a "lift" gesture, and explained in a kind and friendly tone.
“why?”
"On the Indian side, due to the turmoil, the production plant was shut down, so the supply agreement with us had to be temporarily suspended, and the Yanhuang side imposed a high export tariff of 300%, and the export unit price was too high, which greatly exceeded our upper cost."
"But I saw that not only shampoo, but also toothpaste, soap, bath lù and so on were out of stock." The customer asked in a dissatisfied tone, pointing to the half-empty shelves.
"The main production areas of rì chemicals and clothing are Yanhuang, India and Southeast Asia, which account for more than 70% of our total purchases. But rest assured, we are looking for ways to transfer goods from other states or countries, and new goods will arrive soon, so please be patient for a few more days. "The experienced staff used a kind attitude and kind tone to stabilize the disgruntled customers. After a few minutes of negotiation, Kathlin realized that no matter how much he communicated, no goods were no goods, so he muttered dissatisfaction and drove away.
Stars and Stripes Republic, Bentonville, Walmart Headquarters.
"What the hell is wrong?" Walmart President Lee Scott asked Finigra, President of Asia.
"Boss, we have a major problem with our supply chain in Asia." Finigra, who flew to Bentonville from Singapore, explained with a little nervousness: "Due to the civil unrest in India, the production capacity has been reduced to 5% of the original level, and countries such as Manila in Southeast Asia are temporarily unable to supply due to the damage to factories due to the tsunami. As for Yanhuang, because they have recently started to raise export tariffs sharply, and the sudden appearance of the 'womai.com' platform has taken away a lot of supply, and many factories have stopped contracting with us in the face of high profits. ”
"Didn't the business department renew it in time?" Instead of being stunned by Finigra's explanation, Walmart President Lee Scott asked the core question.
"Boss, you know, in order to get a reasonable price, we always delay the signing time, and in the end, most of the Yanhuang factories that have no orders to take will compromise. But the 'I buy network' that appeared in the second half of last year completely disrupted our signing rhythm. ”
"Has the funder of 'I Buy Network' been identified?"
"More than 90% of them are Yan Huang zhèngfǔ, although they threw out the Jinfan company, but we investigated, this is completely a puppet company with a clean case record, and most of the high-level executives are as innocent as a blank sheet of paper."
"You can gather the latest situation of other companies, and if necessary, we need to appeal to the federal government and ask them to put pressure on Yan Huang."
“yes_sir!”
Stars and Stripes, Missouri, Clay Walker, Monsanto Headquarters.
Monsantopany is a major multinational agricultural biotechnology company and a leading producer of genetically modified seeds, with 70%-100% market share for a wide range of crop seeds.
But Monsanto's core product is Rounp, a globally renowned glyphosate herbicide. Glyphosate herbicides are essential for the cultivation of genetically modified crops, and its status is similar to that of oil in industry. To put it simply, genetically modified crops transplant "glyphosate-tolerant" gene fragments into crop seeds through genetic technology, and then spray a large amount of glyphosate herbicide when actually planting, so that all weeds are killed, and only "glyphosate-tolerant" genetically modified crops survive.
In addition, Monsanto's strength lies in its own mastery of the technology to reproduce the next generation by removing the effects of GMOs. That is to say, if you buy Monsanto seeds this year, then you will have to buy them next year, because the grain laid this year cannot be used as seeds, and these grains have been castrated by genetic technology to reproduce. So there is a saying on the Internet: who controls oil, who controls industry; Who controls the grain, who controls the human race! When the whole world planted genetically modified crops, Monsanto, which controlled the source of the seeds, was ten times more influential than OPEC is now.
Now, though, Monsanto is running into some minor troubles.
"Bob, why are glyphosate and seed sales so low this month?" Hugh Grant, president of Monsanto, asked with a frown, looking at the obvious downtrend curve on the icon.
"Sir, we're having some trouble with sales." Bob Johnstone, general manager of marketing, replied.
"Trouble?"
"Yes, trouble!" Bob Johnstone nodded, explaining: "First of all, last year's meteor storm hit countries around the world hard, a large number of coastal countries ports and other facilities were damaged, and domestic companies went bankrupt, which caused their orders to our domestic farmers to drop sharply. As you know, there is a time requirement for the planting and harvesting of crops, and although orders have dropped sharply, the output of our major domestic farms has not dropped too much. As a result, farmers cannot sell their agricultural products and cannot recover their funds, which affects their farming and procurement plans for the next year. ”
"But don't I remember that we opened up the domestic market of Yanhuang? In 2012, 170 million hectares of genetically modified crops were planted in the country (according to the real data broadcast on the news broadcast), and the Ministry of Agriculture has approved four varieties of genetically modified cotton, soybeans, corn and rapeseed. ”
"That's the second question I'm going to make." Bob Johnstone heard President Hugh Grant's dissatisfaction, and for the sake of his own job and future, he had to continue to explain: "At the end of last year, I don't know why, a huge amount of grain supply suddenly appeared in Yanhuang China, and a large number of crops labeled as non-GMO soybeans, corn, cotton and other crops were sold at about half of the international average price. Their appearance has greatly compressed our Yanhuang market. ”
"Such a low price? Have you found out the source? ”
"Not for the time being, but I'm pretty sure of the source of the goods provided by Yan Huang zhèngfǔ."
"Suppressing our living space? What about the peasants in their country? ”
"It's still the old way, buying at a protective price. In addition, I contacted several high-level officials in Yanhuang, and they hinted that the reserves of these crops could be exported to the world, but Yanhuang wanted to stabilize the price of world food crops, so he imposed a 100% tariff on exported crops to curb exports. ”
"Demonstrate to us again?" Hugh Grant, the president of Monsanto, who has always been strong, asked with a little murderous spirit.
“sir? Be sure to stay calm. Yanhuang is a country, not an overseas company that is easy to beat, and if we have a head-on conflict with them, in the end we will definitely lose more, at least the market of 1.3 billion people in Yanhuang will be gone......"
"I see, you contact our 'spokesperson', it's time for them to come forward."
“yes_sir!” RY!。