Chapter 558 558 Trade Disputes

After many days of confrontation, the Americans finally could not bear the pressure at home and abroad, and although the world was a fist-loud talk, in today's era of peace, even the United States cannot be said to use its own arrogance to unreasonably subdue all other countries in the world. Although this world is not justified to travel all over the world, it is true that it is difficult to move an inch without reason.

In the end, Clinton had to come out and put out the fire himself: "...... The United States of America has always advocated peace and friendship with all countries in the world, and even if we have differences with some countries, we will still respect the interests and will of the countries where we live......"

This matter is really not pretty, and Clinton's approval rating has fallen all the way in the country, falling below 40%. As a result, Clinton also realized that he may not be as capable as he imagined, and in terms of international strategic layout, he is still a step behind the treacherous and cunning Bush Sr. His repeated setbacks in Peru, Somalia and South Korea have severely damaged his confidence and made him question his strategy a little.

"Maybe it's time to turn our attention back to the country!" An editorial in the New York Times headlined the headline, reminding Clinton that his voters would be disappointed if he continued to make trouble outside like an immature teenager. Although the United States has caught up with the third technological revolution, it is China at the forefront of the third technological revolution, with a large amount of production capacity and a perfect industrial system, China began to provide the world with 3C products in almost unlimited quantities, and as the main growth point, to promote the rapid growth of the economy like a volcanic eruption.

Since the 90s, some old manufacturing enterprises have been unable to compete with Chinese goods, or unable to compete with domestic brands in China's OEM resale, and can only go out of business one after another. As a result, many American workers have been laid off and unemployed, and the employment rate in the United States has continued to fall, making the red light of the American economy flashing.

In the original plane, China's manufacturing only slowly caught up after the 21st century and supported the position of the world's factory. At that time, the US economy had actually gone through the prosperity of the Clinton era and successfully completed its economic transformation, and the proportion of the tertiary industry had steadily surpassed that of the primary and secondary industries. Wall Street bankers signed a checkbook, and a large amount of cash appeared, and although Made in China was strong, it was actually a hard job.

But in today's plane, the situation is very different. With Qi Yiming's vigorous promotion and support, Chinese manufacturing has begun to occupy the mainstream of the world for many years in advance, coupled with flexible and active marketing strategies, Chinese are willing to go to the African grassland, sell to those barefoot indigenous leather shoes, but also willing to go into the tropical jungle to sell diesel generators to the locals, the mainstream market in Europe and the United States is flooded with a variety of Chinese production of daily necessities. With its huge advantages, the sales of Chinese goods are not doubling, but growing exponentially. There are too many Chinese, many factories, a sound system, and perfect infrastructure, so after this force is integrated, it can not only meet domestic demand well, but also increase production capacity to supply foreign countries at every turn.

In Europe and the United States, and even Japan and South Korea, and other places have become accustomed to the concept of keeping work within eight hours or even six hours, and the quality of life is more important than work, although the Chinese are ensuring the rights and interests of their workers on the one hand, on the other hand, they rely on more advanced management models, with high-intensity three-shift, optimal resource allocation and other modes, constantly refreshing their manufacturing capabilities.

It can be said that the Chinese people at this time are somewhat similar to the generation of the country after liberation, everyone is quite tired, but it is also very fulfilling.

How does such a terrible country make the developed countries of Europe and the United States compete? There are no obvious differences between the two sides in terms of technology, resource costs and manufacturing costs can only be lower in China, and the business strategies of the Chinese are also significantly more aggressive. If it happened like the other side in the 21st century, Americans would not have been so impacted, but at this time it was the early 90s, and the industrial transformation of Americans had not yet been completely completed, and they could only be more exhausted by the impact of Chinese goods.

Imagine that in the eighties and nineties, the rise of a number of emerging countries such as Japan and South Korea, coupled with elements such as the oil crisis, caused a round of economic depression in the United States, and now with the size of China, it is quite happy that the United States has not been half disabled.

The United States has raised tariffs on Chinese products many times in a row, because China is also a signatory to the GATT, so the United States' actions have violated international trade rules and have been reprimanded by the GATT. On the one hand, it used tariff barriers, green barriers, and barriers of various names to block the invasion of Chinese goods, and on the other hand, some American economic newspapers even began to raise nationalist slogans, begging Americans not to buy cheap Chinese goods, but to buy American goods in order to ensure employment in their own country.

However, American residents are not stupid, similar products are half of American products if they are cheaper, and even if they are expensive, they are generally only 80%-90% of American goods, and the cost of living is naturally low when choosing Chinese goods. Of course, there are some goods that are reversed, such as the latest generation of PCs made in China, the latest mobile phones, and such electronic products are more ruthless in price because the performance of Chinese products is ahead of American and Japanese products.

However, similar to many people who are engaged in scientific research, design, and even addicted to computer games, buying a Chinese computer is not only stable and performant, although it is a little expensive, but at least it is more face-saving and real.

In terms of the electronics industry, Qi Yiming has not only established large-scale wafer manufacturing plants and complete machine assembly plants in many parts of China, but also established many software industrial parks in Shencheng, Jingshi, Shenzhen, Taipei and other places to provide sufficient application products.

At the earliest, Qi Yiming took the lead in launching his own PC open source operating system "Tenglong", because it was launched early and had good performance, so it directly overtook the Microsoft Windows that was still charged, although Comrade Gates was also relatively rich, but it was probably impossible to become the richest man in the world.

Foreigners are accustomed to calling Tamron Telos (Teng-Long-Operation-System), and around the Teron system, there are a large number of Chinese software companies developing various general-purpose or ERP-type software programs. Ordinary word processing software, video and audio playing software, browsers, games, and even community software developed in China have quickly occupied the market with wave after wave of promotion in China.

In Silicon Valley, the United States, which was originally a major development center for new industries in the United States, but by 1993, hundreds of large Chinese companies had moved in here, responsible for their business in North America, and their products in these regions had a considerable market share and profitability.

Sometimes, Qi Yiming will feel a strong sense of confusion when he sees foreigners contacting each other using QQ instead of MSN, and the concept of Weibo, which is gradually emerging, has fundamentally crushed Americans.

In short, the popularity of Chinese products and services in the U.S. market has caused widespread concern in the industry, and some people have even begun to do some despicable things in order to save the fate of the U.S. industry.

That is, when the crisis of the US military stationed in South Korea was still unfolding, a trade dispute between China and the United States also attracted the attention of the world. The cause of the incident is actually very simple, several American media jointly conducted a survey, randomly inspected about dozens of Chinese products of various types, and then evaluated Chinese products.

Naturally, this spot check is not a real spot check, but a carefully selected Chinese product with lower quality conditions than average, and the so-called evaluation is definitely not a real evaluation, it is an exaggerated depreciation. The results of such a biased survey are obvious, and the conclusion is that although Chinese products are cheap, they are of low quality and far less good than American products, so consumers should still buy American products.

Due to the huge influence of these media outlets, they have formed a huge misleading effect on consumers, and no matter what the purpose, many consumers have abandoned Chinese products for a while, especially Chinese products that have been positioned as inferior in the survey, and have been subjected to large-scale returns for a while.

The incident eventually alarmed the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and a special investigation team was dispatched to investigate the entire incident. Qi Yiming was naturally very concerned about this, and instructed the Economic and Trade Intelligence Department of the Strategy Bureau to follow up and assist.

After a careful investigation, the investigation team of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade finally found that the reports carried out by these American media were seriously inaccurate. The random sampling they conducted was not random sampling at all, but directly intercepted the lowest product level for experimentation, and at the same time, many of the goods were not Chinese goods at all, they were fake and shoddy goods from some small countries, and they didn't even know where they were made, and then they were labeled as made in China.

Similarly, in the course of the investigation, there were serious cases of laxity. Some important variables have not been measured at all, for example, some products are indeed of average quality, but their price is likely to be only half or even one-third of other products, and the cost performance is still good; Or, one product may be average in one type of performance, and may far outperform American products in another, but those who are interested do not disclose it, but only magnify the shortcomings and deficiencies of Chinese goods.

Even after investigation, the investigation team found that some interested US companies paid large "donations" to these survey media, so the purpose of this investigation is obviously not pure.