Chapter 518 518 Causes of the Economy

Rifts in international relations and politics can often be traced back to their economic roots. China and the United States are drifting apart not only because the Soviet Union is gone, but also because the United States, which has nothing to do, has set China up as a target. Those congressmen and politicians in the United States are not really representatives of the people's will, and they often represent the opinions of their own financiers. The emergence of those voices that are not friendly to China is not only due to personal anti-'communist' complexes and other reasons, but also because China's rise has undermined the commercial interests of many capitalists and consortia in the United States.

Comrade Qi Yiming had just crossed that time and chose the strategy of pulling the United States to resist the Soviet Union. In order to strive for the advance and development of Sino-US relations, Qi Yiming used the economic chain to lock up a considerable number of American consortia and wealthy businessmen. The method he used was nothing more than opening up China's market and investment environment and giving American consortia and capitalists more opportunities to make money. In order to talk about the "Tomcat case", he even placed a large number of orders with agricultural associations.

In fact, until now, there are still a large number of American companies sharing the dividends of China's rapid development, and the term "Chinese rich" has appeared in the United States, referring not to the rich from China or Chinese, but to Americans who have become rich overnight by taking advantage of China's development dividends. These people were either nearly bankrupt by the rising labor costs in the United States and Europe, and after outsourcing their production lines to China, they made dozens of times more profits in just a few years. Either international brands such as McDonald's, relying on China's growing spending power, have won a staggering number of turnover. Even more directly, there are the middlemen engaged in international trade, who buy cheap goods from China and then dump them in the US market, and the huge profits are self-evident.

But not everyone is a profiteer, and the trade between the United States and China in the other dimension is already very unbalanced, but at least the United States has a comparative advantage in some industries, such as cutting-edge industries with high technology content, and then the advantageous mechanical and electrical industries, biopharmaceuticals, automobiles, aviation, cultural and entertainment industries, etc., Americans have made a lot of money here in China.

But now China's situation is different, seven years of development is enough for China to absorb many advanced technologies brought by Qi Yiming, so that China's industrial level has developed by leaps and bounds. In addition to the cultural industry, which is still a bit weak, such as automobiles, aviation, medicine, electromechanical, etc., have become the main competitors of American manufacturers around the world.

Taking the automobile industry as an example, the time for Chinese to enter the American family car market is not too long, only a few years, but in just a few years, Chinese cars with novel shape, excellent quality, good cost performance, has formed a trend of expulsion of Japanese cars, began to sweep the American market. In 1991, Chinese automobiles sold more than 2 million units in the U.S. market, and they have completely gained a firm foothold.

In particular, the sales of mechanical and electrical products and heavy equipment, which are advantageous in the United States, have been hit even harder. In the past, the Americans were still struggling to engage in bidding with the Japanese, and were dissatisfied with the Japanese relying on bribes to win orders, and such technology products in Europe and the United States have long been at the level of "love to buy, buy and not buy", so they are very unhappy with the Japanese to engage in price wars. Fortunately, Japan signed the Plaza Accord, and the yen has appreciated quite sharply in recent years, and the price advantage that Japan has no longer exists.

But the spoiler China appeared, the Americans shouted 10 million for a piece of equipment, China dared to shout 5 million, the Americans twisted and pinched down to 9 million, and the Chinese immediately returned a 4.5 million. I am half of your price, and I will follow the strange face of how much you drop. In particular, in the past, Americans did not look down on orders from third countries at all, because of many factors, the consumption power of these countries was relatively poor, even if they bought industrial equipment, they would not buy a large amount, and some Western countries also had the intention of deliberately restricting their own industrial development.

But China's sales representatives are flying around the world, not only daring to sell cabbage prices, but also selling to the door, attracting customers with high-quality services that make Europeans and Americans blush. This confrontation lasted for several years, and the United States and other traditional industrial powers were almost completely defeated, and were killed by their Chinese counterparts. Even a number of well-known mechanical and electrical manufacturers had to declare bankruptcy protection.

In addition, when they see that Chinese-made white goods, all kinds of daily necessities, kitchen utensils, and ready-to-wear have swept the American market in just a few years, normal Americans will be worried. The popularity of Chinese products in the U.S. market has directly caused some U.S. light industry enterprises that have not had time to transform and outsource to go bankrupt and go bankrupt, and the U.S. economy is not as good as the other side because of China's comprehensive impact.

Even more displeased may be the American bankers, who thought that China's doors had been opened and that they could harvest as much wealth as they pleased, but after so many years, China's financial markets are still tightly controlled, and bankers can only stare at the growing wealth of China.

On the other hand, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States entered a golden period of development, and with the rise of the third technological revolution, the United States completely consolidated its position as the world hegemon and the number one economic power. However, on the plane, the US economy has already fallen into a downturn, and naturally some people have begun to criticize China's faults.

Clarifying a question here may make many people who are keen on conspiracy theories very sad, some people always fantasize about some consortium or family, or even a secret organization or something, using the power of money to control the United States, no matter how the people in front of the stage change, they will always be the real rulers behind the scenes. The popular "Currency Wars" for a while outlined a terrible Rothschild empire, but this is almost conjecture, because Rothschild was tossed a lot in World War II, and it is true that the world's top banks are related to Rothschild, but the current Rothschild is actually just an ordinary third-rate bank and family with a bit of historical depth.

Then there are organizations like Freemasonry and Skull and Bones, and they may indeed have a lot of influence, but in fact, they don't really control the country.

As for the bankers' group, it seems that it is closer to the role of the mastermind behind the scenes, but in fact, the interests of these bankers are intricate and more entangled, and it is not so easy to say that they are united into one force, not to mention that under today's corporate group system, it is not some people who actually have the will, but something that does not exist physically, that is, the will of money, or the will to make profits.

This will does not belong to someone, but it also belongs to someone, and may exist in a group, but it is higher than a group. It's complicated, because people are complex, they have all kinds of thoughts, but what is certain is that when someone or something gets in the way of that will, it reacts and dominates a country.

It's very fantastical, but it's not incomprehensible. Profit-making and selfishness are in fact a kind of collective will shared by human beings or a human race, and even if the United States advocates individualism, this collective consciousness is deeply rooted in human nature. It doesn't need people to connect with each other, but it can unite people's strengths.

China's economic rise, on the one hand, has satisfied some of the profit-making aspirations, but the other part of the people have suffered heavy losses, so there are two completely different voices in the American society: maintaining US-China relations and further increasing economic and trade exchanges and cooperation between the two countries; and, suppressing China's development and protecting America's world leadership and economic predominance.

When more people benefit from China's development, the forces that dominate Sino-US friendship will be greater, and the majority of people will suffer as a result, and the Sino-US confrontation will become more serious. It is not excluded that there are "actors" in front of the stage who make decisions against this collective will out of their own likes and dislikes, but they are often crushed, such as Kennedy, such as Yukio Hatoyama.

Qi Yiming saw this very clearly, but he was not in the mood to increase the number of US gainers in China, because in his planning, China and the United States would have to fight a war sooner or later. And the later this war is fought, the greater the impact on their own economy, under the current economic trend, the economic dependence between countries will be closer, especially the current relying on labor costs, high exchange rates, etc. to create a wealth harvest era will pass sooner or later, at that time Chinese enterprises may be more dependent on foreign markets, not to mention the loss caused by a big war, it is also a little unacceptable.

In fact, this kind of loss is still unavoidable, even if the RMB is appreciating, but according to the calculations of the bricks and beasts, the reasonable price ratio of RMB and USD is about 4:1, of course, it is not necessarily reasonable, because the prices and production capacity of various countries are different. But now, although it is no longer such a sparse exchange rate as 8:1, it has almost entered the foreign trade industry, and it has returned to its original cost in March, and it has exploded in a year, which has become a smooth passage of Chinese businessmen. Even in the face of an avalanche of anti-dumping investigations, exporters are still vigorously exporting Chinese goods to all corners of the world.

This profit has transformed China from a country with a shortage of foreign exchange to a country with the largest foreign exchange reserves in a few years. However, because Qi Yiming is holding back, if he buys a large amount of U.S. Treasury bonds like another plane, and turns around to fight the United States by himself, the money will become waste paper. While short-term U.S. Treasuries are still invested, much more foreign exchange is being used by the state to buy resources, businesses, and technologies around the world.

At the recent G7 economic meeting, the world's seven major industrialized countries have joined forces to put pressure on China to change its current unreasonable foreign exchange ratio in order to restore the balance of trade. After all, this matter is not reasonable, and China is indeed slowly and systematically adjusting the exchange rate under the verbal promise. But even if the renminbi appreciates, the competitiveness of those foreign goods in China will be limited.

The price difference is several times in the middle, the quality of China's products is not necessarily top-notch, but the advanced is not comparable to others, as long as it is an individual, it will almost choose the goods made in the country, and the more complete sets of industrial products, the more so. Even not only Chinese like to buy their own technical products at low prices, even foreigners are very jealous of these low-cost industrial products in China, but the sales price of these products overseas is sometimes several times that of China. In fact, most developed countries do the same, but there is such a large price difference that it creates those who take risks for economic gain.