Chapter 221: It's finally clear
The following week saw a series of global events take place, with the world keeping its eyes fixed on trade negotiations between the planet's two largest economies.
And during the week, a large number of CEOs of American high-tech companies, such as Tim Cook, the head of Apple, rushed to the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
This wave of punishment is really asking for your own life.
The total amount of taxes and fines that Apple has to pay is $21.8 billion, while the total amount of high-tech companies sanctioned by the United States is nearly $47.9 billion.
According to the real-time exchange rate, it is equivalent to more than 330 billion, which is undoubtedly a huge astronomical amount, and ten aircraft carriers can be built.
The people in China are very excited during this time, there is no doubt that this wave of countermeasures and additional sanctions in Huaxia is too exciting, it has always been the United States wielding the tariff stick and disagreeing is a mess, and Huaxia has always been a passive countermeasure.
The rabbit is in a hurry, and it will ask for people.
Now, if you don't move, you will move like thunder; If you don't make a sound, it's just a blockbuster.
This wave of operations pressed down, directly pressed the whole world into a collective circle, the Internet is particularly hot is a picture published by the British "Daily Mail" and its popularity, it is Cook rushed to the airport overnight to be captured, the time is exactly 12 hours after the Ministry of Commerce and the General Department of Taxation announced the news.
This reminded countless netizens in China of the year when the US imperialists sanctioned ZTE, and the founder Mr. Hou left overnight.
Although the causes of the two incidents are different, they have similarities.
Besides, Cook is not in a hurry.
21.8 billion, dollars!
That's almost 10% of Apple's cash reserves, which is worse than cutting meat for Apple's shareholders.
No one expected that the Chinese would dare to be so ruthless, in the world, the Chinese people to the outside world or to the European and American people feel that they are the image of good people, and they are cautious and cautious everywhere.
A sudden blow and harder than anyone else, and anyone was caught off guard.
During this time, Apple's market value was successfully pulled down, and there was no listed company in the world with a market value of more than one trillion dollars.
Even the entire market was dragged down, and the three major U.S. stock indexes fell sharply across the board.
That's the power of the Greater China market, what does it mean for Apple to lose it? That's it, and maybe it's just the beginning.
It can be said that this is also a black swan event that has attracted global attention, and people suddenly found that in the first half of this year, the whole world was extremely restless, and all kinds of super fierce materials were overwhelming, and black swan events have appeared frequently in recent months.
This has also caused all kinds of worries from the outside world, if the rabbit and the eagle sauce are really pinched, it will not be a problem between two countries, but a real world-class problem, and no one else will think that they can stay out of it.
Therefore, this time Wilpo Los came to China, and countless people at home and abroad, especially those who do transnational trade, all have high hopes for him.
Everyone hopes that these two bigwigs will be dissipated, stop tossing, the world is about to be ruined by the two of you, and I can't do this business.
Look at the current turbulent international foreign exchange market, the wavy trend of offshore currency, on this extremely unstable exchange rate situation, who dares to do cross-border trade, then how can the economy develop.
However, it is worth mentioning that although the recent exchange rate market turmoil, everyone does not dare to settle with currency, but some people are very ghostly, cross-border trade is still doing well, and more than usual, at this time, in order to avoid risks, a group of chicken thieves who do cross-border trade immediately switched to gold to settle.
But then again, this is only a small number of people can play, although gold is good, but the amount is not enough, cross-border trade is often tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of funds, where so much gold provides settlement functions?
Therefore, gold settlement can only allow a small number of people to make big profits during this time, but it is still very uncomfortable for more multinational companies, and they are waiting for the two big brothers to negotiate things as soon as possible.
Finally, in anticipation of the whole world, on the morning of April 20, the two sides officially announced the issuance of a joint statement.
The biggest and most useful message this statement has for the world is:
The two sides are about to shake hands and make peace!!
The actual trend of the facts once again perfectly deviated from the predictions and predictions of the outside world, and the first thing that was not predicted was that no one expected that the two sides would reach such an ending as a handshake and peace, and even a strong feeling arose, the US imperialism is really a paper tiger?
Many domestic media, especially self-media marketing accounts, immediately labeled the US imperialist as a "paper tiger", calling the most fierce, and the strong opponent really relented as soon as it came.
This is undoubtedly a good thing to inspire the people, and it is also what the people want to see the most, but those self-media accounts are completely to cater to the people's tastes, and there are very few people who really have dry goods, and their purpose is that what content the people like, push what content OK.
The second thing that was not predicted was that such an important breakthrough was actually achieved in less than ten days, and normal prediction and analysis, such a major change, let alone meet and talk three or five times, lasted for a year and a half.
In fact, it only took about a week, and at this time, if the international financial speculators were closed to the news and could not learn in advance, basically all of them would have suffered blood losses or even gone bankrupt, while the predators who really had fast information channels would have made a lot of money.
The specific matter is after the two sides have negotiated, the first trouble to solve is that the trade dispute is over, everyone has stopped together, and they are all doing business happily, don't engage in these vain heads.
Both parties agreed, and they hit it off!
Then another major problem is to negotiate sanctions against a large number of American high-tech companies such as Apple on the Chinese side, it seems that both sides are fighting for red faces and thick necks, but the belly black rabbit and eagle sauce are actually a red face and a white face.
Because the president of Eagle Sauce hopes that the American high-tech companies in his eyes will return to their hometown to build factories or something, and Huaxia does not want to continue to be controlled by the Americans in this regard.
After "extremely intense" negotiations, Huaxia said that it could make some concessions, so the total amount of back taxes was lowered from $47.9 billion to $33.7 billion, of which Apple "preferential" $1.5 billion, and only needs to pay $20.3 billion to continue trading in Greater China.
Cook, the bigwigs of American high-tech companies, are still vomiting blood, and they still can't accept the result of this negotiation, but their arms can't reach their thighs, not to mention that the other party sings a double reed and is pitted by their own family.
For the Lao American authorities, giving this money to the Chinese people for nothing is actually just a simple displeasure, because he feels that the Chinese people have made a lot of money, and it is simply bloody. But anyway, the money of those people who eat inside and outside the grill, and it doesn't flow back to North America, Eagle Sauce can only shrug his shoulders.
Although it is not happy that the Chinese people make money, this thing must be done, because only by doing so can we force the United States to return to North America in high-end manufacturing overseas, mainly in China.
As long as this core goal can be achieved, Lao Mei doesn't care about anything else.
It is worth mentioning that as soon as such a result came out, Cook, who was about to go crazy, also tweeted on the same day, angrily accusing the American authorities of being weak and incompetent, and expressing his disappointment with them.
XXX said angrily: Cook, you wait, I'll go tweet!!
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