Antitrust investigations

Security Investigations

Following Bob's smear article, blow after blow followed. )

As Duke expected, Bob's smear wasn't the worst thing about SAL. Next, under the impetus of Snyder, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission began an antitrust investigation into SAL's mobile phones and smart TVs with built-in voice input, voice search engine and instant messaging, while the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee began a security investigation of SAL mobile phone products on the grounds of endangering national security. These two events happened almost at the same time, which made SAL's situation even more difficult.

Under this series of fierce combination punches, SAL immediately fell sharply in the U.S. mobile phone market and the smart TV market, although it has not yet received a market ban, but American consumers have begun to show doubts about SAL products. In today's world, where there is no shortage of alternative products, these negative news greatly affect consumers' choices.

"Duke, haven't they asked for help from the Ministry of Commerce and Trade?" At his level, it is natural to see at a glance that this is the deliberate suppression of SAL by the United States, and in this case, Duke has no reason not to ask the Ministry of Commerce and Trade for help and ask the state to intervene, unless Duke feels that he can solve it on his own.

"Chief, according to the current information, SAL has indeed not sent a request to the relevant departments." Although Mr. Liu's secretary Sun Hong has now been promoted to deputy director of the office and his level has become deputy department level, he still stays by Mr. Liu's side as a personal secretary. "However, SAL has assembled a luxurious team of lawyers, and now has two lawsuits in the United States, and it appears that it is ready to solve the crisis on its own."

"They don't want to cause trouble to the country, this is their consciousness, if the Ministry of Commerce and Trade doesn't take any action, I think it is a serious dereliction of duty, so obvious to our country's well-known enterprises to suppress behavior, if the state does not take the initiative to escort them, how to ensure that they are given a level playing field? You can't just think of finding a company when collecting taxes, and you should take the initiative to care for and help when the enterprise is in trouble. Old Man Liu raised his eyebrows, obviously a little angry and even angry that the Ministry of Commerce and Trade did not react to this.

On the one hand, a super-large enterprise like SAL, which contributes tens of billions of taxes to the country every year, has a particularly great impact on the domestic industrial chain and needs great attention, on the other hand, SAL and Duke have spared no effort in the development of the military industry, not only investing tens of billions of dollars in research and development on D, coming up with a large number of new products, but also spending a large amount of money to greatly improve the R&D environment of the relevant enterprises participating in the Shenlong Plan and the Qianlong Plan, which has greatly promoted the R&D capabilities of relevant R&D institutions.

Therefore, when SAL encountered difficulties, although Mr. Liu was a little disappointed that Duke and them did not take the initiative to come to the door for help, he was even more angry at the inaction of the relevant departments.

However, Deputy Director Sun Hong knows what these domestic colleagues think, not to mention that SAL has not yet come to the door, even if Cai Siqiang and Duke rush to find the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, those functional departments will hold the attitude that more is better than less, and they have no vital interests in this matter, and they can't afford to deal with an extremely difficult opponent like the Yankees for the sake of the company, and they can't make a lot of trouble, let alone make it clear.

"Help me make an appointment with Vice Premier Wu Yongtai, I will talk to him personally, and let the zhèng fǔ side come up with a charter for such a situation, now we can be tough militarily, and we can't be too soft in the economic aspect, and we will always be bullied by others." Old man Liu also knows the virtues of these people, and knows that even if Sun Hong goes to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, it may be in vain, and the other party has 10,000 reasons to shirk and delay, although he is in a high position, but after all, he can only directly govern the army, and there is still some inadequacy between these functional departments, so he directly went to the vice premier of the State Council in charge of this aspect of affairs.

As the vice premier in charge of economy and trade, 60-year-old Wu Yongtai has great hopes for further progress in the Politburo, so he has always respected old man Liu, a veteran general in the army, after all, the attitude of the military is also a very important factor in order to be promoted to the rank of great elder.

Duke and Cai Siqiang did not expect that they were originally going to carry this matter on their own, hoping that this matter would stop at SAL, because the previous nuclear power plant access had led to a tragic trade war between China and Europe, and neither Cai Siqiang nor Duke wanted to repeat this scene between China and the United States because of SAL.

After all, in the current international trade, China as a whole is still in a weak position, and a large number of our industries are very dependent on exports, so in terms of national economy and trade, we cannot be the enemy of the whole world.

Therefore, despite the tragic air battle between China and the United States in Diaoyutai and the loss of dozens or hundreds of warplanes on both sides, due to their respective needs, the two sides are still confined to non-governmental self-resistance in economic and trade exchanges, and there is no major movement at the national economic and trade level.

This is a rather peculiar situation, on the one hand, to fight on the one hand, and on the other hand, to maintain an economic and trade future of trillions of dollars, which is rare in the history of the world.

On the one hand, China has provided the U.S. market with a large number of high-quality and low-cost consumer goods to find a way out for the huge domestic labor force;

On the other hand, the United States has huge interests in the Chinese market, a huge amount of investment, and at the same time, it also has a considerable mentality for the huge amount of US bonds held by the Chinese side, and once there is a large-scale sell-off of trillions of dollars of bonds, it will be a huge test for the US financial system.

More importantly, if these huge wealth are purposefully transferred, such as into European debt, the Americas and African resource markets, and other places, China will use this guarantee as a basis for the internationalization of RMB settlement, which will deal a heavy blow to the existing US dollar system.

This is because it will have a huge impact on the existing international economic order with the United States as the main body. Once the collapse makes the dollar no longer the main settlement currency of international economic and trade activities, then it means that Americans can no longer rely on printing dollars to alleviate their debts of tens of trillions of dollars, knowing that half of the economic strength of the United States comes from the powerful dollar, the most important international currency.

A few years ago, when China and South Korea were discussing the establishment of a renminbi settlement and trade zone to allow the renminbi to go to Asia, the Americans took decisive action and instigated Rì himself to make trouble in Diaoyutai, thus interrupting this step of renminbi internationalization and stillbirth.

Next, the dispute between China and China around Diaoyutai continued, and the two became fire and water, where can they still take care of this matter, and the two sides fought against each other last year, and even normal economic and trade relations could not be maintained within ten years, let alone any RMB settlement zì yóu trade zone.

Of course, Duke and Cai Siqiang can't see so far and can't see so deep, but when they saw the tragic transformation of the textile industry and the toy industry, Cai Siqiang was deeply touched that his company lost an American market, that is, a loss of 20 or 30 billion US dollars, and the livelihood of tens of thousands of people. What's more, this lawsuit still has to be fought, but once the country is involved, it will be a major event that affects the livelihood of millions of people.

With the trade volume between China and the United States now approaching one trillion US dollars, this trade war will definitely be an unprecedented super trade war once it starts. However, when Cai Siqiang found Lao Li's family to ask for advice, Mr. Eric gave Cai Siqiang a lesson, which made Cai Siqiang see a new future.

"This is a war that will come sooner or later," when Cai Siqiang found Eric of the old Li family, and the two sides talked about why SAL didn't come forward with zhèng fǔ, but Eric had different opinions on Cai Siqiang's opinion. "Militarily, the victory in the Diaoyutai air battle means that although the United States is still the world's largest military strength, it can no longer control China's growth, which is a huge strategic turning point for China, and the same is true for the world."

Eric is the second generation of helmsman that the old Li family has focused on cultivating, and his insight into the international situation is obviously more than the immature Cai Siqiang, at least eight streets away, "This is a new era of alternating old and new international politics and economy, although there are still a lot of uncertainties, but the United States has obviously not been able to maintain the hegemony of the world for long, and the development of oil in the South China Sea is a very obvious signal." In the face of China's overall plan to solve energy dependence, the US military has actually fallen silent, indicating that it has lost confidence in fighting the PLA in the South China Sea. ”

"It is difficult for ordinary people to see through the mystery of this strange new situation, but for strategists who are well versed in international political and economic relations, the taste of this is very intriguing, and it means that the Chinese side has begun to have the confidence to say no to the United States militarily and economically."

A world-class super economic force like the Lao Li family, of course, has its own set of political and economic experts and think tanks for its analysis and staff, so when Cai Siqiang looked at Eric with some dumbfounded eyes and told him about this, Cai Siqiang once again felt that his head was a little insufficient, to be honest, to be able to push SAL to this stage in business, Cai Siqiang had almost exhausted his strength, and even a lot of white hair appeared on his head.

But as the ruler of an emerging super-economic power, Cai Siqiang is far from qualified. At least, he has not completed the construction of the team in all aspects like the old Li family, which is the biggest difference between the nouveau riche and the family, the old Li family has gone through more than half a century of two generations of hard work to get to today's position, Cai Siqiang They have only been in the past few years?

This is not something that can be easily caught up overnight, and it has nothing to do with intelligence, but a lack of heritage is a lack of heritage, so Cai Siqiang modestly listened. These things are good words that he can't buy outside with money.

Seeing Cai Siqiang's teachable appearance, Eric really gave advice to this young talent, who was not much older than his son, and told him his judgment and cross-section of the current situation, which made Cai Siqiang suddenly open his mouth.

"Mr. Li, as you say, we SAL are now a pawn in the new economic relationship between China and the United States, and we just need to move forward and fight according to the established steps, and the country will move behind us according to the deployment and take a series of actions to echo us? Be our strongest backup?" Cai Siqiang asked.