"Red bean paste ~ private Marseille!"

Under the blue backdrop of JAXA's press room, Shinichiro Sakai and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' R&D staff bowed in unison, allowing the camera to only capture the top of their heads and the lining of their clothes.

Five hours ago, the launch pad preparing to launch the H-2B suddenly caught fire, and the flames could not be extinguished at all, and it burned for more than two hours, and the composition of the incendiary material was complex, and the black smoke spread extremely spectacularly.

At that time, the H-2B rocket had been refueled, and the launch center was ready to hear the explosion at any time, but fortunately, although the fire was fierce, because of the wind direction and the position of the rocket, except for a little trace of the rocket body, there was no explosion accident.

Of course, the launch pad was damaged, and Shinichiro Sakai rushed to the scene after the fire was extinguished at a huge risk, and he knew at a glance that this launch pad was afraid that it would be scrapped, as short as half a year, or as long as a year, and he didn't want to launch any more rockets.

Now JAXA is organizing to figure out how to safely release the fuel that the rocket has already filled, which is not difficult to do under normal times, but now no one can say whether the rocket body will be affected or not, and whether it will suddenly explode into a cloud of smoke.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation, and the investigation team was formed in a hurry, and it is not known when it will be figured out, but this does not affect the public apology of the main members of JAXA.

Naturally, the launch of the "Stork" cargo spacecraft can only be postponed, but fortunately, there are quite a few contractors who can carry out cargo replenishment, and the impact on the ISS is not too troublesome.

But Shinichiro Sakai is deeply trapped in the center of public opinion, and after Xiao Okada leaves, he will be the supreme chief teacher, and he is obviously the main force responsible.

The latter could only keep bowing and apologizing, and took the blame for this unwarranted disaster.

……

"Look, these are our allies, do we want to involve them in the Artemis Project? How ridiculous! ”

In the presidential palace, John frantically complained about the unreliability of JAXA to his staff, and once again belittled the previous proposal of a congressman to absorb the island nation into the Artemis plan.

The staff hurriedly expressed their admiration for John's wise decision, and at the same time cooperated in laughing at the "Asia Star" plan, and John ended the topic with satisfaction.

"Boss, the bill should be passed today, we really have to ......"

"Pio! You shouldn't question my decision! ”

John roughly interrupted a somewhat uneasy Pio, and his four fingers pinched together and poked heavily at the oak table.

"I said, we have to balance trade, the whole world has been sucking blood from us in the past, everyone, yes! They are taking advantage of their unequal advantage to extract illegal profits from Aramco, infringe on the interests of companies, and occupy our market!

We have to change all this, set entirely new rules, and we are the leaders of trade protectionism and are qualified to punish them! ”

The rest of the staff looked at each other, bowed their heads without saying anything.

But this doesn't mean that they won't slander in their hearts, it stands to reason that it is normal for new officials to take office with three fires and find an opponent, but you can ignore these old enemies, why sanction allies such as Mexico, Germany, and island countries and harmless neighbors, this is to attack indiscriminately?

There are also restrictions on trade across the Pacific...... You just restrict us from exporting sensitive materials, restrict imports, and restrict our largest trading partner.

But they didn't dare to show it if they said too much in their hearts, but instead vaguely echoed the big boss, and then silently waited for the next reaction.

Fourteen hours later, on the morning of February 20, Aramco time, Congress passed a new round of bills to investigate multinational trade and import and export tariffs.

……

"Aramco launched 232 investigations into import and export orders, involving more than $45 billion."

"A number of enterprises have been included in the catalogue of sensitive types of import and export."

"The Ministry of Commerce plans to impose $67 billion in punitive tariffs on seven foreign companies, and former official: Aramco's interests have been stolen."

"The Hexagonal has called on the world's address latitude and longitude satellite network, and there is already evidence that Xinyuan is trying to control the world through AI."

"Xin'an Auto will face lawsuits including smuggling, tax evasion, fraud and other crimes, and intelligent driving technology is robbing citizens of their right to life."

"NATO has requested a new review of the export of machine tools and machining centers from Italy."

"More than 10,000 tons of aluminum ingots are suspected of not meeting the customs declaration requirements, and the entry review procedure has been stopped."

“……”

Perhaps it was because of the accident of the Dream Chaser that John held his breath and made the senators a little unhappy, and when a series of bills were passed and were to be implemented in earnest, the world was dumbfounded.

In particular, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which are actively planning to expand trade with the new Aramco government, are now in a state of shock.

These bills did not appear suddenly, but as we all know, the Argentine and American congresses will always have all kinds of strange bills and outrageous brain holes, and this time they are not very novel, anyway, the high-level elites are sensible, and they will definitely not do such things that harm others and themselves...... Right?

But it just passed!

If they really cooperate, a large number of exporters will suffer heavy losses, and a single fine can bankrupt the enterprise, and some are even more excessive, and even name certain people who have violated the law and are ready to be detained and prosecuted?

I don't know if John's series of proposals will allow him to achieve his intended goal, but it does make the whole world start to jump.

Without it, because these bills are completely against the wave of globalization since the establishment of the WTO, see what John means is to stop the import of goods and rebuild his own manufacturing industry for exports?

International trade is like this!

"What? You are also sanctioned? People all over the world are not allowed to watch a short video? ”

B-level base, Lin Ju received a call from Zhang Yingming as soon as he got off the plane, and then he knew that the Aramco Ministry of Commerce had updated its own list of software restrictions, which naturally included tiktok, which is the international version of Douyin.

Because of Lin Ju's intervention, and in order to sell satellite Internet access to the world, TikTok was naturally born ahead of schedule, appearing before January, and then immediately became popular around the world.

Facts have proved that no one can stop the charm of short videos, but because infrastructure and short videos have only appeared recently, the momentum is limited, but who knows that they will face sanctions in just over a month.

Zhang Yingming: "Mr. Lin, although their officials told me what the user privacy and data issues were, I think their purpose may not be TikTok, what they want more is to dissolve the relationship between TITOK and the Jingwei satellite network." ”

Lin Ju: "......"

Well, while the traffic is still expensive, the Jingwei satellite network has been working hard to promote, and it is deeply bound to Douyin and TikTok, the satellite network is sanctioned, and the related TikTok will naturally not escape.

Of course, Xinyuan, as an important role in the world's technology and aerospace, must be the focus of attention, and it has suffered far more than these.

The first is that all of Xinyuan's external business has been warned, even if Xinyuan does not have any direct business in Aramco.

The biggest influence of Europe is the Veneto rocket project with ESA, according to some unexplicit agreements, Italy and Hair have opened up some processing technology and material technology licenses and the introduction of finished products.

Now NATO's sudden announcement that it believes the material may have potential military use and calls for an investigation adds some uncertainty.

However, these Lin Ju are not very worried, although the engine of the Veneto rocket has been given, but without control technical support, it is two disposable rockets, and ESA will definitely find a way to make the transaction land smoothly, otherwise no one will benefit.

The real trouble, in addition to trade restrictions, is the semiconductor sanctions.

After almost a month of blowing, the US Department of Commerce began to really take action.

Many of Intel's server chips are all banned from sale in the mainland, and several of Nvidia's professional cards have also been ordered to stop selling, while TSMC will restrict the chip foundry business for "undesirable companies".

Obviously, all mainland companies involved in the research of ternary technology are "undesirable", which is of course to be expected.

In addition, a number of communication manufacturers have been required to stop the export of 4G baseband chips and technology licensing, although it has not yet been implemented, but combined with John's big move, it is likely to become a reality.

Obviously, this also includes the result of the silent promotion of a number of foreign manufacturers after feeling the determination of the development of the mainland's ternary technology, otherwise it would not be possible for John's first round of action to come so violently.

Although Xinyuan's business scope is almost not affected in any way, the impact on China is still not small, and the ternary system is not omnipotent, and most things, such as basic communication protocols, GSM technology, and ARM ecology, cannot all be changed.

These patent sanctions are effective, and as long as the mainland still has exchanges with the outside world and wants to do business, their effectiveness must be recognized.

From this moment on, the threat behind the rapid development that has lasted for more than 10 years finally emerged, and when the cheap labor market, which had been deliberately cultivated, began to climb to a higher level, it was destined to be completely encircled and blocked.

(End of chapter)