Hollywood Hunter

Raymond Johnston feels that Simon's plan to visit China with great fanfare is not surprising, which is not surprising.

In fact, many people around Simon think so.

The reason is too complicated.

If you want to discuss this topic, tens of thousands of words may not be clear.

From the perspective of Raymond Johnston, it is impossible to see the rapid development of China in recent years.However, the old man who has been very focused on Asian business should also appreciate the strong uncertainty that the Chinese economy has shown since its opening in 1978.

This is actually the biggest concern of many people.

In the past few decades, this kind of thing has happened many times. In many countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and even Africa, if you open it, you open it, if you turn your face, you turn your face, and then, no matter how much you invest, you will be directly confiscated, debts, loans. All blame, investors suffered heavy losses.

This is the most important point.

In addition, nature is still political and cultural.

To put it bluntly, East and West, no matter how good they are on the surface, are not the same origin after all.

Non-my family, its heart must be different.

This is not only a well-known saying left by the ancestors of the other side of the ocean, but in fact, it is even more deeply ingrained in Westerners' ideas.Therefore, Simon's approach to China with great fanfare will inevitably arouse the resentment of many Western nationalists.

What's more, even after establishing diplomatic relations for so many years, fundamentally, the potential confrontation between China and the United States has never really disappeared.

Americans can't forget the two consecutive defeats in Asia in the 1950s and 1970s.

Coupled with the change in the international situation after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there is no need to entangle China to contain the Soviet Union. The United States has changed its attitude toward China almost neatly. In the original time and space, even though the surface was harmonious, the United States targeted China’s Such small movements never break.

After all, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, China was really too conspicuous.

In front of the glass curtain of the Shell Villa, Simon heard Anthony tell the old man and said seriously: "The next few decades will inevitably be an era of globalization. At the economic level, if China, which is already developing rapidly, is closed again, we may lose a lot. But it’s them who really hurt the roots. So I’m not worried about this. In my opinion, the more deeply China is introduced into the global economic system, the less likely there are certain variables. As for the political level, Tony, what we need to consider now is not the "politics" of the United States or Australia, but the "politics" of the Westeros system. I think many of you have not yet got rid of this kind of thinking inertia."

Anthony Johnston was stunned and nodded slightly after a while.

I can't help but feel the same emotions as the old man. If it is the'politics' of the Johnston family, it would be great.If there were no Westeros, then it must be Simon Johnston.

Alas, it's a pity.

In fact, after confirming Simon's identity a few years ago, the old man once wanted to disclose this relationship, even if it was disclosed in a small area, but only in consideration of Simon's possible ideas. In the end, he still did not do so, and planned to let it go.

Now that Simon's idea was set, Anthony didn't persuade much, and talked about several projects that Simon was currently preparing until Janet came again to remind the two that the lunch was ready.

Anthony Johnston came to North America this time mainly to personally send the box of invaluable technical materials.

The Westeros system spent more than US$6 million for the more than 2,000 points of information in the box, which is not yet a cost to secretly receive some cutting-edge technical talents.

However, this is actually too much cheap.

Because the contents of the box can be described as the achievements of the former Soviet Union's national research and development, the value is simply inestimable.

After completing this matter, Anthony did not stay too much. He departed again to Latin America after lunch. In recent years, Johnston Holdings, which has also continued to expand, is currently discussing some cooperation with Brazil.

Simon's work in the afternoon and evening is to personally categorize the large amount of information sent by Anthony, confirm which information should be given to which team, or whether it is appropriate to take it out now.

Neither SpaceX nor Simon planned to start from scratch.

It would be foolish not to make use of technologies developed by predecessors by investing resources that are difficult to measure.Therefore, this time the Westeros system will directly dig the foot of Ukraine's most important Southern Design Bureau.Not only that, Simon will also strive to obtain NASA and other aspects of technology accumulation in various ways.

These are treasures.

Simon does not have any moral problems. On the contrary, he believes that all countries in the world can not communicate with each other in the same technology. Even in the end, more technology is abandoned, which is the greatest human resource. waste.

The planet on which mankind lives is really not as rich as people think.

I don’t know how long I was busy. Janet appeared in the studio on the ground floor of the Shell Villa. He stood behind Simon and looked at the display on the desk for a moment. After seeing the man recovering, he walked around the leather chair and sat directly in Simon’s arms. Here, I felt the arm that naturally wrapped around my arm, and I fell back, and asked, "How much is it done?"

Simon knocked his chin on Janet's shoulder and operated the mouse with one hand. He said: "I only read more than two hundred copies, there are many, and most of them I don't understand, just classification."

These materials are basically in Russian. Simon’s Russian is quite good, but it involves professional knowledge, and it is not the hieroglyphs that can guess a little meaning by using the glyphs like Chinese. It will be very difficult to figure out.This matter is impossible to fake others, after all, it is too sensitive, even two Jenny or A girl did not shout to help, not distrust, but they just do not understand Russian.

Janet leaned in Simon's arms and watched it for a while. After Simon knocked down some notes on a document to classify, he said: "It is now more than seven o'clock in the evening. Let's have dinner first?"

Simon nodded and opened another electronic file, saying: "Wait a minute, the last two files on this disc are now."

Janet took a hurry and continued to accompany, saying, "Are we really going to have these documents?"

Even with Janet’s lawless temperament, he actually knew that getting the entire box of information from Ukraine was even worse than stealing a nuclear bomb or two.

Simon shook his head and said: "If it is Russia, I will definitely not do it. Ukraine does not matter. After actively giving up nuclear weapons, this country has actually been completely abolished. In fact, many people are doing this now. You see these are electronic files. , The real manuscript may have been taken away by others."

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, I chose to stand alone and voluntarily give up nuclear weapons. Now the economy is in a mess. Many people in Ukraine have the eyes of a fat sheep. Now everyone can divide as much as they can.

Speaking of which, Simon also regrets the other side of the ocean.

In recent years, China has clearly not caught up with the feast of Ukraine, and can only reap some cold soup after a few decades. Europe, Russia and Russia have basically got everything they should.

It is a pity that the parties have not really used these technologies.

The root cause is still interest.

It is the aerospace field.

In the next two decades, the most commendable RD-180 rocket engine, why the United States has been buying from Russia, it is not that the United States can not make it, in fact, the United States has quite a complete technical reserve, has already eaten RD-180, and even still receiving The Russian engine will be used on the rocket only after certain improvements.

Some people are wondering, if you have technology, why not make it yourself?

Because of money.

It is not a group of people who can make a rocket engine with tools in the studio. The more cutting-edge, the more so. First of all, you need a full set of talents and production systems, all of which need to spend money, and are already used to the big-handed United States. In any case, the aerospace system will not cost more than Russia.

As for the later re-engagement between Russia and the United States, the United States clamored to replace the Russian RD-180, but found that even with technology, it was still difficult to produce in a short period of time, and it could only support SpaceX as much as possible. Mainly, all related production systems have been It was scrapped, and if you want to pick it up again, you still have to burn a lot of money.

In comparison, SpaceX has established its own complete aviation industry chain through more than ten years of accumulation.

This is like a mask during an epidemic. This is even simpler. Why Europe and the United States can only rely on China? It is also because the industrial chain has been abolished and cannot be recovered in a short time. In a capital society like the West, capitalists are not Too willing to recover, in case a large sum of money is invested, but the epidemic has passed and the mask is useless again, wouldn’t it be a big loss.

Therefore, even if the epidemic is over, the hollowing out of the western industry will not be improved.

Because you will lose money.

Except for war.

This is not simply a benefit. The mandatory wartime laws will allow Western countries to restart their industrial systems in a short time.

After continuing to process some documents, Simon and Janet left the studio on the ground floor together.

After dinner, Simon didn't go to the basement floor anymore.

In the afternoon, Chen Qing also sent people to send the results of another round of selection by the Guofeng Art Troupe. After the last round of screening, there were only less than 300 people after this round of selection. The final 100 people will be selected from these. People.

Janet knew this too, and blended in with enthusiasm.

However, Simon did not arrange any interviews or the like, but on the final list, a simple and rough way to finalize the candidate.

According to height.

The initial recruitment conditions for the newspaper were 168CM-172CM, in fact, it was quite close.

Simon got the last batch of lists, and in the process of watching TV with two Jennys that night, 100 girls were drawn directly according to the standard closest to 170CM.

In fact, this matter can also be left to Chen Qing.

Simon didn't do this, mainly because he knew a girl's temperament, it's hard to say whether she would make some moths.

After taking him around for so long, Simon also found that Chen Qing was a kind of person who was kind to him and some like Janet. He was very capable and seemed very obedient. However, the kind of rebellion in the girl's bones, if not kept pressed , Maybe one day is a lot of trouble in Tiangong.

The time entered mid-March.

The Hollywood awards season is still in full swing, and all aspects of the Westeros system are in order.

During this time, the biggest news is probably that GE's acquisition of Time Warner finally passed the review of the Federal Department of Justice.

From the agreement between General Electric and Time Warner at the end of October last year, and the merger and acquisition on March 15 formally passed the review of all relevant federal departments, the time has passed more than four months, which can be described as bumpy.

It is mainly the strength of General Electric and the areas that Time Warner is involved in that has caused fear among competitors.

At the time, Daenerys merged with the metropolitan ABC, but actually encountered this problem, but after successfully mediated by Simon and all parties, it was basically solved properly.

The merger of General Electric and Time Warner is not so lucky.

Whether it is GE’s competitor Westinghouse or Time Warner’s peers in the entertainment, telecommunications and other fields, in the federal review process of this transaction case, they all jumped out to raise a variety of objections, and then all kinds of rash .

For example, at this stage, Comcast has already issued a scale but its strength is not the top. It questioned the details of the discriminatory treatment of operators by the new company after this merger.Because once the two companies merge, GE not only owns a large number of other cable assets such as the NBC public television network and HBO, but also owns operators like Warner Communications and Comcast.

Then, in this case, there is no doubt that GE will refuse to provide TV broadcast to Comcast in order to suppress Comcast in the future.Even if General Electric would not do so on the bright side, if privately differentiated pricing is adopted for operator sharing, it will also cause serious unfair competition.

Therefore, in order to pass the merger review, GE must solve this problem.

How to deal with it?

The best way is of course not to merge.

In fact, even without this merger, Time Warner Group, which owns the most popular HBO and cable operator Warner Communications, also has the possibility of doing so. However, these two businesses have been done by Time Warner for many years. Can be regarded as the default industry pattern of all parties.

However, once General Electric annexes Time Warner, things will definitely be different.

With the turbulence of the current wave of new technology, coupled with the latest federal telecommunications bill, the telecommunications industry has been greatly liberalized, and even the triple play has been encouraged. As long as GE is not stupid, it will definitely increase investment in Warner Communications It is not impossible to develop into a comprehensive telecommunications operator.

At that time, with the strength of General Electric, for the time being, only the second-line operators such as Comcast will definitely double the pressure.

Therefore, even though GE has made various compromises in the past few months, it is still being pulled by competitors. GE can neither easily abandon this merger nor will it retreat to give up its intention to bet hard. The Warner Communications business can only come and go.

This continued for more than four months, in the end it was still a high game, successfully passed the review.

Of course, many conditions have been paid.

For example, in the carrier business, GE made a series of open written commitments to ensure that no unfair competition will occur.