Chapter 911 Joint Venture
Yes, in May of this year, the "Fourth Citizen", also known as Snowden, proposed the intention of joining forces with Laura Poitras in an encrypted email. ——He chose China HK as the meeting place.
Because the meeting point Snowden chose was in a foreign country far away from Europe, Laura was worried about safety issues and prepared to go with others.
So Laura Poitras contacted her friend who had participated in the event with her - Glenn Greenwald, a senior reporter for the British "Guardian".
Of course, her movements were also reported to Barron by Barron's intelligence agency who was paying attention to her whereabouts.
After telling Glenn Greenwald about "Citizen Four", Laura discovered that Glenn had also received encrypted emails from the other party before.
It’s just that at the time Glenn thought the other party’s remarks were a bit “nonsense” and he himself knew nothing about encrypted communications, so he did not reply to the other party.
In the end, Laura, Glenn and a senior editor from the Guardian took a plane to Hong Kong to meet with the "Fourth Citizen".
In this way, after the two parties met, Laura and the others recorded the interview with Snowden, and later released a documentary about the "Prism" project under the name "Citizen Four".
At the same time, the Guardian also first reported the contents of the "Prism" program revealed by Snowden, which caused an uproar around the world.
After all, according to the Prism program disclosed by Snowden, it also includes the United States’ surveillance of heads of allied countries, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, German Chancellor Merkel, Brazilian President Rousseff and other leaders of as many as 35 countries. People are on the NSA watch list.
Following this, Germany's Der Spiegel quoted documents provided by Snowden and disclosed that the U.S. National Security Agency carried out surveillance on 122 foreign leaders in 2009 and established a special database to store information on foreign leaders. database, which contains 300 reports on German Chancellor Merkel.
It can be said that after the Prism Gate outbreak, the global response was very exciting.
The instigator, Snowden, began his escape career - according to the information Barron obtained from the British intelligence agency, in order to capture Snowden, the United States even sent a team of 16 agents to Los Angeles. Island, and as a result, he received first-class collective merit for the resident special forces company...
Barron can also think of why the U.S. intelligence agency is so interested in him - after all, it is because he knew about the "Prism" of the U.S. in his previous life. "plan, so from the beginning, he paid great attention to preventing being monitored.
Not only will all the places he goes to be thoroughly searched by his security team, but his daily communications will only be conducted through O2 Telecom, which is controlled by him, using a mobile phone specially made by Honor Electronics.
And important conversations are conducted through encrypted satellite phones. It can be said that although American intelligence agencies can monitor leaders of many countries, it is much more difficult to monitor Barron.
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On June 10, O2 Germany finally completed the acquisition of E-Plus, the German subsidiary of the Dutch KPN Group.
In this acquisition, O2 Telecom’s bid was 8 billion euros, which exceeded Telefonica’s bid, so it ultimately won the competition.
After completing the acquisition of E-Plus, its business will be merged into O2 Germany, resulting in O2 Germany having more than 40 million users, accounting for nearly half of the total population of Germany, surpassing Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Germany, becoming The telecommunications operator with the largest number of users in Germany.
At this point, O2 Telecom has become the second largest telecom operator in Europe after Vodafone through years of development and acquisitions. Just after Barron returned to London, he met the boss of Huawei again at his home.
“I still remember the first time we met. Unknowingly, it was already ten years ago, Mr. Ren.”
You can say the same thing. Compared with that time, now both Barron, Boss Ren, and Huawei have changed a lot, so when talking about this matter, Barron couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"Yes, Your Highness the Duke. At that time, Huawei wanted to develop the British and European markets. The first cooperation in the UK was with your O2 Telecom. Until now, O2 Telecom has become one of the largest telecom companies in Europe. We have always We are a close partner, and we are very grateful for this.”
“But the situation is different now. You know, although O2 Telecom is larger, it also covers a lot. In the country's market, our cooperation with Huawei is also facing more challenges..."
"When you meet me today, you must have your plan, and I am willing to hear the details."
The conversation between the two people was conducted in Chinese. After all, Boss Ren was very accustomed to the British Duke's fluent Chinese.
“You should know about the recent Prism Gate, Mr. Ren. This can explain the main reason why Huawei has hit a wall in the American market, but in the European market, it is different...”
Barron handed a document to the other party and continued:
"After the debt crisis, Europe's economic recovery will be slower than expected. Correspondingly, European telecommunications equipment manufacturers need the EU to provide them with Provide guarantee, then under such circumstances, not only our O2 Telecom, but other telecommunications companies are facing pressure, that is, they need to give priority to European equipment suppliers..."
Boss Ren looked through the Barron frowned slightly as he handed over the information.
Yes, Huawei has become one of the largest telecommunications equipment suppliers in the world, and can provide customers with the most cost-effective products and the best services, but so what, after all, the EU can Subsidies are provided to corresponding local companies, and in many evaluations, the equipment procurement choices of telecommunications companies will be taken into consideration...
And this information is some specific policies and related information of the European Union.
"I am willing to continue to cooperate with Huawei. After all, our cooperation before this was very satisfactory, but in response to the current situation, I have a proposal..."
At the beginning, Ba Lun once completed the acquisition of the British Marconi Company through Rich23 Capital and merged it into Huawei, thus holding 15% of Huawei's shares.
Barron’s proposal is for Rich23 Capital to withdraw its stake in Huawei and convert it into a stake in Huawei’s European joint venture.
That is to say, a joint venture between the two parties will be formed based on Huawei's European branch (established on the basis of the original Marconi Company), in which Barron's holds 51% of the shares and Huawei holds 51%. 49% of the shares, then the joint venture will be regarded as a European company.
In this way, the cooperation between O2 Telecom and other telecom companies and Huawei's European joint venture will no longer be restricted by relevant EU policies.
(End of this chapter)