Chapter 105 Countermeasures
America has done this kind of thing a lot, and everyone would be surprised if they didn’t do it this way.
America accused China of requiring foreign-invested enterprises to carry out mandatory technology transfers and argued back and forth on the matter at the WTO.
Technology transfer under the leadership of China is soft. It uses the market and orders to ask you. Whoever is willing to transfer technology will get the order.
This is not called coercion. According to the Hayek theoretical system respected by Chinese economists, this is precisely the product of full free market competition.
Americen’s previous measures against DJI and TikTok required the two companies to hand over source code, data and technology. This is called forced technology transfer.
"Mr. Miller, will Amerikan expand the scope of restrictions in the future and add Guangjia Technology to the control list?"
Guangjia Technology has a market value of about 500 billion, and is a member of the Chinese nation. The company with the highest market value on the entire Science and Technology Innovation Board is the absolute leader of the Science and Technology Innovation Board.
If American prohibits the export of Guangjia Technology’s technology and products to American, this will inevitably cause a huge shock to the entire Science and Technology Innovation Board.
Of course, domestic capital may flee wildly, and northbound funds may enter the market to pick up the slack.
"We do not rule out this possibility. We will continue to pay attention to whether Guangjia Technology's human hibernation technology involves monopoly." Miller did not hide his malice towards Chinese technology companies.
Even Arcadia, Guangjia Technology’s cooperative enterprise in Amerikan, has significantly increased its political donations to the Donkey Party since it became an agent of Guangjia Technology’s products.
“Sir, Texas has just announced that it will build more than a thousand human hibernation centers in McAllen, Brownsville, El Paso and other US-Mexico border cities.
If the federal government bans the import of Guangjia Technology’s human hibernation equipment, will it have an impact on Texas’ decision? Or will there be a special administrative exemption for Texas?” FOX reporters couldn’t wait to get angry.
Miller replied firmly: "Texas is also part of America, and they need to abide by the decisions made by the federation."
Miller doesn't know that if Texas goes crazy, it won't care about the White House.
As the two pilot cities for human hibernation technology, Austin and Los Angeles have found excellent results, greatly reducing the difficulty of managing illegal immigrants at a very small cost.
The Texas government made a decisive decision and signed a huge order with Arcadia, requiring the construction of human hibernation centers in border cities.
Whether you are African-American, Mexican-American, or a front-line Huaguorun person, just come in and stay for half a year.
It can be considered a contribution to Amerikan.
Arcadia has been secretly teaming up with Harvard to try to reverse engineer human hibernation technology. They also need a large amount of human hibernation data.
Texas is very radical in this regard, while California is progressing much more slowly. People in the scientific and technological circles highly praise human hibernation technology, especially those engaged in cutting-edge technology.
They feel that human hibernation can effectively help them relax. After staying for three to five days, they feel that the whole world is different.
A large number of digital currency practitioners said that after staying in a hibernation center for a few days, their transaction success rate increased significantly, and their intuitive judgments became more accurate.
In order to serve this group of people, some high-end private hospitals in Los Angeles have built new hibernation centers. The unit price for one is as high as 5,000 US dollars, which is comparable to Chinese confinement care, and the time is even shorter.
The reason for all this comes down to Mike Edward Novogratz, the founder and CEO of crypto bank Galaxy Digital.
Before, Mike worked as a hedge fund. During the 2008 financial crisis, he heavily invested in Swiss francs and Brazilian currencies, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars and the company went bankrupt.
After founding Galaxy Digital, they lost US$182 million in the first quarter of 2021, and lost US$554 million in the first half of 2022 alone. By the second half of the year, they successfully turned losses into profits.
Mike attributed this to the fact that starting from the second half of the year, he would go to the human hibernation center every time before making a major decision. He posted on Twitter:
“It’s hard to imagine how much help the human hibernation center can bring to my investment decisions. The decisions I made based on experience and intuition after hibernation have never been more correct.”
Because Galaxy Digital is a highly regulated company, it has to announce results every quarter even if it is not listed.
Galaxy Digital’s outstanding performance in the third quarter proves that Mike’s words are true.
This has also led many cryptocurrency investors to follow Mike's lead, hibernating first, and then operating frequently after waking up from hibernation.
This industry itself has an amplification effect. There are endless cases of financial freedom in one night. People who have experienced these cases attribute the reason to the divine help brought to them after hibernation.
It is common sense that you will be more awake after sleeping. According to this reasoning, hibernation is equivalent to longer sleep, and you will be more awake after ending hibernation.
There are endless stories on Twitter, making cryptocurrency trading after hibernation a trend in Web3.
Until Musk himself tweeted: "It seems to be somewhat useful."
The picture is of him waking up from the hibernation facility, and the Dogecoin he held that day skyrocketing.
Musk holds shares in Light Armor Technology, and he doesn’t mind helping to promote human hibernation technology.
Under the publicity of various media, no matter whether it works or not, if everyone believes that it works, then it really works.
Not only does the cryptocurrency community do this, but many Wall Street traders and fund managers also do it, and they find it does seem to work.
“Does human hibernation really have this effect?”
The Chinese media belatedly realized that it had been popular on Wall Street for several months before they started to report it.
When Chen Yuanguang read the relevant news, he suspected that he did not know enough about human hibernation technology.
Why did he not find that human hibernation technology has this effect in the future technical information?
He asked Lin Jia with a puzzled face. Lin Jia sat next to him and said while writing an email:
“I don’t know, but I feel it’s a psychological effect.
The U.S. stock index went from 21 The U.S. stock index has been falling for half a year since the end of the year, and the monthly and weekly lines have been rising since July.
The index has been rising for half a year, and is almost close to the previous high. The general environment is so good. Those who work in the secondary market have also enjoyed the dividends.”
The problem is that it is better to believe what is there than what is not.
The financial circle is enthusiastic about human hibernation. There is no hibernation center in New York. Wall Street traders take a five-hour flight to Los Angeles to undergo human hibernation.
The scientific community is full of doubts. They believe that the technology has not been fully demonstrated and should not be promoted on a large scale.
The federal government's forced arrest of illegal immigrants for hibernation experiments seriously violates morality.
Academics and ethnic minorities have united to oppose human hibernation technology, putting tremendous pressure on large-scale promotion in California.
Miller's words quickly caused shock in the capital market. First, Arcadia's stock price plummeted 26%.
Thanks to its previous cooperation with Guangjia Technology, Arcadia's stock price soared from US$4 billion to US$10 billion, more than tripling.
This time it plummets directly, and it is possible to return to the starting point.
In China, Guangjia Technology also plummeted. It plunged immediately at the opening, falling by 15%. It rebounded slightly at the close, and finally fell by 9 points.
Because Guangjia Technology is very expensive, there are few people holding it. Everyone in the stock market is mainly waiting and watching, and few people directly criticize it. "Isn't light-armor aerospace banned? Why did light-armor technology plummet?"
"The front foot can ban the Light Armor Aerospace, and the back foot can ban the Light Armor Technology. Isn't stock speculation just about speculation?
Without American, a major demander, revenue will be reduced by at least one-third."< br>
“Zero dollar purchases are still not ruthless enough. I would like to say that zero dollar purchases should be more ruthless and force Amerikan to send all these black people into hibernation.”
“According to previous media reports, American’s popularity of hibernation technology shouldn’t be banned, right?
Aren’t all the big names using human hibernation technology?”
"The perovskite batteries and recyclable rockets of Light Armor Aerospace have irritated the White House. They are so anxious to ban Light Armor Aerospace." If I give Guangshen a few more years, I wonder what he can do.”
America gave a big gift to the China Science and Technology Innovation Board on the last trading day before the Spring Festival, and it was well received. Affected by the plunge of Guangjia Technology, the entire Science and Technology Innovation Board index fell by 3 points that day.
"Would you like to hold an online meeting to discuss this matter?" Both Guangjia Aerospace and Guangjia Technology were on holiday. Lin Jia was at home in Hangzhou, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looking at the park, and called to ask road.
Chen Yuanguang is also at home. Since he became successful, he helped his mother move to a bigger house. Now the new home is two hundred square meters.
So much so that Chen's mother often complained that she was a little too lonely at home alone.
Chen Yuanguang said calmly: "No, let everyone celebrate the New Year well, it's a small matter.
When we come back after the New Year, we will stop the cooperation that needs to be stopped, negotiate for compensation, and find a replacement supplier. Find it.
We have already expected it to be included in the entity list, and we have made plans before. Now we can just follow the plan.
It's just that the time has been advanced. ”
When Lin Jia heard that Chen Yuanguang was so calm, she also calmed down: "Okay.
Indeed, it is indeed expected."
Chen Yuanguang then asked: "We will take countermeasures in a few years. Announcing that Guangjia Technology’s technology and products are prohibited from being exported to Amerikan.”
Chen Yuanguang’s decision surprised Lin Jia.
Because Chinese companies are only banned from importing by Americen, and none of them actively refuse to do business with Americen.
Even if it is Huawei, if Amerikan allows the import of Huawei products, they will still sell them.
Lin Jia thinks this is too irrational. Amerikan is the world's largest consumer market. Whether it is a toB or toC company, giving up such a large market will be a huge loss.
“Do you want to think about it again?
Abandoning the AMERICAN market will have a significant impact on the market value, revenue and profits of Guangjia Technology.
Plus If our contract with Acadia is suspended, it will inevitably involve the suspension of the agreement, and we will definitely have to pay a large amount of liquidated damages.”
Chen Yuanguang was helpless. Even the people around him were subconsciously opposed to working against Amerikan. If he wanted to promote it within Light Armor Technology, the resistance would be even greater.
“Just because we don’t sell to Americen doesn’t mean we will lose the American market.
What we need is to show an attitude. We will still cooperate with Arcadia. We The hibernation equipment will also be sold to them
But before, it was sold directly to America. Now, it will be exported to Mexico first, and then Arcadia will find a way to transport it back to the mainland. >
In short, raising the price of Ameliken’s final human hibernation equipment is our response.”
Lin Jia: "I think this is a way, but Yuan Guang, Chinese people's public opinion is not important to us.
Whether it is Guangjia Technology or Guangjia Aerospace, we are not doing toC Regarding business and public opinion, the only thing that can affect it is recruiting people.
If the public opinion is better, it will be easier to recruit people.
I don’t think there is any need to go through such trouble. ”
Chen Yuanguang thought to himself, he had the technology of the future, but he couldn't fight back properly when faced with Amerikan's hegemony, so what's the point of being able to go to the future?
It’s not like I have to be a tortoise in my twenties and be rational in everything. Others are bullying you at your doorstep. If you have the strength to counterattack, you still need to negotiate.
"I have decided, let's do it this way. Instead of waiting for them to add light armor technology to the banned list, we should take the initiative." Chen Yuanguang was determined.
Lin Jia was helpless: "Okay."
She then said: "Remember to say hello to my uncle and aunt for me, will I come to Yangcheng as a guest next year?"
Chen Yuanguang thought to himself, Didn't you say that you would only fall in love and not get married? Now that you are here during the Chinese New Year, why do you feel that there is a smell of spoilage in it?
But Chen Yuanguang said: "No problem, you are welcome to come anytime you want."
He thought that after he became famous, there seemed to be fewer and fewer friends around him. Before, when he returned to Yangcheng every winter and summer vacation, there would be various people A class reunion.
Now at the class reunion, he has attended it once and doesn’t want to attend it again.
Because he is still young, his classmates will not flatter him too much, but they will be very polite, an indescribable politeness.
Chen Yuanguang was originally introverted, but when these people were polite, the atmosphere became even more awkward.
Chen Yuanguang thought it would be better to stay at home alone and sleep in a daze, or go fishing with his father.
"Mom, when will you retire?" Chen Yuanguang asked.
This has been a long-standing topic in his family. Chen Yuanguang has always hoped that Chen’s mother would retire early because the work intensity is too high.
Mother Chen said: "Why are you retiring? You have no children, and I will have nothing to do after I retire.
Now in this company, the big boss knows that my son is the founder of Guangjia Technology After that, his attitude towards me was so good that I could go to work if I wanted to, but not if I didn't want to.
Completely free working hours, you can take on whatever projects you want.
I have never been so happy in my career. How many years have I been happy? Why am I in such a hurry to retire? ”
Chen’s mother works in a foreign consulting company in Yangcheng and has reached the position of partner, which can be regarded as a senior executive.
It’s just that partners have a higher dividend ratio. The team leader of the foreign company she works for is a senior executive with real power.
Since it was revealed that her son was Chen Yuanguang, their boss had asked her more than once if she wanted to be promoted. This was the first time that Chen's mother felt that she had taken advantage of her son.
(End of this chapter)