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The angry old man would never have thought that his opponent thousands of miles away was completely opposite to him, but had the same emotions as him.
Standing in front of him, Jeffrey felt a deep sadness, where would the empire go.
At major time points in history, decision-makers who are considered wise, wise, and have sufficient information sources are often forced by history to make unwise decisions. This decision is likely to affect the country's development. The advantage is destroyed by one's own hands.
He has the power to bypass Congress and launch war, which is one of his most important powers.
As for whether the Empire will enforce it, let alone that, the military-industrial complex can't wait to fill their massive appetites with flesh and blood.
Countless people from the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party are waiting to make a fortune from this war. The history of Afghanistan is not far away, and many people have made a fortune from this.
Jeffrey has the feeling that he is the only one who thinks about the country, and everyone else is doing it for their own benefit.
If he is lucky enough to read the history of China, he will definitely connect it with the struggle of the Ming Dynasty.
Jeffrey clearly remembers October 7, 2001, when the White House made the decision to attack. Just like today, he was just a partner of a business information company in the Washington area, far less powerful than he is now. power and prestige.
After Jeffrey won the 2020 election and entered the White House with the Donkey Party, the total assets of the family foundation under his name expanded from 0 in 19 to about 1.5 million US dollars in 20.
Jeffrey even believes that the decision made today is far more reckless and hasty than the one in 2001. It is entirely because the other party is facing a significant fall behind in the election and is making a desperate move to win the election. Decide.
After all, it took more than half a year to prepare. Although the decision was made by a small group in the White House, the opinions of various people were listened to to some extent, and a careful attack plan was formulated before starting the war.
Yes, for the owner of the White House, it is acceptable that the empire’s ruling system is crumbling. The current election situation is even worse than the empire’s rule. The polling data in each swing state lags behind its competitors by a large margin. , this is something he can't accept even more.
Faithful media outlets like Fox have used their own news programs and political talk shows to ridicule the current White House, especially the person who occupies the White House, and have done something during his tenure. A glorious achievement that failed was taken out and whipped repeatedly.
Competitors have even criticized him in various ways at election rallies in various places. Even the media from the Donkey Party cannot speak for him at this point in time.
For a time, it fell into a state of being opposed by the whole world. It has almost no chance of winning in the election. It is very likely to lose all swing states, even states with traditional donkey parties.
The election is bad, your sworn enemies are taunting you, your empire is crumbling, and your opponents are unwilling to compromise.
As their opponents broke through in the chip field and the U.S. stock market plummeted, they once again struck a blow to Amerikan in the capital market, and this blow was coordinated with Damao.
Several opponents are simultaneously selling U.S. debt significantly.
The sell-off of U.S. debt has had an extremely bad impact on the market, that is, the Fed does not dare to release more water in order to boost U.S. stocks. If they do, it will cause uncontrollable inflation.
The opponent's unwillingness to compromise became an important factor in the White House's decision. War can solve most problems, provided it is won.
As for inflation, the national debt has soared again, and the national debt has exploded. This is a follow-up problem.
As for the opponent's unwillingness to pay, who will pay for the special national bonds that will be issued to launch the war? Naturally, it is the sons of Neon and Goryeo.
Jeffrey can only be glad that the old man is not completely crazy yet. The war has been chosen in the Middle East instead of Eastern China, and the situation can still be controlled.
"Damn Chinese people, putting the empire in a dilemma." Jeffrey complained in his heart.
Being here, his understanding of China is far deeper than outsiders imagined.
Being able to stand on the shore and not end the game is the privilege of the advantaged side. The disadvantaged side cannot do it even if they don't want to end the game. During S2, Amerikan stayed on the shore to watch and do business, and did not end the game personally until after Pearl Island. .
The later you finish, the more advantage you have. Even in the neon Warring States Period, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had always been stubborn, finally won the victory.
At the moment, no one wants to end the game personally, and those who want to end the game have a gambler's mentality. It is a huge advantage not to end the game and stir up trouble. Only small countries are dragged into the meat grinder of war.
Jeffrey was unwilling and unable to watch his opponent stand on the shore. He believed that he would drag his opponent into the water no matter what.
Where to drag the opponent into the water, naturally it is the southeast, let the three brothers Neon Kangaroo and Goryeo come on, and watch from the stage. Once it starts, it can isolate its opponents from the world trading system like Da Mao.
After you are isolated, it will be useless to make breakthroughs in chip technology because your products will not be sold.
Create a vacuum environment and put the opponent into this vacuum environment. This is Jeffrey's strategy.
The White House administration, which only has less than a year left, is capable of pushing down the islands, Neon, and Korea.
Whether these people are willing to fight for the interests of the empire, Jeffrey is a bit overconfident.
Everyone knows that the later you end up on shore, the better. It’s okay for you to let Neon pay for the U.S. debt. It’s okay to use Neon as a bait to become a normal country and let it pay for Amerikan’s military expenses. .
But you don’t want to give up. You want Neon to fight a regional war for you with a chance of winning that is infinitely close to zero. You also give your opponent an excuse to attack Neon’s homeland and risk losing Ryukyu. This business Neon would never do it. Naturally, the son will not disobey his father's words.
Considering how long this father's term is, as a temporary father for less than a year, Neon has to use his old tradition of defeating his superiors at this time.
Neon gave you a move to assassinate the legend, and it delayed less than a year.
As for whether the current Prime Minister is willing to sacrifice for Neon, if he is not willing, someone will find a way to make him willing. There will always be people who come to persuade Mr. to die.
Amerikan's huge military machine began to operate, preparing to give Iran and Gaza a good look, so as to shock the entire world, and at the same time shift the world's focus from technological breakthroughs to geopolitical conflicts.
At this time, Neon did not know that the White House had set its sights on itself. The Neon semiconductor industry was ready to make a move, with Nikon the most excited.
Nikon used to be the absolute leader in the photolithography machine market. At its peak, it occupied nearly 80% of the market share. Later, the market share was taken away bit by bit by ASML. Until today, Nikon has become the leader in the photolithography machine market. The players in the engraving machine market are insignificant, even inferior to Canon.
To use other words to describe it is a bit luxurious. The experience of going from the eldest to the third child is really uncomfortable.
Nikon has never given up, never given up its ambition to catch up with ASML. Until last year, they also launched a new generation of ARF immersion lithography machines.
In order to buck the trend and find areas for differentiated competition, they even went back to optimize backward technologies in an attempt to seize the market based on cost.
As we all know, before the advent of the Ark chip, the most advanced chip manufacturing process was advanced to 3nm, and the 250nm i-line light source lithography machine technology can be called a backward technology among backward technologies.
However, in order to open up the situation, Nikon renovated the technology from 24 years ago and launched a 250nm process lithography machine in an attempt to seize the low-end market.
The cost of semiconductors manufactured with Nikon's new photolithography machines can be 20 to 30% lower than those of competitors.
Before, the high-end market could not compete with ASML no matter what. The gap was so big that it was impossible to catch up.
It’s different now. With the emergence of topological semi-metal, Nikon sees hope. If it can cooperate with Chinese companies and develop photolithography machines specifically for topological semi-metal, this will This is their opportunity to overtake in corners.
ASML can cooperate with TSMC to overtake in corners. Why can’t Nikon cooperate with SMIC and Photonics to overtake in corners?
This is what Nikon executives thought.
"Everyone, the opportunity we have been waiting for for twenty years has finally appeared. As long as we can cooperate with Chinese companies to jointly develop photolithography equipment specifically for topological semi-metals, we can fully catch up with AMSL." Decheng Zhiliang's face was full of peace.
He is the president who just took office recently and has been serving as vice president and executive director before.
Mahiro Morita, general manager of Nikon's Semiconductor Division, nodded and said: "We don't have much time. Now we still have an advantage compared with our Chinese counterparts.
The 28nm of our Chinese counterparts The photolithography machine has not yet been successfully developed.
After they have successfully developed it and we lose our advantage, it will be too late even if we want to cooperate with China. ”
Morita has always insisted on opening up the Chinese market. It was also his idea to renovate the i-line lithography machine from 24 years ago in order to enter the Chinese market.
In his view, only if Chinese semiconductor companies are familiar with Nikon's equipment can they continue to purchase Nikon's equipment.
Since Nikon cannot compete with AMSL in the high-end market, Chinese companies must at least be familiar with Nikon's low-end equipment.
Morita continued: "According to the research on topological semimetals by our internal technical staff, the biggest feature of this new material is that it requires a lot of light sources. There is a high probability that there will be different internal structures during the manufacturing process of sheet-like raw materials. Passage requires different light sources
This is Nikon’s advantage.”
Nikon is one of the few companies that has long-term accumulation in light sources, and has dabbled in all kinds of weird light sources.
During their advantageous period in history, they invested a lot of resources into light source research, and were the only manufacturer that could keep up with ASML in deep ultraviolet light research.
“I also think we should cooperate with China. Even if we cooperate with China to manufacture photolithography machines, only Chinese people will buy them, and the Chinese market is broad enough.
More importantly The only thing is that American may not be able to insist on not purchasing equipment from China, just like American announced a special license for perovskite batteries not long ago.
So there are only two problems left, one is China. Will the Chinese be willing to cooperate? Second, will America agree?”
Even though Neon is definitely considered a powerful country on a global scale, it still depends on Amerikan’s face.
(End of this chapter)