Chapter 369 Dark History
Balian's proposal caused an uproar among the upper echelons of the Lion City, but the news was limited to the Lion City.
Even due to PAP’s control of the news, apart from being able to appear on the main page of the Lion City media on the first day, even in the Lion City, the news can only appear in the sidelines, except for a few extremely keen people. It may be surprising that even if most people see this news, they just regard it as ordinary news.
Is there anything strange about MPs submitting motions?
I can’t even explain the difference between WP and PAP.
Artificial intelligence technology is developing at a rapid pace, but no landmark events have occurred recently.
So when Chen Yuanguang asked this, Lin Jia felt a little strange:
"Why do you ask this question suddenly? Is there any progress in artificial intelligence technology?"
Chen Yuanguang shook his head: "No, I just think that if artificial intelligence develops to a certain stage, will it coexist peacefully with humans or will it kill humans?"
Even in the future four hundred years later, there is no specific answer. Chen Yuanguang does not expect Lin Jia to have any eye-catching answer.
"I don't know. Based on my knowledge, I can only say that if humans will be killed by artificial intelligence, then I believe that the existence of humans as a species has no value in existence.
Only then can an absolutely rational machine life make such a decision. ”
Chen Yuanguang reminded: "There is another possibility that artificial intelligence will also give birth to emotions, and the artificial intelligence after giving birth to emotions is not as absolutely rational as you think."
"Then I don't know even more." Lin Jia shook his head.
Chen Yuanguang was silent.
At this time, all news feeds in the Lion City are:
"Unprecedented, Congress passed the Enterprise Management Regulations in the third reading"
"Temasek's private exemption qualification has been cancelled. Sources say this is the first shot against PAP."
The Corporate Governance Ordinance was passed with an overwhelming vote at the third reading in Congress, and everyone who knew the inside story was extremely shocked.
There are individuals who betray the class, and I have never heard of a class that betrays its interests.
This time is undoubtedly a collective betrayal by PAP members. Before this, no news was heard.
Generally speaking, for major events like this, the local media either hears about it and spreads the word, similar to vague and specious remarks on social media.
Either the foreign media blows the whistle, and international media giants with strong credibility such as Bloomberg, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse are suitable for doing this kind of thing.
But this time, there was no news beforehand. It was like thunder on the ground, shocking everyone with any political knowledge.
When unrealistic events occur in the real world, it means that there is a surreal force behind it.
The one who can possess surreal powers in the Lion City is most likely Amerikan.
American has this strength and motivation. American can harvest Korea and Neon, so why can't it harvest the Lion City?
Maybe this is a new harvesting method developed by Amerikan, and it is planned to be tested in a small country like the Lion City.
That afternoon, all the legislators who voted in favor of the management regulations posted messages on their Facebook pages, with very different meanings.
To sum it up in one sentence, I am fed up with what PAP is doing and want to quit PAP.
These Facebooks have created a real tsunami.
No matter how dull the people in the Lion City are, they will know that something is wrong after seeing it. The departure of so many members means that PAP has lost the parliament for the first time since the Lion City left Malaysia.
Even the forensic bloggers in China are aware of the coming storm. A lot of forensic bloggers said on Weibo that the big one is coming.
Bloggers like Brother Feng, who are afraid of chaos, publicly stated: "My visa to the Lion City has not expired yet, and I have bought a flight ticket from Shenhai to the Lion City tonight. I will bring front-line reports from the Lion City to my friends by then." .”
This is especially true in the Lion City. In the work line team of Lianhe Zaobao:
"Do you know what they said they did?"
"PAP has done other outrageous things that I don't know about."
"There are many members of this group who have been members of PAP for more than 40 years. What happened?"
"Not only senior PAP members, but also former ministers."
As a new immigrant to the Lion City, Wang Renkang watched the heated discussions among his colleagues in the work group and had no idea who they were talking about.
But not long after, the entire line group was disbanded. Before the disbandment, it only posted one sentence: "Lianhe Zaobao will not send anyone to attend the press conference held by Wang Yikang and others."
After Wang Yikang’s press conference, evidence about PAP spying on people from all walks of life in Lion City began to be uploaded intensively on WikiLeaks.
After the incident further escalated, a financial blogger from China directly posted on Weibo:
"In the grooved Lion City, I would say that the China National Aviation Oil incident was not that simple. At that time, everyone thought that these international giants were too good and we could not defeat them. Looking back now, it is really not that simple. China National Aviation Oil All of Temasek's trump cards were exposed to Goldman Sachs and Mitsui, and in the end they came out to play nice. Others are looking at the cards and playing with you. If you can outplay the opponent, you will be a fool.
In 2004, China National Aviation Oil suffered a huge loss of US$550 million due to shorting oil prices. This incident was a sensation at the time. You can think about the concept of US$550 million in 2004.
Later, when I looked back, I found that Mitsui and Goldman Sachs were the ones doing the bidding, driving China National Aviation Oil to a dead end step by step. As a result, looking at it now, it is not because of how powerful Goldman Sachs and Mitsui are.
Since both the headquarters and the registered place of China National Aviation Oil are in the Lion City, Mitsui and Goldman Sachs have provided details of the decision-making between China National Aviation Oil executives to Mitsui and Goldman Sachs for a long time.
A simple explanation is that China National Aviation Oil had an almost 100% monopoly on China's imported aviation oil business. The total trade volume in 2004 was US$1.9 billion. If China's economic development is optimistic about the long term, then China National Aviation Oil's prospects are unlimited. After all, this is a company There is a passenger aircraft market with 1.3 billion people, and you can imagine how huge the business of monopolizing aviation gasoline will be.
Obviously, this piece of Tang Monk meat was targeted by Goldman Sachs. The Goldman Sachs family was not focused enough because at that time, foreign investors were integrating the soybean market and trying to control the Chinese soybean market and obtain the pricing power of soybeans. Therefore, if Goldman Sachs exited directly, it would obviously arouse the vigilance of China National Aviation Oil Corporation.
Therefore, as a market maker, Goldman Sachs is equivalent to providing a short-selling platform to China National Aviation Oil. The real rivals to China National Aviation Oil are Mitsui and J.Aron. However, the parent company of J.Aron is Goldman Sachs.
In the end, AVIC was cornered by Mitsui, and Mitsui Energy Risk Management Company began to close the position, formally issuing a default letter and calling for margin payments. In the next two days, CAO was forced to partially liquidate its positions at historically high prices, and its book losses turned into actual losses of US$132 million for the first time. As of the 25th, the actual losses reached US$381 million. In November, China National Aviation Oil applied for a trading suspension in the Lion City, and the next day it officially announced to the market that it had lost $390 million and had a potential loss of $160 million, totaling $550 million.
In the same year, on Mitsui's official Japanese website, a report on the company's profitability showed that Mitsui Energy Risk Management, headquartered in England, had a profit of 46.7 billion in the fiscal year 2005 (April 2004-March 2005). Japanese yen (approximately $450 million). In contrast, China Aviation Oil's loss in the same year was US$550 million.
The real purpose of Mitsui and Goldman Sachs was to take control of China National Aviation Oil and control the lifeline of China National Aviation Oil. However, the final outcome was that China National Aviation Oil accepted compensation and would not let these two companies in even if they paid compensation. Instead, they chose to let England Petroleum The company and Temasek entered the market and became its shareholders.
Temasek, which holds 235 million pounds of British Petroleum shares, was the final winner in this competition. It finally obtained 25% of China National Aviation Oil for US$55 million. Looking at it now, this price is simply Cabbage price.
Back then, you would have thought that Mitsui and Goldman Sachs were ruthless. But now, looking back at the revelations inside Lion City, you will find that you have been manipulated by someone else. The Lion City has been leaking information about China National Aviation Oil’s top executives. To Mitsui and Goldman Sachs, all risk control actions of China National Aviation Oil during the entire futures trading process were predicted in advance by Mitsui and Goldman Sachs.
Mitsui and Goldman Sachs, who predicted your actions in advance, took advantage of human nature to continuously push up the sunk cost of aviation fuel, making the other party take a gamble and turn around. In the end, after the losses accumulated to US$550 million, they were forced to sell their equity to Temasek.
Goldman Sachs and Mitsui received funds, Temasek received equity, and only Laozhong suffered a huge loss, which can be regarded as one of the sky-high tuition fees paid in the early years.
The result of the trench also includes such an inside story. What happened in 2005 is only 22 years ago. Whether we can recover compensation across time and space, we must let Temasek, Goldman Sachs and Mitsui cough up the money! ”
(End of chapter)