Raymond Johnston felt that Simon's plan to visit China was inappropriate, which was not surprising.

In fact, many people around Simon think so.

The reason is too complicated.

If you want to discuss this topic, you may not be able to understand it clearly if you want to discuss it tens of thousands of words.

With Raymond Johnston's eyes, it is impossible to see China's rapid development in recent years. However, the old man who has always paid great attention to Asian business should also experience the strong uncertainty that the Chinese economy has shown since its opening in 1978.

This is actually the biggest concern of many people.

This kind of thing has actually happened many times in the past few decades. Many countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and even Africa, open up when they say they are open, and turn against each other when they say they are turned against each other. Then, no matter how much you invest, they will be confiscated directly, and all debts and loans will be deducted, and investors will suffer heavy losses.

This is the most important point.

In addition, it is naturally in terms of politics and culture.

To put it bluntly, no matter how good the East and the West are, they are not of the same clan and the same origin.

If you are not of my race, your heart will be different.

This is not only a famous saying left by our ancestors on the other side of the ocean, but is actually more deeply rooted in the Western concepts. Therefore, Simon's approach to getting close to China with great fanfare will inevitably arouse the disgust of many Western nationalists.

It is impossible for Americans to forget the two consecutive miserable returns in Asia in the fifties and seventies.

In addition, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international situation changed, so there is no need to win over China and restrain the Soviet Union.

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

In front of the glass curtain of Shell Villa, Simon heard Anthony telling 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, may be a lot of losses, but it is them who really hurt the root cause. Therefore, I am not worried about this. In my opinion, the more deeply China is introduced into the global economic system, the less likely it is for some 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 gotten rid of this kind of thinking inertia."

Anthony Johnston was slightly stunned when he heard this, but after a moment he nodded slightly.

I couldn't help but feel some emotion like the old man. How great would it be if it were the "politics" of the Johnston family. If there wouldn't be Westeros back then, it would be Simon Johnston now.

Alas, what a pity.

In fact, after confirming Simon's identity a few years ago, the old man once wanted to make this relationship public, even if it was made public on a small scale. He just took into account Simon's possible ideas and still did not do this and planned to let it go.

Since Simon had made up his mind, Anthony didn't persuade him much and talked about several projects that Simon was preparing for recently. Until Janet came again, reminding the two that lunch was ready.

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

The Westeros system spent more than $6 million for the more than 2,000 points of information in the box, which does not count the subsequent expenses of secretly receiving some cutting-edge technical talents.

However, this is actually a big advantage.

Because the things in the box can be said to be the result of the former Soviet Union's efforts in research and development, and the value is simply incalculable.

After completing this, Anthony did not stay long and set off for Latin America after lunch. Johnston Holdings, which has also continued to expand in recent years, is discussing some cooperation with Brazil, mainly to add a kick to the privatization plan of Vale, the largest state-owned iron ore company in Brazil.

Simon's work in the afternoon and evening was to personally classify the large amount of information sent by Anthony, confirming which information should be given to which teams, or whether it is suitable and take it out now.

Neither SpaceX, SolarCity or FusionTimes, Simonko has planned to start from scratch.

It would be too stupid to use the technology developed by our predecessors to invest in immeasurable resources as much as possible. Therefore, this time the Westeros system will directly poach the Southern Design Bureau, the most important thing in Ukraine. Not only that, Simon will also strive to obtain technical accumulation in NASA and other aspects through various means.

These are treasures.

Simon did not have any moral problems with this. On the contrary, he believed that countries around the world did their own things in the same technology, could not communicate with each other, and even abandoned more technologies in the end. This is the greatest waste of human resources.

The planet on which humans rely on is really far less prosperous than people imagine.

I don’t know how long I was busy, Janet appeared in the studio on the basement floor of Shell Villa. She stood behind Simon and looked at the monitor on the desk for a moment. Seeing the man coming to his senses, he walked around the leather chair and sat directly in Simon’s arms. He felt the arm that was naturally holding his arms, and he was hit backwards, asking, “How much have you sorted out?”

Simon knelt his chin on Janet's shoulder, and operated the mouse with one hand, saying, "I only read more than 200 copies, and there are many more, and most of them I can't understand, just sorting them out."

These materials are basically Russian, and Simon's Russian is pretty good, but it involves professional knowledge. It is not like Chinese that can guess some hieroglyphs based on the shape of the characters. It will be very difficult to figure it out. But it is impossible to deal with others in this matter. After all, it is too sensitive. Even the two Jenny or A girls didn't call for help. It is not that they don't trust it, but that they just don't understand Russian.

Janet leaned in Simon's arms and looked around for a while. After Simon typed some notes on a document to classify it, he said: "It's already past seven o'clock in the evening, so have dinner first?"

Simon nodded, opened another electronic document and said, "Wait a minute, there are the last two files in this CD."

Janet hmmed, continued to accompany him, and said, "Will there really be no problem when we get these documents?"

Even with Janet's lawless nature, he actually knew that getting the information from Ukraine was even more serious than stealing one or two nuclear bombs.

Simon shook his head and said, "If it were Russia, I would definitely not do this. Ukraine doesn't matter. After actively giving up its nuclear weapons, the country has been completely abolished. In fact, many people are doing this now. You see, these are all electronic files, and the real manuscript may have been taken away by others."

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it chose to do its own thing and voluntarily give up nuclear weapons. Now the economy is a pool of mud. In many people's eyes, Ukraine is just a fat sheep. Now everyone can divide as much as they can.

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

China has obviously failed to catch up with the sharing feast of Ukraine in recent years and can only harvest some leftovers in a few decades, while Europe, America and Russia basically get everything they should get.

Unfortunately, all parties have not really used these technologies.

The root cause is still the benefit.

It is the space field.

The most praised RD-180 rocket engine in the next twenty years is why the United States has been buying from Russia. In fact, it is not that the United States cannot make it. In fact, the United States has quite complete technical reserves and has already fully understood the RD-180, and even made certain improvements after receiving Russian engines before it will be used on the rocket.

Some people wonder, since they have the technology, why not make it yourself?

Because of money.

To build rocket engines, it is not something that can be done by a group of people holding tools in the studio. The more advanced it is, the more this is. First of all, a complete set of talents and production systems are required, which cost money. The American aerospace system, which is used to being big-handed, cannot limit the cost to more than Russia in any case.

As for the later re-interpretation of Russia and the United States, the United States clamored to replace Russia's RD-180, but found that even if there was technology, it was still difficult to produce in a short period of time. So they could only support SpaceX as much as possible. The main reason is that all the relevant production systems have been scrapped. If you want to pick them up again, you still have to burn a large amount of funds.

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

This is like masks during the epidemic, which is even simpler. Why do Europe and the United States still rely on China? It is also because the industrial chain has been abolished and cannot be restored in a short period of time. In a capital society like the West, capitalists are not willing to recover. If a large amount of money is invested, the epidemic is over and the masks are useless again, wouldn’t it be a big loss?

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

Because you will lose money.

Except for war.

This is not a simple benefit. Mandatory wartime laws will allow Western countries to restart their industrial systems in a short period of time.

Continuing to process some of the documents, Simon and Janet left the studio on the underground floor together.

After dinner, Simon did not go to the underground floor to work hard.

Chen Qing happened to send someone to send another round of selection of the National Style Art Troupe in the afternoon. After this round of screening, there were less than 300 people left. The final 100 places will be selected from these people.

Janet knew about this and got involved with it with great enthusiasm.

However, Simon did not arrange any interviews or anything else, but instead took a simple and crude way to finalize the final candidates on the last batch of lists.

According to height.

The initial recruitment conditions for the newspaper were 168CM-172CM, which was actually quite close.

Simon got the last batch of lists, and while watching TV with two Jenny that night, he directly marked 100 girls according to the standard closest to 170CM.

In fact, this can be left to Chen Qing to do.

Simon is not like this, mainly because he knows the temperament of a certain girl. It is hard to say whether she will cause some trouble.

After being held by her side for so long, Simon also discovered that Chen Qing was the kind of person who was both a little bit towards him and a little bit like Janet. She was very capable and seemed very obedient. However, if the rebellious girl in her bones was not suppressed, she might make a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace one day.

The time is entering mid-March.

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

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

From the end of October last year that General Electric and Time Warner reached an agreement, and to the formal approval of the merger and acquisition case on March 15, more than four months have passed, which is a bumpy one.

It is mainly because General Electric's strength and the fields Time Warner has entered have caused fear of competitors from all sides.

Daenerys actually encountered this problem when he acquired Metropolitan ABC. However, with the successful mediation of Simon and all parties, they were basically properly resolved.

The merger between GE and Time Warner was not so lucky.

Whether it is General Electric's competitor Westinghouse Electric or its peers in entertainment, telecommunications, etc., during the federal review of this transaction case, they all jumped out to raise various objections, and then all kinds of disputes.

For example, Comcast, which has already issued a scale but not its top strength, has questioned the details of the new company's discriminatory treatment of operators after this merger. Because once the two companies merge, General Electric will not only own a large number of other cable TV assets such as NBC Public TV Network and HBO, but also own operators like Comcast like Warner Communications.

Then, in this case, there is undoubtedly the possibility that GE will refuse to provide TV broadcasts to Comcast in the future to suppress Comcast. Even if GE does not do this on the surface, if it adopts differentiated pricing for operators' share of revenue in private, it will also cause serious unfair competition.

Therefore, if you want to pass the merger audit, General Electric must solve this problem.

How to solve it?

The best way is of course not to merge.

In fact, even without this merger, Time Warner Group, which has the most popular HBO and cable TV operator Warner Communications, also has the possibility of such operations. However, Time Warner has been doing these two businesses for many years, and was previously basically the default industry structure of all parties.

However, once GE swallows Time Warner, things will definitely be different.

With the current surging wave of new technology, coupled with the latest federal telecommunications bill, which has significantly relaxed the regulation of the telecommunications industry and even began to encourage the integration of three networks, as long as General Electric is not stupid, it will definitely increase its investment in Warner Communications in the future, and it is not impossible to develop towards comprehensive telecommunications operators.

At that time, with the strength of General Electric, operators such as Comcast, which are still second-tier for the time being, will definitely be under doubled.

Therefore, even if GE has made various compromises in the past few months and is still being quarreled by its competitors, GE will neither give up this merger easily nor give up the second best Warner Communications business, which is intended to bet on, and you can only go back and forth.

This lasted for more than four months, and it was still a first-year chess game and successfully passed the review.

Of course, many conditions have been paid.

For example, in the operator business, General Electric made a series of public written commitments to ensure that no unfair competition would occur.
Chapter completed!