On April 20, early in the morning, the whole world focused on the Westeros system.

At 10 a.m., two Boeing 767 private jets and three Boeing 747 business passenger planes took off from Los Angeles International Airport in turn.

Target Beijing, China.

Since the matter has been made public, the Westeros system will no longer be concealed. Related media platforms such as TV and the Internet immediately issued a press release, and major media from North America, Asia and Europe quickly began to follow up.

The Westeros system executive team, led by Simon Westeros, will conduct a two-day official visit to China on April 22 and April 23, and a government delegation led by the new U.S. Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kanter will accompany.

The first thing the media noticed was the huge scale of this visit.

Among them, there are 27 people in the Westeros system, including Simon Westeros, James Rebel, Westeros president James Bezos, Cisco John Chambers, Cisco John Chambers, Verizon Telecom Raymond Smith, Ella Deutschman, Apollo Management Company Leon Black, Levison Group Francis Levison Group, Nokia Chairman and Cyoma Olila, etc.

In terms of the government team, headed by Minister of Commerce Mickey Kanter, a total of 19 officials of all sizes.

In addition, there are assistants, security, service and other peripheral members around the core team, with a total of more than 400 people.

Finally, there were more than 300 media reporters from newspapers, television, Internet and other platforms from all sides of the United States. Except for the reporters of the Westeros system’s own platform, the Westeros system actively invited them. The main consideration was that such an important news event was better to take the initiative to guide the North American media instead of allowing North American media to play freely.

After all calculations, the total number of visitors to the team is close to 800.

As for why the outside world noticed this point at the first time and caused heated discussion, a simple set of comparisons is enough to make it clear.

Since 1972, successive US presidents have visited China. Richard Nixon's visiting team is 300, Gerald Ford has 450, Ronald Reagan has 600, and George Bush has 500.

Perhaps some people will question Simon Westeros after all, just a businessman, how can he compare with the US president?

However, from the recent official statements issued by China and the preparations made by the Chinese capital region to welcome Simon Westero's visit, it can be found that this country is responding to the visit completely according to the highest specifications of the head of state.

Anyone with a little knowledge understands that with the current strong influence of the Westeros system, Simon Westeros is fully worthy of such reception specifications.

After all, Simon Westeros currently has a personal net worth of more than US$1 trillion, which is higher than China's GDP of US$730 billion in 1995. The entire Westeros system, based on scale, is equivalent to the third largest economy in the world after the United States and Japan.

After 13 hours.

At 23:00 am in the evening of Western Time in the United States, and at 2:00 pm on Sunday, local time in China, Simon Westeros's landline first landed at the Capital International Airport. When the Chinese pick-up screen came, a certain core senior Chinese senior officer attended the pick-up ceremony, which completely confirmed the reception specifications of China's response to Westeros' visit.

Because according to diplomatic etiquette, reception at the head of state, such as the United States, will be carried out by the vice president on behalf of the president, and other countries will be the same as the rules.

For Simon Westeros, China really gave such specifications.

Globally, more formal media were shocked, shocked by the height a 28-year-old young man had already been at. The unreasonable media was questioned in an uproar. What qualifications are Simon Westeros’ qualifications for this? Is he the real president of the United States?

Immediately afterwards, two days of the official visit, more than 6,000 media reporters gathered in the Chinese capital around the world personally witnessed the grand scale of the visit.

April 22.

In the morning, welcoming ceremony in the Great Hall and talks were held. In the afternoon, we visited the Forbidden City together. In the evening, we had a state banquet.

April 23.

In the morning, a large-scale business cooperation agreement was signed, involving real estate, technology, finance and other aspects. In the afternoon, a symposium on the political and business circles. In the evening, a cultural and artistic performance.

The two-day compact schedule continued, and the media found that compared with the reception head of the reception, the only difference in the entire reception process of Simon Westero's visit was that there was no review of the three armies' honor guards together. After all, this was a formal diplomatic etiquette between countries.

However, except for a few media that are still clamoring, there are no more renderings and jokes at this time.

because.

The impact of Simon Westero's visit occurred almost immediately.

Westeros effect.

That's right, it's the Westeros effect that makes Japan frightened every time after these years.

And this time, not only Japan, but most countries in Asia except China were unable to escape.

On April 22, the first day of the opening of the new week, since 1996, it has barely broken free from the quagmire of last year's plunge. After the opening, it took a sharp turn for the worse. The deepest decline on Monday once reached 6.3%, and the decline at the close of the day also reached 4.9%, falling from 16,893 points to 16,065 points.

At the same time, stock markets in Asian countries such as South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia have plummeted, with a general decline of about 5%, among which the decline of the South Korean stock market is as high as 7.6%, which is simply terrible.

On April 23, with a large number of urgent statements to stabilize the market, Southeast Asian countries, who thought yesterday's plunge had passed, found themselves very wrong. Not only was the anticipated rebound not coming, but as the Westeros system delegation signed a series of cooperation agreements with China, the stock market curves of Southeast Asian countries did not even tend to rise, and they still plunged down.

First of all, it is Japan, the largest.

Throughout Tuesday, the Nikkei 225 index plummeted 6.3% again, and it had fallen back to 15,053 points at the close of the day, and fell 10.9% in two days. According to the current momentum, even if it falls 0.5%, the Japanese stock market will fall back to the darkest period after the country suffered consecutive Hanshin earthquakes and sarin gas incidents at the beginning of last year. At that time, the Japanese stock market fell back below 15,000 points in the 1980s and the first time in a decade after rushing to 15,000 points.

Many people think that this kind of thing will not happen again, however, in just two days, the Nikkei 225 index has hovered around the 15,000 threshold.

South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and other countries also failed to escape. All day on Tuesday, stock markets in other Asian countries outside China fell by more than 7%, which was even worse than Monday.

In sharp contrast with other Asian countries, the Chinese stock market has undoubtedly been gradually improved.

In two days, China's Shanghai Composite Index soared by 13.6%, from 765 points at the opening on Monday to 869 points.

Similarly, in North America, the Dow Jones Index and the Nasdaq Index both hit new highs, with the Dow Jones Index rising by 3.7% for two consecutive days, rising from 6139 points to 6365 points. The Nasdaq Index also rose by 4.3% on the double-day increase, from 3416 points to 3562 points.

Everyone caught this sudden financial shock off guard.

After careful analysis, everything is so natural.

Things can be traced back to the end of World War II. First, Japan, relying on the encounter of the Korean War and the deliberate support of the United States, quickly recovered its economy by relying on large-scale war orders. Then, during the Cold War, the East and the West confronted each other. Out of the need to win over and encircle, Southeast Asian countries received a large amount of economic assistance from the United States and Japan. The economy developed rapidly, and regional economic giants such as the Four Asian Tigers and the Four Asian Tigers appeared one after another.

All this until the 1990s.

To be precise, it was 1992.

Before this, China's opening-up policy was in a sway state. Although the economy recovered rapidly, overseas capital had been concerned about China's business environment. However, China, which had been weak for too long, had to need a lot of help from foreign capital to develop, so it was because of the various types of lost principles that began to accommodate foreign capital in the 1990s.

Then, in 1992, the tone was completely set. In 1994, a series of regulations such as China's "Company Law", "Labor Law", and "Intellectual Property Protection Law" were promulgated, which also announced that China entered the first year of a market economy, and the confidence of all capitals in China's economy increased again.

However, the negative impact accumulated over the long period of time cannot be eliminated immediately. In the original time and space, attracting foreign capital to actively invest in China was also a relatively slow process. It was not until after the millennium that China joined the World Trade Organization and entered another stage.

This time, Simon's visit to China and the large number of cooperation agreements signed by the Westeros system with China are no exaggeration to say that it directly resolves international capital's concerns about investing in China.

The rapid rise of the Westeros system over a decade is enough to bear such a guarantee.

Putting aside political concerns, look at China, with a population of 1 billion, the world's largest population country, with a vast territory, both human and natural resources. The economy is in a period of rapid growth, and all walks of life are full of opportunities, a standard blue ocean market, and many preferential policies for foreign investment.

Such a country can certainly invest without hesitation.

Capital is also limited.

With China's huge size, when a large amount of capital that originally intended to invest in Asia began to influx, the other Asian countries were the first to be affected.

Economically developed Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc. will not only encounter competition from European and American capital in China in terms of investment, but also compete with more European and American strong companies in China. In countries with an average economic level that is stronger than China, the middle and low-end manufacturing industries with a large proportion of industries will inevitably be impacted by China with relatively lower costs and fall into recession due to loss of competitiveness.

Therefore, with Simon Westero's visit to China, the capital market gave the most direct feedback.

In the original time and space, the development of other Asian countries basically follows this trend.

The twenty years Japan lost may have internal reasons for its improper domestic economic policies, but it is also because of China's rise. As for Southeast Asian countries, after the Asian economic crisis, China's rise basically lost its sense of international presence.

Simon's visit to China only directly catalyzes the trend in the next few years, which has caused a general decline in the stock markets in these countries.

After the two-day official visit ended, Simon disappeared directly from the public eye.

Faced with media inquiries, the official statement of the Westeros system is that the two began to take private leave and did not want to be disturbed. According to reports from all parties, the couple is obviously still in China.

This is undoubtedly another big difference.

Free.

If a real head of state visits, how could it be possible to disappear if you want to. Even if you temporarily avoid the spotlight, no matter where you go or what you do, there will be a special record. Perhaps the outside world will envy the scenery, but the people in the game understand that this feeling of not having a little private time is actually not good at all.

With the cooperation of China, the couple wanted to avoid the attention of the outside world, as if they only recited a spell and then disappeared.

No one can find it.

This actually made other Asian countries feel relieved.

Sure enough, the Westeros and his wife avoided the public's vision, and the Westeros effect seemed to disappear. On Wednesday, after many people's nights, the Japanese stock market finally did not turn around after opening the day, and returned to the darkness within 15,000 points, but rebounded. The stock markets in other Asian countries may have risen and fallen, and overall they are far less tragic than the previous two days.

In order to make sure that this "good news" will not be interrupted, many people even contacted the Westeros system to test it directly. The current Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto also called the phone to James Rebel, who was still in China, to inquire about Simon's itinerary, and even directly abandoned the implicitness of the Orientals, and hoped that Mr. Westeros would not show up publicly in the near future.

In order to show goodwill, he even offered real benefits.

As long as Simon Westeros will not make public appearances in the near future, Japan's three companies, Sony, Panasonic and Canon, can also give up the patent infringement lawsuit initiated by Tinkobaier regarding digital cameras, digital camera products and other products, and the two parties will reach a private settlement.

In fact, this is both a favor and a level.

After all, Tinkobaier was established too short and did not have the deep roots in the technical layout of Japanese old electronic manufacturers. Until now, many of Tinkobaier's components still have to be purchased from these companies. With Tinkobaier's rapid rise, Sony and other manufacturers felt threatened and have begun to use patent weapons to try to suppress them in recent years.

Unfortunately, the effect is obviously not great.

After all, the main market of Tinkobaier's products is still concentrated in the United States. Even if Japanese companies take the blame, the US government will be crazy and suppress a new electronics giant that has finally grown up in China according to the Japanese's wishes.

The Japanese have a pretty good reputation.

Simon had no intention of showing up, and since the other party gave him benefits, he asked James to give a positive answer.

Although Simon was directly invisible after the official schedule ended, the huge Westeros system delegation and the US government team did not leave immediately. They were still conducting consultations and exchanges with China in various aspects. According to personal work arrangements, it is expected to stay for about a week. Even though various agreements have been reached before, time is too tight after all, and many details need to be improved.

On the other hand, Simon's visit to Southeast Asia had an immediate impact. The same was true for China.

The growth of China's stock market is still the second.

In the following days, many investment projects that were under negotiation were already under negotiation in various parts of China, and the negotiation progress was generally accelerated, and some investments that were only intended also entered the formal negotiation stage. Many countries such as North America, Europe, Latin America and even Africa began to find investment inspection teams to China.

At this point, no one questioned that China's high-standard reception of Simon Westeros was a big deal.

If possible, it would be fine to receive the other party even by the standards of alien visitors.

Um.

Of course, other Asian countries who have just experienced a financial turmoil and are still scared.
Chapter completed!