Chapter 904 (1/2)
Raymond Johnston doesn't think it's surprising that Simon's grand plan to visit China is thoughtless.
In fact, many people around Simon think so.
The reason is too complicated.
If we want to discuss this topic, tens of thousands of words are not necessarily clear.
From the perspective of Raymond Johnston, it is impossible not to see the rapid development of China in recent years. However, the old man who has been focusing on Asian business should also realize the strong uncertainty of China's economy since its opening up in 1978.
This is actually the biggest concern of western capital.
In fact, this has happened many times in the past few decades. In many countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and even Africa, with the change of political situation, opening up means opening up, and turning over means turning over. Then, no matter how much investment you make, you will confiscate it directly, and all debts and loans will be lost, resulting in heavy losses for investors.
This is the most important point.
In addition, political and cultural aspects.
In the final analysis, no matter how friendly the eastern and Western societies seem, they are not of the same origin.
If you are not of my race, your heart will be different.
This is not only a wise saying left by our ancestors on the other side of the ocean, but also deeply rooted in Western ideas. It is the instinct of almost all western elites to suppress the rise of foreign races. Therefore, Simon's approach to China will inevitably arouse the antipathy of many Western nationalists.
What's more, even after the establishment of diplomatic relations for so many years, fundamentally, the potential confrontation between China and the United States has never really been eliminated.
It is impossible for Americans to forget the two consecutive failures in Asia in the 1950s and 1970s.
Coupled with the drastic changes in the international situation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is no need to win over China to contain the Soviet Union. The United States has almost cleanly changed its attitude towards China. In the original time and space, throughout the 1990s, even though it seemed to be harmonious on the surface, all kinds of small US actions against China never stopped.
After all, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, China has become a little too conspicuous.
In front of the glass curtain of the shell villa, Simon heard Anthony tell the old man and said seriously: ”the next few decades must be an era of globalization. In terms of economy, if China, which is already developing rapidly, is closed again, maybe we will lose a lot, but it is them who really hurt. So I'm not worried about that. In my opinion, the deeper China is introduced into the global economic system, the less likely some variables will be. As for politics, Tony, what we need to consider now is not the ”politics” of the United States or Australia, but the ”politics” of the westero system. I don't think many of you are out of this mindset
Anthony Johnston was stunned and nodded a moment later.
I can't help but feel the same emotion as the old man. If only it were the ”politics” of the Johnston family. If There won't be any Westeros. It must be Simon Johnston now.
Alas, it's a pity.
In fact, after confirming Simon's identity a few years ago, the old man once wanted to make this relationship public, even in a small scope. He just took into account Simon's ideas, but he didn't do so after all. He planned to let it go.
Now that Simon has made up his mind, Anthony doesn't give much advice. He talks about several projects Simon is preparing recently, until Janet comes back to remind them that lunch is ready.
Anthony Johnston's visit to North America is mainly to personally deliver a box of invaluable technical information.
The vistro system spent more than $6 million on the more than 2000 pieces of information in the box, not counting the subsequent immigration costs of secretly receiving some cutting-edge technical talents.
However, in fact, it still takes a lot of advantage.
Because the things in the box can be described as the R & D achievements of the former Soviet Union, and their value is immeasurable.
After that, Anthony didn't wait much. After lunch, he left for Latin America again. Johnston holdings, which has also been expanding in recent years, is discussing some cooperation with Brazil recently. The main purpose is to add a part in the privatization plan of vale, Brazil's largest state-owned iron ore company.
Simon has been personally classifying a large number of materials sent by Anthony from the afternoon until the evening, confirming which materials should be given to which teams, or whether they are suitable, so he can take them out now.
Whether it's SpaceX, SolarCity or fusion times, Simon doesn't plan to start from scratch.
It would be foolish not to make use of the technology that our predecessors invested a lot of resources to develop. That's why the vistro system is directly undermining Ukraine's most important southern Design Bureau. Not only that, Simon will strive for NASA's technology accumulation in various ways.
These are treasures.
Simon doesn't have any moral problems about it. On the contrary, he thinks that countries all over the world can't communicate with each other on the same technology, and even abandon many technologies in the end, which is the biggest waste of human resources.The planet we live on is far from as rich as people think.
I don't know how long I've been busy. Janet appears in the studio on the ground floor of shell villa. First, she stands behind Simon and looks at the monitor on her desk for a moment. Seeing the man recover, she goes around the leather chair and sits directly in Simon's arms. Feeling the natural arm, she sticks her body back and asks, ”how much have you finished?”
Simon knocked his chin on Janet's shoulder, smelling the nice smell of women. He operated the mouse with one hand and said, ”I've only read more than 200 copies, and there are many more. I can't understand most of them. They're just categories.”
These materials are basically in Russian. Simon's Russian is pretty good, but it involves professional knowledge. Because Russian is also Pinyin, not the Chinese hieroglyphic that can guess some meaning by means of glyphs, it will be very difficult to understand. But it's impossible to fake someone else. After all, it's too sensitive. Even two Jennie or girl a didn't call for help. It's not that they don't trust each other, but they just don't know Russian.
Janet leaned in Simon's arms and watched for a while. When Simon typed some notes on a document to classify it, she said, ”it's already over seven in the evening. Let's have dinner first?”
Simon nodded, opened another electronic file and said, ”wait a minute, the last two files on this CD.”
Janet, after a while, continued to accompany her and said, ”are we really going to have no problem getting these documents?”
Even with Janet's unruly nature, she knows that it is even more serious to get the information of this whole box from Ukraine than to steal one or two nuclear bombs.
Simon shook his head and said, ”if it was Russia, I would not do that. Ukraine doesn't matter. After giving up nuclear weapons, the country has been completely abandoned. In fact, many people are doing this now. You see, these are electronic files. The real manuscript may have been taken away by others. ”
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine chose to be independent and voluntarily give up nuclear weapons. Its economy is a pool of mud. Now, in the eyes of many people, this country is a fat sheep. We can share as much as we can.
Simon also felt sorry for the other side of the ocean.
In recent years, China has obviously failed to catch up with Ukraine's partition feast. It can only harvest some leftovers decades later, while Europe, the United States and Russia have basically got what they should get.
Unfortunately, all parties have not really made use of these technologies.
The root cause is still interests.
Or, to be precise, unprofitable.