Chapter 904 (2/2)

It's like space.

In the next 20 years, why the United States has been buying the most famous rd-180 rocket engine from Russia is not that the United States can't make it. In this regard, the United States has a fairly complete technical reserve and has already mastered the rd-180. Even after receiving the Russian engine, it will make some improvements to use it in its own rockets.

Some people wonder, since there is technology, why not make it yourself?

Because it costs money.

Making rocket engines is not something that a group of people can do with their tools in the studio. The more sophisticated it is, the more sophisticated it is. First of all, it needs a full set of talents and production systems, which all cost money. However, the US space system, which has been used to spending a lot of money, can not keep its cost lower than that of Russia.

Later, when Russia and the United States began to fight each other again, the United States clamored to replace Russia's rd-180. However, it also found that even if there was technology, it would still be difficult to produce it in a short period of time. It could only support SpaceX. The main reason was that all the relevant industrial chains had been abandoned. If we wanted to pick it up again, we still had to burn a lot of money.

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

It's like a mask when there is an epidemic. It's simpler. Why Europe and the United States still have to rely on China? It's also because the industrial chain has been abandoned and can't be recovered in a short time. In a capital society like the west, capitalists are not willing to recover. If they invest a lot of money and the epidemic is over and the mask is useless, wouldn't it be a big loss .

Therefore, even if the epidemic is over, it is difficult to improve the hollowing out of western industries.

Because you're going to lose money.

Except during war, of course.

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

In fact, Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II was only half done.

If we go a step further and go directly to the United States, we will not be able to mobilize all Americans to produce aircraft carrier ships as if they were dumplings, and the outcome will be unknown. However, it was basically due to the limitation of Japan's national strength at that time. It may have occurred to Japan that it could not do so. It had to sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and temporarily scrap the US Pacific Fleet to fight for time.

If anything happens again, even if there is a compulsory war law, the industrial system is unlikely to recover in a short period of time. Without considering that the use of nuclear weapons will be exhausted, if someone dares to seize this fatal gap, it is better to start first. Tut tut.After continuing to work on some documents, Simon and Janet leave the studio on the ground floor of shell villa together.

After dinner, Simon didn't go to the next floor to get busy.

Chen Qing sent someone in the afternoon to deliver the results of another round of selection of Guofeng Art Troupe. The last time there were 1000 people, after this round of selection, there were only less than 300 people left, and Simon had to decide the final 100 people.

Janet knew about it and joined in with equal interest.

However, Simon did not arrange any interviews and so on. Instead, he took a very simple and crude way to finalize the final candidate on the final list.

According to height.

At first, the recruitment requirement for the newspaper was 168cm-172cm, which was actually quite close.

Simon got the last batch of lists, and in the process of watching TV with two jennies that night, he drew out 100 girls according to the nearest standard of 170cm.

In fact, Chen Qing can do it.

Simon didn't, mainly because he knew the temperament of a girl, and it's hard to say whether he would make some small moths.

After soliciting her for a long time, Simon also finds that Chen Qing is a person who looks like him and Janet. She is very capable and seems to be very obedient. However, if she doesn't try her best to suppress her rebellious nature, she may make a lot of trouble one day.

All kinds of busy, time into the middle of March.

The biggest news of this period is that GE's acquisition of Time Warner has finally passed the examination of the US authorities.

More than four months have passed since Ge reached an agreement with Time Warner at the end of October last year and the merger was officially approved by the Ministry of justice, FCC and other departments on March 15.

The main reason is that the strength of Ge and Time Warner's involvement in the field have caused the fear of competitors.

In fact, Denise met this problem when she merged with Metro ABC at the beginning. It was only under Simon's successful mediation with all parties that the problem was basically solved properly. Therefore, it took a short time to pass the audit.

The merger of Ge and Time Warner was not so lucky.

Both GE's rival Westinghouse Electric and Time Warner's counterparts in entertainment, telecommunications and other fields have jumped out to raise all kinds of objections in the federal audit process of the deal.

Then it's to try to scuttle all kinds of wrangles in this deal.

For example, Comcast, which has begun to take shape at this stage, but its strength is not the top one, questions that the new company may launch unfair competition against its peers after the completion of the merger. Once the two companies merge, Ge will not only own a large number of other cable TV assets such as NBC TV network and HBO, but also have Warner communications, a cable TV operator similar to Comcast.

In this case, there is no doubt that GE will refuse to provide TV coverage to Comcast and other competitors in the future. Even if Ge doesn't do it on the surface, it will also cause serious unfair competition if it adopts differential pricing for operators in private.

In order to pass the merger audit, Ge must solve this problem.

How to solve it?

The best way, of course, is not to merge.

In fact, even without this merger, Time Warner Group, which owns popular HBO and cable TV operator Warner communications, also has the possibility to operate in this way. However, Time Warner has been doing these two businesses for many years. Before that, they were basically the default industry pattern of all parties.

However, once Ge annexes Time Warner, things will certainly be different.

With the current surge of new technology, coupled with the latest federal Telecommunications Act greatly liberalizing the regulation of the telecommunications industry, GE has begun to encourage the integration of three networks. As long as GE is not stupid, it will certainly increase its investment in Warner communications in the future, and further develop to a comprehensive telecommunications operator.

This poses a threat to Comcast and other companies.

Therefore, even if GE has made all kinds of compromises in the past few months, it will still be wrangled by a bunch of competitors. Ge can neither easily give up the merger nor give up the Warner communications business that it plans to make a strong bet on. It can only do it by yourself.

This continued for more than four months, but in the end, it was still superior and successfully passed the audit.

Of course, a lot of conditions have been paid.

For example, GE has made a series of public written promises to ensure that there will be no unfair competition. As for whether this promise will be strictly implemented in the future, we all know that it's up to you to come and go.