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Casey Berner raised his glass with a smile: "Mr. Director, you are the most powerful opponent I have ever seen. Although I lost to you this time, I am still very happy, because what our country advocates is strong By."

Mu Guoxing smiled: "Mr. Vice Minister, the Chinese people are a nation that loves peace and pursues faith. We are willing to coexist peacefully with people from all over the world. With a tolerant and tolerant attitude, we have forgiven many people for what we have done to us. The crimes committed. We pursue the principle of harmonious coexistence. However, we also have our own bottom line. Once someone tries to break through this bottom line, the energy of more than one billion Chinese people will be huge. It will definitely make the opponent suffer. The lessons of our country, the history of our country can well prove this point."

Casey Berner smiled awkwardly: "Huaxia is a friendly nation, and we are willing to live in harmony with the people of Huaxia. After all, this issue is really too big, so let's leave it to bigger politicians to think about it. I propose that for the success of this cooperation between the two parties, let us toast together!"

"Congratulations to Mr. Casey Berner for facilitating this cooperation between the two parties. I am also very happy about it. This shows that everything in the world can be resolved through negotiations. After all, the era of power politics has passed. The world is As we are developing, our country is also developing, and the history of foreigners knocking on the door of our country with a few warships and cannons is gone forever."

Kathy Berner knew that if the two continued to talk about this topic, he would definitely not be able to please him, so he hurriedly changed the subject.Mu Guoxing is very clear that Casey Berner must have something to say today. Although he facilitated the deal this time, the U.S. government was hit in the head by China on the issue of genetically modified food. Judging from the unscrupulous approach, the US government will never just let it go.

VIP two thousand 440 chapter two national interests

Mu Guoxing's guess was not wrong at all. After less than 2 minutes, Kathy Berner said: "Mr. Director, although the cooperation between our two countries has been successful this time, the Chinese government is very concerned about Mr. Director's position on genetically modified foods. I still expressed great regret. According to what we know, there are still many experts and government officials in your country who support genetically modified foods, and have some criticisms about Director Mu's actions this time. I would like to know What matters is that Director Mu's attitude represents your country's government or you personally."

This sentence is a bit too childish. Mu Guoxing felt that there was some discord in Kathy Berner's words, so he smiled and said: "Mr. Vice Minister, do you think there is any difference in this question? You this time Have you been authorized by your government to come to Huaxia?"

"Mr. Director is right, I..." When Kathy Berner said this, he suddenly understood the meaning of Mu Guoxing's words. When it comes to going around in circles, these foreigners are no match for Chinese officials.

"As for the question that you said that some so-called experts and government officials criticized my actions," Mu Guoxing glanced at Casey Berner, smiled and continued: "I think so, our nation is There are some unworthy descendants who disregard the interests of the country and the nation for their own self-interest. However, this small group of people cannot affect the overall development of our country. There are such people in any country, and it is not worth our fuss Yes. But I can tell Mr. Deputy Minister very responsibly that sooner or later, these people will pay the price for what they did today."

Casey Berner was taken aback, he knew that Mu Guoxing was going to attack these people in the future.Through what he has seen and heard in the past few days, and Ambassador Howard's introduction, Kathy Bernard knows that Mu Guoxing is very tough in China's political arena. In the words of Western countries, he is a strong man.I don't know how many officials were taken down by his hands.If he wants to make up his mind to do something, I am afraid that there are not many people in China who can stop him.

Although Mu Guoxing didn't say it clearly, Kathy Berner also learned that Mu Guoxing's actions actually represented the attitude of the Chinese government on the issue of genetically modified foods.Thinking of this, Kathy Bernard felt his scalp numb.He realized that once the Huaxia government really took action against genetically modified food, it would definitely not be small. The reason was that they were facing tough people who couldn't stand the sand.

It seems that it is necessary to report this new trend to the U.S. government in a timely manner, Cassie Berner pondered, and it is also necessary to remind Iron Sandu Company to pay attention in time.In the past few years, Tieshan has invested a large sum of money in China, and it is necessary to formulate countermeasures in a timely manner. Otherwise, with Mu Guoxing's tough style, they may lose everything. .However, Casey Berner thought again, will the US government allow the Chinese government to do this?You must know that the use of genetically modified technology to control China's agricultural production is one of the most basic China policies implemented by successive US governments.

Cassie Bernard is thinking silently. Although he still can't guess what kind of countermeasures the US government will take next, one thing is certain, there will inevitably be an incident between the two governments because of this incident. relatively large conflict.In any case, the two sides will never make concessions on the issue of interests.

If the U.S. government was able to exert pressure* to force Huaxia to make concessions in the past, then once Mu Guoxing has enough power, he will definitely not give up an inch and fight hard.With this person's wisdom and ability, the group of people in the US government may not be able to please him.

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Peng Junming once again came to the courtyard of Yi Le Tang.During this period of time, Peng Junming had a lot of dealings with Mu Guoxing. This did not mean that he deliberately wanted to curry favor with Mu Guoxing, but it was because his responsibilities included America and Europe.Ever since Peng Junming spoke for some hitchhikers on the eve of Mu Guoxing's visit to the European Union last time, and caused Mu Guoxing to have a bad opinion of him, Peng Junming has been with Mu Guoxing in front of him. careful.

Since then, Peng Junming has been paying close attention to Mu Guoxing's movements and collecting information about the future leadership through all channels.When he knew that Mu Guoxing would definitely enter the leadership core in this general election, and that he would be elected as the deputy prime minister in charge of the country's economic work at next year's National People's Congress, Peng Junming couldn't tell what kind of feeling he felt.

On the one hand, Peng Junming was rejoicing that Mu Guoxing would not directly lead the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the future; When the prime minister is unable to perform his duties normally, the executive deputy prime minister will act as the prime minister.Besides, Mu Guoxing has a very good relationship with the current No. [-] and the future No. [-]. Who can guarantee that Mu Guoxing will not find a chance to win him as the deputy minister?Even if he doesn't need to deliberately look for opportunities, he can still put forward his own opinions when the various ministerial leadership groups make adjustments after the general election.It is too easy for a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo to win the title of a deputy minister.

It was with this mentality that Peng Junming became more and more careful in front of Mu Guoxing. Looking at him now, he was like a primary school student who made a mistake, always worried that the teacher would reprimand him.

"Sir, Mr. Brennan, the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, and Mr. Bryan, the Minister of Finance, will come to my country for a working visit in two days. Their main purpose is to ask my country to help their country solve the sovereign debt crisis. In the final analysis, they are borrowing money from us. According to the No. [-] commander's instruction, you are still in charge of the reception of Deputy Prime Minister Brennan and the subsequent negotiations. This is the material prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs based on these tasks. Please review it. If you are still unclear I can report to you at any time."

Mu Guoxing noticed the nervousness in Peng Junming's heart. He knew very well that it would be difficult for an official to do a good job if he had such an attitude in front of his superiors. He smiled and said, "Comrade Junming, you are here with me." Don't be so restrained, we are all for work, and we can talk about what we have. You have a cup of tea first, and I will look at these documents, and then we will study some things in detail."

Mu Guoxing's words made Peng Junming relax. He could tell that Mu Guoxing was not the kind of leader with a small gut, and he would definitely not take the trivial matter last time to heart.Through his understanding of Mu Guoxing during this period of time, Peng Junming also knew that there were only three criteria for Mu Guoxing to judge cadres. The first was whether a cadre was clean and honest, and the second was whether he was competent at work.The third is whether we can keep the interests of the people at heart.Although a leader like Mu Guoxing is a little stricter on his subordinates, he is generally easy to deal with.

After 10 minutes, Mu Guoxing put down the document in his hand and asked: "According to the information obtained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Greek government has not followed some people's buttocks to make a fuss. Can we think so? Our country is still relatively friendly?"

Mu Guoxing also learned from relevant materials: Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization.From 6 BC to 5 BC, the Minoan civilization appeared in Crete, and from 8 BC to 5 BC, the Mycenaean civilization appeared in the Peloponnese Peninsula.In 46 BC, a slavery city-state was formed, and it entered its heyday in the 5th century BC.It was incorporated into the Roman Empire in 8 BC and was ruled by the Ottoman Empire in the 8th century. The War of Independence broke out in 974 years, the kingdom was established in [-] years, and it was changed to a republic through a referendum in [-].Since then, the New Democratic Party and the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement have taken turns in power.Greece is now a member of the European Union and NATO, and has great influence in the Balkans

VIP Two Thousand 440 Chapter Three Friendly Countries

Peng Junming thought for a while, and said carefully: "Long, judging from the current situation, it is indeed the case. The economic and trade exchanges between my country and Greece have a long history and extensive cooperation. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 97, the two countries have signed the "Trade and Payment Agreement". , "Maritime Transport Agreement", "Civil Air Transport Agreement", "Tourism Cooperation Agreement", "Investment Protection Agreement", "Agreement on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Tax Evasion on Income", "Memorandum of Understanding on Agricultural Cooperation", "Memorandum of Understanding on Small Business Cooperation" ", which is relatively rare in EU countries."

Seeing Mu Guoxing listening intently, Peng Junming seemed to be encouraged, and his tone became more fluent: "Although the bilateral trade in goods is small in scale, it is developing rapidly. According to statistics, in the year when diplomatic relations were established in 97, the bilateral trade volume was only 7o In 979, it exceeded 989 million US dollars, and in 4.6 it broke through 7 million US dollars. After that, it has increased significantly year after year. [-]%."

Mu Guoxing nodded with a smile: "You speak very well, please continue. As for the Greek government's attitude towards our country, I can give two examples to illustrate: When the former Yugoslav War led to civil strife in Albania, due to our strength Supporting the former South led to Albanian armed mobs chasing and killing our country's embassy, ​​companies stationed abroad, construction aid personnel and expatriates. At the same time, the Albanian government is also in a precarious state, unable, or perhaps unwilling, to protect a large number of Chinese people. Our evacuation work was difficult at that time. So many, so we found Greece."

"The Greek government did not hesitate to extend a helping hand at this critical moment, and immediately dispatched a warship to help us evacuate the overseas Chinese. While escorting a large number of overseas Chinese to the ship with armed forces, the Albabian mob also chased after them and set up machine guns. Shooting. In the hail of bullets, the Greek warship still insisted on armed escorting the evacuation of our country. At that time, there were reports in the newspaper that the warship was covered with bullet marks!"

Mu Guoxing was a little moved. He knew that it was not easy for Greece to do this at that moment, and no government would allow its soldiers to risk their lives to protect expatriates from other countries.In addition to humanitarian reasons, this also reflects the Greek government's friendly attitude towards China.

Peng Junming also said: "That year our country held the Olympic Games, and the whole of Greece supported it with all their strength. Their president even dragged his sick body to participate in the Olympic torch collection ceremony abroad. During the ceremony, some terrorists suddenly rushed out, Performing a farce of protests next to the president. The old president remained unmoved and insisted on participating in all the ceremonies of the event. Afterwards, he instructed the Greek police to crack down on this group of rioters! Mu Guoxing nodded: "Since the Greek government Our country has adopted a friendly attitude and helped us at a critical time. This time they encountered difficulties, and we should also help them.To measure whether the relationship between the two countries is good or bad, it is not necessary to only consider the reasons of interests, and political factors are also indispensable.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should appropriately raise the standard of reception for the visit of Greek Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Brennande. I will go to the airport to meet Deputy Prime Minister Brennande in person. "

Mu Guoxing is now considering whether to invite No. 50 to attend the banquet welcoming Deputy Prime Minister Brennande. This is very important for consolidating and developing the friendship between the two countries. After all, Greece is an EU country, and our friends there There are really not many of them now.Mu Guoxing flipped through the materials on the table, and said: "The Ministry of Finance suggested that this time only 110 billion euros should be used to purchase Greece's sovereign debt. I think this amount is a bit too low. Greece wants us to buy their [-] billion euros. We have paid out less than half of the sovereign debt. Is this a little too little for a friendly country? A few years ago, we supported some rogue countries with so much money for free, but ended up raising a group of white-eyed wolves , Albania is the best example, such lessons are too many and too profound."

Mu Guoxing took a sip of tea and continued: "The central government is currently trying its best to implement the policy of diversifying foreign exchange reserves. According to the report of the Ministry of Finance, it can be seen that although Greece is currently facing a relatively serious economic crisis, due to their unique The geographical location and the prospect of development are still very good. My opinion is that this time we have to spend no less than 30 billion yuan to purchase their sovereign debt, but at the same time, we also have to put forward an intention to suggest that the future between the two countries The trade must be settled in the national currency." Peng Junming looked at Mu Guoxing in surprise, and he admired the young head of the central government more and more at this time. [-] billion euros, but for Greece, it is undoubtedly an increase in our efforts to send charcoal.

The benefits of doing this are obvious. One is to let the Greek people know that maintaining a friendly relationship with China will not suffer.Secondly, it can also let the Greek people know that Huaxia is a good friend who values ​​friendship.Third China has added another good friend among the member states of the EU, which can enhance our influence among the EU.The fourth and most important point is that if the two countries no longer use the US dollar for settlement in future trade transactions, it will also be of great benefit to the RMB becoming an international currency in the future, especially for my country's economic development. plays a very large role.

Peng Junming looked at Mu Guoxing with admiration, and he couldn't understand why this young man had such a long-term vision and so much diplomatic experience.Mu Guoxing had never been engaged in diplomatic work before. If he was lucky to visit the European Union last time and achieved such great achievements by accident, then now it is really in front of him. The questions he raised, Not to mention him, Peng Junming, even Minister Wei Anguo, who has decades of diplomatic experience, might not be able to think of it.

The schedule of the Greek Deputy Prime Minister's visit to China was quickly sent back to their country through the Greek embassy. At the same time, the Greek embassy also reported the situation of Mu Guoxing to the country and made a judgment on the upcoming general election in China.At the beginning, Brennan felt a little unhappy that Huaxia only sent a director of the Economic Control Committee to negotiate with him this time, but he was relieved when he saw the report from the embassy later.

Huaxia didn't disrespect him, but paid too much attention to his visit.Mu Guoxing was originally a deputy national leader of Huaxia. From this aspect alone, he has enough status and status to hold equal talks with Brennan, not to mention that he is about to become the nine most powerful people in Huaxia. which one?Thinking of this, Brennande became happy. He was looking forward to seeing the legendary red prince one day. What kind of person is this person who can make a deputy minister of the United States look forward to seeing him? bowed his head in front of him.

This year's summer in the capital is extremely hot. In the words of ordinary people, it is so hot before the dog days, which is rare in previous years.Regarding this kind of abnormal weather, some experts said in the news media that it was due to global warming. Nowadays, what these experts say is less and less believed, and they don’t know if what they said is true or not. sentence is false.

The night's light rain made the weather much cooler and the sky turned very blue. Mu Guoxing led several ministers of foreign affairs, finance and other relevant ministries and commissions to wait at the Beijing airport.I just received a notice from the airport that the special plane taken by Greek Deputy Prime Minister Brennan may be delayed by more than ten minutes due to weather conditions. Such things are common.Therefore, when many leaders go to meet foreign guests, the secretary will bring them the documents they need to see, so that the leaders can deal with the work at hand at any time.

Seeing the deputy general manager rushing in again just now, Mu Guoxing knew that the special plane taken by Deputy Prime Minister Brennan was about to arrive.

VIP two thousand 440 four chapters plenipotentiary

Greece uses a political system of parliamentary elections, with the prime minister and cabinet leading the political process and the president exercising some governmental functions in addition to his symbolic powers.The term of office of the president and prime minister is 4 years, elected by the parliament, and can be re-elected once.Members of Greece's unicameral parliament serve a maximum term of four years, but elections can be held earlier.

The sovereign debt crisis in Greece this time can be traced back to 99, when Greece had just entered the euro zone.According to the "Maastricht Treaty" signed by some countries of the European Community in 6, the member states of the European Economic and Monetary Union must meet two key criteria, that is, the budget deficit should not exceed % of GDP and the debt ratio should be low [-]o% of GDP.

However, Greece, which requested to join the EU at that time, saw that it was far from these two standards. If it could not join the EU smoothly, this would be a situation that neither Greece nor the Eurozone Union wanted to see. At this time, Greece turned to the US investment bank for help. "Goldman Sachs", I want to ask them to help find a way.

Goldman Sachs lived up to its trust and designed a set of "currency swap transactions" to cover up a public debt of up to [-] billion euros for the Greek government, so that Greece met the standards of euro zone member states on the books.

The specific method of this so-called "financial innovation" is that the Greek Bank will list a 15 to 5-year treasury bond of US$ 74 million in batches.Goldman Sachs Investment Bank is responsible for converting the U.S. dollars provided by Greece into euros for this treasury bond. When the debt matures, Goldman Sachs will still exchange it back for U.S. dollars.If the exchange rate is calculated according to the market exchange rate, there is nothing to do.In fact, Goldman Sachs' "creativity" lies in artificially drawing up an exchange rate that enables Goldman Sachs to lend a large amount of cash to Greece without showing it in Greece's public debt ratio.If the euro is equal to 84 U.S. dollars at the market exchange rate, the Greek bank can get 15 billion euros for 5 billion U.S. dollars.However, Goldman Sachs used a more favorable exchange rate, allowing Greece to obtain 4 billion euros.In other words, Goldman Sachs actually lent Greece 7 billion euros.But this money will not appear in the statistics of Greece's public debt ratio at that time, because it will not be returned until ten to 5 years later.In this way, Greece has this cash income, so that the national budget deficit is only .[-]% of gdp from the book view.In fact, after recalculation by Eurostat in [-], the Greek deficit was actually as high as .[-]%, which was far beyond the standard.Recent revelations indicate that Greece's real budget deficit was [-].% of its gdp at the time.Far below the specified %.

In addition to this loan, Goldman Sachs also designed a variety of ways for Greece to raise money without increasing the debt ratio.For example, future revenues such as the national lottery industry and aviation taxes are used as collateral in exchange for cash.This method of mortgage-for-cash is not statistically a liability, but it has become a sale, that is, bank debt securitization.Of course, Goldman Sachs did not provide these services and loans in vain. They received a commission of up to [-] million euros in this transaction.Goldman Sachs is well aware that Greece's entry into the euro zone through this means will inevitably have foresight in its economy, and it will eventually suffer from insufficient payment capacity.In order to prevent its own investment from being wasted, Goldman Sachs purchased from a German bank a one-year, one-year, one-year CDS "credit default swap" insurance of one billion euros, so that the insurer will make up for the shortfall when there is a problem with the payment of the debt.

The greed of capital is fully reflected at this time, and this is also the consistent practice of American companies. It is the goal of Wall Street financiers to earn huge profits without working hard.They are, after all, downright liars.

The good times didn't last long. After the financial turmoil broke out, Goldman Sachs of the United States fell into an economic crisis first, and then led to the entire country of Greece. The financial game designed by the two sides was also exposed.As the saying goes, if you mess up, you always have to pay it back. Greece has thus become the first country in the European Union to become insolvent during the financial turmoil.Shortly after the financial turmoil, Fitch, one of the world's three major rating agencies, announced that it would downgrade Greece's sovereign credit rating from "a-" to "BBB+". The four countries, China and Spain, also immediately fell into a sovereign debt crisis.Standard & Poor's also lowered the outlook on Spain's sovereign credit rating to negative from stable, and suggested that Portugal's sovereign credit rating may also be downgraded due to deterioration in public finances.In this regard, the debt crisis began to spread in various sovereign countries of the European Union, and the situation intensified.In order to get out of the crisis of the financial turmoil as soon as possible, the Greek Prime Minister subsequently announced to cut government public spending and raise tax rates to deal with the serious debt crisis facing the country.However, because Greece has adopted a long-term welfare policy higher than the level of economic development, and the debt-raising model of "eating more than enough food", this has resulted in the current situation of high debt. The hope is pinned on Huaxia. If Huaxia can lend a helping hand, Greece can escape this catastrophe.If China ignores it, then the future situation in Greece will be hard to say.

This time, Brennan not only asked Huaxia to purchase their country's sovereign debt, but also brought a huge economic and trade delegation to do business with Huaxia.They know that borrowing money not only has to pay high interest, but also has to be repaid after all. The only hope is to develop the country's economy.And China, the second largest and most dynamic economy in the world, is their only hope. In today's weak global economy, only China can help them tide over the difficulties.

Brennan, who walked out of the cabin door, was taken aback. He was still criticized by the people in China yesterday, but he did not expect to receive such a warm welcome when he came to Huaxia today.Brennan had a premonition that this was a good omen, maybe Huaxia could reach out to save them this time magnificent!"

"Thanks to the Huaxia government and people for welcoming me. I am very happy to meet Mr. Director." After a short break, Huaxia held a grand welcome banquet for the Greek government economic and trade delegation. What Brennan did not expect was that the banquet Before the start, the Prime Minister of Huaxia even received him and had a friendly conversation with him.

After Brennand introduced the current situation in Greece, the No. [-] commander smiled and said: "Mr. Brennand, we have noticed the current situation in Greece, and we are also very concerned about it. It is friendly, and we are willing to provide assistance to the Greek government within our capacity. Mr. Mu Guoxing, director of my country’s regulatory committee, has received full authorization from the government, and you can have a good talk in the next few days.”

The words of Commander No. [-] conveyed two messages to Brennan. First, we are willing to help countries that are friendly to us.Second, Mu Guoxing will negotiate with Brennan on behalf of the Huaxia government.

As a veteran politician, Brennan quickly understood the meaning of the third sentence. What else can he say besides thanking him at this moment?

Since Brennan is leading an economic and trade delegation, it means that in addition to the Greek government's request for our country's help, it also wants to conduct trade with our country.

VIP two thousand four hundred and forty-five chapters of non-interference in internal affairs

The ministers of relevant ministries and commissions led by Mu Guoxing, and several ministers of the Greek government delegation led by Brennan De, were negotiating on the purchase of the sovereign debt of the Greek state by China, while several directors of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and domestic enterprises Representatives of the Greek delegation are conducting trade negotiations with dozens of merchants from the Greek delegation.

These things were all planned in advance. The officials in charge of trade negotiations of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation are also familiar with this aspect of negotiations, so naturally there is no need for Mu Guoxing* to be so concerned.Leaders are in control of the overall situation, so they will not do these specific tasks.At the beginning of the negotiation, Brennande introduced the current domestic economic situation in Greece to Mu Guoxing and other Chinese government officials as usual. Of course, he was introducing, and he would not say that their domestic economic situation was very bad, except for national dignity. In addition to the reasons, there is another important factor that is economic.It's like when a person wants to get a loan from a bank, he won't make a mess of his own situation.To be honest, it is very difficult to borrow money. In this respect, the state, enterprises and even individuals have the same mood when they borrow money.

Mu Guoxing listened patiently. He understood Brennan's current mood and was not in a hurry to expose him.In diplomatic occasions, especially when facing the deputy prime minister of a sovereign country, face should be saved for others.