Reborn in 2000 as a scholar

After U.S. President Oreo announced the "Ares Project" and "Artemis Project," the American public's self-confidence and market confidence index have improved significantly, and Oreo's own polls have also improved. improve.It's a pity that this is President Oreo's second term, but the Blue Donkey Party behind President Oreo will surely become the ruling party of the US government by virtue of President Oreo's high popularity.

However, compared with the rapid rise of "space concept stocks" in the United States, the relatively traditional pillar industries in the United States, such as steel stocks, automobile stocks, communication stocks, and Internet stocks, have all fallen to a certain extent, especially the decline in auto stocks. Shareholders are desperate.In fact, after Detroit went bankrupt, the American auto industry was almost beaten by the Japanese.Fortunately, relying on the "Plaza Accord" to forcibly survive, it did not lead to the complete closure of the US auto industry in the 1990s.

With the opening and rise of China's auto market, the American auto industry immediately found a new market.In the early stage of reform and opening up, Chinese people still loved American products, especially the American life represented by American products was once considered "the most modern way of life" by Chinese people.

Driven by this kind of trend myth, American cars bloomed in China for a second time.Moreover, it is different from the time and space of Lin Jinqi's previous life. The cars of Lin Jinqi's era are divided into three parts: American cars, Japanese cars and European cars.European cars are in the high-end market, mainly targeting the rich and powerful; Japanese cars are in the low-cost market, targeting the working class or the suburban market; while American cars have become the first choice of China's emerging middle class, and have become the preferred choice of relatively affluent young people. I like it.Although the wealth of the middle class is not as high as that of the wealthy class, the number of middle class and their desire for consumption support the American car.So much so that the first choice for Chinese-made cars to imitate is American cars, not Japanese cars.

As U.S. auto companies opened up a second market in China, U.S. auto stocks began to recover, and Detroit, which had already gone bankrupt, showed signs of recovery.It is precisely because of this that American car companies attach more importance to the Chinese market than Lin Jinqi did before his rebirth.However, with the adjustment of China's energy policy and environmental protection policy, the second spring of American car companies will soon face a severe winter.

China's pollution standards for fuel vehicles have been raised to be as strict as those in Europe, and corresponding pollution taxes will also be levied.And because Huaxia car companies have seized the opportunity of electric cars to overtake other cars, coupled with the support of the state, the market share of domestic cars has begun to rise steadily.According to a report released by the Chinese government, wireless charging piles will achieve seamless nationwide coverage by the end of next year, and the problem of short battery life for electric vehicles has basically been solved.What's more, most electric vehicles now use multi-energy systems.For example, the solar energy on the roof, the electric energy of wireless charging, and the electric energy stored in the super battery pack. Basically, as long as the driver does not drive the electric car to the no-man’s land on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there will be basically no power shortage and the car cannot be used. The problem.

In Lin Jinqi's previous life, conventional vehicles were jokingly called "affordable but unusable", but electric vehicles were "affordable but affordable", because compared to oil prices, electricity bills are still much cheaper.So as long as you can afford an electric car, you don't have to worry about power expenses, but conventional power cars will not work.If the gas station is discounted, then the nearby roads will be completely blocked.However, electric vehicles in this era have strong support from the government, coupled with the existence of the bug of Lin Jinqi and Xuanwu Base, so the price of electric vehicles is basically the same as that of fuel vehicles of the same grade and horsepower.If the bonus item of electricity bill is included, the popularity of electric vehicles in the country in the past three years has been very fast.

The emergence of domestic electric vehicles will naturally squeeze the foreign fuel vehicle market, and among the foreign brands that originally divided the world, American cars are the first to bear the brunt.European cars take the high-end route. As long as fuel vehicles are allowed to go on the road, the market for European cars will still exist.And to put it bluntly, even if fuel vehicles are banned from the road, European cars can still appear as collectibles.Japanese cars are aimed at small and medium-sized cities and suburban counties, where the penetration rate of charging piles was not high in the early years, so Japanese cars are still tenaciously maintaining sales.Therefore, the decline in the share of American cars is the fastest and most obvious.

With the decline of American cars in the Chinese market, American car companies have to cut production and reduce expenditures to cope with the possible "cold winter."For a company, layoffs are the most common way to reduce expenses.The four major automakers GM, Ford, Chrysler and AMC began to close some unnecessary branch factories and lay off employees at the same time.The trade unions in the United States are particularly powerful, especially the Auto Workers Union, which is recognized as the most difficult trade union organization in the American Federation of Trade Unions "AFL-CIO".

The United Auto Workers union announced a collective general strike after negotiations with the executives of the four major auto companies broke down.In the past, when encountering such a fierce labor strike, most of the management would choose to compromise.But the four major U.S. car companies are survivors who have climbed out of Detroit's decline. They know the character of the United Auto Workers union too well.

Half of the responsibility for the death of American car companies by Japanese car companies was in the hands of the United Auto Workers. Their endless strikes and protests allowed American auto workers to enjoy the highest salaries and best benefits in the world. Minimum working hours.At the same time, in order to ensure that auto workers can live such a "lazy" life, the United Auto Workers also prohibits American auto companies from relocating their factories to countries with cheap labor such as Mexico or Puerto Rico, and also prohibits American auto companies from hiring non-union workers in the United States. .It is precisely because of the interference of the United Auto Workers Union that the American auto companies have made things worse.In the end, it not only led to the fall of the entire American auto market to Japanese car companies, but also led to the decline of Detroit, which was once prosperous.

Now history is repeating itself again. The four major car companies that have learned the lesson rejected the proposal of the United Auto Workers after internal communication.The four major auto companies jointly issued a statement stating that if the auto unions continue to "blackmail" the auto companies, the four major auto companies will only choose to open assembly plants in Mexico and the Philippines, and then close all factories in the United States.

The statement of the four major auto companies that "the fish dies and the net breaks" not only frightened the auto unions, but also the US government and the state and local governments where the four major auto companies are located.Although the degree of automation of auto companies is very high, it is undeniable that this is still a labor-intensive enterprise.Automobile companies need a large number of workers, and at the same time, they do not have high requirements for workers' education. This means that the bankruptcy or closure of a car company means that a working or middle-class family will immediately slip into bankruptcy.It is not a good thing if there are too many bankrupt families in a place.Both the federal government and Congress have extended invitations to automakers and auto unions to talk again.

"Isn't Huaxia willing to postpone their electric car plan?" Oreo now felt his head hurt again.

He looked at his Minister of Commerce, and asked in an inquiring tone, "If the Chinese market is lost, the American auto industry will once again step into the dark. How serious is the antagonism between the auto companies and the labor? No more bullshit? If these car companies are forced to close US factories, then our unemployment rate will be ugly. And the working class has never been our support, but there are many people they can influence, and we may lose the president general election!"

"Your Excellency, do you think the Chinese people will give up?" The Minister of Commerce asked back, "With the popularization of controllable fusion power generation in China, the price of electricity in China has been cut in half. Coupled with their new wind power, normal temperature With the completion of superconducting transmission lines, power banks and other projects, there should be room for Huaxia’s electricity prices to drop further. Moreover, the technical level and design level of Huaxia’s electric vehicles are not inferior to our fuel vehicles, and there are also subsidies from the Huaxia government Why do you think consumers in China give up cheap electric cars and choose expensive gasoline cars?"

"So can we force the Huaxia government to compromise in this regard? Do we have any bargaining chips in our hands?" President Oreo turned his attention to his cabinet members and think tank members, "Gentlemen, give me suggestion!"

"Or we can find trouble from China's mobile phone industry." The Minister of Commerce thought for a long time, and finally gave a suggestion.

"Huaxia's mobile phones are not only very popular in their home market, but also perform well in emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. Even their mobile phone company completed the acquisition of Alcatel, a well-known French mobile phone manufacturer, last month. , Now half of the European market is also in their hands. Maybe only the North American and Japanese and Korean markets, they still can't get cheap. But don't look at the fact that Huaxia's mobile phones sell well all over the country, but their localization rate is not particularly high, especially the key The purchase of chips still depends on our American companies. Among the four major mobile phone manufacturers in China, Huarong Mobile has the highest localization rate, with a localization rate of more than half, but its chips still need to be purchased abroad. As for rice, The localization rate of the three brands of Amber and Wowei is even lower, and they rely more on international procurement than Huarong. So, if we control their chip imports..."

"This is our hole card, don't let it out yet. You still have to negotiate with the Chinese government. If they can't solve the problem of our car companies, then we can only impose punitive tariffs on their products exported to our country." Oli O said.

The United States and China also had a honeymoon period, that was when the Soviet Union was on the offensive against the United States.In order to reduce the pressure on the United States on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the United States did its best to support China at that time, and even exported many sensitive technologies at that time.It has to be said that because of this honeymoon period, Huaxia has made a big leap in the industrial and high-tech fields.But with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, although the relationship between China and the United States has been ups and downs, the two countries are very clear that each other will only be competitors.As for whether the competition between the two sides is limited to economic and other non-military fields?Or will it be so intense that the military field will also be forced to join?In fact, neither side has a bottom line. Fortunately, everyone is very rational now and only limits the competition to soft power such as economy, culture, and technology.

For the United States, the dollars that China grabs from the United States every year is where China has the strength to compete with the United States, so this makes the United States very uncomfortable.You took my money and then bullied me?Therefore, the United States offers the big stick of "imposing tariffs" from time to time, which can be regarded as a certain degree of balance.But this time the person in charge of tariff negotiations in Huaxia found that the Americans seem to want something different?Moreover, this tariff negotiation seems to be deliberately released by them. What is the real intention of the Americans?