Chapter 528: Barbecue tactics question panda lovers
"Mr. Li, this is not the question I want to ask you. My question is, do you have Chinese ancestry and do you have any relatives who have settled in China?"
"No..." Ronald was worried. No matter whether the other party had learned something or was simply deceiving him, he was confident that no one else had seen the document preserved by his great-grandmother, and no one knew it existed.
As Roger Ailes said, you only need to be tough to appear righteous.
"Mr. Congressman, like you, I also heard this rumor from the gossip newspapers some time ago. The fact is that none of my parents and grandparents are of Chinese descent, but my grandmother is of English descent, although I have never seen it.
She has only seen it in the documents left by his grandfather..." Ronald simply turned from defensive to offensive. You, a congressman, although you are from Indiana, which is famous for its red necks, you just came here after reading some gossip newspapers.
Just messing around.
"Mr. Li, since you have no Chinese ancestry, why do you want to transfer advanced technology that can be used for military purposes to the other side of the Pacific?"
"Huh?" When these words came out, Ronald was stunned for a moment. When did I transfer my technology?
Dan Burton suddenly showed a satisfied smile. This move was suddenly launched. When normal people are trying their best to guard against the first question, it is easy for loopholes to appear on the second question.
"Deny it! Immediately!" Ms. Lawyer Lindsay Dole very keenly discovered Councilor Burton's ulterior motives. She didn't ask if it was true, but directly asked why. If it were in court, then she would file an objection.
But Parliament is not a court. It can only remind Ronald to deny it firmly and not fall into the trap of words.
"Mr. Congressman, I have not transferred any advanced technology to China that can be used for military purposes..." Ronald read the words on the paper, reacted, and immediately denied it categorically.
"Mr. Li, have you or not set up a joint venture in Qingpu to produce lighting equipment?"
"Yes, but..." When Ronald heard this, he pointed the finger at the lightning lamp factory he had set up there for filming movies. He quickly explained that his own was used for filming movies and it was imported.
Not an export.
"You just need to answer yes or no..." Dan Burton was very proud, and his tone became strict. The tone of this inquiry is not like a legislative consultation hearing, but a question about corruption and crime.
of oversight hearings.
After hearing this, Ronald wanted to push back, but Roger Ailes pulled him and pushed a piece of paper over, which said "Delay for time..." Then Roger Ailes quickly stood up
, walked towards the door.
"Yes, I have...Mr. Congressman" Ronald slowed down...
"Does your joint venture factory produce high-power lighting equipment?"
"Yes, but that's..."
"Yes or no?"
"Mr. Congressman, this is not a simple Yes/No question. There may be misunderstandings..."
"No, no, this is very simple. There will be no ambiguity in my question. Does your joint venture factory produce high-power lighting equipment..."
"Yes, it's filming a movie..."
"I remind you again, yes or no..."
"George, your friend was besieged in Congress and asked about the transfer of military technology to China. Is this directed at you?" Roger Ailes ran out and called the little boy.
George, and then connected to old George as quickly as possible.
"Shxt! Who is it?" Old George was shocked and angry. He stood up from the sofa. When he was a diplomat in China, he had formed friendships with some people. The subsequent Peace Pearl Project was even more...
During his tenure, he accelerated the technological upgrade of fighter jets for PLAA.
This is also due to an additional deal from Grumman, which has not received an updated fighter contract. They will provide radar and fire control upgrades, as well as some modernization, for the other party's most advanced self-developed fighter aircraft, with a total value of 550,000,000
Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
After George Sr. took office, he bucked the trend and accelerated the delivery of the deal, allowing engineers to return to Grumman's factory in Bethpage, Long Island, to study, transporting equipment to the other side, and introducing fighter jets for modification and upgrade.
research work.
Later, due to the pressure of the Donkey Party in Congress, the deal was canceled in the middle of 1990, but George Sr. also handled it very skillfully. PLAA's new fighter jets and dozens of backward fighter jets remained in America as Top Gun
The school's imaginary enemy fighter.
The radar components used on F-16 fighter jets, the fire control-level performance components responsible for processing radar data and guiding air-to-air missiles, and some technical documents that had been urgently transported to the other side were left behind.
Such superb diplomatic skills are a complete display of old George's accumulation of years of experience and flexible skills. The main parties who are actually doing business on both sides feel that it is not easy to achieve such results under difficult conditions, and those who clamored in Parliament
The congressmen who used the stick of human rights to oppose were also respected. Anyway, few of those people could understand these technical details.
However, after such a long time, someone still wants to find fault with the transfer of advanced military technology through his friend Ronald. This is because he wants to use the peripheral breakthrough to trigger discussions and public opinion in the parliament, and then further
Will breaking the breach implicate myself?
"It's Dan Burton from Indiana..."
"This bastard Hoosier (the nickname for Indiana people)" Old George was furious. These stubborn red necks, for a few votes from evangelicals who grow corn and soybeans, want to build a military base in New York State.
Industrial accountability?
He thought for a few seconds and then said into the phone, "This bastard is the most junior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He owes me once to settle this matter with Tom Lantos..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Tom Lantos is the representative of California’s 12th district, second only to Lee Hamilton, the vice chairman of the committee. This is a man who relies on pleasing the 12th district
The progressive members of the San Francisco district were re-elected.
As long as he shouts a few words to condemn violations of human rights, those voters will obediently vote for him. So before the Gulf War, he hired a Kuwaiti nurse to testify before Congress, saying that the Iraqi occupying forces had used the obstetrics department
The premature babies were taken out of the incubators and left to die.
This scene caused many congressmen at the scene to change their views and successfully passed the war bill. But a year later, the girl whose pseudonym was "Nurse Naira" was revealed to be the daughter of the then Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States.
The New York Times also reprinted the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's on-site investigation after the incident. It was found that the number of dead babies was not more than 300 as she claimed, but 30, 19 of which unfortunately died before the invasion of Iraq...
Public opinion was in an uproar, and Tom Lantos faced parliamentary questioning. In the end, George Sr. used his influence to help him settle the matter.
"Congressman Tom Lantos, this is your friend's phone number." Roger Ailes immediately ran to communicate with Lantos who was sitting in the back seat.
"Has your joint venture factory introduced metal halide lamp technology that was not previously available in China? Can it be used in high-power military searchlights?"
Dan Burton was in high spirits and continued to question Ronald.
"Hey..." Ronald laughed angrily. It turns out that Burton's tireless efforts to pick his own hat were due to the technology of this high-power lamp?
"Mr. Congressman, this technology does not exist..."
"Yes or no? You panda lover..." Dan Burton smiled. This questioning tactic is affectionately called the "barbecue tactic" by congressional insiders, using a series of questions designed to confuse the audience's perception.
Or it's not a question, it drives the person being asked towards the predetermined battlefield. It's like constantly turning the noodles during barbecue, so that all his decent exits will be scorched.
"Yes, Mr. Congressman..." Ronald had already seen Roger Ailes nodding to him at the side door. A Congressman who looked like an Eastern European was walking towards the rostrum, flipping through the pages.
Ronald's subpoena documents.
"Did you transfer metal halide lamp technology that was not originally available in China to this joint venture company in Qingpu - an advanced technology that can be used to manufacture high-power searchlights for military use?"
"Mr. Congressman, once again I state that this is a complex issue..."
"No, no, you just need to answer yes or no...Mr. Panda Lover..."
"Bang bang bang!"
Dan Burton continued to grill Ronald. Lee Hamilton, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee on the rostrum, picked up a hammer and hit it a few times, interrupting the process. The person next to him who looked at Ronald was the person who had just and
Lee Hamilton said a few words to Tom Lantos.
"Remind Representative Burton that this summons is for legislative consultation, and Mr. Ronald Lee has the right to explain the background of your inquiry..."
"Huh?" Dan Burton turned around in surprise, just in time to see Tom Lantos winking at him. He had just said something bad about Mr. Chairman. Burton, who is like a party member, worked so hard, just because he wanted to
Do you want to make more appearances in the media to squeeze out the seats of our two senior members of the Donkey Party on the Foreign Affairs Committee?
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman..." Ronald immediately thanked Lee Hamilton for upholding justice.
"Please pay attention to your speaking time, and focus on Senator Burton's questions and give simple answers..." On the surface, Lee Hamilton still wanted to protect Dan Burton's face.
"Mr. Congressman, this metal halide lamp technology is not on the list prohibited from export by Congress, and is mainly used in stadiums, public transportation, street lights and other places that require large lighting... so the export is not illegal..."
"But after all, you are exporting advanced technology that can be converted into military use. Why do you, a successful director and producer in Hollywood, want to open such a factory there and teach them advanced technology?" Dan Burton found again.
After discovering the logical loopholes in Ronald's speech, what he is best at is attacking step by step like this.
"Mr. Congressman, I did not open this factory. I acquired some shares of the original factory and established a joint venture. And the transfer of this technology was also because I needed another type of lamp they produced, the long-arc xenon lamp.
production technology.
Because this technology consumes relatively large amounts of power, has high manufacturing costs, and has a lower conversion efficiency than metal halide lamps, only China and the big northern countries still have this technology. So I am not transferring advanced technology, but
It's an exchange of civilian technology."
"As far as I know, you are a well-known Hollywood director and producer?" Dan Burton was a little annoyed. "Why do you know so much about the technical details of a small factory?"
"This still leads to the topic of me being a spy and selling technology..." Ronald was disgusted with this red-necked congressman. Lindsay Dole also wrote a piece of paper next to him, "The first cross-border business!" This is
Let him justify his caution.
Over there, Roger Ailes also came over and whispered, asking Ronald to say that his acquisitions and technology exchanges were not illegal, and not to answer trap questions with such preset premise.
During a live broadcast of a question, if a poor answer is taken out of context, edited into an ambiguous clip and broadcast on TV media, there will be a lot of trouble.
As a veteran of television and political propaganda, Ailes knew that no words had to be taken out of context.
But Ronald was confident. He smiled, and instead of following the two consultants' prompts, he pulled the microphone closer to him and answered at a volume that could be heard by the entire audience and the TV broadcast.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Mr. Congressman, I know because I need to introduce their long-arc xenon lamp production capabilities to simulate the lightning in the movie. This is backward lighting technology.
A little unexpected use on a movie shoot.”
"Lightning? Are you?" Dan Burton did not expect such an answer. There was no such detail in the information someone secretly sent to him. It only focused on the technology that was exported there, but did not involve imported technology.
.
"Yes, this is the invention of engineer Yan Zhongfang of Xujiahui Film Factory. I used the equipment produced with this technology to shoot a lot of lightning. For example, you are all familiar with the Back to the Future trilogy, the recently released The 400 Years, and
This technology was used to simulate lightning in the movie I shot myself, The Dragon King 2. You can compare it with previous movies that have lightning, and the effect is very obvious."
Dan Burton didn't expect this answer. His barbecue questions were all useless. He opened and closed his mouth. He couldn't think of any more questions for a while.
"Bang bang, thank you for your question, Congressman Burton,... Next, let Ronald Lee accept the question from Congressman Tom Lantos first." Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton took the opportunity to bang the hammer, preventing Burton from further questioning.
Act randomly to steal the spotlight.
Dan Burton was unable to continue, and the chairman directly ended his questioning process. Although it had been extended twice, he had exhausted all the questions worth asking, so he had to clear his throat and step down.
Tom Lantos came up to take over his questioning and patted him on the shoulder in a friendly manner.
"Mr. Ronald Lee, it's hard not to notice that Representative Burton just compared you to a panda lover, and I also happen to be the Senator I elected from California, Ms. Barbara Bouser.
I understand that you are introducing pandas, what are your thoughts on this..."
"Well, Congressman, I would like to answer Congressman Burton's statement by saying, who doesn't love pandas?"
"Hahaha..." There was laughter again at the scene, and C-SPAN's photographer even deliberately moved over to take a picture of Dan Burton, who also pretended to lower his head to organize his notes.
"Bang bang...silence..." Lee Hamilton hammered to stop everyone from laughing.
"What I want to say is that this is a normal business activity. I know that giant pandas are very popular, and dolls are also high on the sales list of children's favorite plush toys. So I want to use leasing to bypass the other side.
The regulations on exporting pandas will allow children on the West Coast to have more opportunities to interact with this gentle and lovable animal."
"Based on your experience, what is China's attitude towards this commercial activity?"
"I don't know, Mr. Congressman. I can only say that they are good negotiating partners. We have to ensure that if two pandas, a male and a female, are pregnant and give birth to a baby panda, the property rights belong to China, and we must also ensure that they
During my stay in the United States, I had to eat bamboo from the country of origin before the other party would continue to negotiate. Just like the shrewd businessmen I met in America, they were difficult to deal with."
Ronald took the opportunity to make a sales pitch. We just want to do profitable business with them. This is the attitude.
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"Yeah, don't worry, it's just a little trouble. That Congressman Burton from Indiana has no ill intentions. He's just still living during the Cold War..."
After the questioning was completed, Ronald was still calling Diane. She watched the live broadcast on the TV station at home and was worried about calling her to ask.
"Pah..." Ronald put down the phone and cursed at the two consultants, "This guy definitely did it on purpose. He is a malicious bastard. Find out who broke the news to him.