In the following week, a series of major events that attracted global attention took place, and the world kept its eyes peeled on the trade negotiations between the two largest economies on the planet.
During this week, a large number of CEOs of American high-tech companies, such as Tim Cook, the head of Apple, hurriedly flew to the other side of the Pacific.
This wave of punishment can really cost you your life.
Apple alone has to pay a total of US$21.8 billion in back taxes and fines, while the sanctioned high-tech companies in the United States have to pay a total of nearly US$47.9 billion in back taxes.
According to the real-time exchange rate, it is equivalent to more than 330 billion. This is undoubtedly a huge astronomical figure, which can build ten aircraft carriers.
Domestic people are very excited during this time. There is no doubt that China’s wave of countermeasures and additional sanctions are really exciting. It has always been the United States that wields the big stick of tariffs.
There was chaos and chaos, but China has been passively countering.
Even rabbits will ask for help when they are anxious.
Now, if it doesn't move, it will move like thunder; if it doesn't make a sound, it will startle the world.
This wave of operations immediately stunned the whole world. What was hotly discussed on the Internet was a picture published by the British "Daily Mail". It was so popular that it was Cook overnight.
The scene captured while rushing to the airport was exactly 12 hours after the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of Taxation announced the news.
This reminded countless netizens in China of the picture in which founder Mr. Hou left overnight when the US imperialism imposed sanctions on ZTE.
Although the two incidents have different causes, they have similar approaches but similar results.
Besides, Cook can't be in a hurry.
21.8 billion U.S. dollars!
It is almost 10% of Apple's cash reserves. For Apple's shareholders, it is simply more painful than cutting flesh.
No one expected that the Chinese people would dare to be so ruthless. In the world, the Chinese people give the impression to the outside world, or to Europeans and Americans, that they have the image of good old people, and they are cautious in everything.
The sudden blow was harder than anyone else's and caught everyone off guard.
During this period of time, Apple's market value was successfully driven down. There is no longer a listed company in the world with a market value exceeding one trillion U.S. dollars. In the past eight or nine days, Apple's stock price plummeted, and one of its shares evaporated.
Intel Corporation, more than 300 billion US dollars just disappeared!!
The entire market was dragged down, with all three major U.S. stock indexes plummeting.
This is the power of the Greater China market. What does it mean if Apple loses this market? That’s it, and it may be just the beginning.
It can be said that this is also a black swan event that attracts global attention. People suddenly discovered that in the first half of this year, the whole world was extremely restless, and there was an overwhelming amount of all kinds of super explosive materials. Black swan events have appeared frequently in recent months.
This has also triggered various concerns from the outside world. If Rabbit and Eagle Sauce really come to blows, it will no longer be an issue between two countries, but a truly world-class issue, and no one else can think of staying out of it.
Therefore, when Wilberos came to China this time, countless people at home and abroad, especially those engaged in cross-border trade, all had high hopes for him.
Everyone hopes that these two big guys can calm down and stop fussing. The world is about to be ruined by you two, and my business is almost out of business.
Look at the current turbulent international foreign exchange market, the wavy trend of offshore currencies, and this extremely unstable exchange rate situation. Who dares to engage in cross-border trade? How can the economy develop?
However, it is worth mentioning that despite the recent turmoil in the exchange rate market, no one dares to settle in currency, but some people are very clever, and cross-border trade is still booming, and they are making more money than usual.
At this time, in order to avoid risks, a group of chicken thieves merchants engaged in cross-border trade immediately switched to gold for settlement.
But then again, this is only something a few people can afford. Although gold is good, the quantity is not enough. Cross-border trade often involves tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of funds. How can we provide so much gold?
Settlement function?
Therefore, gold settlement can only allow a small number of people to make big profits during this period, but it is still very uncomfortable for more multinational companies, who are all waiting for the two big brothers to settle the matter as soon as possible.
Finally, with the whole world eagerly anticipating it, on the morning of April 20, the two sides officially announced the release of a joint statement.
This statement gives the world the largest and most useful message.
Both sides want to shake hands and make peace!!!
The actual trend of the facts once again perfectly deviated from the predictions of the outside world. The first thing that was not predicted was that no one expected that the two parties would reach an ending like shaking hands and making peace. It even made people feel a strong feeling, beautiful.
Is the Emperor really a paper tiger?
Many domestic media, especially self-media marketing accounts, immediately labeled the American emperor as a "paper tiger" and shouted the most fiercely. When a strong opponent came, they immediately relented.
This is undoubtedly a good thing to inspire the people, and it is also what the people want to see the most. However, those self-media accounts are purely to cater to the people's tastes, and there are very few that have real information. Their purpose is to tell what content the people like.
What content is OK to push?
The second thing I didn't predict was that such an important breakthrough was actually achieved in less than ten days. Normal prediction and analysis of such a major change would require at least three or five meetings and continuous discussions.
A year and a half is right.
In fact, it only took about a week. At this time, if the international financial speculators are not informed and cannot know in advance, basically all of them will lose money or even go bankrupt. Countless people who really have fast information channels
The predators are making a lot of money.
The specific matter is that after the two parties have negotiated, the first trouble to be solved is that the trade dispute issue has ended. Everyone has settled down together and is doing business happily. Stop engaging in such nonsense.
Both parties agreed and hit it off!
Then another major issue is to negotiate the sanctions imposed by China on a large number of American high-tech companies such as Apple. It seems that both sides are red-faced and embarrassed, but the Black Rabbit and Eagle Sauce are actually
One is a good person, the other is a bad person.
Because the president of Eagle Sauce hopes that those American high-tech companies that he sees as cheating will return to their hometowns to build factories and so on, and China does not want to continue to be controlled by the Americans in this regard. At this time, Coastline Company is an excellent company.
As a "fill-in" candidate, he no longer had any worries and decisively kicked all the high-end manufacturing industries in the United States into Pujiang.
After "extremely intense" negotiations, China said it could make some concessions, so the total back tax payment was reduced from US$47.9 billion to US$33.7 billion, of which Apple received a "discount" of US$1.5 billion and only had to pay US$203.
With US$100 million, you can continue to do business in Greater China.
The bosses of American high-tech companies like Cook are still vomiting blood. They still can't accept this negotiation result, but their arms can't hold their thighs. What's more, the other party's double act has been cheated by their own family members.
For the old American authorities, it is just a matter of pure displeasure that this money was given to the Chinese people in vain, because they feel that the Chinese people have made a lot of money, and it is a bloody profit. But anyway, it is the money of those people who are eating in and out, and it will not flow back to North America.
, Yingjiang could only shrug.
Although I am not happy about the Chinese people making a lot of money, this must be done, because only by doing this can we force the United States' high-end manufacturing overseas, mainly in China, to return to North America.
As long as we can achieve this core goal, we don't care about anything else.
It is worth mentioning that as soon as this result came out, Cook, who was almost going crazy, also tweeted on the same day, angrily complaining that the US authorities were weak and incompetent, and expressed that he was extremely disappointed with them.
xxx said angrily: Cook, wait, I will send a tweet right away!!!
