Chapter 1390 Japan, South Korea and Li tripartite cooperation
In the afternoon of that day, Li Guangyu, Zheng Yutong, Gu Zhenfu and others held talks with the heads of the four major families of Mitsui, Iwasaki, Sumitomo and Yasuda, as well as Zheng Mengjiu, Li Jianxi and others at the Peninsula Hotel.
There are three main discussions between several parties this time. One of them is still targeting American companies and encircling and suppressing American companies in the Asian market.
The second is cooperation in the African market. In recent years, the Lee Consortium has focused on developing East Africa, while the Japanese and Korean consortium have developed West Africa.
At present, both East Africa and West Africa are developing well, but the transportation between the two sides is not very convenient, and the economic cooperation between the two sides is also very little.
The third issue is cooperation in the mainland market. The mainland market is very large. Not any one of them can monopolize every industry, and it is impossible for them to monopolize it.
Cooperation between several parties is beneficial to everyone. After all, the mainland market is not only limited to the companies owned by these parties, but also has one party that occupies the right time, place and people. Once the other party develops too big, their companies are likely to be forced to withdraw from the mainland market.
After so many years of development, although the three parties are still the strongest in the Japanese consortium, Li Guangyu and his team ranked second, and the Korean consortium ranked last.
However, the strength of Li Guangyu and the Korean consortium is increasing rapidly. Now the Japanese consortium cannot suppress these two parties even if they want to.
The three parties are now both cooperating and competing. When there are strong rivals in Asia or even the global market, the three parties will unite to encircle and suppress other rivals.
After these opponents are suppressed, the three parties will begin to suppress each other's companies in order to gain more market share.
Moreover, the three-party industries are relatively homogeneous, especially in the automobile industry, retail industry, electronic semiconductor industry, home appliance industry, etc., competition in many markets is very fierce.
The two consortiums, South Korea and Japan, compete equally fiercely in the shipbuilding industry and compete fiercely in various major markets.
At the meeting, Li Guangyu said: "In the past 20 years, we have shared difficulties together. When Wall Street in the United States attacked Asian stock markets and finance several times, we united to ensure the stability of Asian stock markets and financial order.
Stablize.
The 21st century has arrived, and I hope that we can carry out more cooperation and reduce unnecessary disputes.
Although our Asian economy has made amazing progress in recent years, the global economy is still dominated by the West, especially the major American consortiums. We are not their opponents one-on-one. Only the unity of several parties can avoid being defeated by the American consortium.
Defeat each one."
After Li Guangyu started, all parties spoke about the issue of the American consortium and expressed their opinions on how to suppress the companies of the American consortium in markets outside the United States.
Asia, especially East Asia and Southeast Asia, is currently the fastest growing region in the world, and it is also the basic market of the three parties. They absolutely do not want the market here to be occupied by American or Western European consortiums and companies.
The first is to fend off external enemies, and then the three parties will compete for market share here.
In particular, some countries and regions, taking advantage of the powerful financial forces of three parties in Asia, can avoid being monopolized by one party in their internal economy and will bring in the three parties to keep the three parties in a relatively balanced state.
For example, Vietnam has done this. Over the years, not only the Lee Group has invested here and there, but also Japanese and Korean groups have invested there. It is impossible for any party to monopolize the Vietnamese market.
So in Asia, the three parties are now trying to squeeze out European and American companies and products. The rest depends on the capabilities of each party and the attitude of the location, so as to occupy as much market share as possible.
This time Li Guangyu and others will target the U.S. automobile industry in Asia and try their best to withdraw the U.S. automobile industry from Asia.
Afterwards, Li Guangyu and others discussed cooperation between East Africa and West Africa, and planned to build a railway artery.
Li Jianxi said: "At present, whether it is the West African market that we influence or the East African market that Mr. Li Guangyu and his friends influence, there is a gap in between, and the railway must cross other forces.
Now we have two options. One is to choose to connect Nigeria to Cameroon, Central Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda in East Africa.
The second one runs from Niger through Chad, and then from Sudan to Ethiopia.
Considering the current internal situation in Sudan, I personally recommend choosing the first option."
In fact, both lines are not very good. The internal political situation in several Central African countries and Sudan is not very stable, but the other countries are better than Sudan.
Moreover, Li Guangyu and others are capitalists, not politicians or philanthropists. When investing in the construction of this trans-African railway artery, they naturally have to consider the issue of income.
Especially after the economic and resource situation in the country's interior, this is the basis for them to choose the direction of the railway.
The internal situation in Cameroon, Central Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is relatively stable, and the internal resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are quite rich.
As for the backward economic and basic development of the mainland of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, several major consortiums are not worried about this. Think about the situation in East and West Africa ten years ago, which was not much better than theirs. It was not driven by the large investment of funds by several major consortiums.
In fact, the two proposals proposed by Li Jianxi are actually only one. No one is willing to intervene in Sudan's current problems.
The East African Alliance has stationed a large number of troops on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan to prevent the internal situation in Sudan from affecting them.
Even a fighter group of Bentley Island (12 Mirage 2000-5s, plus an electronic reconnaissance aircraft) is stationed at a military base in Uganda not far from the Sudanese border.
In addition, a special reinforcement battalion on Bentley Island is stationed at a military base not far from the Kenyan border with Sudan, and a mechanized infantry battalion is stationed at an army military base in Uganda 30 kilometers south of the Sudanese border.
Currently, a 12,000-man division of the East African Alliance Joint Force is undergoing training and is expected to become combat effective in the second half of this year. At that time, a task force will arrive at the border between several East African Alliance countries and Sudan to maintain the security of the East African Alliance.
The United States is currently involved in Sudan, and Li Guangyu and others are unwilling to jump in, lest they get into trouble.
Li Guangyu said aloud: "I have no objection to connecting Cameroon, Central Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda. It's just that in these three countries, we will focus on investing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and you two are responsible for Central Africa and Cameroon. I don't know what you think?"
As soon as Li Guangyu finished speaking, he encountered opposition from the heads of several major families in Japan and South Korea. They also knew the situation in these three countries very well. Among them, Congo has the richest gold minerals. How could they be willing to give up the Congo gold market to the Li Group?
After a fierce dispute, this time the markets of the three countries will not be divided into specific ownerships. They will jointly develop and occupy the markets according to their own abilities.
Moreover, the funds for this railway were equally shared among three parties and a joint venture railway company was established to be responsible for the construction and operation of this railway.
Afterwards, discussions were held on the mainland market. The Lee consortium focused on developing the southern market, while the Korean and Japanese consortium focused on the northern market to avoid too much conflict in the operations of both parties. The two parties also jointly attacked the mainland market for American products.
In addition, several parties have reached a cooperation agreement on the 3G network to jointly formulate 3G standards, which should occupy a dominant position at least in Asia and break the current American and European standards for 2G.