Chapter eight hundred and ninety-eight public opinion
Kendi Jesse knew very well that the most important factor in why they were able to win the largest single purchase contract this time was the conflict between the Lee Consortium and the United States, which gave them the opportunity.
There is now a commotion in Hong Kong about the U.S. government's increase in tariffs on the Bentley Group and the Phoenix Group. Countless Hong Kong media have criticized this matter and defended the Lee Consortium. Some tabloids have even called on Hong Kong citizens to boycott American products.
Kendi Jesse knows that this may be his own initiative. After all, the Lee Group still sells many products in the United States, and they are unlikely to take such an extreme approach to fight back.
But no matter what, the products in the American market will definitely be affected in Hong Kong, and even in Asia as a whole. The media under the Li Group have a considerable influence in Asia, and with the help of media from all over the country, not to mention other things, at least
Everyone is not very comfortable with the United States in terms of senses.
The power of public opinion is quite huge. When negative news about the United States is reported every day, people everywhere will feel a sense of disgust towards the United States. At the same time, they will naturally develop sympathy for the vulnerable parties and will feel in their hearts during the consumption process.
Favor the weak side.
This weakness does not mean product quality, but the political and environmental weakness of both parties. When the quality is not much different, there will always be a group of people who choose to buy Phoenix Group and Bentley Group products instead of Motorola, General Motors, Ford, etc.
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The introduction of such high tariffs by the United States this time has made the outside world feel that similar American products cannot be compared with Bentley and Phoenix Group products. In order to protect its domestic market, such a tariff policy was introduced.
The Lee Group's continuous reports these days are intended to make citizens around the world think so, so that they can compete for markets in other regions.
At the same time, this kind of hegemonic behavior by the United States will worry companies throughout Asia. If they have a choice, they will definitely not choose the United States for cooperation.
These companies and families are worried that they will become the second Li Group. Once they develop, they will be suppressed by the U.S. group and the government. In the future, they will actively cooperate with other parties to prevent their industries from being too dependent on the U.S. market.
Cooperate to mitigate future losses.
And this will be their opportunity for Western Europe. They in Western Europe have never thought about following the United States all the time. If Eastern Europe had not posed a huge threat to their security, they in Western Europe would be the biggest opponent of the United States.
At present, the European Community has multiple member states and currently has many cooperation projects. For example, their Airbus is one of the cooperation projects, in order to form a joint force in the economy and compete with the United States for the world economic market. When Airbus was established, it was
Go to Boeing.
In particular, France, where he lives, has always advocated national independence and must not become a vassal of the United States militarily and politically. As long as Western Europe unites and all countries work together, they will not worry about competition from any force.
Airbus has always hoped to deepen its interest in the Lee Group. They are very aware of the influence of the Lee Group in Asia. Once the Lee Group uses all Airbus aircraft on its aircraft, it will have a profound impact on airlines in various regions of Asia.
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Especially for the huge market in mainland China, it is entirely possible for this country to have tens of thousands of aircraft in the future. If Airbus can swallow most of such a number, such a scenario is simply unimaginable.
If they can really capture the aviation aircraft business in the mainland market, Airbus will completely suppress Boeing and become the top civil aviation aircraft manufacturing company in one fell swoop.
Kendi Jesse hopes that the relationship between the Lee Consortium and the United States and the American consortium will be as bad as possible, so that Boeing will completely lose aircraft orders from Xiangjiang Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, and their Airbus will be in Asia, especially Southeast Asia and Greater China.
region dominates.
He said to Li Guangyu: "Mr. Li, your products have encountered unfair treatment in the U.S. market. I have also heard about it. We are also very indignant about this kind of barrier-type protectionism. Within our European Community member states,
Some products are also on this list, such as our French iconic cars, West German Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Italian Ferrari and other products."
The focus of the United States this time is on imported cars. Whether they are Japanese automobile groups or Western European automobile groups, they are the targets. You must know that the headquarters and registration place of Li Guangyu Bentley Group are in England, and Bentley is also a member of the European Communist Party.
corporate enterprise.
The United States has been in the Cold War with the Soviet Union for many years, and a large amount of money has been invested in the military, so that its economic and high-tech development speed is far behind that of Japan, West Germany and other countries.
The trade deficit with Japan has been increasing year by year. Even though many policies have been adopted in recent years to restrict Japanese products from entering the U.S. market and subsidize domestic companies, this situation still cannot be reversed.
Moreover, the United States is shameless in that it does not care at all about the trade agreements it has signed with other countries. When they feel that the agreement is not applicable, they can tear up these agreements without hesitation and increase tariffs on companies from other countries.
Japan has been the most severely suppressed economically by the United States in recent years. In the past two decades, it has received special treatment from the United States in many industries. Although Japan has also taken some countermeasures, the results are not very good.
The Lee Consortium is even worse. The Japanese consortium has been suppressed, and the Japanese government will step in and impose corresponding restrictions on some American industries. He has no one to help him, at least no one will help him at the moment.
They can endure it in Western Europe, mainly because the American car market, where Japanese cars and Bentley Group products have a huge market, and the three major West German car groups have a very low market share in the United States, they did not suffer much loss this time.
Although Li Guangyu Bentley Group is a British headquarters and a British automobile group, he is from Hong Kong. Hong Kong is destined to return to the mainland in 1997. The British government will not compete with the United States for the sake of an outsider.
Li Guangyu said with a smile: "I am not angry about this. Instead, I am very happy and proud. My products can force the US government to increase tariffs, which shows that my products are very good and make the US government feel that if they do not adopt this method, their domestic
Industries in the same industry cannot compete with us, and an enterprise needs the protection of the national government to survive, so these enterprises are destined not to last long."
Kendi Jesse was speechless for Li Guangyu's words. He had already seen these words in the newspaper today, which was what He Jin, the president of Phoenix Group, said at the press conference.
Kendi Jesse was reading the English version of the newspaper, and he didn't know the Chinese characters. There was only one meaning in these words, which highlighted the excellence of Phoenix Mobile. People who knew the news would also agree with this statement.
If the Phoenix phone wasn't so good, why would the United States impose such a high tariff? It's obviously because Motorola can't beat the Phoenix phone in the US market.
People who know the inside story understand that the current quality of Phoenix mobile phones, Motorola and Rocky mobile phones are similar, but this is not the case in Asia. Especially this time, the continuous bombardment of public opinion by the media group under the Lee Group will make more citizens think that Phoenix mobile phones