Chapter 480 Promotion meeting × Money giving meeting√
“It’s clear that we need a strategic retrenchment now.

From a macro perspective, we need strategic contraction, and there is still time. China’s technology has not yet developed to the point where an aerospace carrier can cruise around the world. It will also take time and process for China to change its thinking from top to bottom.

The transformation from a bamboo-eating panda to a meat-eating panda is not something that can be achieved with a simple technological breakthrough.

China’s past strategy, in their own words, was called “hiding one’s strength and biding one’s time.”

It will be a long transition from keeping a low profile to taking the initiative.

In the past, the strength comparison between us and China was about 1.2 to 1, and we were 1.2. Now the comparison between us is 1 to 1.2, or maybe 1 to 1.5.

But it doesn’t matter, we still have time.

Compared to the outside world’s expectation that we have little time, I think we have a lot of time to plan.

Why do you say that.

After the end of World War I, America had the largest GDP in the world. From the perspective of national strength, it was the undisputed number one. However, it was France and Germany that gained huge benefits from the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

England and France at the time forced then-President Wilson to give up a lot of interests.

This is a typical case, where one becomes number one in terms of strength, but still has not completed the transformation psychologically.

After the end of World War II, in the Yalta system that was formed, the strength ratio between us and England was 10 to 1, or even more.

But it was not until the 60s that we completely took over their authority from England.

More than ten years passed in between.

During this time, England completed its layout and stabilized the situation.

Similarly, the gap in strength between us and China is very small. This gap, coupled with our geographical locations, provides us with sufficient buffer time and strategic buffer space.

If the White House can make the right strategic judgment, I think we can maintain a peaceful relationship with China for a long time, and slowly deploy to minimize losses.”

Compared to Mason, who madly criticized the White House, Mearsheimer is obviously much more principled.

He only briefly hinted at the White House.

What do you mean by if the White House can make the correct strategic judgment? Isn’t that just saying that this White House is a piece of shit when it comes to strategic judgment?

An interesting point is that the status of experts in the humanities and social sciences changes with the times.

Since your prediction has come true, the times will naturally push you to a high position and gain applause and flowers.

They will be deified as the situation requires, and will be brought to the bottom due to sudden changes in the situation.

This is the charm of humanities and social sciences, but also the embarrassment of their uselessness in modern times.

“As a top expert in international political theory, Professor Mills made a fateful judgment on China’s rise more than 30 years ago. So, professor, what do you think we can do now?”

Mills said bluntly: “We need to cooperate with China, and we need to conduct strategic contraction.

The strategic contraction here is not a way to benefit oneself by damaging the interests of allies or pushing all allies towards China.

Instead, it has made fewer statements in disputed areas, reduced military bases, and abdicated the responsibility of maintaining global shipping lanes security.

Reduce the budget where it really should be reduced.

Military bases, for example, may seem like a symbol of our national strength, but in reality they are merely a responsibility that serves only to show off, not a right.

These should be thrown to China just like England threw them to us.

This is the strategic contraction aspect.

What is more important is to completely rebuild our education system from the bottom up and reintroduce exam-oriented education into our education system.”

Mearsheimer’s advice is very practical.

As a strategic master who deduced great power competition within the framework of classical realism and based on the premises of international anarchy, human nature being evil, and the assumption of rational man, he was able to clearly judge that China would inevitably rise when Fukuyama and others were vigorously promoting the theory of the end of history.

Apparently at this moment, he once again gave his suggestions on the future of the Federation.

But is he the only smart person in the Federation?

Is he the only one who can see the problems of the Federation?

of course not.

Even what he will say in this program has been calculated clearly by the think tanks of the Donkey Party.

The reason why he was invited to this program is because his proposals coincide with the Democratic Party’s vision for the next four years.

The Donkey Party plans to sell off America.

To be precise, it is the international financial capital behind the Donkey Party that intends to sell America.

In other words, in China’s monetary system, those who believe that China should proceed slowly are backed by China’s local private capital forces.

They strongly advocate that China should vigorously promote the bundling of currency with new basic resources such as electricity and computing power, and promote the new RMB to replace the US dollar on a global scale and become the new global currency. A considerable number of these experts have close ties with international financial capitals in America.

For the international capital behind the Donkey Party, it doesn’t matter whether it is US dollars or RMB. What matters is whether they can get a piece of the pie.

The breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion had a huge impact on this group of people.

China has expanded the borders of humanity to the solar system, from lunar bases to Martian cities, and from Martian cities to mining throughout the solar system.

Judging from current technological progress, this will only take about one or two hundred years.

With such expectations, does America still matter?

Even if America can maintain its current status, the resources they control will drop directly from 60% to less than 5% under the expected increase in solar system resources, and they will become others in various data statistics.

What real international financial giants value is never the data on paper, but the amount of resources they control.

If the British pound is not useful, then we can change to the US dollar. Now that the US dollar is not useful, why can’t we change to RMB?

They are already prepared to sell America for a good price once the Donkey Party comes to power.

Former President Coolidge once said that no one lives in the White House.

There will always be someone living in the White House, but no one will live in the White House forever. Coolidge was a master of speaking and proposed the soapy water effect, which roughly means to sandwich criticism between praise and wrap criticism of others between words of affirmation before and after, so as to reduce the negative effects of criticism and make the criticized person more receptive to criticism of himself.

Coolidge was once walking past the White House with a friend. He was not yet president at the time. The friend asked him who lived there. Coolidge said, “No one lives there.”

Presidents come and go, and there is always someone in the White House, but no one can stay in the White House forever.

Mearsheimer’s suggestions touched his heart, but he was running out of time.

China is still immersed in the joy of technological breakthroughs.

From A-shares to Hong Kong stocks, capital market myths are being staged one after another.

There is a company in the Hong Kong stock market called Greater Bay Area Fusion Power. It was delisted in 2024 and then relisted two years ago just because it has the word “fusion” in its name.

It’s both the Greater Bay Area and fusion power.

The stock price rose by more than 60% every day for two consecutive days and tripled in a week.

You have to know that the industry this company is in is not electricity, energy, or even machinery and chemical industry. It is a company in the hotel and resort industry.

Just because of the name, the price has increased so much.

Some netizens joked that foreigners were afraid that they would miss out on this wave of Chinese assets, and traders bought them directly after seeing the names. Greater Bay Area fusion power? China’s core nuclear energy-related assets, why not buy them quickly?

By the time they realized they had made a wrong purchase, the price had already been driven up too high. A plate worth tens of millions was hyped up by them.

Unwilling to accept the loss, they had no choice but to continue speculation and look for new international capital to take over.

Some Chinese netizens also said that just because of the name, I would buy one to celebrate.

There are too many similar stories in China’s capital market.

However, this is what happened in the outside world. In China, the invitation letters sent by Guangjia Aerospace to major domestic and foreign investment institutions are the real big events in the financial world.

“Brother Hongyi, have you received the invitation letter from Guangjia Aerospace?” Fang Huiyu, one of the partners of Bencao Capital, asked directly after a brief tug of war.

Sitting opposite him was Chen Hongyi from Qiming Venture Partners.

After taking a sip of tea, Chen Hongyi said directly: “I got it.

The fundraising scale this time is at least 10 trillion RMB. With regard to the driving effect on upstream and downstream, and the expected future prospects, this will be Qiming Venture Partners’ future ticket.”

For these financial elites, this is their ticket to the future.

In the past, Pony Ma of Tencent once said that in the era of mobile Internet, we have got a ticket through WeChat.

Now, what everyone is fighting for is a ticket for mankind to enter the space age.

No matter when mankind enters the space age, light armor aerospace will be an unavoidable name.

“Alas, as expected, we are still not qualified.” Fang Huiyu sighed. “Who would have thought that in just seven years, the fundraising scale of Guangjia jumped from 10 billion yuan to 10 trillion yuan.

Ten thousand times in seven years, and everyone was skeptical before, but now both local investment institutions like us and top foreign investment banks are vying to invest in them.”

Both Bencao Capital and Qiming Venture Partners participated in the angel round of fundraising for Guangjia Technology, and Fang Huiyu and Chen Hongyi were the representatives who attended the project promotion meeting at that time.

With the rapid development of the optical armor companies and the rapid rise of Chen Yuanguang, the two gradually became good friends from acquaintances because of this fate.

At that time, the management scale of Bencao Capital was 40 billion RMB, and the management scale of Qiming Capital exceeded 90 billion US dollars.

Currently, the management scale of Bencao Capital is still fluctuating around 5000 billion RMB, while the management scale of Qiming Venture Partners is about to reach the billion RMB mark.

“Yes, I remember that time the God of Light said that the valuation of Light Armor Technology was 100 billion RMB, and if 10% of the shares were sold, the voting rights would only be one-tenth.

The whole audience was in an uproar at the time, and everyone was dissatisfied with the young people’s ignorance of the immensity of the world.

Who would have thought that Guangjia Technology would become a trillion-dollar giant today, with its market value having increased three hundred times compared to that time?

If I had been able to become an investor in the angel round of Light Armor Technology and subsequently invested in Light Armor Aerospace, I would have been able to retire by now.”

Everyone was very emotional.

To the outside world, Chen Yuanguang is a myth. To elites like Chen Hongyi and Fang Huiyu who have had connections with Chen Yuanguang, he is even more of a myth.

And they also witnessed the rocket rise of this myth with their own eyes.

“We thought they were just young and frivolous, but we didn’t expect they were really capable.

In the past 100 billion, the representatives of Sequoia Capital and Morgan almost questioned Mr. Chen in an aggressive tone. If Shunwei Capital had not come to the rescue, Mr. Chen would have been embarrassed by them. “Fang Huiyu said with a smile.

When recalling the past, one will lament how fast time flies and how things and people have changed.

“Who says it isn’t?

Now that 10 trillion RMB has been raised, no one dares to question it.

I’m afraid no one would even dare to ask for an auditor to do a financial audit.

The financial audit depends entirely on the consciousness of Mr. Chen and his colleagues. If they are willing to do it, they can do it. If they are not willing to do it, you don’t even have the qualifications to ask.

Now Mr. Chen is like a god to us.

The nickname “God of Light” is indeed correct.”

Directors generally receive three types of remuneration. One is the agreed salary, another is the profit sharing, and the last is how much he says it will cost to make the entire film. In the end, you have no idea what the actual cost is.

For example, Man Jiang Hong, the total cost was 5 million yuan, did he really spend 5 million yuan? No one cares, even the investors will not care, because they made money for them.

Not to mention Chen Yuanguang now, even though he has raised 10 trillion RMB, no one dares to ask for voting rights or auditing.

This is a manifestation of status.

“Yeah, let alone an audit, it’s more like a project promotion meeting than a money-giving meeting.

Everyone goes there ready to give money, and some even give it willingly, with both hands and feet.”

(End of this chapter)