Chapter 471: Buffett said: Let's go robbery!(2/2)
He slowly told Abel what he wanted to express:
Pieruzzi, vice president of Alstom from France, was arrested on a business trip in the United States in 2013. He wore an orange prison jacket and murderer in the cell where the heavy prisoners were held in the Rhode Island prison in the American Rhode Island prison. The rapist was locked up because their company defeated General Motors in a bid in Indonesia. The United States suspected that this was related to bribery, although it had nothing to do with him.
General Motors then proposed to acquire Alstom's core business, but was rejected by the French government and arrested another Alstom executive, which was arrested in total five executives. Later, after the White House continued to put pressure on, General Motors acquired Alstom for US$17 billion at a price lower than other companies such as Siemens and Mitsubishi, and Alstom's CEO then received a bonus of hundreds of millions.
Piere Chi was later released and placed under house arrest and was freed in 2018, during which time no company or judicial authorities sued him.
For this classic business case that has been subconsciously forgotten by major media around the world.
This is the law that the Americans drive:
"Any foreigner or employee of a foreign company, as long as he communicates through the American mail system, uses American banks to transfer money or has a slight connection with the United States, if any illegal situation occurs in the above actions, the United States has jurisdiction!"
The potential line is that when competing with American companies, it is prohibited to implement "Measures" that the United States believes you are illegal. Of course, American companies will not be affected.
Alstom is a French power company founded in 1928.
Currently, it has more than 90,000 employees worldwide.
In the fields of electricity, energy and transportation.
Being in the world's leading position.
In this regard, their technology is known as: "In every 4 light bulbs in the world
There is one light bulb's power coming from Alstom's technology."
The "gas turbine" built by Alstom is the core equipment of natural gas power plants and the power heart of the 10,000-ton aircraft carrier.
The world's number one in technology in ultra-high-speed trains and high-speed trains!
The world's second most basic aspects of urban trains, regional trains, subway light rail technology, and various infrastructures!
Such a powerful super technology company can be said to be France's "Guowei Group". As a result, under various means, the United States finally sold it to General Motors for a low price of 17 billion US dollars.
Which country does General Corporation come from?
America!
It was only 17 billion US dollars! Even the value of Alstom's stock market at that time was more than this price. You should know that Siemens and Mitsubishi, who were interested in it, also paid 50 billion US dollars...
Is it already crazy to buy Alstom for 50 billion US dollars? If I were willing to buy it for Chinese companies, I guess Chinese companies are willing to pay 200 billion US dollars!
However, Alstom's CEO at the time rejected Siemens and Mitsubishi's offer of more than 50 billion US dollars, but accepted General Motors' "sky-high price" of 17 billion US dollars!
Buffett finished the story of the Alstom company with a smug and smiling expression to Abel.
After listening to this case.
Abel was speechless for a short time.
A sigh rose in his heart: It's ridiculous. When he was a Chinese, many people watched too many American blockbusters and thought that America was a democratic, free and just country. In fact, this is a complete robber, hooligan and evil country. A wolf in sheep's clothing for decades, relying on all resource advantages!
Looking at Buffett's smug expression.
Abel remembers that there is a plot and story of an American movie, which is somewhat similar to the events of Guoxing Company and the previous Alstom Company this time.
The movie talks about how the American government controls the Middle East countries.
The technique is very useful: kill or kill the anti-American heirs, leaving behind fear of death!
At the end of the movie, the fear of death crown prince said sadly in the elevator, "I also want my country to use oil to develop industry and revitalize technology, but every time this time, American companies always force us to sell expensive non-essentials such as planes."
In fact, when Abel was in China, he saw netizens shouting in a silly manner on the Internet, as if white-skinned people were bullying others together. In fact, the world is about interests first and has nothing to do with race.
In profitable situations.
Whites still bully whites. For example, an example he saw before: When Egypt took back the Suez Canal in the 1950s, how did the United States torture Britain and France?
To sum up, it is: America is a super hooligan! This world is such a prey of the weak!
Otherwise, what would the United States spend so much military spending to support so much military force? On the one hand, the interest groups of the military-industrial complex cannot be suppressed without the army!
Just as I was sighing.
Buffett asked with a smile: "How is it? After listening to Alstom's story, do you think Guowei Group can withstand it? Even the French government can't withstand it! Guowei Group is not a state-owned company of China, but a company that is very afraid of within the state-owned company of China..."
"I believe we will do it! China should help Guowei's company, but there will definitely be some internal damage within their country!"
"We have a good chance of winning!"
Abel took a deep breath.
Chapter completed!