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However, upon hearing what Yuan Yang said, Kaiser retorted loudly: "Mr. Yuan Yang, German craftsmanship is world-renowned, and Siemens' technology is far superior to that of GE. The reason why they have repeatedly failed in project competitions in the international market is because Intervene."
When Caesar said this, his face was full of resentment, and he didn't know whether he was pretending or real.
In fact, I am really angry. Both Siemens and General Electric still play a central role in the development of global electrification. core.
Iraq, whose infrastructure has been severely damaged due to perennial chaos, needs large-scale construction of electrification, and Siemens and General Electric staged a sharp battle rarely seen in the century for the post-war electrification reconstruction of this huge order.
Behind it, there is even participation and competition between the United States, the world's largest economy, and Germany, the fourth largest economy.
Needless to say, Iraq originally took a fancy to Siemens, but under the intervention of the United States, how could it dare to offend the United States, so it canceled the power system agreement worth 150 billion US dollars with Siemens, and signed with General Electric Group instead protocol.
The defeat of Siemens is not a failure of technological competition, but a failure of the game between Germany and the United States. The competition between the big brother and the younger brother is not once or twice a day, and it has been too much in recent years.
However, the partner of this cooperation made Caesar full of confidence, because the partner was not an Iraqi, but a Chinese who was already almost as big as an American.
In terms of economy, Huaxia and Laomei are the only two economies in the world that exceed 20 trillion US dollars, and they are both poles of the world.As long as it is certain and the agreement is signed, it is basically guaranteed, unless a war breaks out.
But China is at war with the United States?Obviously, the probability of this is almost zero.
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On January 1, North America, General Electric headquarters.
"What did you say? Future Technology Group has reached and signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with Siemens?" Larry Culp, who had just taken office, stood upright from his seat in shock, staring at the assistant who came to report.
For Larry Culp, it's really a bad time. If he could postpone it for a week, he would definitely not take over GE. On the day he officially took over the GE Group, the market value plummeted by 33%. Larry Culp was almost dumbfounded at the conference that day Yes, facing such an opening, I really want to die.
The assistant said cautiously: "Boss, a few days ago, Siemens CEO Joe Kaiser officially announced the 'Company Vision 2023+' strategic plan, announcing that the new organizational structure will come into effect on September 2023, 9, and the specific implementation will be carried out gradually. To be completed by March 1, 2024."
"Siemens will cancel the existing business group hierarchy, the company headquarters will be more streamlined, and its business will be given greater freedom. This is all for the global power grid strategy led by sgcc and Lifelight, and Siemens has already joined it."
"According to the 247 global investment projects led by Future Technology Group Lifelight and sgcc, Siemens won 64 independent bidding projects."
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"Participated in the supporting supply of 132 projects, covering Europe, Latin America, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa and other regions, covering fields including natural gas and power generation, smart infrastructure and digital industry, Gamesa, and Siemens Alstom, which is under preparation."
Speaking of which, the assistant had already seen Larry Culp's eyelids twitching uncontrollably, hesitated for a moment and finally added again: "The total value of the signed strategic cooperation agreement... 860 billion U.S. dollars!"
"What did you say? 860 billion US dollars?" Larry Culp shouted angrily.
pain!He only felt pain from his thigh being cut, and a large piece of flesh was cut off by the Siemens Group. Larry Culp could almost imagine how much heartache he had at this moment, and Caesar on the other side of the Atlantic was so excited that he would wake up laughing in his dreams at this moment.
That's an annoyance!Such a super fat order is really a three-year rhythm of opening, how can you not be angry?
But Culp is definitely not the most angry, because someone is more collapsed than him, that is, the shareholders of GE, Cook, and Apple. This news is simply disastrous news for Apple.
Just when Kaiser, the CEO of Siemens Group, excitedly announced at the Berlin headquarters that he had successfully won the signing of the power system agreement, the market value of Siemens skyrocketed.
Winning this power system business, the property of Siemens Power Generation and Natural Gas Group will not only stop falling, but will directly lead to an explosive growth of 420%, and the market value of Siemens Group will exceed 2000 billion euros in one fell swoop, as if it has been injected with a dose of stimulant total market value.
In stark contrast, General Electric's market capitalization briefly strengthened in the first half of the year because of this incident, and it plummeted from a peak of US$3940 billion in the first half of the year to the current US$1620 billion in just one month.
And this news made ge worse, and the stock fell further. When Siemens' market value broke through 2000 billion euros (2260 billion US dollars), ge fell below the 1400 billion US dollar mark.
The worst thing to say is Apple. This technology giant has fallen from a trillion-dollar market value giant to a market value of only 2190 billion US dollars. If this trend continues, it is estimated that the 2000 billion US dollar mark will not be able to hold. People sigh with emotion.
However, Apple's board of directors did not shift the responsibility to Cook, the head of the company, because he chose GE's strategy correctly. If it were not for the attack, the power system business worth 860 billion US dollars must belong to the GE Group. In the North American business market, this order may exceed [-] billion US dollars.
But all this was missed by the Germans, you say it's annoying!But what shocked everyone at this time was that Berkshire Hathaway was not affected much, which made people curious for a while.
But it was soon dug out. Warren Buffett actually held a heavy position in Siemens shares, and also increased his holdings in French Alstom shares, as well as Sony Group. In other words, Buffett perfectly hedged this pen risk.
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The next day, just as the news was announced, Larry Culp took off from Boston to the North American office of the Future Technology Group in Los Angeles without stopping.
At present, all the assets of Future Technology Group in North America have been frozen by the authorities. The last batch of core employees and overseas management personnel will also take a special plane to return home. Now an office has been set up in Santa Monica.
"Mr. Karp..." At this moment, Ye Yonghua finished the phone call and returned to the room, looked at the head of Ge and said regretfully: "I just contacted the headquarters, and Mr. Li's response is to have a face-to-face interview. Siemens signed the agreement, it's a foregone conclusion."
"No, no, Mr. Ye, the Siemens family can't take over the entire world market. GE still plays a central role in the development of global electrification. Without GE, the global power grid plan led by your company and sgcc will definitely not be perfect." Larry Karp endured the sense of urgency in his heart, but he still didn't hide it completely, and there was no need to hide it.
"You're right about what you said, but Suga speaks bluntly to Mr. Culp."
Ye Yonghua looked at the new head of ge in a daze, paused and said: "ge is not wrong, what is wrong is that ge is in an extremely unstable country, frankly speaking, we express our deep concern to the North American authorities, You have to admit that Germany is at least stable in North America now, and we have no reason not to choose Siemens."
"Boss Ye!" At this moment, his secretary came downstairs with a whole suitcase in his hand, and said with a nod of his wrist, "The flight is about to be delayed."
"Understood." Ye Yonghua turned his head and nodded.
Turning around and looking at Larry Culp: "If you can't give up this business completely, I suggest that your company may turn to negotiate with Siemens. The North American authorities put a gun to Siemens' head like last time, and maybe they can win Keep your share of tens of billions of dollars."
Larry Culp was caught off guard by his sudden taunt, his eyelids twitching.
This was during a dispute between General Electric and Siemens over the Iraqi power system business, and General Electric took advantage of the interference of North American authorities to snatch food from Siemens.
Ye Yonghua left this room and took a special car to the airport to return home, and this building was about to be frozen.
"Fack!" With Ye Yonghua's departure, Larry Culp in the room finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, angrily overturned the table in front of him, hurried towards the door, and said gloomyly: "Go Apple headquarters!"
General Electric was really in a hurry, and Apple was also in a hurry. Cook contacted Future Technology and hoped to meet Li Linfei. As long as he nodded, he would fly over immediately.
However, no see, Li Linfei didn't give any face!
It is definitely not possible to contact them at this time. They have already signed a power agreement with Siemens, and they have contacted people from GE in private.
This project is no small matter, and it can be said that one sentence is the most important thing: stability is the most important thing.
The one trillion dollar appropriation is not a joke. In order to kill the power agreement reached by the Chinese and the Germans, the Americans with poor skills have nothing to do with China. The Americans turned to put pressure on the Germans, to this point , I don't even need a "face".
On January 1th, the old US ambassador to Germany, Greer, openly threatened the Germans. If Germany insisted on participating in the construction of the global power grid with sgcc, they would make the Germans pay the price.
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As for the price, citing the Washington Post report, Greer stated in an open letter that if Germany does not repent, the United States will greatly reduce its cooperation with Germany in the field of intelligence sharing.
In their view, this threat will make the Germans uncomfortable, because Germany and even the whole of Europe are currently relying heavily on US intelligence resources in the field of "anti-terrorism".
However, the Germans are not "intimidated", and Greer's command + threat tone undoubtedly aroused great disgust among the German people, and it was published in the mainstream German media "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
Under the relevant report "The United States threatened Germany to abandon the global power grid plan", German netizens wrote tens of thousands of comments refuting the United States.
"Come on future technology, Germany does not need the United States!"
"Hehe, the data of the German telecommunications industry companies are all stored in the United States. So how can Americans who like to monitor and eavesdrop allow others to disrupt the situation?"
"Then, Mr. Ambassador, what is the CIA stationed at the American embassy in Frankfurt, Germany?"