When Simon woke up the next day, he opened his eyes and saw a pair of beautiful blue eyes next to him staring at him unblinkingly. After looking at each other for a moment, Simon came forward slightly and kissed Grace gently on the lips. He smiled and asked, "How long have you been peeking?"
Grace smiled and said, "I hope it will last forever."
"It's not good to be so greedy."
Simon said and stood up. On the other side, Girl A, who woke up at the same time, also sat up. Regardless of herself, she considerately helped the man find clothes to put on.
Grace faced Girl A, and after a brief moment of embarrassment, she quickly followed suit.
I can't help but think of last night.
Suddenly, he discovered that the usually stern female assistant next to the little man was actually the same type as him.
During the movement, I saw a series of round marks on Girl A's back, and remembered someone's prank last night. She also had them on her body. They said they were a health care method from China, and they said it was... It would be a pity not to do cupping on such a beautiful back.
hateful.
Like little kids.
Thinking of this, Grace gained a little more confidence in front of the young, sexy and capable Girl A. At least, Girl A can't do anything for the time being... Treat him like a little guy. Last night, someone was very greedy.
I thought about keeping it for him in the future. As for the other little guy...
Not hungry anyway.
The three of them dressed and washed together. When they went downstairs, Grace still held Simon's arm, and whispered in the man's ear: "Baby, what do you want to eat in the morning?"
Deliberately using a certain title to hint at him.
It's a pity that someone seemed unaware, said casually, and then went to the gym.
I wanted to help him prepare breakfast in person, but I didn’t follow him. I parted for the time being and went to see my little John. A real little baby was still sleeping soundly under the guardianship of the maid. The more I looked at him, the more I liked him. I always felt that the child was very cute. Like him.
Of course, the little kid in his sleep had no idea how much of the love that should have been his was taken away by his unscrupulous father.
In fact, they didn't do anything last night. They just let Girl A and Grace do their best. Simon pulled out the cupping in a wicked way. Otherwise, it would be a pity.
All right.
So I feel energetic in the morning.
While jogging, I could also discuss the G8 summit information last night with the girl A next to me.
To put it bluntly, the G8 summit means that the eight largest industrial countries in the world want to bypass the United Nations system and dominate global affairs alone. After all, under the one-country-one-vote United Nations system, the British and American giants really have no advantage. They are so big and muscular, but they should sit on an equal footing with a group of African refugees. Why
For Simon, preparing in advance to join in the fun is certainly not without purpose.
Not to mention later, the current strength of the G8 is indeed enough to bypass the United Nations to decide many things, or it can be said that just the United States is enough to do many things.
Regarding the core theme of 'globalization', Simon hopes to guide it and make some changes that are more beneficial to the Westeros system, and even prevent certain possible changes for the sake of the overall situation.
For example, regarding China's long-delayed entry into the WTO.
Both sides are very worried about this matter. Some hope to gain access to China's huge 1.2 billion population market, but others are worried that industrial transfer will affect the country's employment. After all, there are some things that politicians know very well in their hearts, but they will definitely not say it verbally. come out.
This time, let’s connect and talk more, and it’s best to roughly finalize it.
After breakfast, Grace said goodbye and left to work, while Simon stayed in Greenwich and started his own schedule for the day.
The first was a meeting with his family’s head of political affairs, Joseph Schlapp, mainly to discuss this year’s midterm elections.
On the surface, Simon appears to be very low-key about this year's election. In private, of course, he will not be so. After all, if he restrains himself and does nothing, he would be stupid. He is just cautiously staying within the tolerance range of the two parties.
Speaking of which, because Clinton's sex scandal continues to ferment, the current mid-term election situation in the United States is extremely unfavorable to the Democratic Party. Many people predict that this mid-term election is likely to be the next step after the Democratic Party's defeat in the 1994 mid-term election. A huge defeat.
In order to achieve their goal, the Republican Party pursued Clinton fiercely.
The zipper door, which is an extension of the Paula Jones case, has been aroused recently. The truth and falsehood, and even who is on whose side, are simply dizzying.
Simon felt a little sympathetic to Bill's classmate.
It’s hard to describe the appearance of the White House intern, at least it’s so far from Simon’s personal taste that it’s hard to describe it.
All right.
It can only be said that a man who is full does not know that a man who is hungry is hungry.
Now, because of this scandal, not only are the Republicans trying their best to impeach Clinton, but many candidates on the Democratic side have begun to distance themselves from Clinton, trying their best to avoid being in the same frame with each other during the election process, let alone inviting Clinton. Support the election.
This even includes Vice President Al Gore, who has been "close" to Clinton for more than five years.
Of course, Gore does not need to participate in the election, but as the scion of a top political family who intends to challenge the next presidential throne, it is almost instinctive what Clinton should do when he is surrounded by scandals.
Simon feels that it was this seemingly correct 'instinct' that allowed Gore to lose to George W. Bush in the 2000 election.
The people of the United States are not very smart, but they do not lack the common sense that they should have.
In the 2000 election, Gore almost broke ties with Clinton. In addition, he tried his best to take credit for the rise of the Internet industry. It was as if he was the president of the United States for the past eight years and Clinton was just the president. If you don't want to help, it will inevitably make too many simple-minded and straightforward Americans think, isn't this a bit too unjust
Let’s talk about the midterm elections themselves.
Of course, Simon knew the outcome. It was precisely because the Republican Party spared no effort to pursue the Clinton sex scandal, and even spent tens of millions of dollars in advertising during the critical stage of the mid-term election voting, just to publicize Clinton's scandal, which led to the public's rebellion. psychology.
What everyone wants to see is that you politicians govern the country well, instead of chasing after the president and the intern who hooked up and do this kind of nonsense again and again.
It’s not over yet!
Coupled with the fact that Clinton had just handed over the first annual financial report with a fiscal surplus in the United States in the past 30 years, and the U.S. economy has been really improving in the past five years or so, it finally led to the unexpected reversal of the Democratic Party when everyone thought the situation was dire. .
This time, Simon is still following the trend and intends to create a major reversal for the Democratic Party.
Since the Republican Party likes to hype up scandals so much, the Westeros system will also cooperate and create a bombardment of public opinion that will make the public want to vomit when they hear it, so as to stimulate the public's rebellious psychology to the greatest extent. After all, even though the current Westeros system certainly cannot support a single party, it still favors the Democratic Party.
Some people are also surprised.
The Democratic Party advocates raising taxes, advocating for big government to strengthen government control, advocating increasing the welfare of the bottom class, and advocating open immigration. These seem to be detrimental to the wealthy class. Why did Simon make this choice
The answer is simple.
The core is still the Democratic Party’s support for globalization.
Only by achieving globalization can we have a broader market. With the current strength of the United States, we can conquer cities and make more money on a global scale. In comparison, the Republican Party is much more conservative, and even many old-school Republicans have been pursuing the United States to retreat to isolationism and decouple from the world.
For example, Buffett's father, a Republican congressman, is a conservative isolationist.
If the two trends can be balanced, frankly speaking, there will be no problem in maintaining the strength of the United States for at least another 100 years.
It's a pity that this is the way the world is.
Either the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind.
As long as one party has a strong position, it will instinctively pursue more advantages, and there are very few who can take the initiative to give in and seek balance. Therefore, Clinton's eight years can be said to be the best eight years since the United States got rid of the quagmire of the Vietnam War in all aspects. However, at the same time, it was also the eight years that the United States began to accelerate the hollowing out from its roots.
Simon even thought of Qianlong.
It looks like a prosperous time, but it is actually a raging fire.
Perhaps, on the other hand, George W. Bush's election in 2000 was a subconscious self-correction of the American system.
It's a pity that George W. Bush is far behind Clinton.
Putting aside those messy bells and whistles, Clinton is definitely an outstanding politician, while George W. Bush can only be regarded as a politician who rose to power under the shadow of his family.
If the George W. Bush administration can slightly roll back Clinton's eight-year policy, strengthen domestic entities, and continue to control the deficit, then the United States can almost achieve nirvana in sixteen years.
Of course, this is only if.
The result was that a prodigal son led a group of oil businessmen to squander the good situation created by Clinton for the benefit of a few people, and even triggered the most serious economic crisis in the United States after the Great Recession.
In the final analysis, inevitable history has always been composed of countless accidents.
An estate in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.
In addition to discussing the midterm elections with Schlapp, Simon also began to prepare for the 2000 election in advance.
No matter how you look at it, Simon still hopes that George W. Bush can be elected.
If the U.S. economy continues to perform well and continues to rise to an extreme, it will inevitably move toward Western Europe. The result will be ultra-high taxes, universal welfare, and, crucially, suppression of the rich.
When the time comes, the Westeros system will bear the brunt.
Simon would rather see the final outcome of the United States being Latin Americanization.
Today's Latin America seems to have a similar system to North America and Europe, but in fact it is a country with a lack of economic vitality under the control of capital oligarchs. It is almost in a state of near-dead silence. The people do not lack food and clothing, but they want to It is impossible to change, or even to make a big fuss like Guevara did.
The result is that the oligarchs actually control the country steadily, the politicians perform various performances, and the people either continue to live their lives honestly, or travel thousands of miles to the United States in search of opportunities.
There are of course risks involved in doing so.
Again, either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind. Things may go to extremes if you are not careful.
However, things in the future can only be discussed in the future.
In the afternoon, we met with several leaders of the Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group, which is rooted in Washington, has been expanding rapidly in the past two years after receiving support from the Westeros system. Its main investments are concentrated in the field of military and heavy industry.
The core issue of this meeting is South Korea.
Having basically determined the control of South Korea’s electronics industry, the next step is South Korea’s machinery heavy industry.
This is actually already being done.
The Carlyle Group, which has already accumulated considerable experience in related fields, was naturally roped in by Simon, aiming at South Korea's three major fields of steel, machinery and shipbuilding.
Speaking of which, this part of South Korea's industry is actually following Japan's pace. Moreover, although South Korea is small, related industries cannot be ignored. Just talk about steel. In 1997, even if it encountered a financial crisis, South Korea's steel output still reached 4100 million tons, ranking sixth in the world. Considering the size of South Korea, this is a quite huge number.
With the inevitable take-off of China's economy and the huge demand for China's industrialization, the steel industry will not be outdated for at least the next 20 years. Therefore, Simon plans to unite capital from all parties this time to quickly penetrate South Korea's steel industry.
The other ones are machinery and shipbuilding.
Compared with steel, these two aspects are much smaller. However, precisely because they are small, they are easier to control. In addition, because they are backed by a huge market like China, it is also easier to live a very prosperous life.
Especially shipbuilding.
China's development in the next two decades has greatly increased the scale of shipping between the East and the West. The demand for large and giant ships has always been high. Coupled with Japan's silence, South Korea's shipbuilding industry can be said to be taking advantage of the momentum.
In this case, Simon would be really sorry for himself if he didn't eat it.
Moreover, there is actually not much time here.
After being devastated by the storm in 1997, South Korea's economy would hit rock bottom in 1998 and 1999. However, after entering 2000, South Korea's fundamentals were actually very solid. However, South Korea, which was forcibly given strong medicine by the IMF during the economic crisis, was able to recover. After getting angry, if you want to acquire various core assets in South Korea, the difficulty will inevitably increase significantly, and it may even no longer be possible.
After all, even Japan, which is quite docile to the United States, has never been completely controlled by the United States economically. All the federal government can do is squeeze in various disguised ways, such as forcing the yen to appreciate, or requiring the Japanese government to continuously purchase U.S. debt to reduce the financial stability of the suzerain country. Risks, such and such.
Without the disaster in 1997, South Korea would actually be more economically independent.
After all, before the new century, the U.S. economy has been firmly locked in leading the world, and its own country is also wealthy. Therefore, it always has to maintain its image as the big brother and can only take advantage of within the rules.
The Asian financial crisis is a harvest by the United States within the rules in the name of globalization.
If you miss it, you have to wait 20 years.
Only when Big Brother is exhausted, completely shameless, and directly shouts "America First" can we take other actions. However, if a country cannot even maintain basic decency, it is actually already in trouble and is terminally ill.