Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2920 Insidious move

A month later, Zhou Buqi's vacation came to an end and he went from Casablanca to London.

Also around are Aunt Xue and Baoshan, Sun Wanran and Zhang Zetian, Yang Mi and Dilireya.

The first stop was the London Clinic, also known as the Royal London Hospital.

After several months of hard work, I finally achieved results.

Baoshan's body showed some reactions, and it was basically confirmed that she was pregnant.

Come to the London Clinic for a comprehensive and systematic physical examination.

Yang Mi, who was pregnant, also had a check-up.

All indicators are good.

Everyone is happy.

The incense is constantly burning and the family is prosperous.

Zhou Buqi also had the opportunity to take time to go to Manchester to watch a Premier League match, where Manchester United played against West Ham United at home. The result was very embarrassing. The team was leading 2:0, but the opponent scored three goals in the second half, and the two sides finally tied 3:3.

By the time I returned to London from Manchester City, the news had already spread.

Various political and business leaders have sent him invitations to participate in some important events. Cambridge and Oxford universities have also sent him invitations. There are also many business elites who have submitted project reports hoping to find him for investment...

This is the external part, there are also many internal ones.

Many businesses including Ziwei Cloud, Spotify, Ziweixing Digital Media, and Yahoo Europe have also sent reports, hoping to invite Boss Zhou to come and provide guidance.

Whether or not you can really give some guidance is actually not important.

This is like the emperor leading the army in person in ancient times.

When the emperor went to the front line, he was actually of no use to the emperor, and he didn't understand war... But as long as he went there, he would sit there, walk in front of the soldiers and wave his hands, which would greatly boost morale and greatly increase the success rate of the battle.

This is very troublesome.

Zhou Buqi originally planned to stay in London for two days, take Baoshan and Mimi for a comprehensive physical examination, and then go back to vacation, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, to find a trace of tranquility in the countryside and the sea.

Of course, there are also many beauties to accompany you.

Especially the Japanese maids who had just been recruited from Japan, more than a dozen of them, all of whom had been tested many times to be virgins. Aunt Xue, who was frugal and managed the household, suggested that it would be best to have one maid a day, and let Boss Zhou come forward to test them all, so that they could go through this stage of growing up. The money had been spent, so why not enjoy it?

Anyway, Baoshan is pregnant now.

Zhou Buqi was also "free".

But when he came to the UK and watched the game at Manchester United's home stadium, the incident was captured on TV. After it spread, it caused quite a sensation.

Now, the European economy has recovered.

Gradually getting rid of the shadow of the European debt crisis.

Next, we need to start looking for development.

The first step, of course, is to target the hottest IT industry at the moment.

It is said that the EU intends to launch a grand digital strategy, which is to break down the boundaries between policies, laws, cybersecurity, copyrights, different operators, and even express delivery services among EU countries to form a single digital market in Europe.

European countries are fighting each other and their strength is really too weak.

If the European IT industry can be coordinated and have a common standardized system, just like China and the United States, it can incubate a new era of European IT giants.

Zhou Buqi was of course happy to see this happen.

The fragmentation of the European market requires additional costs and a more complex management system for any company to develop in Europe. With unification, costs can be better controlled.

“But here comes a major contradiction.”

Tang Binchen, who is now in charge of European business, is cautiously optimistic about this.

Zhou Buqi had complete trust in him, and even the European business of Ziweixing Digital Media's "Internet + Football", Spotify's "Internet + Music", and Netflix's "Internet + Video" were all represented by Tang Binchen.

"What kind of contradiction is it?"

Zhou Buqi went to Tang Binchen's office specifically.

Tang Binchen said: "The EU intends to promote a single large digital market, not to create a better business environment for the technology giants in China, the United States, South Korea and Japan so that they can make more money here. Instead, it is to incubate European technology giants that can compete with China, the United States, South Korea and Japan!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I'm afraid this is not very realistic."

Tang Binchen nodded and said in a deep voice: "It is indeed not realistic to rely on the market. However, we can still rely on some non-market factors to interfere with the market."

"It really is!"

Zhou Buqi immediately remembered an internal activity of the European Competition Committee in which he would participate next, the main discussion of which was the antitrust investigation into Qualcomm.

  Now is an opportunity for the EU!

Both China and South Korea have officially launched antitrust investigations into Qualcomm.

In the United States, Apple also took action and filed a super lawsuit against Qualcomm with a claim amount of more than 400 billion US dollars.

Qualcomm can now be said to be under attack from both sides.

Over the past decade, the EU has investigated Qualcomm four or five times.

The results were all unsuccessful.

Not a match for Qualcomm.

  It’s different now, the opportunity has come!

If the EU follows suit and launches an antitrust investigation against Qualcomm, taking advantage of Boss Zhou's plan to kill Qualcomm, it will be difficult for Qualcomm to devote more energy to fighting the EU's investigation. In this way, the EU is likely to win and can punish Qualcomm forcefully.

Tang Binchen has been in Europe for many years, and his feelings have become more and more profound. He said: "Europe's technology industry used to be very strong, no less than that of the United States. But in the past decade or so, under the guidance of the Internet era and the global trend of smart phones, Europe has fallen behind. In fact, it is not the technology that is lagging behind. Europe's technology is still world-class. But the industry has fallen far behind. For example, white goods. In the past, Europe's white goods were the most competitive in the world. Siemens' TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines were all trump cards. Now it's not the same. The white goods market has become a three-way split between China, Japan, and South Korea."

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, this is the same as the ecological thinking we have been talking about when we were making Internet products. The success of a single Internet product is actually weak in foundation. From a global perspective, only product ecology can be more competitive. Whether it is social networking, e-commerce, search, or the popular cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the real industry giants will eventually implement product ecology. It is not enough to develop only one product. Whoever can build a product ecology first will stand out."

Tang Binchen agrees. "That's right. The ecosystem of an Internet product is actually a complete product industry. Now, there are only two players in the global Internet landscape, China and the United States. South Korea, Japan, and Europe, which seemed to be very powerful in the early days, are no longer doing well and have fallen behind. In fact, it is because the industrial structure is not perfect. Only China and the United States have the most complete Internet industrial structure."

Zhou Buqi nodded. "So I was busy in China for several months to promote the domestic mobile phone industry and new energy vehicle industry. In modern global competition, advantages in a single field can only be short-term advantages. An industry impacting a company, an Internet ecosystem competing for an Internet product, this is not a competition of the same magnitude, there is a gap in dimension."

Tang Binchen said in a deep voice: "The EU might be using some shady tactics."

"what?"

"Qualcomm, start with Qualcomm! This is all because of you!"

"Uh……"

Zhou Buqi was a little dazed.

In a trance, I realized my invisible influence as the world's richest man and a top entrepreneur.

He used these methods against Qualcomm.

It seems to have an impact on future international trends...The EU's construction of a digital single market is the first move.

Tang Binchen said worriedly: "In fact, it is the same for any country. If they cannot rely on pure market competition, they will definitely use some non-market means to interfere with market competition in order to protect their local market. This is not only the case in China, but now it seems that the EU is also going down this path. If they only rely on market mechanisms, EU local technology companies may never be able to compete with China, the United States, South Korea and Japan. They will definitely come up with a series of non-market policies to restrict these foreign companies."

Zhou Buqi was very relaxed about this and said with a smile: "It's not surprising. China has always been doing this before. Now the EU can't stand it anymore. In a few years, when the domestic IT industry continues to develop and becomes more and more powerful, even the United States can't stand it. The United States will have to lower its face and join in the same action."