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Chapter 2921 Looking for trouble

Having said that, there are still some differences.

Now, Europe's technology industry is collectively in a slump.

Since they cannot compete in the market, they have to rely on the EU to introduce some biased policies to protect European technology companies and prevent the European technology industry from being strangled by China, the United States, South Korea and Japan.

These four forces are really powerful.

In the early years, the United States and Japan were too strong.

In recent years, Japan has been slightly inferior and lost a lot of market share, while South Korea has emerged.

In recent years, Chinese companies headed by Mr. Zhou have also started to enter Europe, and their market share is expanding rapidly. They include not only the industry giants such as Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Asda, Ziweixing, Changyou, Alibaba, Baidu, and Penguin, but also some small and medium-sized technology companies.

The most typical example is the outsourcing industry.

Now, software outsourcing is shifting to Asia.

Either go to India or go to China.

At least 20% of European software is written by Chinese programmers, all of which are outsourced.

Together with home appliance companies such as Haier, Gree, Hisense, TCL, and Midea, the European industrial structure has been torn to pieces.

  The EU must take action and must be on guard!

In contrast, the United States is different.

Later, with the development of the domestic technology industry, especially the Internet-related industries, the Internet giants in Silicon Valley were overwhelmed and unable to compete.

  How to do?

If market means cannot compete, then non-market means are the only option.

  We have to rely on administrative means to find fault!

Just like Google was kicked out of the country.

However, the United States and the European Union are different.

America is easier.

Because the competitive pressure from Europe, South Korea and Japan on the United States is limited and it is difficult for them to pose a threat, they only need to do a good job of defending against Chinese companies. If that doesn't work, they can use more ruthless and killing moves.

The EU is different.

In today's Europe, the strength of the technology industry is too weak, and China, the United States, South Korea, and Japan can easily break into the European market and grab territory.

The EU does not dare to kill all its opponents directly like the United States did.

If China, the United States, South Korea and Japan are all blocked from entering the market, Europe's market economy will completely collapse.

Even the strictly guarded domestic mainland market does not dare to block the four major economies of Europe, the United States, South Korea and Japan at the same time.

It is conceivable that the next strategy the EU will adopt will definitely be to support one faction and attack the other.

You can't hit them all.

If both are fought, the business environment will be ruined and the European economy will be completely finished.

We have to fight.

If we don't fight, and let the technology companies from China, the US, South Korea and Japan come to Europe to grab the market, then the local technology companies in Europe will die one by one. In the past few years, Qualcomm has killed a large number of European chip companies, which is really scary. It is really not enough to just appease the opponent. The EU must stand up and take charge of the situation.

Who to pull?

Who to hit?

This is what Tang Binchen has been most worried about in recent times.

Zhou Buqi had it easy.

He has foresight.

I didn’t know what was going on in my previous life. I just knew that I always saw various news saying that the EU launched an investigation into American technology companies every now and then, and the fines were often tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

I think the punishment is quite satisfying.

Some of the punishments are even ridiculous.

For example, the charging cable of a mobile phone.

What style of mobile phone plug should be chosen? This should be the right of enterprises and the choice of the market. What right does the government have to interfere? If the model of charging cable plug is not good, consumers will naturally vote with their money and force enterprises to make the most correct choice. This is the power of the market economy.

The result is good. The EU probably couldn't find any breakthrough with Apple, so it directly took action on the charging cable plug, requiring Apple to unify the charging cable plug of the iPhone with that of Android phones.

And it is a forced choice.

It does not mean that Android phones must use Apple's charging cable plug model, but that Apple must change to the Android model standard.

Even China is too embarrassed to make such a ridiculous decision. The European Union has really issued an ultimatum to Apple.

Before this, Zhou Buqi didn’t quite understand what was going on.

Now that I have experienced it myself, I have finally figured out the ins and outs involved.

This is intentional!

Just looking for trouble!

Just like China got rid of Google before, and the United States will restrict TikTok later. The European Union also has a similar local protection strategy, but in the choice of pulling one faction and fighting the other, Europe pulls China, Japan and South Korea and fights the US technological hegemony.

Not only that, Zhou Buqi had also made plans in this life. He said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? Have we been working hard in Europe for all these years in vain? I have bought Manchester United. You can't fail to see how much influence football has in Europe? The first step for those oil financiers in the Middle East to enter the European market is to invest in football."

"I know about your plans for Europe..." Tang Binchen nodded, convinced. "To be honest, it's really amazing. A few years ago, I thought it was a bit ridiculous. I thought your decisions in Europe were a bit too speculative. Many decisions were not made from market considerations, but from the balance of interests among EU countries. Now it seems that it's really amazing. This vision is too far-sighted. It's at least five years ahead of me."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "It's not that exaggerated."

Tang Binchen said, "Really? I had some doubts before. I thought that the data center in Europe didn't need to be too complicated. It would be enough to build a super cloud data center in Germany. Europe is so small and has such a small population. That's enough. But you insisted on splitting it into two, one in Germany and one in France. Now it seems that you are really far-sighted."

There are dozens of EU members.

Most of them are younger brothers.

Excluding the isolated Britain, the leaders are mainly Germany and France.

If Ziwei Cloud's super cloud data center is located in Germany, and all user data on the European continent is stored in Germany... This is actually the best arrangement, with the lowest cost, highest efficiency, easy management and operation.

This is basically the arrangement for all Silicon Valley giants.

Take Facebook for example.

This year, Facebook invested heavily in Europe to build a super data center.

There is only one.

Then, all Facebook European user data will be stored in such a data center.

This is too market-oriented.

Non-market factors are ignored.

The European Union has never been a whole. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. There are frequent internal fights between Germany and France, each with its own ulterior motives.

  Is such a super data center built in Germany or France?

Can France be happy if Germany is chosen?

Isn't France trying to please you?

Something inexplicably happened to Apple's mobile phone data cables, and it was actually France who did it.

Why?

Because Apple's super data center is not in France.

You took all the French data to Germany... Of course, both parties belong to the European Union, so you can do this legally and it doesn't count as a breach of user privacy.

  But what do the French authorities think?

It's not surprising that they would find fault.

Zhou Buqi had already made arrangements.

Don't be too market-oriented when doing business.

We still have to look at the political landscape clearly.

I'd rather spend more money.

We also have to be comprehensive and not offend anyone.

Anyway, the European continent is made up of two giants, Germany and France, and if they are divided into two... both sides will be happy and neither side will offend anyone.

In terms of political speculation and political alignment, domestic entrepreneurs can be said to dominate the world, while the bosses of technology companies in Silicon Valley are all as naive as young people.

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't worry, Ziweixing International is the only Internet giant that can compete with Silicon Valley. The EU will definitely take action against the United States next, pulling one faction to fight the other, and will definitely pull us to fight against the Americans. Just like Qualcomm, the EU came to me to discuss Qualcomm's matter this time, probably wanting to use Qualcomm's case as a template to determine how we will cooperate with the EU in the future."

"That being said..." Tang Binchen hesitated, "But now the EU has launched an investigation committee to investigate us."

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, in disbelief.

Tang Binchen said: "The one being investigated is Helo."