The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 625: Roll up your sleeves and get to work

The New Year's Day holiday just passed.

As the Spring Festival holiday is approaching, the Panshan Group Headquarters Office officially issued the time and agenda for the Party Committee meeting.

This year's party group meeting will be held on January 1, which happens to be the 30rd day of the lunar calendar, which is the traditional festival of Little New Year.

Panshan Group Headquarters is preparing for the Party Committee meeting, which is the most important thing for Panshan Group Headquarters before the Spring Festival.

The Panshan Group system, including the trade union, party and mass work studio, art troupe, etc., began preparing for the Spring Festival celebrations just after completing the New Year's Day celebrations.

Panshan Group will jointly hold the Spring Festival celebration with Southwest Associated University.

After Liu Tao arranged everything, he went to Southwest Associated University.

Compared with before, the changes that took place at Southwest Associated University at this time were more obvious.

Now Southwest Associated University can be said to have been basically completed.

Except for a few places such as the library, the National Internet Information Center (Yun Province), and the National Supercomputing Center (Yun Province), all others have been built.

Moreover, these very few places have already officially started operations.

Now, apart from the fact that it is newer and has some shortcomings, there is nothing else to complain about.

Each department is well-organized and clearly divided.

There are no tall buildings, and the distance between each building is relatively wide. The campus roads are planted with trees, shrubs, and ground covers on both sides.

The garden-style university campus is enough to make Southwest Associated University rank among the top three most beautiful campuses in the country.

Even at this time, there are still students taking boats to tour Dianchi Lake.

The accommodation conditions at Southwest Associated University were far better than those of other universities in China at that time.

Each dormitory is a four-person room with beds on top and desks underneath. Even though the weather around Dianchi Lake is as warm as spring all year round, it is not too hot in summer. The hottest time is only in July and August, when the temperature is around 30 degrees Celsius. But by then the school is already on summer vacation. Even so, each dormitory is equipped with a wall fan.

As for the teachers' dormitories, the accommodation conditions are even better.

As long as you are a lecturer, you will be assigned a house with three bedrooms and one living room. Associate professors will be assigned a house with five bedrooms and one living room. Professors will all be assigned villas.

Especially the professors' villas, all of which are detached villas, and the accommodation conditions are absolutely the best among all the universities in China.

Liu Tao came to Southwest Associated University on a whim.

He came to attend Southwest Associated University's year-end meeting, as well as to participate in teacher promotion and recruitment.

Normally he seldom came to Southwest Associated University, even though it was right next door.

Even among his four graduate students this year, two are from Southwest Associated University.

Of course, he only teaches graduate students, and they all study for a master's and doctoral degree. He does not teach undergraduates, nor does he have any courses. He only gives lectures occasionally on a whim.

Just when Liu Tao was interested in participating in the work of Southwest Associated University, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the wind of the Toshiba incident was growing stronger and stronger.

At this point, the Americans' intentions were fully exposed. They wanted to take this opportunity to severely punish the Japanese, not just Toshiba, but all Japanese companies!
If the competition is fair, everyone knows that American companies can only compete with Japanese companies in some high-tech fields, while the cost of ordinary consumer electronics, automobiles and other products in the United States is much higher than that in Japan. If the competition is fair, most American companies cannot compete with Japan.

In the United States, even many military industrial units prefer to choose equipment from Japan, which has good technical performance, low prices, and more importantly, is durable and has no harsh requirements on the environment.

"Mr. President, the Japanese, for their own benefit, exported top-level strategic processing equipment to our enemies for only tens of millions of dollars. We even suspect that the Chinese five-axis machining center also came from Japan, which has enabled the Chinese to make rapid progress in processing technology in recent years." A middle-aged man holding a report said to Bush, "According to estimates, in order to widen the gap with the Soviets and maintain our leading edge, the government must invest 500 to 1000 billion US dollars in the field of nuclear submarine technology."

"Japan is a dog that is greedy for petty profits and is becoming more and more disobedient. It wants to turn the tables and become the master. Now, out of its own selfishness, it is bringing huge hidden dangers to our national security. Even committing seppuku is not enough to apologize! These losses must be borne by Japan! Without our protection and the opportunities we give them, they would never be able to develop." A cabinet member gritted his teeth with a fierce look in his eyes. He was the new US Treasury Secretary.

After being appointed as the US Treasury Secretary by Bush, Brady realized more clearly how bad the current economic and financial situation in the United States was.

During Reagan's two terms in office, the national debt expanded rapidly like a snowball, and the trade deficit grew larger year by year, which made the US economy very weak.

All the money was taken away by the Japanese, and the unemployment rate of American workers continued to rise.

The unemployment rate in the United States has now reached a very high level.

The high inflation rate and high unemployment rate have made ordinary people very dissatisfied. Ordinary people are burning with anger. If this anger is not channeled, it will inevitably burn the United States itself.

Therefore, Japan just happens to be the target of this anger.

Toshiba must be fined a huge amount, and even be subject to high tariffs. Japan must also be forced to make huge concessions, thereby significantly reducing the trade deficit between the United States and Japan, and the United States can also suck blood from the Japanese economy to help the United States survive the crisis.

Of all America’s allies now, Japan is the fattest, followed by West Germany.

West Germany is at the forefront of the confrontation between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. West Germany cannot have too many problems, otherwise it is estimated that West Germany will take the initiative to merge into East Germany and achieve German unification. At that time, NATO's defense line will be torn open.

Therefore, the United States did not dare to push West Germany too hard, lest it cause irreparable consequences.

Japan is different. Japan's important strategies have experienced a huge decline, and the Japanese economy poses a huge challenge to the US economy.

Because of the appreciation of the yen, Japan's GDP has reached 3.07 trillion US dollars. No matter how much the United States prints dollars, its GDP is 5 trillion US dollars, which means that Japan's GDP is 61.4% of that of the United States.

The most important thing is that the US national debt has reached 4.6 trillion US dollars!

Japan is the largest holder of U.S. Treasury bonds and the largest creditor of the United States.

It was precisely because of the protection of the United States that Japan was able to develop rapidly after the war.

In fact, in order to allow the Japanese government to have funds for development, the US government intervened and the Japanese government did not even make any compensation to China. Even many Class A war criminals escaped punishment by the International Court of Justice.
The United States supported Japan in order to defend against the Soviet Union and build a bridgehead against the Soviet Union.

Who could have imagined that the Japanese would take advantage of the support from the United States and develop rapidly based on the European and American markets. In less than 20 years, Japan became the second largest economy in the capitalist world and continued to narrow the gap with the U.S. economy.

In recent years, it has had a huge impact on the US economy.

Under fair competition, most American companies cannot compete with Japanese companies. Even with the favor of the US government, most American companies still appear to be lagging behind in the face of competition from Japanese companies.

This forced the US government to roll up its sleeves and get to work.

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