Yanei of Rebirth

In March [-], the Second Session of the Eleventh National People's Congress was held in Beijing.

Secretary Liu returned to the capital.

The U.S. financial crisis that began to erupt in August last year has spread rapidly. After Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, another investment bank, Merrill Lynch, was also acquired by Goldman Sachs. Three of the five largest U.S. investment banks collapsed. .The stock prices of the two companies fell all the way to the bottom, and there is no hope of a comeback for a long period of time in the future.

In order to save the two companies, the US government has invested nearly 1000 billion US dollars.But for the huge real estate bubble and the derivative financial bond market, this amount of money is really a drop in the bucket.Some conservative economic experts estimate that the U.S. government needs to invest at least 3000 billion to save the two companies, while other more pessimistic economists analyze that it may need to invest [-] trillion U.S. dollars to be effective.

Whether it is 3000 billion U.S. dollars or one trillion U.S. dollars, it is beyond the limit that the U.S. government can afford. [

Jack, the new president of the United States, is deeply troubled by this, even devastated.American politicians have visited countries around the world to seek assistance.But little success.Because of the impact of global integration, EU countries are also deeply affected by the financial crisis and are overwhelmed.Even the traditional "blood bank" in the United States has lost a lot of blood, and there is no way to help the United States with much money.

At this time, the United States and Western countries pin all their hopes on the East of the world.If the Republic and another big developing country are willing to lend a helping hand, it may be able to help the United States tide over the difficulties, at least gain some breathing time.

However, whether this hope can be realized is not up to the Americans to decide.

In a certain villa in Longshan Park, Guo Qiliang sat around a table with Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan.

This is Guo Qiliang's residence.

This gathering was invited by Guo Qiliang, and it was nominally a private gathering.Guo Qiliang invited Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan to his home for dinner.If one of them is invited alone, there is no problem.There will also be personal contacts between senior leaders.It's just that inviting Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan at the same time seems a little bit out of line.

The close relationship between Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan is known to many high-level bosses.However, a personal relationship is a personal relationship, and a public friendship is a public friendship, and they are two different things.Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan often sit together and drink tea, others are used to it, so it doesn't matter.It is not so good to appear at Guo Qiliang's house at the same time.

But Guo Qiliang doesn't seem to care much about these.

He didn't invite Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan over to connect with each other. He had important matters to discuss.A meeting of the Politburo will be held tomorrow to discuss further measures to deal with the US financial crisis.Guo Qiliang, as the vice premier in charge of the financial system, must put forward his own plan at the Politburo meeting.Before that, Guo Qiliang wanted to consult Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan for their opinions.

These two are both known as strongmen in economic construction, and they participated in the "Hong Kong Blocking" campaign ten years ago, successfully defeated the invasion of Hong Kong by international financial predators, and won a complete victory.

In terms of financial strategy, it is necessary to communicate with them.

"Secretary Liu, everything is as you expected..."

Guo Qiliang took a sip from his teacup and said with emotion.

Guo Qiliang's words really came out of emotion.It's not just Liu Jun's prediction of the US financial crisis.The New Century Financial Corporation went bankrupt the year before last, and the U.S. financial crisis has begun to emerge. The U.S. government has worked hard to "whitewash the peace", but some discerning economists still perceive the huge risks hidden in it.However, like Liu Jun, it was the first time that he systematically explained the causes and consequences of the possible outbreak of the US financial crisis at a Politburo meeting.Moreover, on the occasion of the Politburo meeting, Liu Jun's prediction was destined to be extraordinary.Once the prediction is wrong and the response is wrong, Liu Jun will be questioned by many parties.

But Liu Jun made no mistakes, as if he was the director, and the American financial crisis was staged completely according to his "script".

After the outbreak of the financial crisis, the Politburo held several meetings in succession to discuss countermeasures. Every proposal made by Liu Jun received great attention from everyone.

In this process, the United States will not stand still and take various measures to put pressure on us.Especially the arms sale to the Baodao area is regarded as a super bargaining chip, and it is used to talk about it from time to time.

And every time Liu Jun makes a proposal, the core idea is only two words-tough!

It should be said that Liu Jun's attitude caused serious disagreements.Some mature and prudent leaders believe that in view of the actual gap in national strength between the two countries, it is not appropriate to completely tear faces with the United States at this stage, and they should be hypocritical and give them some benefits. This is also a strategic need.At the same time, we should also shoulder the responsibilities of a major country, so as to shape our image as a major country and establish our status as a major country.But some other leaders support Liu Jun's approach. At this stage, they should be tough. More than 50 years ago, we established our status as a military power with a foreign aid war, and demonstrated our national prestige and military prestige. Now we can still play a prestige in this financial war and establish our status as a financial power. [

From the perspective of formal development, basically Liu Jun's countermeasures are more appropriate.The United States has begun to take the initiative to show favor to us and ask for support.

Successfully predicting the overall financial situation, in the final analysis, is just the "duty" of a strong man in economic construction, but in the contest between countries, every time the response measures are roughly appropriate, this is no small matter.

Liu Jun not only fully established his prestige in the province, but also gradually established his position at the central level.In almost every meeting of the Politburo, Chairman Li Zhiguo asked for Liu Jun's opinion by name.

This reflects an obvious signal.

Liu Jun smiled slightly and remained silent.

In front of Guo Qiliang and Qiu Qingchuan, how much courtesy does he need.

"In the United States, several congressmen have already proposed a sanctions bill. This matter needs to be discussed."

Guo Qiliang then talked about the topic.

Qiu Qingchuan smiled and said, "Ignore him!"

After Qiu Qingchuan became the secretary of the provincial party committee, he took over the entire team left by Liu Jun, and with Bai Yang's full cooperation, he had completely established his prestige and became more and more taciturn and majestic.

Even in front of Guo Qiliang, he behaved like this.

Guo Qiliang also smiled, glanced at Liu Jun, and said, "Secretary Liu also has the same opinion?"

Liu Jun smiled and said: "Prime Minister Guo has a well-thought-out plan, why bother to ask us!"

Guo Qiliang laughed, picked up the cigarette on the coffee table, and handed it to Liu Jun and Qiu Qingchuan.Although the ages of the three are quite different and their experiences are different, Guo Qiliang found that many of his thoughts are highly consistent with Liu Jun Qiu Qingchuan's, and most of the time they coincide with each other.

Members of the U.S. Congress have proposed bills against us not once or twice. It can be said that this has formed a practice and is also a common practice of some American politicians.When domestic conflicts are sharp and difficult to reconcile, politicians usually use this trick to open fire on other countries in order to divert the attention of the domestic people and turn the domestic conflicts in the United States into international conflicts.

Over the years, under the halo of being the most powerful country, many people in the United States have also developed this kind of arrogance, believing that the United States has the right to intervene in the affairs of the world, and any country should follow the American baton.

However, in the eyes of Liu Jun and others, this method is not surprising, and it is already outdated.

In the past few years, we had a large number of export companies. In order to generate foreign exchange, we relied heavily on the US market. The US often wields the big stick of "sanctions", which often has a suppressive effect.For the sake of the overall situation, certain concessions will be made to them.Not only us, but many other developing countries have also been "blackmailed" by the US.

But this time, the situation is obviously different.The United States is actively seeking our support. At this moment, it should take the initiative to communicate with us and seek ways to cooperate.Now, no doubt, it is their turn to make concessions to us.But still come like this. According to our common saying, it is simply too ignorant of current affairs, and it is a typical downfall.

"However, this bill may be passed."

Guo Qiliang lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and said, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Qiu Qingchuan said calmly: "Even if it is passed, it is not a big problem. We can counter the sanctions." [

Liu Jun smiled and said, "If they were smart enough, they wouldn't do such stupid things."

Qiu Qingchuan smiled and said: "Some people always like to talk about themselves. What can they do... It's their military budget this year that deserves attention."

As soon as Qiu Qingchuan said this, the expressions of Guo Qiliang and Liu Jun changed at the same time.

After Jack took office as president, the draft military budget submitted to Congress was the highest in history, accounting for almost half of the total global military budget and the sum of the military budgets of other countries. Compared with the military budget of the previous year, it was several times higher tens of billions of dollars.

Originally, the military expenditure of the United States was extremely huge, tens of billions of dollars higher than that of the previous year, which is not too outrageous.However, under the current financial crisis situation, it is extraordinary that such a huge military budget has been produced.

Liu Jun pondered for a while, then slowly said: "It can be seen that in the eyes of Americans, what is the most important. That is to be powerful! Whether it is the military field or the economic field, they always want to maintain this overlord status Only when it is strong enough can it have enough dominance. Therefore, no matter how serious the financial crisis is, the military power cannot be weakened. For a country without strong military protection, the richer it is, the more it will attract the coveted hearts of wolves. We must try our best to control the initiative, which I think is worth learning from.”

Both Guo Qiliang and Qiu Qingchuan nodded slowly.

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