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() Li Xuan just mentioned the issue of Huiguo to China, and it was not the focus of his concern today. Although some far-left Democrats in Congress do not use the issue to pressure the president. But it is not easy for them to succeed, because there is so much involved in the problem.

For example, the textile agreement signed by China and the United States is based on the mutual most-favored nation between China and the United States. Last year, China exported $3 billion in textiles and clothing to the United States, accounting for nearly half of its total trade with the United States.

And once the U.S. cancels China's most-favored-nation status, import tariffs on Chinese textiles will soar immediately. Although China has suffered heavy losses, the US market may also experience severe turbulence as a result.

Moreover, the United States has also included China's entrepot trade through Hong Kong and Macau into the statistics of China's export trade to the United States. Therefore, this issue will also indirectly trigger trade disputes between the United States and the United Kingdom and Portugal.

And once China retaliates, it will naturally be the first to suffer from American exporters to China. For example, Boeing, China can completely replace it with Airbus planes in the future.

The first step in the U.S. legislative process is to pass a proposal at the same time in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives has as many as 435 seats. Such a large number of seats will naturally lead to relatively decentralized power, which will directly lead to an increase in public relations costs.

By comparison, the 100-seat Senate is more concentrated for six-year terms. Therefore, the cost-effectiveness of public relations for a senator is obviously higher than that of public relations representatives.

This point is even more prominent when it is necessary to interfere with it. Because even if a bill is passed by the House of Representatives, as long as it is voted down in the Senate, the bill will still die!

Regarding the issue of favoring China, Li Xuan believes that before the Senate votes, there will definitely be many other stakeholders who will jump out and do their best to tackle the problem. For example, the Boeing Company mentioned earlier, it is definitely not willing to lose a huge emerging aviation market with great growth potential like China.

But this does not mean that the members of the House of Representatives lack influence. American politics is a place that pays great attention to seniority! Some of the evergreen trees or old monsters in the parliament, their influence and appeal, can even directly determine the nomination of the presidential candidate in the party.

For example, Ou Guanhai was nominated as the presidential candidate by the Democratic Party before he even finished a term of senator, and the biggest push behind him came from Edward Kennedy.

The youngest of the four Kennedy brothers has held a firm hold since 1962, one of two Massachusetts Senate seats.

Edward, who had no political experience before entering Congress, was elected because his older brother, John F. Kennedy, was successfully elected president of the United States. So John F. Kennedy's original senator position was vacated, and he simply asked Edward, the younger brother, to fill his vacancy.

From this, we can also see how blind American voters are, because Edward's brother was the president who was very popular among Americans at the time, so he, a new political rookie, was also made a senator by Aiwu Jiwu.

Edward has never lost a campaign since 1962 when he served as the Massachusetts senator. Now in Congress for 28 years, he is one of the most senior and influential members of the Democratic Party.

And Li Xuan is now in a level of trouble that is not inferior to Edward Kennedy's opponent - Congressman from Michigan, John Dingle.

After this guy entered Congress in 1956, he was firmly nailed to the chair of the House of Representatives like glue stuck under his butt. You must know that the US House of Representatives is re-elected every two years, which means that Dingle has won 17 consecutive election victories.

And in the most recent election in 1988, no one on the Republican side was even willing to challenge him. So Dingle, as the only candidate in his constituency, won without a fight!

To say that the most powerful people in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are naturally the party leaders and whips in Congress. In addition to the distribution of power within the party, another distribution of power is through various special committees under the parliament.

For example, the most powerful committee in the Senate, the Appropriations Committee, can completely dictate the government's budget. For example, if Bush wants to launch the Gulf War next year, he will definitely need a huge amount of military spending, and this military budget needs to be approved by Congress.

At this time, the power of the Appropriation Committee is manifested! Because Congress will let it organize a hearing in the first place.

This hearing can even be handed over to the Secretary of Defense and other government officials to come to Congress in person to explain a series of issues such as the purpose and scale of the budget. And if you can't pass the first hurdle of the hearing, you don't have to think about taking it to the plenary meeting for discussion and voting!

American politics has always been about winner-take-all, so whether it is the Senate or the House of Representatives, the majority party that holds the majority of seats selects members of its own party to serve as chairmen of all committees.

The department that Li Xuan did not deal with this time was the Energy and Commerce Committee under the House of Representatives. This committee, chaired by John Dingle, is precisely the committee in the House of Representatives directly responsible for telecommunications-related matters.

The mobile communication business is one of the most important and core businesses of the Oriental Group in Li Xuan's next plan. It's even a higher priority than Eastern Group's now-best-known computer business.

As an experienced person, Li Xuan is very clear that in the next 20 years, mobile phones will not only be limited to the tools that people use to make calls, but will gradually replace computers and become the most important port for people to obtain information in the era of mobile Internet.

In order to promote the mobile phone from the analog communication era to the digital communication era, Li Xuan first invested heavily in the research and development of cdma (code division multiple access) technology. After the cdma technology matured, he built the world's first commercial digital mobile phone communication network ~www.readwn.com~ in Hong Kong through the Hong Kong Telephone Company under the Oriental Group as a model for promoting cdma technology.

At present, the mobile digital communication technology can be divided into two types. One is the code division multiple access technology - cdma, which is represented by the Oriental Research Institute. The other is the time division multiple access technology developed by companies such as Ericsson and Nokia in Europe - gsm.

Compared with time division multiple access, code division multiple access has many technical advantages. What's more, the cdma technology developed by the Oriental Research Institute is also faster in commercialization! As early as two or three years ago, Hong Kong Telephone Company opened a digital mobile communication network based on cdma technology.

And the fastest gsm in time division multiple access technology has just completed the specification. The first formal commercial operation example is still under construction in Finland.

Logically speaking, cdma has such a big first-mover advantage, and it should be like the original abc series of computers, which should beat the competitors to the ground. But the actual situation is far from simple. cdma technology is only really implemented in three countries and regions, namely Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, and has been put into commercial operation.

In Europe, North America, and Japan, the largest market in Asia, cdma technology has been greatly hindered. A big reason for this is that countries have strict regulations on the communications industry. It is not like the personal computer industry, it is a completely open free competition market!

The U.S. agency responsible for the management of the communications sector is called the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This is an independent government agency directly accountable to the US Congress, and this is the source of Li Xuan's troubles.