Chapter 1410: The embassy is dangerous
"What? Zhou Ming, you said the United States will bomb our embassy?"
Han Zhen stood up from the chair in surprise. He widened his eyes, as if he was as unbelievable as hearing the world war.
On the opposite side of Han Zhen, Zhou Ming's expression was very serious: "The Kosovo War is fundamentally a means to compete for neutral capital. In order to prevent capital from flowing into the country through the port city, the United States will definitely do something if it does not make a wedding dress for us. But we are not as good as Europe, and the United States dare not really start a war at our doorstep. Therefore, the most suitable method is to bomb the embassy to provoke."
Zhou Ming continued: "At that time, the country will inevitably respond strongly to the excitement of the crowd and go to the streets to protest, which will also stimulate sensitive capital. In addition, international capital originally did not trust the country so much, so this will only be the last choice for these international capitals to return to the United States."
As for not responding, this is not within Zhou Ming's options, because such principled tolerance will only make the opponent more and more unscrupulous.
Han Zhen shook his head: "It's impossible. Americans dare not do this even if they are brave. Comrade Zhou Ming, you may not have any contact with diplomacy. You may not understand what the embassy means to a country. To give you a simple understanding, that is, in international law, the embassy is equivalent to the territory of this country, and bombing the embassy is equivalent to declaring war. I admit that the United States is strong and domineering now, but it does not dare to fight a full-scale war with us."
Han Zhen showed full confidence. He believed that the United States was strong and could easily sweep Iraq, but local asymmetric wars that bullyed the small with the big and the war between big and big powers are two completely different concepts. Han Zhen did not think that the United States dared to turn against him like this. This kind of thing is too exaggerated.
Zhou Ming sighed in his heart that this was not an exaggeration, but something he truly witnessed.
"Comrade Ambassador," said Zhou Ming, "I do not understand diplomacy or international law, but I understand the idea of American capital. They did everything to fight for international capital. And even if the embassy was blown up, it did not mean that war would have to start. If I were an American, I would only explain that this was a mistaken bombing and then just push a few temporary workers out to take the blame. Do you still dare to fight?"
Han Zhen was a little angry. He felt that as a Chinese, Zhou Ming was helping Americans with advice all day long? Why didn’t he think too much about his country? Why couldn’t he stop this plan?
Zhou Ming didn't know how to answer this, Caitlin said to Zhou Ming: "Mr. Ambassador, I think Mr. Zhou Ming told you that this is just considering his own motherland? If he doesn't consider his motherland, then he can never tell you, just discuss with Piero Freeman and others how to make a profit. As for stopping this plan..."
Caitlin also said: "Mr. Ambassador probably doesn't know that long before we proposed this plan, US President Wellington and his staff also came up with almost the same plan."
Zhou Ming also told Han Zhen that only by thinking about what Americans are most likely to do can we do better solutions. Some things cannot be avoided just by trying to avoid them.
Han Zhen sighed and apologized to Zhou Ming, saying that he was a little too excited just now. Now the culprit of the matter is the United States, and he should not expose his anger on Zhou Ming's head.
Zhou Ming didn't say anything about this, and just asked Piero to contact him if he had anything to do. Finally, he gave a few more instructions before hanging up the phone.
After putting down the phone, Zhou Ming felt that his current status was really different from his past. He had to put it in the past. As long as he had thoughts, they would immediately throw it aside and ignore it. But now they didn't dare to do this anymore. So as soon as there was news from the White House, Piero called to report.
Piero's timely report did give Zhou Ming a great help, because Zhou Ming's funds were basically deployed in the United States before, and now as the United States counterattacks against the euro begins, his own layout has to be pushed out.
Caitlin quickly analyzed to Zhou Ming: "There are two simplest channels for making profits, shorting the euro and longing US bonds."
Both are very conventional financial war profit-making routines. Shorting the euro means taking advantage of the high exchange rate to lend a large amount of euros, choosing the right time to sell and enter the market, and then buying and returning it to the bank after the euro exchange rate plummeted. Although it seems that there is no difference in borrowing one, the value of the euro is different. This value gap is profit.
The same is true for longing US bonds, but the operation method is completely opposite. Now that we are hoarding US Treasury bonds in large quantities, the value of US Treasury bonds will also increase accordingly. Even due to the role of US bonds stabilizing investment channels, it will become a popular product in the financial market, and we can still make a big profit by relying on exchange rate spreads.
Caitlin also told Zhou Ming: "In addition to simply going long to make profits, Caitlin also has a more important role in holding US debts. It is to threaten the US government."
This is hard to imagine in China, which is an official position, but it is a routine operation in Western countries where capital is respected.
The most classic scene is Waterloo back then. The legendary financial empire Rothschild family took advantage of the opportunity to get the results of the Waterloo Battle to short the British Treasury bonds, becoming the largest creditor in Britain and rampant in Europe.
Many people think this is a story or don’t believe it, but it is an indisputable fact that holding large amounts of government bonds can threaten this country to a certain extent, especially the bearer-name government bonds like the United States.
Because if Zhou Ming holds a large amount of US Treasury bonds, if Zhou Ming is unhappy, he sells it in large quantities and will directly impact the US dollar exchange rate. If the US government wants to stabilize the financial market, it can only spend a lot of funds to repurchase it. Once this is done, it will also increase the US dollar in the market and cause the US dollar exchange rate to fall. At that time, other financial giants take advantage of the trend and short the US dollar, and the entire United States will be bleeding.
It is precisely for this reason that if these countries are not able to do anything, no one is willing to offend big creditors easily, except for dogs like island countries and sticks.
"It seems I have to seize this opportunity." Zhou Ming understood what Caitlin meant to tell him.
Zhou Ming then took out the phone and dialed Du Peng's phone. The phone rang a few times and was connected. Then Du Peng's wail came: "I said Zhou Ming, is it really not a jet lag for your boss to call? It's one o'clock in the morning!"
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But Zhou Ming then said, "Du Peng, you dare to sleep? Are you a man, don't you know if I'm going to the White House today?"
Du Peng was silent for a while on the other end of the phone, then he became excited and apologized to Zhou Ming. He forgot that Zhou Ming was going to the White House to discuss the resolution of the euro crisis with the US president today. He was a little sleepy after drinking, so he fell asleep.
Listening to Du Peng's hurried explanation, Zhou Ming was very satisfied with his smile because this was the effect he wanted, so he forgot that he had not calculated the jet lag.
Chapter completed!