Chapter 114 American Decline New
India once had the opportunity to be a big country. In fact, most countries in the world have opportunities, but there are only so many nodes. If you can't grasp it, you will need to spend thousands of times more effort to catch up.
The Industrial Revolution is a very important node. The European countries that grasped this node became world powers, including the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, Ottoman countries.
World War I was another node. After World War I, the United States and the Soviet Union took the opportunity to rise. After the regional power Japan swallowed the East Asian Peninsula, it also had considerable strength. However, the center of the world at that time was still in Western Europe. After this war, the dream of a strong country in Ottoman, Austro-Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria and other countries was basically shattered.
At this juncture of World War II, Germany and Japan's dream of a strong country also disappeared; at this time, China's rise, the new regional power of the new country seized this opportunity, while the Indians were still working as horsemen with the British.
The next node is the Cold War period, which is divided into two sections. In the early stage, it was mainly the United States, the Soviet Union and the Chinese nations joined forces to break up Britain and France's many colonies. The United States supported Israel's founding in West Asia, while the Soviet Union and the Chinese nation supported the new countries in Oceania. After this stage, Britain and France can basically announce their withdrawal from the ranks of powers.
The second node is that after dealing with European countries such as Britain and France, the United States freed up its hands to start competing with the Soviet Union. China competed for the world's voice. This stage continued until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most of the legacy after the collapse of the Soviet Union was eaten by the United States, a small part was eaten by China, and a part was taken by European countries.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world situation was approaching nuclear decentralization. Although the Americans made great progress after swallowing the Soviet Union's corpse, they claimed to be the world's dominance and became the leader of the martial arts world in the global village. They dealt with Iraq and determined the status of the oil economy. They stationed in the world oil centers and countries in West Asia.
But soon afterwards, he was back-stinged by the countries of West Asia, and he fell into this quagmire for more than ten years, watching the peaceful rise of China.
During this period, European countries formed the "EU", which involved some of the remaining energy of the United States. The Soviet Union's biggest legacy inherited Russia and was trying to restore its former hegemony; the Japanese took full advantage of the United States, but secretly got along with each other and gradually rose economically; the new country was based on new technology and military, and gradually grew into a regional dominance.
India seems to be dozing off for so many years, but in the early Cold War, I don’t know if I took the wrong medicine or what happened, and tried to compete with China for the ownership of the plateau. After being taught a lesson, I have been honest until now.
The Chinese country was not smooth sailing, and the proxy wars fought with the United States on the Battle of Kyushu Island, the Battle of North Vietnam, and the Battle of Far East with the Soviet Union, finally determined the international status of China.
Now China's total economic output has officially surpassed the United States. This is certain. A country that is constantly developing and has a considerable industrial population. It is inevitable that it will exceed a country that does not break the gap in technology generation and is insufficient in population. This can be seen from the urban economy.
In terms of urban economy, in recent years, more and more enterprises in urban public service departments have been listed.
For example, xx Water, xx Gas, xx Public Utilities. In today's stock market, countless similar companies in provinces and cities are now listed on the A-share market.
There are even many companies responsible for garbage sorting and disposal, such as environmental and sanitation.
This can already show that the supply and treatment of basic life-related water, electricity and gas have been quite large at this time, so that the companies responsible for this area in some cities are sufficient to be listed.
The source of business of these companies comes from the daily lives of residents in their cities; water companies and garbage disposal companies use more water and the more sewage they produce, the more money these companies make and the larger the size.
Even now, it is not often promoted in national media to save water resources, etc.
After all, with the development of technology and the application of all aspects, the company's processing capacity has increased now. I am afraid of overcapacity and I wish you more use it. Anyway, you pay for it yourself, especially for cities that do not lack water resources.
Some experts have calculated why the GD in the United States is so high. The conclusion is that a large part of it is because they are particularly wasteful. For example, most people can use a toothbrush for a few months, while Americans basically change one in a month. In this way, the per capita toothbrush consumption is four or five times that of other countries.
Many things that are repeatedly used in other countries are one-time in the United States; Americans also waste food, which also serves three meals a day. The population of the United States is about one-fifth of China, and the total consumption of food for citizens each year reaches half of that of China.
In terms of water and electricity, China has already crossed the era of shortage ten years ago, which is also one of the reasons for China's economic growth. With the full completion of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project five years ago, the problem of water shortage in northern China is also increasing. However, China has not lacked water in the south, and can carry twice the amount of water used by the population now.
Now from an agricultural perspective, China's staple food production is basically no longer growing, and most of the growth is agricultural and sideline products, such as fruits; and the import of meat is increasing, and the total water consumption of agriculture will basically not increase much.
With the current reduction of capacity in China's industry, especially heavy industries, the total water consumption has also decreased. Many large water users, such as paper mills and printing and dyeing plants, have now transformed and upgraded to South Asia and Southeast Asia, so there is really no shortage of water, and domestic water can also be liberalized.
Domestic water only accounts for about one-tenth of the total water consumption. If the water used in industry and agriculture is reduced by one-third, it doesn’t matter even if the water used in domestic water is doubled.
Moreover, wastewater generated by domestic water is much easier to deal with than industrial wastewater. Nowadays, urban water companies really hope that more sewage will come from residents rather than factories. This situation has led to less and less publicity on water conservation.
Although countries around the world are advocating conservation on the surface, economically developed countries do not promote much at all, and they still expect their citizens to waste more to promote the improvement of GD.
After entering the era of resource-rich, the decline of the United States became obvious. In the past, China needed to import various commodities from the United States, but now it is mostly not needed. In the past, China needed to import large-scale resources, such as oil, and after the new energy revolution began, it was also greatly reduced; and the new energy revolution initiated by China also caused the United States to suffer a major blow.
The most important thing is that the high-tech industry in the United States is gradually declining. In the latest ranking of Internet companies, Microsoft has lost its throne for many years and gave way to Starry Sky Group; among the top ten Internet companies, the United States has only two seats left since it has occupied more than half.
Some time ago, Ataba, which was one of the top ten Internet companies in the world a few years ago, announced that it would liquidate and dissolve it. The shares of Alibaba Group it holds will be transferred to the public, and the Alibaba shares to be transferred are worth approximately US$40 billion.
Ataba is the father of Alibaba who was jokingly called by countless netizens. It was Yahoo, who was so glorious back then. The founder of Jerry Yang, who was regarded as an entrepreneurial idol by Jack Ma for a long time.
This means that Yahoo will most likely disappear into the Internet world this year.
In this world, in 2003, Yahoo invested $1 billion in Alibaba and obtained 40 shares. If all of them can be retained, based on the current market value, the market value of these shares is as high as nearly $200 billion.
However, since the rise of mobile Internet, Yahoo, which has difficulty in protecting itself, abandoned its own portal business and sold Alibaba's stocks many times to cash out and save its life.
You know, Yahoo at its peak was once arrogant, just like Nokia, the overlord in the mobile phone market.
Cultivate the enemy Google, humiliated Zuckerberg, and repeatedly rejected the olive branches offered by the upstarts. Based on the current market value of Google and Renren, Yahoo has released hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Yahoo is the real pioneer of the Internet era. Who killed the giant beast Yahoo
When Yahoo first went online twenty years ago, it could be regarded as the coolest website in the world.
The reason I say this is because the Internet itself was still in a wilderness at that time, and there were pitiful fewer users. The total number of Internet users in the world was less than tens of millions.
Nowadays, there are more than 5 billion Internet users, which can be said to be 100 times that of that time.
At that time, most of the Internet upstarts have not yet awakened; 38-year-old Gates and Microsoft are still working with Intel; Apple is in jeopardy, 37-year-old Jobs is still studying 3D animation; Alibaba is still missing, 30-year-old Jack Ma is still an English teacher; Penguin is still in Antarctica, 22-year-old Ma Huateng has just graduated from university; no one knows that the search engine technology is so important, Page is still in college; social networking websites may have fantasy stories, Su Can and Zuckerberg are just shit children
Yahoo founders, Jerry Yang and David Ferro, the idol of Alibaba's Jack Ma, have already created such a website that can simply classify other websites to help users find them easily, which is equivalent to a navigation page that has been popular in China for a period of time in ten years.
At that time, the rule of the Internet was that if you want to use software, you had to pay first.
However, Yahoo didn't want a penny, and it was all free. At that time, most investors were not optimistic about Yahoo's business potential.
When Moritz, the "Godfather of Silicon Valley venture capital" walked into Yahoo's office for the first time, he saw the scene that would be unforgettable for him forever.
A messy room; Yang Zhiyuan and his friends sat in the small room, the server kept emitting heat, the phone answering machine rang every minute, the phone was thrown on the floor, there was no chair in the whole room, the room was dark and dirty clothes were everywhere.
It is exactly the same as the scene of entrepreneurship in the garage and unit building when many great Internet companies were founded.
Free became Yahoo's most lethal weapon at that time; as the father of all Internet people, Yahoo, who is cheating, has established an advertising ecosystem.
Then in the field of email, Yahoo is also known as the king; emails once had hundreds of millions of users around the world, and the first email address of many netizens was Yahoo Email with the suffix.
And in the content field, Yahoo is also the king.
Yahoo uses a lot of money to produce original content on the website, hoping to use this to tie users.
The most typical one is Yahoo Sports. Yahoo hires many reporters, writes a large number of original articles, produces a large number of video programs, and also has very professional sub-columns such as Yahoo Finance; and this has also become Yang Yi's learning object when creating Starry Sky Weibo.
In just a few years, most netizens regarded Yahoo as their homepage. During this period, Yahoo also launched Yahoo emails, Yahoo searches, Yahoo games, etc. that many people cannot live without, becoming legends in the Internet industry.
In 1999, Yahoo's users had exceeded 100 million, which was more than the total number of visits from all its competitors, and Yahoo's market value reached an astonishing 100 billion US dollars.
In addition, Yahoo, an old Internet company, has created its own business model, which is to sell advertising, whether it is classified information on the earliest portal website, or current video, native and social website advertisements; this has also become the economic pillar of later Internet companies.
Yahoo was the portal of the entire Internet at that time.
All the source of Yahoo's decline is a turning point product search.
After 2000, Yahoo, which became a giant, began to expand, making all the mistakes that big companies should make and not make, underestimate the enemy, lose the family, and manage it incredibly chaotic.
Underestimating the enemy and letting go of the three giants.
At the beginning, Yahoo worked with Google to outsource almost all searches to Google.
The results found on Yahoo website will be commented on "Google Support" and will help Google promote search technology.
Yahoo was very proud at that time because Yahoo valued the huge number of clicks Google brought to it, and Google was hopeful to become the next Yahoo.
A few years later, when Yahoo began to seriously consider acquiring OGE, she realized that she could no longer afford it.
Yahoo, which missed Google, did not learn from the lesson. A few years later, Yahoo offered $1 billion to acquire Facebook, and Zuckerberg agreed. At that time, Su Can returned to China to create Facebook Chinese, but he couldn't get involved.
As a result, seeing that Facebook was in trouble at the inside and outside, Yahoo took advantage of the situation and bargained to $8.5 billion at the last moment. This made Zuckerberg feel humiliated and tore up the agreement submitted by Yahoo in front of everyone on the board of directors.
In the following years, Facebook's development speed exceeded Yahoo's expectations. Even after the two founders split and Renren acquired Facebook Chinese, Facebook was not something Yahoo could afford.
Some people say that everything is only three, but Yahoo doesn’t have a memory. In 2008, at the beginning of the rise of the mobile Internet, Microsoft offered a high price of US$45 billion, with a premium of 60, and extended an olive branch to Yahoo, hoping to break Google’s monopoly position in the search and online advertising market through the marriage of the two, and lead Yahoo to transform into the mobile Internet.
Yahoo still doesn't want to.
At this point, Yahoo has been desperate all the way, missing search, social networking, and mobile Internet, and has never had a place to turn around again.
Yahoo has no money, with a $5.7 billion acquisition and a $4 billion acquisition of ocities. These two acquisitions have achieved some results in the top five worst acquisitions in Internet history.
If Yahoo could have been more than 1.5 billion US dollars in the time of Facebook's civil turmoil, they might have won the then social networking website overlord Facebook at a cost of one billion. With Yahoo's strength at that time, there might not be any Renren in the future.
Of course, there is also a successful case, that is, Yahoo exchanged $1 billion plus Yahoo China for 39 shares in Alibaba Group, which can be said to be one of the biggest successful cases in the Internet.
Alibaba Group was not prosperous and in a difficult situation at that time, so Yahoo invested in solving Jack Ma's urgent need.
After Jack Ma took the huge amount of US$1 billion, he completely defeated ebay, eBay, HCK, and Zhuoyue.com.
Because of this investment, Yahoo can still stay with Alibaba's stocks until now.
Yahoo is a tragedy in the history of the Internet, but in fact it is not the only one. In 1995, the top 5 Internet companies in the world ranked in the market value were all the American Netscape, Rentath, Axesrr, and Apple.
Now, it is China's Starry Sky Group, Chen's Renren, the United States' Microsoft, the United States' OGE, and Chen's Amazon.
By comparison, no one can maintain its peak at that time; this is just like the decline of the United States. A hundred years ago, it was the era of the British Empire, and the British Empire ranked first in the top companies at that time.
The economy is a manifestation of strength. Since the new century, among the top 500 companies in the world, the number of Chinese companies has increased every year; while in contrast, the number of companies in other small and weak countries has decreased every year.
Take India as an example. There were many top 500 in India in the world, but now there are only a few left, all of which are Chinese industries.
This is also a manifestation of India's national recession. Although it seems that GD has been increasing, the gap is getting farther and farther than that of a real power.
As an ancient country with heritage, India still had a chance after the birth of the extraordinary in the era of spiritual revival, but with the outflow of talents and the arrival of criminals from various countries, India has no chance.
Recently, Indians are troubled by the chaos in the domestic situation, and extraordinary people have made the domestic situation even more chaotic. The loss of the pharmaceutical industry, the economic pillar, also led to the chain reaction.
There are frequent attacks everywhere, and recently even the people from the observation team have gradually withdrawn. The weapons sold by various countries are not easy to use, and their own weapons are even more casualties caused by extraordinary people.
When he knew that Starry Sky Group was willing to sell mechas, he immediately contacted the business department of Starry Sky Group.
Not only India, but also the big dogs in the Middle East have a strong foundation. New energy is not popular now, oil is still very valuable at this time, and big dogs also need some weapons and equipment to deal with extraordinary people.
The tank is very powerful, and ordinary extraordinary people cannot fight at all, but the operation difficulty and flexibility of the tank are not satisfactory, while the mecha can be used by individuals, which is safer than the guards. Therefore, the big dogs are also coming to compete with the Indians for this batch of mechas.
Chapter completed!