Chapter 1731 Third Party Intervention
As long as you need to grasp the economic trend and development direction, there will be a large group of people helping Han Xuan complete the decision, and there are not many things that really need him to do.
There is no need to contact the shareholders of Time Warner Group for the time being. I just punched them today, but now I come to the door and don’t give me a good look. It’s better to put it on first.
On this day in mid-December, two major events happened in the world.
One thing is that the Nasdaq index has declined sharply again. Traditional industries have been affected by stock market fluctuations, and the output value has also dropped a lot, and the global economic output has evaporated by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Another big thing is the acquisition of Time Warner Group by Han Xuan. This old media company has a lot of influence in the United States, including three major American newspapers, three mainstream news magazines and weekly magazines, five major TV stations, etc. For them, they can be divided into three categories: liberals, conservatives, and neutrals.
As a quarrel directly to the people, each media has its own political tendency. While liberals and conservatives cooperate, they are opposite to each other in certain political propositions. Neutral factions are turning against each other, which involves countless interest groups.
Liberals, that is, leftists who are accustomed to calling them, advocate economic government intervention, increase taxes and government spending to social services, implement welfare policies, pay special attention to minorities, etc., emphasizing fair trade and advocating trade protection.
Politically, the Democratic Party advocates resolving international issues through consultation, social and cultural support for abortion rights, advocates tolerant and accepting attitudes towards homosexuality, opposes strict law enforcement against illegal immigrants, support stem cell research, support gun control, abolish the death penalty, and opposes the use of religious beliefs to guide people's secular lives.
Rightist conservatives advocate economically reducing government intervention, reducing federal deficits, and lowering taxes. They emphasize the role of free competition and market regulation, advocate free markets, and oppose trade protection.
Politically, it tends to be Republicans, supports tough treatment of dictatorships, emphasizes traditional moral concepts, attaches importance to the role of religion and family, opposes the legalization of homosexual marriage and abortion, advocates strict control of illegal immigration, opposes stem cell research, opposes gun control, and advocates the preservation of the death penalty.
Which political party’s presidential candidate comes to power and directly decides to go to countless industries such as medical care, trade, arms, etc. In order to maintain a certain balance, the United States has developed a two-party rotation to prevent one party from becoming bigger and avoid the political, social and business balance being broken.
The two sides reached a consensus on this view in a tacit understanding. There are liberals among the conservatives and there are conservative members among the liberals, which is not absolute.
No matter which political party is in power, it is represented by economic interest groups. Therefore, in fact, Han Xuan does not have to care about who will be the president. The president is just their spokesperson.
The two parties in the United States take turns to rule, but there is no fixed order of taking office. In some periods, one party may run for successful president many times. The most extreme situation is that Roosevelt served as president for four consecutive terms, because of the special historical background.
Time Warner Group's CNN is regarded as a left-wing benchmark, while News Group's Fox News (Fox) is regarded as a right-wing benchmark. It turns out that the three major wireless TV ABC, NBC, and CBS are relatively left-leaning. As ABC TV was acquired by Mr. Han, people suddenly couldn't figure it out.
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party have tried several times, and finally found that it is more neutral, only paying attention to its own interests, and getting close to both factions. The old man has also increased his influence. The influence is invisible and intangible, but he can indeed clearly feel its existence. The most obvious thing is that the invisible pressure from the old man and Han Xuan in the past has been reduced a lot.
Just launched the acquisition of Time Warner Group in the morning, and in the afternoon, all forces came to the door. Democratic members all exploded. Time Warner Group's news organizations, but their most important external publicity channel, if they are lost, the election that is approaching is likely to end in defeat.
It is worth mentioning that Bush Jr. will run as a Republican in the next election, and it is well known that the Han family's old man has a close personal relationship with former President Bush, which means that the Democratic Party has fallen at a disadvantage from the beginning.
Unlike the Democratic Party, the Republican Party is ecstatic. Mr. Case, the current chairman of Time Warner Group, has been firmly supporting the Democratic Party for most of his life. If Han Xuan becomes the new owner of Time Warner Group, it means that the Republican Party has the possibility of taking over Time Warner Group.
Even if it doesn't work, it's very necessary to maintain a good relationship. No matter how bad it is, it won't be worse than being in the hands of old Chairman Case. For Republicans, this is victory.
Although Time Warner Group is a Democratic Party’s verbal verbal, it is essentially a company. It can be seen from the fact that it spared no effort to discredit President Bill Clinton with the zipper door incident last year.
Han Xuan and President Clinton have been angry about the acquisition of Time Warner Group, and holding a grudge against it is the president's personal grudge. From the perspective of political parties, the president naturally does not want Time Warner Group to turn to the Republican Party.
However, it is worth pondering that Clinton is about to retire and has nothing to do with the Democratic Party since then. This is why Han Xuan was sure in advance and persuaded him not to interfere in the acquisition case and helped him complete the acquisition. The two "had a good personal relationship".
When it comes to gifts, Han Xuan is also a good player now. He is all trained by his own old man. When it comes to the black transaction of money and power, the White House is actually the hardest hit area. Few people can control the money in the face of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
At this time.
The phone ringing on Han Xuan's desk rang. After he answered it, he heard Secretary Joey telling him that a gentleman named Gordon Byron came to ask for a meeting. After thinking about it for a moment, he remembered who this guy was the current Democratic Party Whip!
In the United States, the party whip status is considered to be the third leader of a political party. The first leader is the speaker and the second leader is the leader of the majority party. The Commission for Discipline Inspection, which is responsible for safeguarding the interests of the party, has great power. When encountering such a thing, it is reasonable for him to come to the door.
He smiled and told, "Please come in, I'm free now."
After saying that, Han Xuan hung up the phone and continued to lie on the chair with a smile on his face.
Chapter completed!