Hollywood Hunter

ps: anti-theft

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Summer is coming, and the children are also on summer vacation. The Westeros family moved to the East Coast again in June and lived in the Westeros Mansion in Manhattan.

Have had guests the last few days.

Anthony Johnston's family came from Australia and also lived in the building. Of course Anthony came here for business, but Anthony’s youngest daughter, Rebecca, who came with her was the happiest, and she was able to follow her cousin every day again. Last time after New Year’s, Rebecca returned from Australia after Melbourne, and Rebecca was sad for a long time. , mainly because he was worried that his cousin would like other girls.

All right.

There are so many people that it is very lively at breakfast.

Simon and Anthony, who wanted to talk about things, could only leave the chattering restaurant and dine at the small restaurant next door.

The topic was about the recent arrival in New York of the African government investment representative team and Westeros' stock replacement negotiations. The only thing Africa can offer is resources. Therefore, Johnston Holdings needs to be in the middle to coordinate and take care of it in the follow-up.

"A major problem in Africa is that the political situation in most countries is very unstable. We can cultivate our own power in Africa, and even elect our spokesperson to power at critical moments, but there are still variables, which need to be institutionalized. To ensure our interests, state-owned enterprises are a good idea, and foreign investment is sovereign investment, and it is best to be managed by us. In this way, no matter how the local regime changes, as long as the winner is not too stupid, assist the other party to take over the relevant While protecting assets, our interests can also be protected to the greatest extent.”

The Kosovo war was earth-shattering, and the world's mainstream media rushed to follow up and report it. However, most people seem to have forgotten that there is still a big melee in Africa that has been going on all the time. No one cares about how much damage it caused. Not cared about. In fact, until more than ten or twenty years later, the situation in Africa has basically not changed much, and news of coups will appear every few days.

Therefore, if you want to gain a firm foothold in Africa, just doing business honestly is definitely not enough. At least, the cost will be very high, and hundreds of millions of billions of investment may be wiped out due to a regime change. There are enough means to ensure their own interests.

What Simon was talking to Anthony at this time was just one of the ideas, and it was not an innovation, just the usual method of the Western consortium.

Anthony knew that this was a keynote of cooperation set by Simon for the replacement transaction of investment representative teams from seven African countries including Angola and Rwanda. He nodded in agreement and said, "What about South Africa, Simon, plans to withdraw private capital from South Africa?" It also reaches the tens of billions of dollars level, can't we use the same method to them?"

Nelson Mandela has completed the democratization process in South Africa very, very thoroughly in his five years in office, and will successfully complete his first term in the middle of this month and will not seek re-election.

Regarding South Africa, there is not much else to say, but the huge amount of capital that has been flowing out of South Africa in recent years is definitely a piece of fat that all countries are vying for. Most of those who were able to leave lightly have already fled, and now the rest are not so easy to withdraw. It just so happens that the stock replacement plan launched by Westeros Corporation has given some people a channel to escape.

Simon thought for a while, but there was no good solution, so he could only say: "You and Jim should discuss this matter. The key is that we only want the best quality assets, and the price should be pressed harder to minimize the risk."

Anthony nodded, that's all he could do.

After all, doing business is risky. If it is safe, others will not exchange it.

Simon remembered one thing and explained: "In addition, Australia can accept more high-quality immigrants from South Africa. We should take the initiative to do this. Otherwise, they will definitely be more inclined to Britain and the United States."

"I know."

Anthony agreed again, chatted a few more details, and then talked about another matter: "Simon, I read the document related to sodium-ion batteries that you transferred. If sodium-ion batteries are really expected to become mainstream in the future, Do we still need to keep stockpiling lithium resources?"

"Of course," Simon said without hesitation, "at least in the next ten years, or even twenty years, lithium batteries will be the mainstream."

"I also understand this," Anthony said. "The problem is, if we bet too deeply on the lithium battery industry, it may not be easy to switch in the future."

"It won't be too difficult," Simon didn't think so: "We are players now, not pawns we can't help ourselves. Even if we make a big bet now, we can still have enough time to reduce the holdings of related industries before we turn around Cash out and transfer the risk. In addition, I have always firmly believed that it is better to eliminate myself than to be eliminated by others. Therefore, if the time comes when we have to turn around in the future, even if we fail to achieve enough cash out, we should abandon it decisively, otherwise we It is more likely to be abandoned by the times. Finally, regardless of the future industry trend, I will never dislike the resources we have. Even if lithium-ion batteries are eliminated in the future, the scarce lithium resources will have other uses .Tony, for this, you are very clear about my layout ideas."

Anthony certainly knows.

Simon has two very clear and complementary lines of thought for the future development of the Westeros system. Simply put, one is to enclose more resources, and the other is to create a global production system controlled by the Westeros system.

Regarding resources, land, fresh water, forests, minerals, etc., all of them.

The resources that human society can use on this planet are definitely not as abundant as people living in safe and affluent countries imagine, and in fact they will never be enough.

occupy more resources,

It is tantamount to occupying the future of mankind.

Second, build a global production system that is absolutely controlled by the Westeros system, which is based on the short board trend of the US economic development.

For the United States, the hollowing out of manufacturing is an increasingly serious problem that this seemingly powerful country will face after the new century. Or, to be more precise, all developed countries that tend to favor high-end service industries tend to have similar problems.

The world is currently in a period of relative peace that has been rare in human society for thousands of years. Therefore, the issue of material production is not paid much attention to in all aspects, and subconsciously feel that there is a lack, a need, and money is spent. Just buy it. However, throughout human history, real peace times have always been short-lived.

Therefore, it is necessary to plan ahead.

For the Westeros system, if you have enough basic resources and a production system that can convert these basic resources into modern social products such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, if you have enough self-protection strength, In the future, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is basically equivalent to controlling the world.

Or else?

After all, if you take a sci-fi movie about the end of the world, it is not difficult to find that those who have power in it often only control the forces that seem to be the most common food or fuel at the moment.

This is actually the essence of the power structure of this society.

For a person who has enough resources and controls everyone's jobs, that person is the king of the world.

very simple.

After breakfast, everyone was busy with their own affairs. Simon did not go to the headquarters of Westeros in Midtown with Anthony, but Daenerys East Coast headquarters on 66th Street in the Upper West Side.

Today's work content is mainly in media and entertainment.

It's June 9th.

Wednesday.

In North America's summer vacation, the much-anticipated and disappointing "Star Wars Prequel: The Phantom Menace" has entered its third week of release. The film earned $82.67 million in the second week of screening from May 28 to June 3, a year-on-year decrease. Only 17%, the cumulative box office reached 222.86 million US dollars.

In the weekend that just passed, the film’s year-on-year decline expanded to 36% compared with the previous week’s weekend. big threat.

On the west coast, the world-renowned monster movie directed by Daenerys will hold its world premiere this afternoon local time, and the word-of-mouth ban is expected to be lifted tomorrow.

This is also an expression of Daenerys' confidence in this new version of "Godzilla".

Compared with Emmerich's version, which made the king of monsters into a mutated Tyrannosaurus rex, the brand new "Godzilla", first of all, basically refers to the prototype of the Japanese Toho series, and will not make much modification. Secondly, in terms of plot, Simon also put aside the previous Emmerich version, and adopted more of the 2014 Warner version in memory.

In short, it is to learn from each other.

The setting and the reality often deviate from each other. However, after investing a huge sum of 120 million U.S. dollars higher than the first part of the Star Wars prequel, even the more critical vision of Simon II can give the upcoming movie A new version of "Godzilla" scored 8 points, so everyone is confident.

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"It won't be too difficult," Simon didn't think so: "We are players now, not pawns we can't help ourselves. Even if we make a big bet now, we can still have enough time to reduce the holdings of related industries before turning around Cash out and pass on the risk. In addition, I have always firmly believed that it is better to eliminate myself than to be eliminated by others. Therefore, if the time comes when we have to turn around in the future, even if we fail to achieve enough cash out, we should abandon it decisively, otherwise we It is more likely to be abandoned by the times. Finally, regardless of the future industry trend, I will never dislike our possession of more resources. Even if lithium-ion batteries are eliminated in the future, scarce lithium resources will have other uses .Tony, for this, you are very clear about my layout ideas."

Anthony certainly knows.

Simon has two very clear and complementary lines of thought for the future development of the Westeros system. Simply put, one is to enclose more resources, and the other is to create a global production system controlled by the Westeros system.

Regarding resources, land, fresh water, forests, minerals, etc., all of them.

The resources that human society can use on this planet are definitely not as abundant as people living in safe and affluent countries imagine, and in fact they will never be enough.

Occupying more resources is equivalent to occupying the future of mankind.

Second, build a global production system that is absolutely controlled by the Westeros system, which is based on the short board trend of the US economic development.

For the United States, the hollowing out of manufacturing is an increasingly serious problem that this seemingly powerful country will face after the new century. Or, to be more precise, all developed countries that tend to favor high-end service industries tend to have similar problems.

The world is currently in a period of relative peace that has been rare in human society for thousands of years. Therefore, the issue of material production is not paid much attention to in all aspects, and subconsciously feel that there is a lack, a need, and money is spent. Just buy it. However, throughout human history, real peace times have always been short-lived.

Therefore, it is necessary to plan ahead.

For the Westeros system, having mastered enough basic resources and a set of living conditions that can convert these basic resources into modern social manufactured goods such as food, clothing, housing and transportation

If the production system is coupled with sufficient self-protection strength, in the future, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is basically equivalent to controlling the world.

Or else?

After all, if you take a sci-fi movie about the end of the world, it is not difficult to find that those who have power in it often only control the forces that seem to be the most common food or fuel at the moment.

This is actually the essence of the power structure of this society.

For a person who has enough resources and controls everyone's jobs, that person is the king of the world.

very simple.

After breakfast, everyone was busy with their own affairs. Simon did not go to the headquarters of Westeros in Midtown with Anthony, but Daenerys East Coast headquarters on 66th Street in the Upper West Side.

Today's work content is mainly in media and entertainment.

It's June 9th.

Wednesday.

In North America's summer vacation, the much-anticipated and disappointing "Star Wars Prequel: The Phantom Menace" has entered its third week of release. The film earned $82.67 million in the second week of screening from May 28 to June 3, a year-on-year decrease. Only 17%, the cumulative box office reached 222.86 million US dollars.

In the weekend that just passed, the film’s year-on-year decline expanded to 36% compared with the previous week’s weekend. big threat.

On the west coast, the world-renowned monster movie directed by Daenerys will hold its world premiere this afternoon local time, and the word-of-mouth ban is expected to be lifted tomorrow.

This is also an expression of Daenerys' confidence in this new version of "Godzilla".

Compared with Emmerich's version, which made the king of monsters into a mutant Tyrannosaurus rex, the brand-new "Godzilla", first of all, the monster image basically refers to the prototype of Japan's Toho, and will not make much modification. Secondly, in terms of plot, Simon also put aside the previous Emmerich version, and adopted more of the 2014 Warner version in memory.

In short, it is to learn from each other.