Chapter 105 Countermeasures
Americans do this kind of thing too many times. If they don't do it this way, people will find it strange.

America has accused China of requiring foreign companies to transfer technology compulsorily and has been wrangling over the issue at the WTO.

The technology transfer under China's leadership is soft. It uses the market and orders to make demands on you. Whoever is willing to transfer technology will be given the order.

This is not called compulsory. According to the Hayek theory system advocated by Chinese economists, this is precisely the product of full free market competition.

The measures that America has previously taken against DJI and Tik Tok, requiring the two companies to hand over source code, data and technology, is called compulsory technology transfer.

"Mr. Miller, will America expand the scope of restrictions in the future and add light armor technology to the control list?"

With a market value of approximately 500 billion yuan, Guangjia Technology is the company with the highest market value in China's entire Science and Technology Innovation Board and the absolute leader of the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

If America prohibits the export of Guangjia Technology's technology and products to America, it will inevitably cause a huge shock to the entire Science and Technology Innovation Board.

Of course, it is possible that domestic capital is fleeing frantically, and northbound funds are entering the market to pick up bargains.

"We don't rule out this possibility. We will continue to pay attention to whether Guangjia Technology's human hibernation technology involves monopoly." Miller did not hide his malice towards China's technology companies.

Even Light Armor Technology's partner Arcadia in America has significantly increased its political donations to the Donkey Party after becoming the agent for Light Armor Technology's products.

"Sir, Texas just announced that it will build more than a thousand human hibernation centers in McAllen, Brownsville, El Paso and other cities along the U.S.-Mexico border.

If the federal government bans the import of Guangjia Technology's human hibernation equipment, will it have an impact on Texas' decision? Or will there be a special administrative exemption for Texas? "The FOX reporter couldn't wait to add fuel to the fire.

Miller responded firmly: "Texas is also part of America, and they need to abide by the decisions made by the federal government."

Miller doesn't know that if Texas goes crazy, it won't care about the White House.

Austin and Los Angeles are the two major pilot cities for human hibernation technology. Texas has found that the effect is excellent, greatly reducing the difficulty of managing illegal immigrants at a very low cost.

The Texas government acted decisively and signed a huge order with Arcadia, requiring the construction of human hibernation centers in border cities.

No matter whether you are African American, Mexican American, or a Huaguorun employee, you have to stay in there for half a year.

It can also be considered a contribution to America.

Arcadia has been working privately with Harvard to try to reverse-engineer the human hibernation technology, and they also need a large amount of human hibernation data.

Texas has been very radical in this regard, while California has progressed much more slowly. People in the scientific and technological community highly praise human hibernation technology, especially those who are engaged in cutting-edge technology.

They feel that human hibernation can effectively help them relax. After staying in it for three to five days, they feel that the whole world is different.

A large number of digital currency practitioners said that after staying in a hibernation center for a few days, their transaction success rate increased significantly and their intuitive judgments became more accurate.

In order to serve this group of people, some high-end private hospitals in Los Angeles have built hibernation centers. The unit price of one person is as high as US$5,000, which is comparable to the confinement period of Chinese people, but even shorter.

The cause of all this can be attributed to Mike Edward Novogratz, the founder and CEO of crypto bank Galaxy Digital.

Mike used to work for a hedge fund. During the 08 financial crisis, he invested heavily in Swiss francs and Brazilian currency, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars and bankruptcy.

After founding Galaxy Digital, they lost $2021 million in the first quarter of 1.82 and $2022 million in the first half of 5.54 alone. In the second half of the year, they successfully turned losses into profits.

Mike attributed this to the fact that he had been going to the human hibernation center every time before making any major decision since the second half of the year. He tweeted:
"It is hard to imagine how much help the human hibernation center can bring to my investment decisions. The decisions I made after hibernation based on experience and intuition have never been more correct."

Because Galaxy Digital is a highly regulated company, it has to announce its performance every quarter even though it is not listed.

Galaxy Digital's outstanding performance in the third quarter indirectly proves that Mike's words are true.

This has also led many cryptocurrency investors to follow Mike's example, hibernating first and then performing high-frequency operations after waking up.

This industry itself has an amplifying effect, and there are endless cases of people becoming financially free overnight. The people who have experienced these cases attributed the reason to the divine help they received after hibernation.

It is common sense that you will be more awake after sleeping. According to this reasoning, hibernation is equivalent to a longer sleep, and you will be more awake after coming out of hibernation.

The endless stream of stories on Twitter has made cryptocurrency transactions after hibernation a trend in Web3.

Until Musk himself tweeted: "It seems to be of some use."

The accompanying picture was a picture of him waking up from a hibernation facility, and the Dogecoin he held skyrocketed that day.

Musk owns shares in Guangjia Technology, and he doesn't mind supporting human hibernation technology.

With all kinds of media publicity, no matter whether it works or not, if everyone believes that it works, then it really works.

Not only does the cryptocurrency circle do this, but many Wall Street traders and fund managers also do this, and they find that it does seem to work.

“Does human hibernation really have this effect?”

The Chinese media were slow to realize the trend. It was only after it had been popular on Wall Street for several months that they began to report it extensively.

When Chen Yuanguang saw the relevant news, he wondered if he didn't know enough about human hibernation technology.

He couldn't find any information from future technical data that human hibernation technology could have this effect.

He asked Lin Jia with a puzzled look on his face. Lin Jia was sitting next to him, writing an email while saying:
“I don’t know, but I think it’s psychological.

The U.S. stock index has been falling for half a year since the end of 21, and the monthly and weekly lines have been rising since July.

The index has been rising for six months and is approaching its previous high. With such a good environment, those working in the secondary market are also enjoying the dividends. "

The problem is that for things like this, it is better to believe it exists than to believe it does not.

The financial circle is very enthusiastic about human hibernation. There is no hibernation center in New York, so Wall Street traders take a five-hour flight to Los Angeles to undergo human hibernation.

The scientific community, however, is skeptical, believing that the technology has not been fully demonstrated and should not be promoted on a large scale.

The federal government's forced capture of illegal immigrants for hibernation experiments is a serious violation of ethics.

Academics and ethnic minorities have united to oppose human hibernation technology, putting tremendous pressure on California to promote it on a large scale.

Miller's words quickly caused a shock in the capital market, and Arcadia's stock price first plummeted 26%.

Previously, with the help of the cooperation with Guangjia Technology, Arcadia's stock price soared from 4 billion US dollars to 10 billion US dollars, more than doubling.

This is a direct plunge, and it is possible that it will return to the starting point.

In China, Guangjia Technology also plummeted, diving directly at the opening and falling by 9%. It rebounded slightly at the close, but finally fell by points.

Because Light Armor Technology is very expensive, few people hold it. Everyone in the stock forum is mainly on the sidelines, and few people directly come up to criticize. "Isn't Light Armor Aerospace banned? Why did Light Armor Technology plummet?"

"One foot can ban light armor aerospace, and the next foot can ban light armor technology. Isn't stock speculation just speculation on expectations?
Without American, a major customer, our revenue would be at least one-third less.”

"Zero dollar purchase is still not cruel enough. I would say it should be even more cruel and force America to send these black people into hibernation."

“Based on previous media reports, America’s enthusiasm for hibernation technology shouldn’t be banned, right?
Aren’t all the big names using human hibernation technology? "

"The White House has been so excited by the perovskite battery and reusable rockets of Light Armor Aerospace that it is in such a hurry to ban Light Armor Aerospace."

"If it were you, you would be in a hurry too. You can make a reusable rocket in one year. If you give the God of Light a few more years, I wonder what he can come up with."

On the last trading day before the Spring Festival, American gave China's Science and Technology Innovation Board a big gift. Affected by the plunge of Guangjia Technology, the entire Science and Technology Innovation Board index fell by 3 points that day.

"Do you want to hold an online meeting to discuss this matter?" Guangjia Aerospace and Guangjia Technology were both on holiday. Lin Jia was at home in Hangzhou, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the park, and asked on the phone.

Chen Yuanguang was also at home. Since he became rich, he helped his mother move to a bigger house. Now this new house is a full 200 square meters.

To the extent that Chen's mother often complained that she felt too lonely at home.

Chen Yuanguang said calmly: “No, let everyone have a good New Year, it’s a small matter.

When we come back after the new year, we will stop the cooperation that should be terminated, discuss compensation that should be discussed, and find replacement suppliers that should be found.

We had long anticipated being included in the Entity List by American, and we had made contingency plans before. Now we just need to act according to the plans.

It’s just that the time has been advanced.”

When Lin Jia heard Chen Yuanguang being so calm, she also calmed down: "Okay.

Indeed, it was expected.”

Chen Yuanguang then asked, "After the new year, we will take countermeasures and announce that the technology and products of Light Armor Technology are prohibited from being exported to America."

Lin Jia was surprised by Chen Yuanguang's decision.

Because only Chinese companies are banned from importing by America, and no Chinese companies actively refuse to do business with America.

Even if it is Huawei, if America allows the import of Huawei products, they will still sell them.

Lin Jia thinks this is too irrational. America is the world's largest consumer market. Whether it is a B2B or B2C company, giving up such a large market will result in huge losses.

“Would you like to reconsider this?
Giving up the American market will have a significant impact on Guangjia Technology's market value, revenue and profits.

In addition, if we suspend exports from Arcadia, it will inevitably involve the termination of the agreement, and we will definitely have to pay a large amount of liquidated damages."

Chen Yuanguang was helpless. Even the people around him subconsciously opposed going against America. If he wanted to push it forward within Guangjia Technology, the resistance would be even greater.

“Just because we don’t sell to America doesn’t mean we will lose the American market.

What we need to do is to show our attitude that we will continue to cooperate with Arcadia and sell our hibernation equipment to them.

It’s just that before, they were sold directly to America, but now, they are exported to Mexico first, and then Arcadia will find a way to transport them back to the mainland.

In short, raising the price of the human hibernation equipment that American finally gets is our response.”

Lin Jia: “I think this is a solution, but Yuanguang, public opinion among the Chinese people is not important to us.

Whether it is Guangjia Technology or Guangjia Aerospace, we are not doing to C business. The only thing that can be affected by public opinion is recruiting.

It just makes it easier to recruit people if the public opinion is better.

I don’t think it’s necessary to go through all this trouble.”

Chen Yuanguang thought, even though he had the technology of the future, if he couldn't fight back appropriately when facing American hegemony, then what was the point of going to the future?
You can't be a coward in your twenties. You should be rational in everything. If others bully you at your doorstep, you have the strength to fight back and still need to negotiate.

"I've made up my mind. Let's do it. Instead of waiting for them to put light armor technology in the banned list, we might as well take the initiative." Chen Yuanguang has made up his mind.

Lin Jia was helpless: "Okay."

She went on to say, "Remember to say hello to my uncle and auntie for me. I'll be visiting Guangzhou next year."

Chen Yuanguang thought, didn't you say we were just dating and not getting married? Why do I feel like something has gone wrong when I come to your house during the New Year?

Chen Yuanguang said, "No problem, you are welcome to come anytime you want."

He thought that as he became famous, he seemed to have fewer and fewer friends around him. In the past, when he returned to Guangzhou during the winter and summer vacations every year, there would be various class reunions.

Now when it comes to class reunions, he doesn’t want to attend again after attending once.

Because he was still young, his classmates would not flatter him too much, but they would be very polite, a kind of politeness that was hard to describe.

Chen Yuanguang was an introvert to begin with, and the atmosphere became even more awkward when these people became more polite.

Chen Yuanguang felt that it would be better to stay at home alone, sleep and daydream, or go fishing with his father.

"Mom, when will you retire?" Chen Yuanguang asked.

This has been a perennial topic in his family. Chen Yuanguang has always hoped that his mother would retire early because the workload was too intense.

Chen's mother said: "Why retire? You don't have any children, and I have nothing to do after I retire.

Now in this company, after the big boss knew that my son was the founder of Guangjia Technology, he treated me very well. I could go to work when I wanted to, and not go to work when I didn’t want to.

Completely free working hours, you can choose any project you want to take.

I've never had such a good time in my career, and it's only been a few years? Why am I in such a hurry to retire?"

Chen's mother works in a foreign consulting company in Yangcheng and has already reached the position of partner, which is considered a senior executive.

It’s just that a partner is more like a team leader with a higher profit ratio.

In the foreign company where she works, only the position of vice president is considered a powerful executive.

Ever since her son was exposed as Chen Yuanguang, their boss had asked her more than once whether she wanted to be promoted. This was also the first time that Chen's mother felt that she was benefiting from her son's work.

(End of this chapter)