Chapter 331: Killing Moves and Countermeasures
As the threat from the East has skyrocketed in recent years, every time there is a hearing involving the East, in addition to the various lords in Washington, there will always be at least one powerful executive from the top technology giants participating.

The exception is closed-door hearings.

We are not fools. Even if the lawmakers acted ignorant and arrogant in past hearings involving the University of Tokyo, perhaps it was just a show.

Tom Cotton was able to interrogate Zhou Shouzhi at the hearing and tried to equate Singaporeans with Southeast Asians. This was a performance necessity and was only for the purpose of subsequent manipulation and fabrication of topics. It does not mean that a PhD graduate from Harvard Law School is really so ignorant.

Cotton has been a federal senator since 15, and has often focused on Eastern issues. With such a long congressional career, it is impossible for him not to know the Eastern map. To some extent, he knows the ins and outs of Eastern borders better than ordinary people in Eastern.

Therefore, the hearings are more of a show than a practical one, as many of the bills on the table have already been agreed upon behind the scenes.

Of course, Amazon’s raid on Microsoft did not result in a consensus this time.

After all, both parties are among the top technology giants in the federation. They have been working in Washington for a long time and have intricate networks of relationships both in Washington and Wall Street.

However, the other executives who were listening to the hearing in the audience all showed amusement expressions after hearing this passage.

Don’t we know that Dongda’s products and labor are of high quality and low price? Apple is the one that has felt this the most.

Cook thought to himself in the audience, if we only consider quality and price, how could we move Apple's manufacturing from Tokyo University to India?

Do you think your quality control is too high and your production cost is too low?

Not to mention that India is starting from scratch, and the basic elements such as logistics, tariffs and infrastructure are far inferior to those of the University of Tokyo.

As Microsoft's old enemy, Cook has made up his mind to use Apple's influence in Washington to make things difficult for Microsoft. If Microsoft can arbitrarily add a layer in the middle with artificial intelligence and rely on this advantage to import large quantities of Dongda products, then we must also increase Dongda's manufacturing efforts.

Apple thinks so, and Google, the biggest victim of the rapid rise of Microsoft's artificial intelligence search engine, is even less willing to let Microsoft go. The production of Pixel has been transferred from Dongda to Tamil Nadu, India. Why can you still use Dongda products?

"This accusation is groundless. The goods imported from Dongda through New Bing still comply with all federal regulations and are all imported through formal channels."

Nadella knew that Bezos had already made the final decision, because replacing Dongda products is an unspoken rule. It is impossible to say openly that you all should not buy Dongda products. This is unrealistic.

Without Dongda's products, America's inflation would skyrocket.

What Washington hopes for is a gradual replacement, with the original 80% coming from the University of the East slowly becoming 70%, 60%, and finally reaching an acceptable range.

Microsoft is going against the collective will of Washington. Just because they can't find any problems with you on the surface doesn't mean they won't find any problems with you.

This is just like Dongda University will not say openly that we do not allow you to buy IBM servers, but will only verbally inform you financial companies not to buy them. There are no regulations but who dares not to comply?
So when Nadella started talking about the explicit rules, Bezos knew it was time to strike a fatal blow. He waved the materials he had prepared:

"According to the report we asked Nielsen (America's top business research agency) to do, it not only targets the American market, but also includes overseas markets.

The undisclosed part shows that New Bing's technology provider, Alpha Technology from Malaysia, has also launched an artificial intelligence shopping software called Hornbill in Southeast Asia.

Among the orders completed through Hornbill, less than 60% of the products came from Dongda, which is more than percentage points lower than New Bing.

Are Southeast Asian product sources richer than ours? Are Southeast Asian consumers richer than American consumers?
I strongly urge the federal government to launch an investigation into Microsoft and ban New Bing from selling products from China until the results of the investigation are known."

Bezos, or more precisely, Amazon's strategy is extremely vicious. Banning the sale of goods from China is much more vicious than directly banning New Bing's shopping function.

New Bing's shopping function has been banned, and loyal users will direct their anger at Amazon, because it was Amazon that killed New Bing for its own benefit.

It is unrealistic to want to kill Microsoft's New Bing with one slap and stop Microsoft from engaging in online shopping. Amazon can't do it.

It is nothing more than an examination by subsequent product providers. Products from Todai cannot exceed a certain percentage. A line is set, and this is the maximum that can be achieved.

When New Bing reopens its shopping function, the more suddenly New Bing users are deprived of the right to use New Bing for shopping, the greater their enthusiasm to return.

The resulting driving effect in attracting new customers is immeasurable.

Directly banning New Bing is a bad idea. In the short term, it will harm Microsoft's interests, but in the long term, Amazon will definitely suffer more damage than Microsoft.

Banning New Bing from selling products from the University of the East for a period of time can not only show that Amazon is selfless and completely concerned about the interests of America, but also show great loyalty. It will also directly affect New Bing's user experience.

This has fundamentally destroyed New Bing’s reputation in the field of online shopping.

This is a consistent blow in the short and long term.

Nadella seemed not to understand Bezos's conspiracy and kept repeating: "This is the spontaneous behavior of artificial intelligence. We will communicate with Alpha and find out the reasons behind it."

This rhetoric is not a problem in the media, but it is the biggest problem on Capitol Hill. It is like playing a fighting game. Bezos has already used a combo killer move, but Nadella is still pressing the light punch button.

It has no lethality at all.

The hearing will not make a decision so quickly, but whether it is the lawmakers on the stage or the business leaders below the stage, everyone is very clear about one thing, that is, Amazon has won a complete victory in this round of offense and defense in the White House.

Managers like Nadella are still no match for Bezos.

In terms of fighting power and ruthlessness, founders are far superior to managers.

"Bezos is worthy of being Bezos. Even in such a situation, he can still preserve a chance for Amazon to turn things around." After the hearing, a Goldman Sachs executive who attended the hearing complained while having dinner with Cook.

With Google's collapse in the past, the Goldman Sachs executives' feelings are quite reasonable.

Compared with Google, Amazon is much more powerful.

If it were Google, it would not be able to force Microsoft into this situation.

Cook nodded in agreement: “Bezos has found the best angle.

The movement of the local Alpha team in Malaysia that he mentioned later is the key to the key.”

The Goldman Sachs executive asked, “Do you think it’s possible that Amazon could keep Microsoft out of online shopping altogether?”

"Impossible, Microsoft is not ByteDance," Cook said, the subtext being that such harsh measures would only be used against major companies in the East.

When the fundamental interests of Europe and the United States are not threatened, they will still cover their various actions with a veil of tenderness. However, once their fundamental interests are shaken, the extent of their unscrupulousness is so far beyond the reach of the inexperienced Chinese.

Whether the wealth of the rich in Russia is collectively frozen or Xu Bei and his wife run to England with their huge fortune and have their wealth directly frozen by England, the essence is the same. The so-called private property cannot be violated has a premise.

“I think so too, what Amazon needs is time, what it needs is reaction time.

New Bing is growing so fast that Amazon has no chance to fight back. "I heard that Washington is considering forcing Alpha to buy it," a Goldman Sachs executive said.

Some lobbying organizations are warming up for this matter.”

To be honest, the forced acquisition of Malaysian companies is not surprising, but at this point in time, American's strength in Malaysia is no longer strong.

And Alpha also has American Capital behind it.

So there are also differences within Washington about whether to take such a tactic.

"In fact, New Bing may be completely banned." Cook did not respond. He knew that Goldman Sachs must be behind lobbying Washington to take administrative measures to force Alpha Technologies to sell to American Capital.

After receiving this news, Apple also has room to maneuver. Apple also wants to improve its own artificial intelligence ecosystem. If it can complete the acquisition of Alpha Technology, it will not be an exaggeration to describe Apple as adding wings to a tiger.

But Cook doesn't want to reveal his intentions just yet.

"How is that possible?" the Goldman Sachs executive asked in surprise.

Cook smiled and said: "When Amazon is killed by Microsoft, Washington is likely to break up Microsoft on the grounds of monopoly."

Monopoly is the best name. The other party also laughed: "It will be too late by then."

Soon after the hearing, Microsoft stopped its online shopping service in the Americas.

Nadella was unable to react to Bezos's conspiracy at that moment, but other Microsoft executives were able to react after they returned.

In order to cooperate with the investigation, Microsoft chose to stop providing services directly and tried to put all the blame on Amazon through the media.

“Amazon is using administrative means to crack down on competitors”

"Behind Microsoft's New Bing's cessation of providing AI shopping services to the outside world"

In short, if you don't let me live an easy life, I will definitely not let you live an easy life either.

Not many people discuss this topic on the Simplified Chinese Internet, and not everyone can use the full version of New Bing.

On the contrary, there was an uproar in America because the extremely exaggerated inflation had already made everyone dissatisfied.

Although the essence behind American inflation is the continuous decline in ruling power, which leads to a decline in the purchasing power of the US dollar, the transmission to individuals is direct inflation.

"I'm tired of living like this. We have to pay high prices for outdated junk. Dongda's electric cars can't get into America. Now we can't even use Malaysia's artificial intelligence."

American is not blocking the entry of Dongda’s electric vehicles; it is blocking the entry of any Dongda-produced cars.

Even Teslas manufactured by Shenhai cannot be sold to America. You can see Teslas produced by Dongda in the Maple Leaf Country, but you can't see any in America.

“I think our Occupy Silicon Valley movement is futile because even Microsoft needs to listen to Washington.”

In the long-running Occupy Silicon Valley movement, the main villain created by the opposition masses on social media is Microsoft.

Microsoft, which spans operating systems, search engines, video games, online shopping and other fields, is an absolute giant. The existence of ChatGPT and New Bing makes the American people believe that Microsoft is sparing no effort to promote artificial intelligence alternative plans.

As a result, Microsoft suffered a setback in Washington.

This contrast made a small number of people realize that it is Washington that has the real power to stop all this.

"We have launched the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Occupy Silicon Valley movement, but none of these can make America better. I think we must march to Washington to completely change this country."

A small number of rednecks have begun trying to march on Washington.

Even though their king called on them to remain calm on Twitter.

When the scenery in the United States was beautiful, the pilot program of the University of Tokyo to recruit elites from Southeast Asia, which had been brewing for half a year, was officially launched.

Originally, Tokyo University's strategy of recruiting foreign students has always been criticized by many senior middle school students because the threshold is too low, so low that anyone with normal intelligence can apply to a relatively good Tokyo University.

However, the scholarships, living conditions and humanistic care provided by universities will make ordinary elderly Chinese feel dissatisfied.

There are countless complaints and dissatisfactions about international students on the Chinese Internet.

The Pan-Southeast Asian Elite Program launched by the University of Southeast Asia is a program in which top domestic universities recruit undergraduate and graduate students from three regions in Southeast Asia, including Hong Kong, 4V and Xiangshan-Macao.

It is planned to recruit 200 undergraduates and 300 postgraduates, both of whom will need to take special examinations for admission.

The most attractive point of this strategy is that it guarantees employment, which means that after you complete your studies and obtain your diploma, Dongda will guarantee you employment.

Among the companies that provide jobs, Guangjia Aerospace is prominently listed.

Obviously, the response this incident caused at the University of Tokyo was much more enthusiastic than the battle between Microsoft and Amazon thousands of miles away.

"Fuck, why should they join Light Armor Aerospace? SpaceX won't hire foreign engineers, why should we give this opportunity to Southeast Asian monkeys?"

Degrading Southeast Asians to monkeys was not invented by the Chinese. It was the Americans who first called them that.

Asians in the East Asian category, such as Tokyo, Japan and Korea, are considered decent Asians, while Asians in Southeast Asia are considered jungle Asians.

Baiyue has been trying to prove on the Internet for years that it is different from other Southeast Asian countries and is a decent Asian.

"Donghae is not a human? Why can't Donghae take this exam?"

In recent years, the score lines of any major or school that guarantees job placement have been pushed sky-high. Even a local college that guarantees job placement can be comparable to a poor 985 university.

(End of this chapter)