Nixon, who understood the attitude of the Global Group, relaxed completely. If the Global Group wanted him to change the US government's foreign policy, he would definitely not be willing to do so. After all, he is now the Vice President of the United States and cannot do anything that is obviously inconsistent with the general trend.
This will be a huge blow to his political career.
"Haha... Mr. Wan, of course I am a good friend of the Global Group. If the Global Group wants me to change the attitude of the US government towards Brazil, I may be powerless.
But if Mr. Fang wants the U.S. government to treat Globe Group and Brazil separately, then I will definitely help."
Hearing this guy stand up at this time and express his willingness to help, Wan Chongxin couldn't help but curl his lips and thought to himself, what the boss said is true, Nixon is really a typical politician, he would never get involved in risky things, but once he sees that he can get benefits easily, he will come forward without hesitation.
“Since Mr. Nixon can accept the attitude of our Global Group on this matter, then please help pass a message to Mr. Eisenhower to make our Global Group’s attitude clear.
If there are still people who don’t know how to restrain themselves, don’t blame us at Global Group for launching a desperate counterattack.”
Nixon was naturally somewhat dissatisfied with such obvious threats, but he also understood that the Global Group had the capital to threaten them. As a qualified politician, he should not bring his emotions into work like the businessman opposite him.
Now that he has learned from the other party about the attitude of the Global Group towards this matter, it is also a considerable political capital. He only needs to announce to the outside world that it was him who persuaded the Global Group to abandon the Brazilian government and take the initiative to cut ties with Brazil.
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That would bring considerable political benefits. Compared with this, the other party's verbal threats are nothing.
"Haha... Mr. Wan, please rest assured. I can assure you that starting tomorrow, if anyone dares to plot against the Global Group, I, the vice president, will personally come forward and have a talk with them."
Upon hearing this, Wan Chongxin understood that the guy in front of him must be connected to the group of people targeting them, otherwise he would not have said such a thing.
He was not surprised by this. After all, politicians! How many people would really make friends with them?
Seeing that his goal for today had been achieved, he no longer wanted to see the other party's face, so he smiled indifferently at Nixon and said:
“In that case, I’ll leave it to the Vice President.
I have to talk to a few other congressmen, so I'll leave now."
Hearing that Wan Chongxin had made an appointment with other congressmen, Nixon quickly stood up and said:
"Haha...Mr. Wan, do you and the other congressmen also want to discuss this issue?"
"Of course, the Vice President is not the only friend of our Global Group in Congress. Since I have received clear instructions from my boss, I must make our attitude clear to everyone."
In fact, Wan Chongxin understood what the other party was thinking, but he looked down on the other party's face, so he deliberately said these things to disgust the other party.
But as a politician, how could Nixon care about such things! He smiled and shook Wan Chongxin's hand and said:
"Haha... Since I have already promised to help your Global Group with this matter, I will naturally follow up to the end. I know that your company has many friends in Congress.
But since you found me first, please believe in my ability, okay? If, tomorrow I don't achieve the effect you want.
How about you go find other friends?"
Hearing this, Wan Chongxin was speechless. The other party was the Vice President of the United States, and he had already told him to believe in his ability. What else could he say? He couldn't just say he didn't believe in his ability! Wouldn't that be a slap in the other party's face? Do you still want to continue to cooperate with him in the future?
After sighing helplessly, he looked at the other person deeply and said:
"Okay! Since the Vice President has said so, I will wait and see!"
After saying that, he shook the other person's hand vigorously, turned around and left the room on the second floor.
With Vice President Nixon's intervention, although the U.S. government and the Brazilian government are still engaged in a public opinion war in the media, some voices targeting the Global Group have gradually disappeared.
In response to this, Fang Lang just listened to the report, then turned around and instructed Wan Chongxin to continue to quietly shift the focus of Global Group's work to Europe and Asia.
Although this cannot truly free us from the continued targeting by the U.S. government in the future, it can at least minimize the losses when the U.S. government takes action against Global Group.
Of course, this does not mean that Fang Lang will completely withdraw from the United States. If this were the case, the Americans would never give him such an opportunity and would attack him directly.
His plan is to transfer the core assets of the Global Group to Europe, while those non-core or heavy assets that cannot be transferred must remain in the United States.
After all, he just wanted to guard against the United States, not to break with the United States. The reason why Wan Chongxin came forward to communicate with the US government this time was also to remove the Global Group from the conflict between the United States and Brazil.
He also knew very well that unless Brazil and the United States officially went to war, the Global Group would not actually be directly frozen by the US government.
As for whether the Brazilian government will really go to war with the Americans, Fang Lang believes that it will not happen. First of all, there is no ideological conflict between the two sides. It is impossible for the Americans to regard Brazil as their main enemy.
Secondly, what the Brazilian government wants is independent development opportunities and has not thought about completely decoupling from the United States. Therefore, no matter how things develop, as long as they do not completely get out of control, both sides will never let the situation go to that point.
More importantly, the United States is well aware of how it will develop in the next few decades, and will not let Brazil become completely hostile to the United States. If Brazil completely turns against the United States just because the United States wants to completely control Brazil, it is not the idea of a mature politician.
I believe that both the US government and the Brazilian government are well aware of this. This is why Vice President Nixon welcomed it without hesitation when Fang Lang proposed to separate the Global Group and the Brazilian government.
In the following days, Brazilian news media still mentioned from time to time that the Americans deliberately created racial conflicts. Of course, the Brazilian government could not remain indifferent to this. After more than a month of repeated discussions,
The Brazilian Congress finally passed a bill against racial conflict and against racial discrimination. In fact, this bill was already in place when Brazil was still a Portuguese colony.
However, the policy at that time was mainly aimed at promoting racial integration in Brazil and encouraging intermarriage between whites, blacks and Indians in Brazil.
This is also the reason why Brazilians' skin is generally mixed-race and colored. It is also an important reason why there is less racial discrimination in Brazil than in the United States.
Now, after the Americans deliberately instigated the racial contradictions in Brazil, Brazilians have become more sensitive to racial contradictions. Under Fang Lang's deliberate guidance, the Brazilian government quickly passed stricter laws on racial equality and prohibition of racial discrimination.
The living environment of Chinese people in Brazil is clearly protected by law.
Of course, no matter how hot a news event is, it will cool down sooner or later. As time goes by, the news that the United States can provoke racial conflicts in Brazil has gradually faded from people's sight, and people's lives have slowly returned to normal.
On the surface, the conflict between Brazil and the United States has not changed much because of this incident. After all, although the media on both sides have engaged in a long war of words in public opinion, the Brazilian government has not caught the American CIA members behind the scenes.
They also did not want to completely ruin relations with the United States. After a period of calm, everyone tacitly chose to put this matter out of sight, which means temporarily shelving the dispute between the two sides.
Time passed unknowingly and it was October 1955. During his presidency, President Scalia led Brazil to a series of economic and diplomatic victories. The policy of independent development he proposed was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, allowing him to be re-elected as president.
In contrast, Brazilian President Scalia's smooth sailing, Argentina, a country neighboring Brazil, was hit by a military coup because of President Juan Perón's governing philosophy of currying favor with capitalists while ignoring the interests of the working class.
President Juan Perón, who was confident that he would make Argentina the world's third most powerful country, was ousted by the military government and fled Argentina in disgrace.
The military coup that took place in the neighboring country did not have much impact on Brazil. The only impact was that the army troops that had been deployed on the Brazil-Afghanistan border began to withdraw from the border in an orderly manner and returned to their original bases.
The naval fleet under Fang Lang's command naturally no longer had to remain on high alert with the Argentine Navy, but Fang Lang did not withdraw his naval fleet from Rio Grande do Sul for this reason.
Instead, the Brazilian government retained the Porto Alegre naval base in the southernmost part of Brazil, which was established to deal with Argentina. In addition to arranging several conventional warships to be stationed there, it also formed an additional regiment-level marine corps.
Many officers and soldiers in this Marine Corps are directly Chinese. His purpose of placing this Marine Corps in Rio Grande do Sul is naturally to ensure the safety of local Chinese.
You have to know that after a few years of development, the number of Chinese in Rio Grande do Sul has reached 80% of the local total population. It can be said that it is a completely Chinese state. All of this is the result of Fang Lang's deliberate efforts from the beginning.
The relationship between Brazil and my hometown has also been rapidly warming up. Although, officially, the relationship between the two countries can only be described as lackluster, private trade has been developing rapidly.
Brazil's cheap food and high-quality industrial products were exported to the country in large quantities, and tea, tung oil, silk and various ceramic products from the country also appeared in large quantities in the Brazilian market. Of course, many products had to choose to be re-exported through Hong Kong and Macao in order to avoid the American embargo policy.
Since Fangyuan Group had already established a presence in Hong Kong and Macau, its trading channels were very smooth. Even many contraband items could be smuggled into its hometown.
Of course, the trade in these contraband goods is all private free trade and has nothing to do with the Brazilian government or the Fang family.
Because of this channel, my hometown got a lot of advanced machine tools and computer equipment. During this period, my hometown actually had a lot of spies, and this information naturally came into the sight of the CIA.
The companies in Brazil that have the ability to manufacture these equipment are all under the Fangyuan Group, which made the US government very dissatisfied and organized a large investigation team to conduct an investigation in Brazil.
However, there is obviously no objection to the results of the investigation. First of all, Brazil is not a member of the Paris Coordinating Committee, and this committee has no management authority over Brazil.
Secondly, after investigation by the investigation team, it was found that Fangyuan Group’s machine tool factory and electronic computer factory had not exported any related products to their hometown.
As for where the related products are used or shipped after others purchase them from them, it is obviously not something that Fangyuan Group needs to worry about.
More importantly, although the Brazilian government allowed the investigation team to come to Brazil to conduct investigations, it did not allow them to interfere in the normal operations of Brazilian companies.
Therefore, from the very beginning, this so-called investigation team was doomed to return empty-handed. If Fang Lang hadn't wanted to directly break up with the Americans, he wouldn't have wanted to give them even the basic steps.
As many Fangyuan Group employees said, Fangyuan Group is a Brazilian company. Who we sell our products to is none of your business, Americans. Why do you come here and make decisions?
The hometown is naturally very grateful for the help given by the Chinese compatriots in Brazil. And the hometown is also very clear about who the Chinese leaders in Brazil are.
In order to express their gratitude to the Fang family, several seniors from the hometown took the initiative to write letters and handed them to Mr. Qiao, the ambassador of the hometown to Brazil, who personally brought them to Brazil and handed them to the Fang family.
The elders of the Fang family were relatively calm about this, but Fang Lang, the backbone of the Fang family, could not sleep all night after receiving the letters. He treasured the letters and kept them in his safe.
He also wrote personal letters to several seniors in his hometown, and shamelessly stated that for the sake of friendship between the two sides, they should exchange gifts. The gifts he gave to his seniors in his hometown were very simple, which were handmade cigars produced by his own company.
This would have been nothing, but what was interesting was that this guy directly stated that he did not need any significant return gifts from his hometown, and all he needed was for a few seniors to each write a piece of calligraphy for him.
After receiving Fang Lang's reply, several seniors from his hometown not only did not express any disgust, but instead expressed strong appreciation for the thoughtfulness of this little guy.
They wrote a few large characters for him with their pens, arranged for the best mounting masters to frame them, and then shipped them to Brazil.
When Fang Lang saw the words "Friendship Lasts Forever" written by the old man, he jumped for joy and directly told the butler Fu Bo to hang the words in the study of the Rio de Janeiro manor. He would look up and observe them carefully every day.
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