Chapter 862 Restaurant Chat
Kaxin came to the restaurant with dark circles under his eyes, bored and said, "Lao Liu, give me a cup of coffee!"
Seeing him coming over and sitting there, Hua Chong quickly asked, "How is the boss in a good mood today?"
Kasin sighed and said, "It's still the same. Ever since that day when he got drunk and played games on his computer every day, I feel sad for those internet gamers."
"What's wrong?" Chen Cheng, who was sitting next to him, asked in confusion.
Kasin said, "That's bullying! What kind of 'PUBG' is that? He was reported eight hundred times a day. He bought a hundred accounts and took turns getting checked. I've never seen him play games like that. Whoever sees him will be shot. Tsk tsk, if I were the player on the computer, I would report him too!"
Hua Chong said with disdain: "Damn it, those gamers have to hate you! Isn't it because you don't want to play games with them that you let them play online games?"
After Kaxin took the coffee from Old Liu in the kitchen, he said, "What's that saying you Chinese have? A friend's death is better than my own! It's better for them to be tortured than for the boss to torture me alone, right? You don't know how hopeless it is to play games with the boss!"
Khedira, who was looking at his e-reader, said, "The boss contacted me about this and told me to persuade the boss."
"How to persuade him?" Several people looked at Khedira together.
Kasim said, "He's completely let himself go now! The boss has sent him home!"
"Shut up!" Hua Chong gave Kasim the middle finger directly: "How can the boss be nice to Walter? Is he driving Walter away? Isn't this asking Walter to go back to be with the children? I also want to enjoy this kind of treatment!"
Kaxin lay on the table: "Who said it wasn't! I also want to get married and have children, and I also want to enjoy this kind of treatment..."
"Now is not the time to research this!" Hua Chong said, "Our boss is not doing this right. He's become an internet addict again. Didn't he quit last time?"
"He even quit drinking! Now he's drinking again?" Kasin said, "Woman... How could she suddenly become like this when everything was going well? She's wasting her time and only bringing trouble upon herself."
Khedira said, "Who says it's not true? I used to envy the boss. Look at me, I have so many girlfriends, but they're not as harmonious as his girlfriends. But these people have such a good life but insist on looking for excitement! Others can't even envy them!"
"Khedira, why do I feel like you are saying this to show off how many girlfriends you have?" Hua Chong said.
"Okay, now let's talk about what to do," Khedira said. "Don't you think the boss is being a little strange this time? Chen Cheng, didn't we say we were going to the South Atlantic Anomaly? We should have gone all the way south, across the English Channel, past the Strait of Gibraltar, and then all the way south, right? Why are we heading north to the North Sea?"
Kasin also said, "Fabian and Pascal are unreliable! Pascal has no humanity for the opposite sex. How passionate is he? Is he not planning to come back? Fabian is the same! We agreed to come together, but he's staying in Germany again. Why is he keeping an eye on the affairs of the Tri-State Alliance?"
Khedira lowered his voice and said, "You know shit. Doesn't the Tri-State Alliance have the Norddeutsche Landesbank? That bank has a wide range of interests, including investment banking, agricultural and real estate banking, corporate financing, ship and aircraft financing, and most importantly, art collections and private banking. Fabian used to try to find a way to transfer hidden funds so as not to put all his eggs in one basket. This time, we've made such a big fuss with the Tri-State Alliance. What if we face retaliatory sanctions? It's like the shameless Americans, who freeze accounts and use them to fund their national treasury at the slightest disagreement. Germany has also been sanctioned by the Americans, and a lot of money has been frozen. They won't cooperate with the UK or the US on such a matter. The boss understands this, so he has a lot of money in both Germany and Russia."
Hua Chong nodded and said, "That's true. Germany needs revenge, and the boss needs to change the rules. It's a combination of both. It feels like collusion!"
Many people think the US only sanctions China, but they actually sanction the entire world, including their so-called "allies" (Canada is already crying in the toilet). Germany has been the country most sanctioned in the past two years.
The main reason for their sanctions against Germany is the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline. No other oil and gas pipeline in the world has ever garnered as much attention as Nord Stream 2, drawing the attention of nearly every major power in the world.
40% of Europe's natural gas comes from Russia, primarily through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. A joint Russian-German project in 2011, Nord Stream 1 carries a significant amount of Russian natural gas from Russia to Europe. Initially, the project attracted little attention.
This is because Nord Stream 1 is a land pipeline, and since Germany and Russia do not share a border, the pipeline must pass through Ukraine and Poland.
Russia and Ukraine are currently locked in a bitter dispute over Crimea, and Poland, for one, is hoping the US will permanently station troops there or even bring nuclear weapons. The power of "European foot binding" cannot be underestimated!
Therefore, the economic lifeline of Nord Stream 1, which connects Europe and Russia, can easily be "strangled" by others, or to put it more simply, it is directly controlled by "hostile countries". The United States only needs to "squeeze this pipeline" to suppress the EU and Russia at the same time!
This was unacceptable to both sides, and so the Nord Stream 2 project was born. In fact, Nord Stream 2 is almost completely parallel to Nord Stream 1, the only difference being that it is an undersea pipeline that directly crosses the Baltic Sea to Germany, thus avoiding being blocked by others.
This project was signed simultaneously by Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Russia, and basically represents the interests of both the EU and Russia.
But Britain and the US are anxious. Brexit presents this problem as well: as an island nation, Britain won't be able to benefit from the pipeline's profits and will lose its dominance in Europe. The US is even more anxious because they sell their shale gas worldwide, with Europe being their primary target. If the pipeline is truly connected, who will buy their shale gas? Their luck depends on ships, while others rely on pipelines. They simply can't compete on price!
As a result, the United States imposed various sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 project, including imposing sanctions on companies involved in the project and freezing their assets in the United States.
Xiao Peng strictly adheres to the principle of "never putting all your eggs in one basket". His assets are in many countries, but not in the United States and the United Kingdom, which are among the top financial countries in the world. These two places are too shitty and freeze funds at the slightest disagreement. Who can stand it?
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