Chapter 611 Unparalleled

August 8, today is the opening day of the 29th Olympic Games.

At noon, Barron was invited to the banquet hall on the second floor of the Great Hall of the People, where a welcome banquet hosted by China for the distinguished guests attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will be held.

Yes, this time at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Barron was invited by China as a "friendly person to China."

At the welcome banquet, in addition to Brown, Barron also met many "old acquaintances", including George W. Bush, Sarkozy and Kolo President Jammeh Bongo.

This time, Kolo also sent a sports team to participate in the Yanjing Olympics. Its scale is also the largest scale that Kolo has ever participated in the Olympics.

It is worth mentioning that many of the events are the first time for Kolo to participate, and these events often come from their new immigrants - some refugees are selected by Kolo to join Kolo's nationality because of their sports talents.

"Hello, Ms. Merkel."

"Nice to meet you, Your Highness."

In front of Barron at this time was Merkel, known as Germany's "Iron Lady". She attended the state banquet as a representative of Germany.

As the first female chancellor in German history and the first prime minister from East Germany after the merger of East and West Germany, she took office in 2005 and is now serving her first term.

Of course, Barron also knows that as the last figure in Germany who can be called a "politician" before his rebirth, Merkel will experience a total of four terms. She will become more important not only to Germany but to the entire European Union. characters.

When they met this time, the two just said hello and chatted for a while.

Merkel gives the impression of being steady, pragmatic, and prudent in words and deeds. However, she herself also strongly supports the "free economy." In the future, Barron's investments, whether in Germany or at the EU level, will not avoid the same She deals with it - after all, Merkel will have another ten years in power in Germany.

This welcome banquet lasted about an hour and ended at about two o'clock in the afternoon.

After a short break, today's highlight is about to begin, the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Yanjing time, the exciting moment began.

In his previous life, Barron watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on TV, and he watched it more than once.

This time, he personally experienced this historic moment at the Bird's Nest.

When the familiar scenes deep in his memory appeared in front of his eyes from another angle, the memories of two lives merged here, which made Barron's mood very complicated.

After all, in the memory of the previous life, this moment is the pride of being a son and daughter of China.

At this moment, his identity is already a British Duke, and he is witnessing this scene as a "people friendly to China".

No matter what, Barron knows that China's return to the center stage of the world is unstoppable.

Barron took photos of the scene with his mobile phone and sent them to his Woaw homepage, leaving a message:

"I was at the opening ceremony of the Yanjing Olympic Games and marveled at this unparalleled performance. This is the most impressive opening ceremony of the Olympic Games so far. I hope London will come on and provide the same feast to the whole world four years later. "

Yes, Woaw has launched a mobile version of the APP at this time. After its launch, the number of users accessing the Woaw APP through smartphones has grown gratifyingly.

According to subsequent statistics, this Yanjing Olympics has become the most watched event in human history, surpassing the live broadcast of the "Apollo moon landing" and the live broadcast of Princess Diana's funeral, attracting 1 billion TV viewers, and truly becoming the "first A real live broadcast event watched by 1 billion people."

The report shows that at least 593 million people around the world watched the entire four-hour opening ceremony, and 984 million people watched at least part of the theatrical performance. This does not include those who watched in public places. There is absolutely no problem in exceeding 1 billion in total. .

You know, the current total population of the world is about 6.8 billion, and there are 1.9 billion households, but only 1.4 billion of them have TV sets. It is really an astonishing figure for 1 billion people to watch.

This amazing data is attributed to China's 1.3 billion population, but the viewing rate in all corners of the world is also considerable. From 20:00 onwards in Yanjing, more and more people are paying attention - 35 million people in the United States are watching. 8 million people in Germany, nearly 8 million people in Australia, 5.5 million people in Italy...

In addition, ITV, a subsidiary of SEM Group, also bought the broadcasting rights for the opening ceremony of the Yanjing Olympic Games. More than 7.5 million British viewers watched the opening ceremony through ITV, of which more than 5 million people watched the full 4 hours. The entire opening ceremony.

Many Europeans chose to watch the Olympic opening ceremony online through DailyVedio.com later.

At present, the F1 Group is also committed to cultivating racing drivers in China. After these data were released, Bernie Ecclestone excitedly said to Barron:

"Imagine if a talented young Chinese driver appears in the F1 arena, then the future of F1 live broadcast will be infinitely bright!"

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"Your Highness the Duke, we have reached an agreement with JPMorgan Chase..."

On the plane back to London, Barron received a call from Duane Hurst, CEO of BFT Fund.

After negotiations, BFT Fund reached a capital injection agreement with JPMorgan Chase.

According to the agreement, BFT (British Fortune Times) Fund will invest $10 billion to purchase JPMorgan Chase's newly issued shares at a price slightly lower than the current market price. This part of the shares will account for about 8.5% of the total share capital after the increase.

And BFT Fund has the right to send a director to JPMorgan Chase's board of directors and have one vote.

In this way, since Standard Chartered Bank acquired Merrill Lynch, BFT Fund has taken out a total of $43.5 billion in funds, investing in Standard Chartered-Merrill Lynch (US$25 billion), Morgan Stanley (US$8.5 billion) and JPMorgan Chase (US$10 billion).

At present, there are still more than $25 billion in funds in the BFT Fund's account that have not been used...

After receiving the capital injection from BFT Fund, JPMorgan Chase immediately announced that it would acquire the branches and deposit business of Washington Mutual Bank.

They did not disclose the specific amount of funds for the acquisition, but Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, claimed that the $10 billion obtained from the BFT Fund this time will be used entirely for the asset acquisition of Washington Mutual Bank and the subsequent disposal of non-performing assets.

The Yanjing Olympics is still in full swing, so the reason why Barron left China and went to London at this time...

Because Bonnie was pregnant with her and Barron's second child at the end of last year, and now it is less than a month away from the due date of the child, so Barron needs to return to London in advance to accompany his wife.