Chapter 623 Toshiba Incident (asking for monthly votes)

The last day of 1988 has passed.

The first day of 1989 has arrived, and the whole world has welcomed a new first day.

During the New Year's Day holiday, many companies have holidays.

With the resumption of GATT, China has carried out reforms in many aspects, including vacation time and protecting workers' rights.

But when the world just ushered in 1989, the whole world was shocked by one thing-the Toshiba incident broke out!

The Soviet Union has always been slightly inferior in high-precision processing, which makes the Soviet submarines noisy and easier to be monitored.

So since 1980, the Soviet Union secretly approached Toshiba, and the two sides began negotiations. The Soviet Union planned to introduce five-axis CNC machining centers for large propellers from Toshiba.

Finally, in 1983, the Soviet Union got 5 five-axis CNC machining centers from Toshiba at a price of US$5 million each.

The five-axis machining center is the most advanced CNC machine tool processing equipment in the world. Its strategic significance to the military industry is self-evident.

It can be said that if the Soviets get these five five-axis machining centers and use them to process submarine propellers, the noise will be greatly reduced, and it will be very difficult for Americans to monitor Soviet submarines in the future.

The Americans invest so much money in national defense every year, but these five five-axis machining centers will make the United States' advantage in this area disappear.

The losses caused may be tens of billions of dollars or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

So when the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar.

Because under the reports of the American media, everyone knew that the Soviets might crack the key technologies in these five five-axis machining centers and master the manufacturing technology of five-axis machining centers. In the future, the Soviets will produce 100 or even 1,000 five-axis machining centers.

The Soviet CNC machine tool industry will grow significantly.

The Soviet processing technology will make great strides and will soon surpass Europe and the United States.

At that time, the performance of Soviet tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft, artillery, missiles, warships, submarines, etc. will be greatly improved.

Moreover, at this time, European and American TV stations continued to broadcast the Soviet Union's world-shaking exercises in 1981, which made the dark clouds that had not yet dissipated once again cover Europe and the United States.

In recent years, with the rise of Japan's manufacturing and electronics industries, manufacturing products such as automobiles, machine tools, and electronic products such as home appliances and refrigerators have entered the US market in large numbers, causing serious impacts on American companies. Many of them have closed down or even been acquired by Japanese companies.

Many landmark buildings and landmark squares in the United States have been acquired by Japanese companies.

Many well-known American companies have also been acquired by Japanese companies.

There are even many Japanese who clamor to buy the entire United States.

Even though the United States forced Japan to sign the "Plaza Accord", the US trade deficit with Japan continued to grow and set new highs.

The largest trade deficit between the United States and other countries in the world comes from Japan.

Japanese cars are advancing rapidly in the US market, beating American auto companies to a pulp. Many well-known American auto companies in the past are struggling to survive, and some have even gone bankrupt.

Japanese electronic products are impacting those electronic companies in the United States.

Although China's cars also sell 200,000 to 300,000 units a year in the United States, China's bicycles occupy half of the US bicycle market, and King Long Computer has been the champion of the US computer market for consecutive years, but China is very low-key, with a learner's attitude, far less high-profile than Japan.

A Japanese writer wrote a book called "Japan Can Say No" which became a bestseller and was sought after by countless Japanese. Many Japanese went to the United States, and they were so high-profile that they seemed to have turned over and become masters.

Japanese companies are very high-profile and powerful in the United States.

In this situation, countless American blue-collar workers lost their jobs, and with the incitement of politicians, ignorant people blamed Japanese companies, and anti-Japanese sentiment was high.

Politicians can easily be elected as long as they scold Japan, call for a boycott of Japanese goods, and smash Japanese products in public.

In this situation, Toshiba exported top-level CNC machining centers to the Soviet Union, causing their submarines to disappear from the monitoring systems of the United States and Europe, making the people who had not yet recovered from the Soviet Union's "West 81" military exercise that made the whole world tremble even more panic.

When the Toshiba incident broke out, the American people tried their best to punish these shameful Japanese.

The Toshiba incident angered the US government, and those angry American politicians clamored to punish the Japanese government and sanction Toshiba.

In addition to the fact that Toshiba's behavior violated the "Battalion Agreement" and exported to the Soviet Union, causing great losses to the US defense, the US government also wanted to make a fuss about it, add fuel to the flames, and teach the Japanese a lesson, suck a mouthful of blood from Japan, and recover a wave of blood.

The last Paris G5 Finance Ministers' Meeting, the United States did not get much advantage.

Since the market competitiveness of American products is not good, they cannot survive in the market, and cannot compete with Japanese products, and Japan does not want to make concessions, then take this opportunity to solve the country's trade deficit through political means.

As long as the trade deficit with Japan is solved, the huge trade deficit of the United States every year will be solved by half.

For Japan, the United States has no good feelings from the government to the people, whether politicians or ordinary people, and is very hostile to or even hates Japan.

Therefore, the Toshiba incident was hyped up, and the voices were one after another.

It spread directly from Toshiba to all Japanese companies, and then expanded to the whole of Japan.

Toshiba and the Japanese government quickly spent money to hire professional American public relations companies to conduct crisis public relations. There are many professional public relations companies in the United States that specialize in this work.

As long as they are paid enough, these public relations companies can even turn black into white.

But this time it is obvious that the US government wants to take this opportunity to force Japan to make concessions.

Bush, who had just been elected, was extremely tough. In his televised speech, he made it clear that the Toshiba incident would be dealt with seriously to safeguard the interests and security of the United States and its allies.

Bush even made it clear that Japan, which did such a thing, was not something that the US allies should do. The Japanese government was so scared that it quickly sent important people to the United States.

The aircraft carrier fleet stationed in Hawaii set off towards Tokyo. The US military bases in Japan seemed more abnormal than before.

It is obvious that the United States wants to make a big fuss about the Toshiba incident and has already waved a big stick.

If you don't make concessions, you will be taught a lesson.

Others are the butchers, and I am the fish.

At this moment, Japan's dilemma is very clear, and Japan has chosen to surrender.

Japan could not withstand the US's media offensive and coercion, and agreed that the US Central Intelligence Agency could go to Japan to investigate Toshiba.

Obviously, this is almost equivalent to giving up Toshiba.

And you know, Toshiba is a large Japanese company and a major exporter to the United States, with an annual export amount of 20 to 30 billion US dollars to the United States.

For a time, I don't know how many Japanese companies felt a sense of grief.

Now it's Toshiba, will it be their turn next time?

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