Chapter 2921 Finding Trouble

That being said, there are still some differences.

Now, Europe’s tech industry is collectively pulling its weight.

If the market cannot compete, it will have to rely on the EU to introduce some biased policies to protect European technology companies and prevent the European technology industry from being strangled by the joint efforts of China, the United States, South Korea and Japan.

These four forces are really powerful.

In the early years, the United States and Japan were too strong.

In recent years, Japan has been slightly inferior and lost a lot of markets, but South Korea has rushed out.

In recent years, Chinese-funded companies headed by Boss Zhou have also started to attack Europe, and their market share has been rapidly expanding. Not only Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Asda, Ziweixing, Changyou, Alibaba, Baidu, Penguin and other well-known industry giants, but also small and medium-sized technology companies.

The most typical one is the outsourcing industry.

Now, software outsourcing is moving to Asia.

Either go to India or China.

At least 20% of European software is written by Chinese programmers, using an outsourcing model.

Coupled with home appliance companies such as Haier, Gree, Hisense, TCL, and Midea, it has really impacted Europe's industrial structure to pieces.

The European Union must take measures and guard against it!

In contrast, the United States is different.

In the future, with the development of the domestic technology industry, especially Internet-related industries, the Internet giants in Silicon Valley will be struggling to compete.

what to do?

If market means cannot compete, then non-market means can only be used.

We must rely on administrative means to find fault!

Just like Google was kicked out of the country.

However, the United States and the European Union are different.

It's easier in America.

Because the competitive pressure from Europe, South Korea and Japan on the United States is limited and it is difficult to pose a threat, they only need to defend Chinese-funded enterprises. If this is not possible, they can use more ruthless and deadly moves.

The EU is different.

In Europe today, the strength of the technology industry is too weak, and China, the United States, South Korea and Japan can easily enter the European market to grab territory.

The EU does not dare to kill all its opponents directly like the United States.

If China, the United States, South Korea and Japan are blocked, Europe's market economy will completely collapse.

Even the domestic mainland market, which is strictly guarded, does not dare to block the four major economies of Europe, the United States, South Korea and Japan at the same time.

It is conceivable that the EU's next strategy will definitely be to pull together one faction and fight against the other.

You can't fight them all.

If they all fight, the business environment will be ruined and the European economy will be completely ruined.

There is no way not to fight.

If there is no fight, if technology companies from China, the United States, South Korea and Japan are allowed to come to Europe to grab territory, then the local technology companies in Europe will die one by one. In the past few years, Qualcomm has killed a large number of European chip companies, which is really scary. Being soft-spoken is not enough. The opponents are aggressive and the EU must stand up and take charge of the overall situation.

Pull who?

Who to hit?

This is what Tang Binchen is most worried about these days.

It's easy without Zhou Qi.

He was prophetic.

In my previous life, I didn’t know what was going on. I only knew that I could always see various news saying that the European Union launched an investigation against American technology companies every now and then, often resulting in fines of billions or tens of billions of dollars.

I find the punishment quite enjoyable.

Some of the punishments are even ridiculous.

For example, the charging cable of a mobile phone.

What style of plug is used in mobile phones? This should be the right of enterprises and the choice of the market. What qualifications does the government have to interfere? If the model of the charging cable plug is not good, consumers will naturally vote with their banknotes, which can force the company to make the most correct choice. This is the power of the market economy.

The results are good. The European Union may not be able to find any breakthrough from Apple, so it directly targets the charging cable plug and requires Apple to unify the charging cable plug of the iPhone with the plug of the Android phone.

And it’s a forced choice.

It’s not that Android phones must use Apple’s charging cable plug model, but that Apple must change it to Android’s model standard.

Even China is embarrassed to make such a ridiculous decision.

The EU really issued a mandatory ultimatum to Apple.

Zhou Buqi hadn't quite understood what was going on before.

Now that I have experienced it myself, I understand the secret behind it.

This is intentional!

Just deliberately looking for trouble!

Just like China took away Google before, the United States will restrict TikTok later. The European Union also has a similar local protection strategy, but in its choice of pulling in one faction and fighting another, Europe is pulling in China, Japan and South Korea, and fighting the U.S. technological hegemony.

Not only that, Zhou Buqi also had a plan in his life. He said funnyly: "What are you afraid of? We have been deeply involved in Europe all these years, but all our efforts have been in vain? I even bought Manchester United. You can't see that football is in Europe." How influential is it? The first step for those oil financiers in the Middle East to enter the European market is to invest in football.”

"I know, your plan for Europe..." Tang Binchen nodded, sincerely convinced, "To be honest, it's really amazing. A few years ago, I thought it was a bit nonsensical. I thought your decisions in Europe were a bit too speculative. Many of them The decision-making is not based on the market, but on the balance of interests among EU countries. Now it seems that it is really impressive. This vision is too long-term and is at least five years ahead of me."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "It's not that exaggerated."

Tang Binchen said: "Really, I have always had some doubts before, thinking that the data center in continental Europe does not need to be too complicated. It is enough to build a super cloud data center in Germany. Europe is so small and the population is so small. But you insisted on splitting it into two, one in Germany and one in France. Now it seems that you are really far-sighted."

There are dozens of EU members.

Most of them are younger brothers.

Not counting the UK, which is isolated overseas, it is mainly led by Germany and France.

If Ziwei Cloud's super cloud data center is located in Germany, and then all user data on continental Europe is stored in Germany... This is actually the best arrangement, with the lowest cost, the highest efficiency, easy management and easy operation.

Silicon Valley giants basically have such arrangements.

Take Facebook for example.

This year, Facebook invested heavily in Europe to build a super data center.

There is only one.

Then, all Facebook's European user data will be stored in such a data center in the future.

This is too market-oriented.

Ignoring non-market factors.

The European Union has never been a whole. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Germany and France often have internal conflicts because of their own ulterior motives.

Should such a super data center be built in Germany or France?

Will France be happy if Germany is chosen?

Will France not give you a hard time?

Apple's mobile phone data cable was inexplicably messed up, and it was actually France that did it.

Why?

Because Apple's super data center is not in France.

You took all the data of French people to Germany... Of course, both parties belong to the European Union, so it is legally allowed to do so, and it is not considered a privacy leak of users.

But in this case, what do the French authorities think?

It is not surprising that they started to find fault.

Zhou Buqi had already made arrangements.

You can't be too market-oriented when doing business.

You still have to see the political landscape clearly.

It's better to spend more money.

You have to be comprehensive and not offend anyone.

Anyway, the European continent is the two giants of Germany and France, divided into two... Both sides are happy, and no one is offended on either side.

In terms of political speculation and political rapprochement, domestic entrepreneurs can be said to dominate the world, and the bigwigs of Silicon Valley technology companies are all as naive as young people.

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't worry, Ziweixing International is the only Internet giant that can compete with Silicon Valley. The EU will definitely take action against the United States next, pulling one faction to fight another, and will definitely pull us to fight against the Americans. Just like Qualcomm, the EU came to me to discuss Qualcomm's affairs this time, probably wanting to use Qualcomm's case as a template to determine the way we will cooperate with the EU in the future."

"That being said..." Tang Binchen hesitated, "But now an EU investigation committee has been launched to investigate us."

"Ah?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly stunned and couldn't believe it.

Tang Binchen said: "The investigation is about Helo."