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Chapter 428 Can I make a friend for 19.99 million?

The biggest problem of the European Union is that it cannot be called a confederation. If it is called an alliance, its level of integration far exceeds that of an ordinary alliance. Moreover, it is constrained by Americans in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Because of the constraints of Americans, too many politically correct things were forced into the EU's less developed member states when they received grants.

Let me first popularize a concept here. After becoming members of the European Union, European countries need to pay membership fees to the EU every year according to a certain proportion, ranging from hundreds of millions of euros to tens of billions of euros. Germany pays the most, more than 30 billion euros.

You can think of this as taxation. The EU is like a central government that collects taxes from member states.

Then developed member states can obtain markets, cheap labor and natural resources from underdeveloped member states, so underdeveloped member states naturally need to obtain economic compensation.

This is similar to the logic that the underdeveloped provinces in China can receive transfer income from Yanjing.

However, compared with the transfer income from Laos and China, the EU's grants to them are divided into two parts. One is to obtain funds directly from the EU, that is, through the European Commission, and the second is to get money from various funds established by the EU.

The EU has too many funds, such as the EU Transition Fund, the EU Reconstruction Fund, the EU Recovery Fund and so on.

If you want to get money from the committee, you have to go to Brussels, and it's not easy to get the money.

It is relatively easy to get money from various EU funds, but there are also requirements. Once you get the money, it means that the EU can tell you what to do.

It will have requirements on environmental protection and balanced development, which means that efficiency will not be prioritized, and many other requirements will be added.

According to the news, the EU will provide Hungary with 2023 billion euros to promote economic growth by the end of 100. At first glance, it may seem like so much money. However, in fact, this money should have been given to Hungary. It was the EU's promise to give Hungary over a seven-year period, but it was frozen because Hungary did not obey.

Then it was unfrozen again and Hungary received the money.

As for why it was frozen, there are many reasons, one of which is naturally that the Hungary-Serbia railway was given to China for repair. The money the EU gave to Hungary was used to build infrastructure connecting EU member states.

In short, it is precisely because it is difficult to get money from the EU that we still have to pay money to the EU every year.

Now France says it wants to be the leader of Europe's space industry and vigorously develop the European space industry. Everyone knows that France only pays 20 billion euros to the European Union every year.

Considering the current space race between America and China, which costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year, if Europe wants to keep up, it will definitely not be able to spend less than this amount.

In other words, France, which originally paid the money, not only does not have to pay any money now, but can also get an astronomical sum of tens of billions of euros from the EU under the pretext of revitalizing the European aerospace industry.

It's a bit against Tiangang.

No wonder Germany disagrees with everything.

Not only Germany disagrees, but any European country with a bit of common sense would not agree.

This is the drawback of the European Union. The interests of each country are not consistent with the interests of Europe as a whole.

In America, Musk was interviewed by Fox News, which was also Musk's first public appearance after the establishment of the American Space Strategy Committee.

As a follower, America could not complete the research and development of nuclear bomb trajectory change technology in full secrecy as it did during the Manhattan Project.

Firstly, in the information age, it is no longer possible for America to let so many people work anonymously for five years or even longer, and to ensure that these people will not leak their work content. It is unrealistic to let them not use smartphones and communicate with the outside world.

Secondly, the U.S. stock market needs some positive news to continue to support it and prevent it from collapsing.

The current US stock market is the result of a crash. Among the traditional big 7, Google was the first to exit the market, and Amazon is also in danger. Thanks to its strong performance in the technology field, Chinese assets have been repriced. The Shanghai Composite Index is no longer always at points, but has been stable above points for two years.

The U.S. stock market cannot collapse further. The consequence of the collapse of the U.S. stock market will cause the federal government to no longer be able to stabilize even the traditionally strong regions, resulting in a new power vacuum in the region.

Given these two reasons, Musk needs to come out and give public interviews to demonstrate America's confidence.

"The Federation will show unprecedented determination in the face of China's competition in space. We have every reason to believe that America will eventually win this space race, just as we did fifty years ago," Musk said in front of the camera.

Musk's appeal and influence in America are not comparable to those of ordinary wealthy people. It is already at the level of Bill Gates 20 years ago. Therefore, the number of viewers of his interviews is higher than that of the rescued astronauts in previous global hot spots.

In addition, China has achieved a change in the trajectory of its nuclear missiles. Even the rednecks know that times have changed. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that this live broadcast has attracted the attention of the entire United States.

It's actually quite funny. Before, there was a big gap between China and America in many aspects, such as technology, finance, global influence, etc. At that time, the American media tried their best to exaggerate how terrible China was and what kind of threat it would pose to America.

Today, when China is on par with America in many areas and has surpassed America in many areas of science and technology, the American media has begun to tell the American people that China is not that scary. Their technology sounds impressive, but in fact ours is not bad either.

The host of the program this time is Anna, the blonde and blue-eyed beauty anchor of Fox News. The two sides had communicated before the program started. This time, what they wanted to show was America's confidence in the space race, which was part of national propaganda, so they would not ask any sharp questions at all.

"Elon, ever since the day the Space Strategy Committee was established, there have been rumors that this was caused by the change of trajectory of China's nuclear missiles."

Before Anna finished speaking, Musk admitted directly: "Yes, China's progress in the space field has exceeded our expectations.

The application scenario of nuclear bomb trajectory change may pose a major threat to America. If we cannot quickly catch up with this technology, we will lack the means to counter China in the future.

This is the most direct reason why America launched the Space Strategy Committee and increased funding for space technology development.

Of course, space-related technologies are gradually maturing, humans have reached a critical time node for moving towards the solar system, and commercial spaceflight has preliminary landing scenarios. These are more core reasons.

American did not miss the Internet wave, did not miss the era of artificial intelligence, and naturally it is impossible for it to miss the space age. "

“So what exactly are you responsible for on the Space Strategy Committee?
And can it be seen as similar to the role Wright played in the Natural Science Foundation of China?" Anna asked.

Musk said without hesitation: “No.

I am more of a project manager, confirming America's long-term strategic planning in the space sector.

Then we will determine which technical points we need to overcome, which company or research institution to find to overcome these technical points, how much funding we will give them, and how much time we will give them.

How much time do we need to spend to integrate the subdivided projects into concrete results and make use of these concrete results? "

After listening, Anna said, "So what is your most important goal?"

"It is our top priority to quickly narrow the gap with China in the field of nuclear missile trajectory change technology. I had already communicated with some scientists before I was appointed.

We don't have much time on this matter.

Because there are probably only one or two opportunities each year for an asteroid to be at the right distance from Earth.

Rocky asteroids are not suitable for being changed in orbit by nuclear bombs, as they would be torn into pieces by the huge impact force.

Not every year a metallic asteroid becomes a near-Earth asteroid.

So we have very few opportunities, and we also have to worry about China snatching the launch opportunity."

Anna then asked: "Are you worried about the environmental problems that a nuclear bomb exploding in space would cause on Earth?"

"I'm sorry, compared to direct competition with China, environmental protection is not our top priority."

This is what netizens on the simplified Chinese Internet like about the Elephant Party: they won’t be two-timing and won’t try to cover up their bad deeds with a high-sounding cloak.

The Donkey Party insists on standing on the moral high ground, but what they do are all warmongers, causing hundreds of thousands of people to be displaced at every turn, and they say that they are upholding justice.

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If the Donkey Party is in the White House instead of the Elephant Party, and the academic elites trusted by the Donkey Party are in charge of space strategy, they will talk a lot of nonsense to disguise. The Elephant Party at least does not pretend, and will not pretend that we care about Mother Earth and will spend a lot of budget and new technologies on environmental protection.

"How long will it take to catch up?" Anna asked.

Musk said categorically: "Five years."

Immediately after Musk's interview was broadcast, Democratic lawmakers leaked the news through the Washington Post, saying that they wanted to give non-American-born citizens the right to run for president.

Because Musk also publicly expressed in this interview that he would withdraw from the management of businesses other than SpaceX and hand over the management of these businesses to professional managers.

He will also withdraw his shares from Space, which originally cooperated with Guangjia Aerospace, because of his highly sensitive identity, he cannot continue to maintain business cooperation with Chen Yuanguang, who also has a highly sensitive identity.

Simply put, this interview provided a comprehensive response to many issues discussed by the outside world.

After the Washington Post exposed the story and connected the dots between the two pieces of news, the outside world understood that Washington had used Musk's presidential candidacy to allow him to devote himself to the development of the federal aerospace industry.

"America is indeed a long-established capitalist country that can trade anything. Using the right to run for the presidency to entice Musk really made it impossible for him to refuse."

"There's nothing we can do. With Ma's wealth, he's experienced everything. Apart from the right to run for president, what else can attract him?"

"Wow, Elon Musk can't really be president, right? If he gets elected, wouldn't all the childless cat lovers be devastated?"

"I'm curious if Musk is elected president, will LeBron James, who has publicly criticized Musk, leave America and move to the Maple Leaf Country?"

"If Space becomes wholly owned by Light Armor Aerospace, it might really be renamed Light Armor Auto. If it's called Light Armor Auto, I'll just regret that I don't have the money to buy it."

"If the Light God is a light armor car, can the price be lower than 20? 19.99 to make friends?"

No one on the Chinese Internet believes that Musk can accomplish it in five years, so no one even asked questions. It’s not because they look down on Musk, but because Chen Yuanguang’s words were spread. Chen Yuanguang said at least five years, and the old Chinese people unconditionally trust the God of Light.

As for whether Guangjia Aerospace should change its name, Lin Jia is discussing with the senior executives of Space.

Among the senior management of Space, there are people brought in by Lin Jia, people promoted from Guangjia Aerospace, and naturally there are also people from Tesla faction.

Two senior executives were transferred from Tesla Greater China.

Therefore, after Musk publicly announced his intention to withdraw his shares, they felt a little uneasy, fearing that they would be told to leave the next day.

“I think we can listen to the opinions of front-line car reviewers.

We now have concept cars, and we can invite first-line car reviewers to test drive them and discuss this issue with them after the test drive.

That is, if this car has the Guangjia logo and uses the Guangjia name, will they feel disappointed, or will they feel it is average, or will they feel it exceeds their expectations.

In this kind of situation, bystanders always see things more clearly. "Tesla's executives are racking their brains to prove that they are valuable.

After listening to this, Lin Jia thought this was a solution.

"We can sign a very strict confidentiality agreement with them. They cannot reveal the specific content, but they can say that they participated in our internal test drive."

Lin Jia asked: "What is the specific cost?"

“You definitely don’t have to pay for this, and it’s not marketing, all you have to do is reimburse them for their round-trip fare and accommodation.

They can take advantage of the traffic of light armor companies and see Space's prototype car in advance, which is valuable to them.

Moreover, the car reviewers who come to test drive and give constructive comments will also be given priority in cooperation opportunities after our car is launched in the future.”

Just because Tesla doesn’t do marketing doesn’t mean that all car brands don’t do marketing.

This has always been the view within Space. If Lin Jia can convince Elon Musk or Elon Musk to personally promote Space and bring products to Space, then they really don’t have to spend a penny on automotive KOLs. If not, even if Lin Jia personally brings products, the effect will not be enough to build a luxury car brand.

Chen Yuanguang naturally didn't want to do that, and it was even more impossible now that Musk was about to withdraw his shares.

Therefore, in the early stages, there must be investment in marketing.

Not all brands can follow Tesla's sales route from the beginning.

"Okay, let the marketing department prepare to invite first-line automotive self-media bloggers." Lin Jia said, "Let me see the proposed invitation list before the invitation letter is sent out."

(End of this chapter)