It's normal to develop some black technology in the future, right?

Chapter 436 Humor NASA
New Lion City, this concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Lion City and even around the world.

As the first company that made no secret of its taking over the power of Lion City, Alpha Technology was dubbed Lion City Arasaka on external social media.

If you have been to Singapore in person, like Peter Thiel who only stayed there for two hours, you will feel that using Arasaka to describe Alpha Tech seems to be a little lacking.

In the world view of Cyberpunk 2077, Arasaka only holds part of the power in Night City, while Alpha does not hide its presence in every field in the Lion City.

Declaring its authority through a brand new image, the matrix.

When traditional media had not yet found a suitable definition for it, the term cyber monster began to become popular in a small circle and was widely recognized in Singapore and Malaysia, the two areas most affected by Alpha Technology.

This is when the right to speak is no longer held by a minority group, the public will spontaneously find the most appropriate definition for a thing.

Just like the concepts of World War I and World War II in the past, they were definitions given by scholars after the wars. Now, the Internet has found a new definition for it - season. The concept in moba e-sports competitions is so appropriate to be applied in the present.

The competition spans multiple fields such as finance, public opinion, technology, and manufacturing, and the time span is likely to be decades rather than just a few years. The adjective "season" is much more appropriate than World War III or the Cold War.

Similarly, the word "cyber monster" is much more appropriate to describe Alpha Technology than adjectives such as giant enterprise, conglomerate, and giant.

After Peter Thiel returned to the hotel, he wanted to know more about Alpha Technologies. He had always known about the company, but Alpha Technologies neither accepted financing nor had any plans to go public in the short term.

Therefore, he has no chance to get a piece of the pie, so unless there is big news like the unrest in Singapore or synthetic sand technology, he will not pay attention to this company at all.

Although they hope to cooperate with Alpha Technologies and have carefully prepared relevant information to understand this company, on the one hand, this information is more focused on Samad and Oraz because the negotiating parties are people; on the other hand, this job used to be Musk's, and Peter was just an emergency.

I just read the report these few days. There have been great changes between Alpha Technology and the records in the report. In the past, their presence in Lion City was only at the levels of parliament and cabinet team, but now their presence has been blatantly reflected in all areas.

Combined with the information Peter Thiel had just collected, he now finally realized why the Donkey Party was so eager to use unconventional means to share this piece of cake.

And the more information he collected on the Internet, the more he realized that this might not be the idea of ​​the Donkey Party alone, but perhaps the establishment of the Elephant Party was also involved.

Because what Alpha Technologies did was obviously unacceptable to America.

Alpha Technologies is doing something similar to what China is doing.

That is, the U.S. dollar is only the unit of account of Alpha Technology. In fact, it does not need the U.S. dollar at all. The liquidity of Alpha Technology that can be checked on the surface only stays at a minimum liquidity requirement. Alpha Technology uses a lot of money to buy goods.

What is more serious is that after Lion City changed its backer from the Lee family to Alpha Technology, Lion City actually began to promote local currency swap agreements in Southeast Asia.

It not only promotes local currency swaps in Southeast Asia, but also promotes local currency swaps in the entire Southeast Asia and oil-producing countries.

Peter Thiel couldn't help but sigh, "How dare you be so arrogant? This is digging at the roots of the dollar."

The local currency swap agreement is equivalent to a transaction between you and me. It does not use the US dollar as an intermediate currency, but instead uses my currency and your currency for direct settlement.

In the past, only China did this.

For a long time, China has been promoting currency swap transactions with various countries. At the beginning, China still needed to use US dollars. The US dollar was not actually circulated. The US dollar remained on our books as a unit of account.

Later, after further rifts, China no longer wanted the US dollar. China and a large number of countries began to sign local currency swap agreements, directly exchanging local currencies or settling in RMB.

It mainly includes Brazil, Mao Zedong, Southeast Asia and some oil-producing countries.

This type of local currency swap agreement is also signed between other countries, such as the Southeast Asian 10+3. As early as 1997, after the end of the Asian financial crisis, everyone signed something called the Chiang Mai Agreement.

Some countries including Japan, Korea and the Kangaroo Country also signed currency swap agreements. Some countries in the euro zone also signed currency swap agreements before the birth of the euro.

However, the local currency swaps they signed only remain in the financial field and enrich their own currency anchors, but will not truly use local currency swaps to promote bilateral trade. Bilateral trade settlements still have to rely on the US dollar, and the funds on everyone's books are still in US dollars.

That is to say, their agreement only stays in the financial field.

In other words, in the past, only the Chinese dared to do this kind of local currency swap at the bilateral trade level, or only the Chinese were qualified to do so.

What is the role and positioning of Lion City? The three bases of American are still in Lion City, and the aircraft and warships in Sembawang, Paya Lebar and Changi are still there. You are doing this?

It is difficult for Peter Thiel to understand why Alpha Technologies is so confident. If the Chinese dare to do it, you can do it too, right?
Even Europe is not so arrogant. How dare a force as small as yours do this?
You should know that before the war between Russia and Russia broke out, Germany purchased natural gas from Russia through the Nord Stream pipeline, also using the euro + dollar settlement method, with the ratio being about 50-50, half euro and half dollar.

Not only does Singapore want to exclude the U.S. dollar from its own domestic settlement scope, it also wants to drag Southeast Asian countries to do the same.

Based on Peter Thiel's view of the people behind the Federal Reserve, this is pure suicide.

The reason why it was so quiet before was because American had not yet reached a consensus on how to divide the pie between Alpha Technology and Lion City.

Obviously, neither Washington nor Wall Street will allow Alpha Technology to be so arrogant.

Peter Thiel hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should still meet Samad through Edward as originally planned.

What's the point of meeting? The other party is already a pile of dry bones in a grave, waiting to die.

In the face of the absolute gap in strength, even if Alpha Technology has an information advantage in cyberspace, such an advantage will not play any role at all.

For a moment, Peter was very conflicted.

"Peter Thiel, I have always heard about your deeds. I am glad that you can come to the office of Light Armor Aerospace in Lion City in person. I am the person in charge of the office of Light Armor Aerospace in Lion City. I used to be a senior manager of the headquarters of Light Armor Aerospace. My last name is Liu, you can just call me Mr. Liu."

Peter Thiel’s first stop the next day was the Light Armor Aerospace office in Singapore.

That’s right, Peter Thiel’s apparent reason for coming to Singapore this time was that he hoped to book a space trip and a lunar cemetery after his death.

This is the stated purpose of his visit to Singapore this time.

Since Guangjia Aerospace launched services for high net worth individuals, the so-called wealthy group, they have set up offices in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore and Paris. They were originally going to set up an office in New York, but due to some subjective factors, they have not been able to obtain federal approval.

This time, after the nuclear bomb changed its trajectory, federal approval is nowhere in sight.

Even the high-end health care facilities of Guangjia Technology, Guangjia Aerospace and China Life Insurance in Beverly Hills, California will be affected.

The venue is still under construction and has been jointly protested and boycotted by white leftists in California.

But it shouldn't be a big problem, because America is also working on changing the trajectory of its nuclear bombs. It's not possible that you can do it but I will be boycotted if I do it.

"Hello, Mr. Liu," Peter Thiel said. "Can you give me a brief introduction to your services?"

"We previously provided three main services, including space tourism. Currently, Guangjia Aerospace has the operating rights of two space stations in space, namely Tiangong and Guangjia. Tiangong is about 400 kilometers above the earth and is a near-Earth space station in the traditional sense.

The latter, the Light Armor, is located between the moon and the earth, about 32 kilometers away from the earth. It is an absolute deep space station.

The former is currently only open to Chinese citizens and is not considered to be open to the outside world for the time being, while the latter will be open to people all over the world and is expected to be officially put into operation within the next three years.

The entire Guangjia space station tourism program includes round-trip air tickets, space station accommodation, and seven days of sightseeing on the space station.

The project is divided into two packages. The former is a basic version of 15 million US dollars, including the above-mentioned projects, and the latter is an upgraded version of 20 million US dollars. In addition to the basic projects, it also includes the service of a low-altitude flight around the moon. "

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The difference of five million dollars can allow you to fly around the moon. This price is too cheap for a billionaire like Peter.

After the price of the Guangjia space tourism project was announced, people on the Internet felt that the price of Tiangong was too reasonable. Fifteen million US dollars is about 90 million RMB at the current exchange rate.

You can hope to win the lottery for five million, but ninety million is a sum of money that you are born with or without.

"Is orbiting the moon achieved via the Changkong?" Peter asked.

Manager Liu nodded: "Yes, including the one that undertakes the round-trip mission, the Changkong aerospace plane is also used.

There is a special workshop on the Guangjia, which can provide the Changkong aerospace plane with energy replenishment, maintenance, painting and other services to ensure that it can carry out the lunar flight mission.

These are the only ones included this time. According to our design, a moon landing package should be added in five years. Since it has not been tested yet, it has not yet entered our official service sequence.

However, the current basic version and enhanced version can definitely do it.

Sir, you should also know something about the rescue mission of Changkong to the International Space Station? The whole process is much more complicated than a simple round trip, but Changkong still completed the mission perfectly.

Therefore, our space tourism packages are absolutely safe and reliable.”

This is so unsolvable that there is an International Space Station rescue mission to help back it up.

Guangjia Aerospace’s Singapore office is located in the Marina Bay Financial Centre, where it rents an entire floor, but it actually has only a dozen or so employees.

The purpose is to give potential customers a feeling that you are not short of money.

But Guangjia Aerospace is indeed not short of money.

Taking the Singapore office as an example, the annual book revenue exceeds 10 billion RMB, which is equivalent to a dozen people working for you to generate 10 billion RMB in revenue. What kind of marketing team can have such strength?

This is not an exaggeration. The revenue of the Hong Kong office is more than twice that of Singapore.

The essence behind this is, first, a direct reflection of the strength of Guangjia Aerospace Technology, and second, a direct reflection of China's influence.

In Hong Kong, many wealthy people choose to purchase Light Armor aerospace services, secretly thinking that they are paying a patriotic tax.

Although the Guangjia aerospace services cost hundreds of millions, the wealthy people in Hong Kong are willing to pay.

Peter Thiel has been investing in commercial aerospace agencies in Silicon Valley. He estimated the price and found that with $15 million, SpaceX could take you around the moon. With this price, America could only take you to the near-Earth space station for five days.

There is not even a guarantee that the new international space station will be able to be launched stably within three years.

Because Musk took a group of people from SpaceX to work on the nuclear bomb trajectory change project and devoted almost all of his energy to this project, the new international space station plan of aerospace organizations led by NASA is "tentatively" handed over to Bezos' Blue Origin.

The reason why it is tentative is because there is a lot of internal opposition, especially from France. The European Union, led by France, does not want to pay for NASA's new international space station project at all. After hearing that Blue Origin is responsible for it, they are even less willing to pay.

Everyone thinks this is a bottomless pit. They say it will be done in three years, but then three years later, there are another three years, and the budget keeps increasing endlessly.

France already has a module on the Light Mech anyway, so why should it subscribe to NASA's space station futures? Or such inferior futures?

As for other European countries that have not purchased the Light Armor cabin, why don't you all pay me, France, and I will share it with you?

What's even more ridiculous is that Blue Origin spent $10 billion to buy a module from the Space Shuttle, but it wants to build its own space station and wants to ask NASA for $10 billion per year, a total of $50 billion over five years.

This money is not paid by NASA alone, but by America, the European Union, Japan, Korea, the Kangaroo Country, the Maple Leaf Country, and others.

France is even more unhappy. You bought a module for 10 billion, and it costs 50 billion to build it. Why should Blue Origin take all the money? The European aerospace industry can also build it.

In short, there is currently strong opposition from France, and other European countries are also not happy.

But America doesn't want to pay for it itself. After all, the nuclear bomb trajectory change project is already very expensive. If it pays $10 billion a year on its own, it would be too much to spend in the aerospace field.

Even the die-hard "supporters" Neon and Goryeo are not very enthusiastic.

Under such a prospect, Blue Origin can only be considered to have temporarily undertaken this project, and it is still unknown whether it can continue.

(End of this chapter)