Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 394 [The Opportunity, Waited for Seven Years, Has Finally Arrived]

In short, don't blindly stack skill points in a single direction. While the benefits may be huge, the margin for error is too low and the potential risks are still significant. If that skill becomes useless and you haven't added any points to other skills, you'll be in trouble.

Therefore, balanced development is more stable, allowing for both offensive and defensive maneuvers.

The first priority of great power wisdom is not to seek victory, but to ensure invincibility. If one is invincible, then the rest is victory, or at worst, a draw. Sun Tzu, the military strategist, explained this principle clearly in his Art of War more than two thousand years ago.

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The next day, July 4st.

Yun Shu came to Xiao Yu's office and reported some breaking news: "Just last night, North Magnesium announced that it would impose a minimum benchmark tariff of 10% on all trading partners and a reciprocal tariff of 34% on goods exported from my country to North Magnesium."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu looked surprised, but after a moment he calmly said, "It doesn't matter. The graphene business contract our company signed with Lao Mei back then is expiring this year, and the higher-ups have no intention of renewing it."

In short, this matter has no impact on Lingjing Technology. Even if we take a step back, Lingjing Technology is currently the only super supplier of graphene materials in the world. The price of Amelink will increase according to the amount of tariffs added, so let their own company bear the cost.

Xiao Yu suddenly laughed and said, "But I think this old Trump has gone mad. No matter what, he should have been attacking one group and winning over another, but this AOE attack has offended everyone in the world."

As he spoke, Xiao Yu shook his head.

Yun Shu immediately said, "There's one more thing. We received an internal notice from above to announce reciprocal countermeasures during the holidays, imposing a 34% tariff on all imported magnesium products. We've been instructed to support the financial markets, so all we need to do is stabilize Lingjing Technology's stock price."

With a market capitalization of over 50 trillion yuan, Lingjing Technology has an enormous impact on the financial market and deserves special attention.

Xiao Yu originally didn't want to get involved in the capital market, letting investors play the game in the secondary market themselves. He didn't care much about the rise and fall of the company's stock price. However, since the higher-ups had made special arrangements and requirements, he naturally couldn't sit idly by.

"Get the first quarter report done as soon as possible, and then release it. If that still can't stabilize market confidence, then we'll start a share buyback and cancellation plan." Xiao Yu thought for a moment and then made these arrangements.

Yun Shu said, "The first quarter report will be released on April 6th."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu nodded: "Yes, we'll release it when the market responds."

It's worth mentioning that the big shots above were secretly laughing at this news from Amelika's side, because they had been waiting for this moment for seven years, since 2018, just waiting for Amelika to launch such an AOE attack.

The East had long wanted to counterattack, but had been waiting for the right opportunity, and now that opportunity had arrived.

The reason we didn't retaliate before was because Amerika was only targeting the East, while other countries stood by and watched with amusement as the first and second powers fought each other. They could not only enjoy the spectacle but also perhaps gain some benefits.

So Dongda University has been holding back all this time, but now look what's happened. This wave of Amei's AOE damage isn't just targeting Dongda, but all countries, and it even doesn't spare Antarctic penguins...

Amei's outrageous move offended everyone, but other countries, intimidated by her power, dared not speak out. If no one steps forward to fight back, other countries may very well have to give in.

Clearly, the University of Tokyo understands this perfectly well: they will help whoever wins.

It's that simple.

The University of Tokyo has waited seven long years for this moment. It is an opportunity that must be seized once in a lifetime, and it must stand up and take the lead in fighting back.

And coincidentally, the first J-36 fighter jet had already entered service, and yesterday's air combat exercise had achieved results far exceeding expectations. Now, everyone else seemed like easy prey. So, just one day later, on April 4th, the East directly announced that it would impose a 34% tariff on all imported goods from Argentina—not just one or a few categories, but all of them.

In short: All-in! Go all in! Go all in!

I'm just afraid that Ah Mei will suddenly change her mind. Just kidding, I've waited seven years for this moment, there's no way I'll let Ah Mei take back her fist.

The news caused a sensation around the world, and even Amei was stunned. How could Rabbit fight back?

Just yesterday, after Amei made her move, Dongfang remained silent. Not a single person in the world dared to step forward, which shows that everyone is terrified of Amei's shrewdness. No one dared to take the lead. If Dongfang hadn't intervened, Amei might have succeeded.

While other countries haven't said anything about the news of Tokyo University's counterattack today, they are secretly applauding it.

On that day, the domestic capital market was closed due to the short holiday, causing panic but also preventing any trading, allowing them to digest the sudden news. However, the stock market in Amelik plummeted that same day.

To be honest, the time window chosen above was very clever.

阿镁立卡那边宣布全覆盖guan税大战是镁东部时间4月2日星期三下午3点，也就是东八区4月3日星期四凌晨4点，这一时间节点的选择本身就会对A股、镁股乃至整个东南亚股市造成不对称打击。

因为镁股正常交易时段是镁东部时间上午9点30分至下午4点，扩展交易时段的盘前交易是镁东部时间上午4点至9点30分，盘后交易是镁东部时间下午6点至晚上8点。

这样一来，即使只考虑正常交易时段，镁股也需要承受4月2日周三下午3点至4点和4月4日周四、4月5日周五两个全天的冲击。

Only then can trading cease on weekends to absorb the impact.

Conversely, A-shares and H-shares only need to withstand the impact of one trading day on Thursday, April 3, followed by a three-day trading halt from April 4 to 6 for the Qingming Festival holiday to digest the negative news.

Yesterday, Thursday, April 3, A-shares opened lower but then rebounded significantly in the morning session.

The timing of the tax war, as seen in the case of Amei, shows that the Trump team initially did not consider the asymmetric impact of the tax war on major global stock markets, nor did they consider how to maximize the damage to the opponent's financial markets while minimizing the damage to their own markets through timing, and they did not even consider the possibility of a counterattack from the East.

If the goal is to inflict even greater damage on the asymmetric nature of the A-share market, then the US should have officially announced the launch of the tax war on Sunday afternoon Eastern Time, which is Monday morning East 8 Time.

This means that the A-share market will open in two or three hours and then suffer the first wave of panic selling, while North Magnesium will have an extra night to digest the panic, and may even have relatively stronger confidence in magnesium stocks due to witnessing the panic in the A-share market and other East Asian stock markets.

In contrast, the East's first round of countermeasures demonstrated a remarkably skillful timing.

没有选择在东八区时间4月3日当天马上公布，这显然是早已准备好的反制措施，而是选择在4月4日清明节东八区时间18点、镁东部时间早晨5点公布。

The aim was to avoid exacerbating financial market panic on April 3rd due to countermeasures. On the day when A-shares and H-shares were closed for three consecutive days while US stocks were trading, the announcement of countermeasures would only hit US stocks, but give the domestic stock market two days to digest and alleviate the situation.

The announcement was made at 5 a.m. Eastern Time, leaving A-Mei no time to issue a reassuring statement to stabilize market confidence.

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(End of this chapter)