Chapter 1599

"Simon, I'm surprised. Haven't you been increasing your investment in China in recent years? Why are you suddenly interested in Southeast Asia?"

Washington.

In the new week after Easter, Simon flew to the capital on the east coast to personally communicate with Clinton's visit to Vietnam in August. After busy business during the day, there is another private dinner at the White House in the evening.

The question is not about the president and his wife, but Al Gore, who is devoted to the presidential election.

Because the strong candidates of both parties in the United States are popular, which is different from the later entanglement that the presidential candidates of all parties were not determined until June and July. As early as March 14, the new presidential candidates of the democratic and Republican parties in the United States were completely finalized. The Democratic Party is Al Gore and the Republican Party is George W. Bush.

In addition, among many independent candidates, it is worth mentioning that Ralph Nader, a third party quietly supported by the Westeros system, is the Green Party candidate.

Simon was not interested in the extreme left independent candidate nicknamed "Nader fighter" and privately supported each other for only one reason. He copied the routine of the 1992 general election and asked Nader to share Al Gore's vote and disguised himself as Bush's assistant.

In the family restaurant on the second floor of the White House.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Gore are in pairs. Simon is not alone this time, but with grace Clapp. The privilege of a big man, even if he brings his lover to the dinner, the other two pairs are enthusiastic, no matter what they think.

In private, he spared no effort to drag Gore's hind legs. At present, even in the face of Gore's obvious and attentive inquiry, Simon didn't feel any guilt. He took a sip of the red wine that grace had personally added for him, smiled and said, "these two things don't conflict. Al, as a businessman, of course, I have to strive to explore every potential market."

"Yes, globalization," Gore said with an impeccable smile, admiring the intimacy between westero and the female leader of the fashion circle, glanced at Clinton on the other side, and then said: "if I am lucky to be Bill's successor, globalization will certainly become a key issue during my term of office."

A short sentence shows Gore's Eq.

There is no doubt that Gore wants to be the next president. However, if he directly says "if I become the president", it will inevitably make the current president who is still sitting in the restaurant feel uncomfortable, so he replaced it with "Bill's successor".

Then there is the hint of promoting globalization, which is a promise to Simon.

It's a pity that EQ doesn't have much effect on people sitting here. Clinton will not forget the fact that he is getting farther away from his vice president because of Gore's euphemism, and the other party has selected Joe Lieberman, the first Democratic senator to publicly criticize him, as his running mate. Simon will not promise to change his strategy of supporting George W. Bush because of Gore's hint.

Simon still clearly remembers that at the same White House dinner last year, the Clintons did not invite the gores, but Simon went to the gores' reception later.

Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that the gores are likely to squeeze in tonight's dinner, which can be regarded as consuming the last love of working with Clinton in the past eight years, just to meet Simon and win more support.

The main reason is that Simon only plans to stay in Washington for one day this time. He won't have time to go to Gore's house tomorrow night.

In fact, if he is sharp enough, through these small details, Gore should be able to understand Simon's potential alienation from him.

You know, in the recent support rate survey, Gore's 56% support rate is 17 percentage points higher than George W. Bush, who has only 39% support rate. The advantage is very obvious, which is almost recognized by many people as the next president of the United States.

Under normal circumstances, in that case, Simon should take the initiative to ask the three parties to contact each other during his day in Washington, even if he does not put aside the current president and his wife to contact Gore alone.

Simon didn't do that.

Of course, Simon doesn't worry about anything. Compared with the Clintons who can continue their political influence for more than a decade, the failure of this presidential election basically means the end of Gore's political life. Since there is not much residual value, there is nothing to pretend.

As for Gore's reversal of George W. Bush's black swan event, which is different from the original time and space, with the help of the Westeros system, it is true, Simon recognized.

However, not to mention that this probability is very small. Even if it does happen, Gore will know Simon's real tendency in this election in the future, and it is impossible to make much action against the Westeros system in the future.

After all, elections are followed by elections, followed by elections. Elections are endless, and capital exists forever. Capital can challenge the spokesmen elected by capitalist countries, if not once, twice, while the spokesmen elected by capitalist countries can only make capital difficult for eight years at most.

Yes, one side is "challenging", which can end the political life of the other side. On the other side, it can only be "making things difficult", and its lethality is similar to a child's prank.

In the final analysis, capital is the master in capitalist countries.

Hillary actually resented the gores who had been forced in. She was also running for the Senate in New York this year. She wanted to discuss how to cooperate closely with the young tycoon. Some things were not suitable for the gores, At present, we can only discuss some public topics: "Simon, I don't quite understand that Singapore, Malaysia or Thailand are nothing. Why do you seem to value Vietnam more?"

There is no need to hide some ideas. Simon frankly said: "compared with Singapore and other countries that have experienced a certain degree of development, in my opinion, Vietnam with a GDP of only $30 billion is like a piece of white paper, and this country has a population of 80 million and a huge cheap labor resource, which is enough for us to paint according to our own wishes."

Mrs. Gore, who didn't speak much in most cases, opened her eyes slightly and finally couldn't help interrupting: "Simon, seriously, it's Vietnam. Do you really think, um, you can paint as much as you like?"

Simon glanced at the second lady, who had worked hard for her husband's political career for decades, but finally failed with her husband, and said with a smile: "Mary, there is a saying in China called 'sugar coated shells', do you know?"

Mary Gore was born in a wealthy family in Washington. After she married Al Gore in 1970, she basically engaged in the kind of life in which Robin white played Mrs. Dongmu in house of cards. Of course she knew a certain phrase and nodded: "of course."

"The Vietnam War was an eternal pain for the union," Simon said. "However, in my opinion, the way the union tried to conquer Vietnam by war was completely wrong."

"You mean," said Mary Gore, "we should use sugar coated shells?"

"That's right," Simon said "A big reason why the Soviet Union collapsed is that their citizens found that there was a growing gap between their lives and ours in the West. People always instinctively yearned for a better life. When the top level of the Soviet Union could not bring them such changes, but became worse and worse, they would naturally abandon their own government. Similarly, for Vietnam, if we had adopted the economic policy Economic means may be another outcome. "

When Simon finished, grace unconditionally agreed with him, and the man nodded slightly. The other three didn't refute for a moment. Instead, Clinton had no scruples and said with a smile: "Simon, you think too simple about Vietnam. In those years, North Vietnam was a staunch ally of the Soviet Union, and it was not so easy to win over through economic means."

Simon did not have any mind to tangle with the bad debts of Vietnam in that year, and said: "maybe not in that year, but now, it must be no problem. According to the information I got, Vietnam will also determine the national policy of substantially opening up its economy next year. This is our opportunity."

This time, everyone nodded.

Al Gore thought a little and said, "Simon, if I guess right, in addition to the economic layout, you may have the intention to contain its northern neighbor through Vietnam, right?"

Simon shook his head without thinking: "this is what your politicians in Washington need to consider. I just do what a businessman should do."

Clinton then chuckled, "Oh, Simon, I don't think the world will think you're just a businessman."

Simon smiled and looked over. "So, bill, what am I?"

"Super capitalists," Clinton said without thinking and with a half true joke: "now, even some of us hope to get your help."

"That's for sure," Simon said. "As a whole, we need to help each other."

So the topic was cleverly turned by Clinton to the ongoing 2000 general election.

First, Hillary Clinton made a face-to-face statement of some policies she would implement if she was elected to the Senate of New York state. Of course, it is related to the Westeros system, such as further strengthening support for the Internet industry and liberalizing the regulation of the media industry.

These Simon read the material in advance.

In return, Simon also made it clear what support he would give Hillary, and even went further, suggesting that one day in the future, it is not impossible for a couple president to appear in the Federation.

Then gore.

Since the Democratic Party is still a staunch faction on the surface, the Westeros support for Gore, the Democratic candidate, is also very big.

However, the related operations are very skilled.

For example, in the doomed blue state, or the iron red state, California, New York, Texas and so on, the Westeros system has spared no effort to invest resources for Gore.

Because no matter how these states operate, the results will not change.

The key is the swing states such as Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, which is the key to the operation of Westeros system.

Recently, Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate quietly supported here, has been arranged a series of election processes in Florida. In short, prying away one vote is one vote.

You know, in the 2000 general election, the key Florida, George W. Bush only led Gore by a mere 500 votes. This time, on the basis of the past, if Ralph Nader can pull 10000 or even thousands of votes originally belonging to gore in Florida because of the arrangement here, there will be no more suspense about George W. Bush's victory.

This precision surgical operation, at least for now, has obviously not been found.

Gore just sincerely hoped that Simon would give him more support at the two media levels of TV and Internet. He also put forward some clear requirements and made some promises again. Simon pretended to think a little and promised one by one.

As for how much will be cashed in the specific operation process, who knows.

After dinner, it was already ten o'clock at night.

When the car left the White House, Simon felt the woman close to him, put his arm around him, smiled and asked, "how does it feel to have dinner with the Fuehrer?"

Grace whispered, "what a fake."

Simon said: "politics is a show. Since it's a show, it's certainly not too true."

"I mean..." grace looked up and glanced at someone slightly. "You are much more fake than them and tell a lot of lies."

Simon was still very interested. When he heard the woman say this, he immediately pretended to pull his face down: "he said that about me. It seems that we should clean up later."

Grace was happy and not afraid. Instead, she looked forward to it. There was a little more water in her eyes: "OK."

Simon immediately disliked it again: "it's so boring. You should pretend to be afraid."

Grace nodded her head like a little girl: "Mm-hmm."

Still insincere, Simon put his arm around him and lifted it decisively and took a light stroke.

Grace gave a little cooperation, leaned closer to the man and said, "for example, you're obviously lying about Vietnam."

"Oh, do you think they see it?"

"I don't know," grace shook her head gently. "But I don't think so. I can see that because you are my man."

Simon, um.

Grace was actually very curious. She looked up and saw that the man didn't explain, so she stopped asking. Anyway, what he wants to do is right with her.

So he took the initiative to change the topic, which was still deliberately provocative: "speaking of Southeast Asia, Jenny mentioned to me in a private chat that you were in Kuala Lumpur a few days ago, 45 women in three days, so powerful?"

Simon didn't count at that time. He subconsciously asked, "45, is there so many?"

Grace raised a pair of slender plain hands and broke her fingers in front of the man: "26 models from China, Japan and South Korea and 19 South Korean actresses add up to a total of 45. Tut, an average of 15 a day. If you count it like this, you can have, uh, more than 5000."

Simon wants to deny it.

Men must not be too frank in front of women.

However, it seems that in those three days, I was busy during the day and not idle at night. Whether it was deep ploughing or shallow ploughing, I really... Tasted all of them.

Seeing that the women around him were still staring at him, Simon simply said, "it's really too much. I decided to have a rest tonight."

Grace smiled and begged for mercy: "no, I'm wrong."

Simon looked up slightly and turned aside to be a male chauvinist: "it's not sincere at all. Think about how to make up for it with action?"

Grace climbed over like a cat: "recently, the girls in all sub competition areas around the world have been selected. Let me help you gather 45 more?"

"HMM."

"Too few. You can't have 90. Can you stand it?"

"Woman, are you questioning me?"

"Well, I'm wrong again. I apologize." Grace posted a note to the man: "then I'll help you choose. This time, um, for a change, we all want western girls. How about it?"

"I forgive you for your understanding."

"Ha ha."