Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!-Chapter 439 - 296 Mutual Hurt (Two updates of 8000 words each)_2
Chapter 439: Chapter 296: Mutual Hurt (Two updates of 8000 words each)_2 Chapter 439: Chapter 296: Mutual Hurt (Two updates of 8000 words each)_2 While the world was fervently embarking on the research and development of Mechas, Jieke Group had also officially entered the international stage with this novel approach and was immediately greeted by international major players.
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Some countries friendly to Jieke Group openly recognized Jieke Group’s rule over Chan Country as legitimate internationally.
Neutral countries did not take a stand, while those harboring grievances against Jieke Group naturally chose to kick them while they were down.
Three days after the Jieke Group parade ended, ASEAN directly chose to make a move, announcing the expulsion of Chan Country from the ASEAN organization, effectively excluding Chan Country from the group and ceasing to include them in activities.
The so-called ASEAN is a regional international organization in Southeast Asia, primarily aimed at strengthening economic, trade, and commercial cooperation.
Before this, ASEAN consisted of ten countries: Chan Country, Siam, Temasek, Luzon, Jawa, Rou Fu, An Nan, Zhenla, Lancang, and Borneo.
The organization now indicating that they would not include Chan Country clearly targeted a specific entity.
On the same day, the Prime Minister of Japan, Tsunoshima Shouichi, made a statement, “Under Jieke Group’s rule, Chan Country has completely become an extreme Axis nation.
We will sever diplomatic ties with Chan Country and prohibit commercial and economic interactions.”
The spokesperson for the Beautiful Country was even more blunt, saying flatly, “Considering the current changes in the situation, President Lawrence signed an executive order on April 2, deciding to freeze 9.5 billion US Dollars in deposits at the Chan Country Central Bank.
He also allocated 9 billion US Dollars to compensate for our country’s material losses during the civil war in Chan Country, while the remaining 500 million US Dollars are transferred to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, to be used for humanitarian aid within Chan Country, but not through Jieke Group.”
This news immediately caused an uproar among the reporters below.
A reporter, unable to restrain himself, stood up and asked, “What right does the Beautiful Country have to freeze another country’s assets?”
With a smirk, the spokesperson said, “Our freezing of foreign assets is ‘justified by law,’ the 1977 laws grant the President ‘special economic powers,’ which allow the transfer of foreign frozen assets to our Federal Reserve Bank for other uses.”
A reporter from Bear Country stood up and scoffed, “To my knowledge, the reserves of Chan Country Central Bank in the Beautiful Country belong to all the citizens of Chan Country.
Such a unilateral agreement by President Lawrence of the Beautiful Country is contrary to international norms and laws.
In this world, no country has the right to decide to confiscate another country’s funds; the Beautiful Country should return the money to Jieke Group.”
“We, the Beautiful Country, do not recognize Jieke Group as the legitimate government of Chan Country.
The money belongs to the original government of Chan Country, which is a member of the Eight Nation Group.
As the leading member of the Eight Nation Group, my Beautiful Country has the right to dispose of these funds.”
With an attitude of a dead pig not fearing boiling water, the spokesperson from the Beautiful Country clearly intended to embezzle the funds and brazenly stated.
“If you wish to reclaim this money, then Jieke Group must acknowledge the contract debts signed by the former government of Chan Country with our country.
We provided successive large-scale loans and material resources to the government of Chan Country, among which military exportation alone amounted to 79 billion, all provided on credit.”
“Jieke Group must take on this debt and publicly apologize for the civil war in Chan Country; otherwise, we, the Beautiful Country, will never recognize the legitimacy of Jieke Group in Chan Country.”
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When this news crossed seas to arrive in Chan Country, other countries in Europe and America also followed suit, freezing the assets of Chan Country banks located in their territories.
“This is outrageous; it’s outright robbery, talking about 79 billion US Dollars of military hardware.
You sell arms on credit to the government of Chan Country to fight us, and now you want us to repay this military debt.
The world indeed has such shameless people.”
In the office of Jieke Group, Liu Yingying exploded with rage upon receiving the news, feeling deep anger at the shameless actions of the Beautiful Country.
“79 billion US Dollars, the military of the Beautiful Country sure dares to claim!
It seems they are leveraging our Jieke Group to clear their debts, knowing that a dead government of Chan Country won’t speak.”
Su Jie, with a mocking smile, patted Liu Yingying on the back and said, “The Beautiful Country has always been like this; they now face both military and moral failure.
It’s clear they do not want to see us prosper economically.
If you lose your cool over this, you would be playing right into their hands.”
“But what they’re doing is too much; that is clearly our money, much of it deposits from the citizens of Chan Country, and now it’s being blatantly seized by them.”
Liu Yingying was extremely reluctant, finding the Beautiful Country’s move utterly revolting.
“If others can celebrate the first of the month, we can make a big spectacle on the fifteenth!”
Su Jie tapped Liu Yingying’s head, chuckling, “I remember, domestically we have many oil and gas field companies invested in by Europe and America, it’s time we nationalized them.”
Chan Country is rich in oil and gas resources, with proven oil reserves of 3.1 billion barrels and natural gas reserves of 25400 billion cubic meters, ranking among the top ten natural gas reserves in the world.
According to statistics, the sector with the most foreign investment in Chan Country is the oil and natural gas industry, with a total of 184 projects, a total investment of 28.41 billion US dollars, accounting for more than 71% of total foreign investment, because at the time, Chan Country had no oil and gas extraction technology and had to rely on these foreign capitals.
Upon hearing Su Jie’s words, Liu Yingying’s eyes lit up immediately.
“I understand what to do now.”
Clamping her teeth, Liu Yingying rushed out energetically, determined to show Europe, America, and ASEAN a thing or two.
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The next day.
Jieke Group released an announcement, directly challenging the Beautiful Country.
“To maintain national basic livelihood and energy security, Chan Country, starting from today, will nationalize the assets of the following companies and take control: General Electric Company, Caterpillar Company, Chevron Oil Company, ExxonMobil, Royal Shell Oil Company, Total Gas Company, Sumitomo Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation…
All assets of the above companies within the territory of Chan Country are nationalized effective immediately.”
At the moment the news was released, Jieke Group had already moved into action, soldiers occupied these companies to take control and seal them off to prevent intentional damage.
These were now the assets of Jieke Group and naturally had to be well protected.
Following the announcement by Jieke Group appearing in international circles, it shocked the world.
A huge crowd treated it as a spectacle and discussions were incredibly heated.
The companies that were named were dumbfounded, “Damn, where’s my money.”
It was clearly the military-industrial complex of the Beautiful Country lending funds for arms to the Chan Country Government, and if Chan Country was wiped out and couldn’t pay back, they would seize Chan Country Central Bank’s money to cover some of their losses.
Now, the battle had unexpectedly spread to them.
Both the Beautiful Country and Jieke Group’s audacious moves stunned the entire world.
It looked as if both entities were harming each other, stabbing each other and letting the blood flow, all in the business battlefield; this level of shamelessness was unprecedented.
It was like two villains brawling shirtless, using all tactics like throwing lime, kicking the groin, gouging out eyes; completely devoid of any principles or morality.
After Jieke Group announced the seizure of the oil companies’ assets, now it was Beautiful Country’s turn to panic, as its Commerce and Energy Departments urgently issued a statement together.
“Our businessmen’s assets in Chan Country are legal, primarily aimed at helping Chan Country develop oil and gas resources, promote Chan Country’s international trade, and ensure the stability of its energy supply.
Jieke Group has no right to seize them; this is a violation of international norms.”
The oil companies that had their assets seized in Chan Country were frantic; these companies held significant power and wanted to retrieve their assets, even mobilizing the Energy and Commerce Departments of the Beautiful Country.
“According to our country’s special Economic Law Section 283, we have the right to seize all foreign assets for emergency use.”
Jieke Group responded succinctly.
If you asked when this legal regulation was enacted, sorry, it just passed in Congress yesterday.
As for those foreign oil company lobbyists pleading for mercy, they were completely ignored, not taking them seriously at all.
These foreign oil companies were deeply frustrated, grinding their teeth in anger.
Even as frustrated as they were, they couldn’t do anything to Jieke Group; had it been other powers or even countries, they might dare to make some moves.
But this was Jieke Group; no one wanted to test their notorious commercial warfare tactics, fearing they might send out Genetic Warriors to physically eliminate the competition.
In the end, the foreign oil and natural gas companies could only swallow their miseries, tearfully stripped of their wealth, and fled Chan Country in disarray, their assets all becoming the spoils of war for Jieke Group.
