Chapter 985 I Want to See the President!

Regarding the grievances between Lu Zhou and Exxon Mobil, it can be said to be an old story.

In fact, if the paper hadn't been turned up again, this matter would have passed as it had passed.

But the problem is that the paper was not only found out, but also turned from worthless to a key to a trillion-dollar market...

the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

An office in the White House.

Pushing away the assistant who tried to stop him, Woods walked into the office quickly, put his hands on the table, stared at the White House Chief of Staff Kevin sitting across the desk, and said word by word.

"I want to see the president!"

Looking at Woods standing in front of the desk with a headache, Kevin stopped the pen in his hand and said with a sigh.

"The president is not in the White House right now. I'm afraid I don't have time to see you. It's the same with me. I will pass on your request to His Excellency the President, if your request is within reasonable limits."

Exxon Mobil is one of the donors who provide funds for their party. Although they may not necessarily follow the advice of the donor's father, if it is not necessary, no one will want to have trouble with the green Franklin...

Seeing that the chief of staff didn't pay much attention to his speech, Woods took a deep breath, stared at him and continued speaking quickly.

"Listen, the patent of the lithium-air battery originally belonged to us, but they used disgraceful means to snatch what originally belonged to us from us! This is Chiguoguo's commercial fraud!"

Even though he has been in the political arena for so many years, he has cultivated a face like a city wall, but listening to Wu Ci's rhetoric, several black lines still appeared on Kevin's head.

Even commercial fraud has come out...

This patent transfer contract is written so clearly in black and white, can someone else force you to sign this contract?

"So what do you want me to do? Convince the President and Congress to change the law?"

Woods opened his mouth and couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

In fact, he didn't think of any good way.

Before coming here, the salesman of ExxonMobil has gone to Shanghai several times, and even paid 10 times the price that Xingkong Technology bought the patent from them with the help of a shell company, but it still failed Buy back the patent for that caged carbon molecule...

Looking at the silent Woods, Kevin sighed and said, "Perhaps you should think carefully before coming to my place."

Seeing that the chief of staff of Mr. President didn't seem to intend to help him, Woods took a deep breath, and continued with the tough look on his face, staring into his eyes.

"Listen, how important is the lithium-air battery technology? I believe I don't need to say more? Because of the lithium-sulfur battery, our new energy industry has already lagged behind Huaguo by a large margin. If we let them Master the lithium-air battery technology, and we will fall into the abyss of eternal doom. Do you understand what I mean?"

"The patent may only be more than 20 years old, but as long as they lie on our body and keep sucking blood, and then use the nutrients they sucked from us to cultivate their own research and development capabilities, we will never lose the opportunity to surpass them, and we will always lose them. Twenty years! I can only continue to pay for my own backwardness! Just like the dilemma faced by the people of Huaguo in the semiconductor industry!"

"In order to avoid falling into this abyss of eternal doom, no matter what method is used, we must do something!"

Kevin frowned slightly.

Although in his opinion, the CEO of ExxonMobil was just venting his anger at being frustrated by the Chinese company, but one sentence caught his attention.

If Huaguo continues to lead in the new energy industry, it will definitely not be a good thing for the United States.

Especially, when the people of Huaguo are holding the trump card of controllable nuclear fusion...

Just when Kevin was thinking about how he should report this matter to His Excellency the President, the door of the office suddenly opened.

The rude opening of the door interrupted Woods' chatter, and a man in a plaid shirt walked in quickly, speaking in almost the same tone.

"I want to see the president!"

Kevin's expression was a little weird, he glanced at Musk standing at the door, and said after he calmed down.

"About half an hour ago someone said the same thing as you, why don't you... discuss it in private first?"

Musk looked at Woods standing in the office, and after thinking about who this person was for a while, he still couldn't remember, so he took a deep breath and looked at Kevin and continued.

"Listen, no matter what this gentleman said, what I'm going to say next is a very important thing, important enough for you to put down what you're doing now, and wait for me to say something—"

Kevin: "Let me take a guess first, is it related to new energy?"

Musk froze for a moment, then snapped his fingers.

"That's right! Or to be more precise, lithium-air batteries! But if you have followed the news recently, you should know what those damn Chinese people have done! They put lithium-air batteries and wireless charging, two irrelevant Technology bundled together and roguelike forcing us to accept their standards...it's just, like..."

Holding his breath in his throat, Musk opened and closed his mouth and struggled for a while before finding an accurate set of words to spit out the emotion that was suffocated in his throat.

"...It's like forcing us to eat shit!"

"puff!"

Woods, who was standing next to him, almost couldn't hold back, and was accidentally amused by this metaphor, because this funny expression really looked like he had eaten something that shouldn't be eaten.

It wasn't until the other two people in the office looked at him that Woods realized his gaffe for a moment, coughed dryly, and put on a serious expression.

"Sorry...I sympathize with what happened to you."

Musk opened his mouth, wanting to continue to say something.

But at this moment, Kevin who was sitting behind the desk pushed away the chair and stood up.

"Okay, gentlemen, that's the end of today's meeting. I have a very important meeting to be held in a while, and it is impossible to discuss with you endlessly."

Glancing at Woods, then at Musk, he held his breath and thought for a few seconds before continuing.

"I probably understand what you want to express. Starry Sky Technology is a threat. Am I right?"

Musk and Woods lowered their heads vigorously and said through gritted teeth.

"That's right, not just a threat, their existence is simply a cancer!"

"Yes, I must add, shameful thief! Thief!"

"Okay, gentlemen, the White House will take this matter seriously!" Kevin nodded with a serious expression, "We will let the Ministry of Commerce seriously investigate the patent acquisition case six years ago, as well as the alleged illegal use and improper use of patents in the SH standard. The terms of the competition, if the situation is true, we will give you a satisfactory answer!"

Hearing this sentence, Musk finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although such a result is not 100% satisfactory, it is at least 80% satisfactory.

As long as the Ministry of Commerce can label Xingkong Technology as a suspected monopoly, most of the problems can be easily solved.

After all, the Commerce Department's antitrust investigation is no joke.

As long as they are targeted by those people, even Xingkong Technology will have to shed a layer of skin...

Musk is convinced of this.

...

The meeting is over.

Barely getting a fairly satisfactory answer, Woods walked out of the White House mansion with a tired face, and got into the black limousine at the door.

Sitting opposite him, a man in a black suit asked in a calm voice.

"How's it going?"

Seeming to be a little afraid of this man, Woods was not as aggressive as he was in the chief of staff's office before, but said in a reserved tone.

"The White House seems to have realized the importance of the problem. They plan to launch an antitrust investigation on Xingkong Technology. I just saw the CEO of Tesla...you asked him to come?"

"No." After casually turning to the driver and nodding to the driver, indicating that it was time to drive, Lawrence continued to focus on the CEO sitting opposite him, "I didn't instruct him to do anything, but obviously they did. Made the right choice.”

Woods frowned, and continued: "Are you so optimistic about Tesla's charging pile business in China? With all due respect, although the market in China is huge, this kind of public utility related to national security...even if they are willing to do it. Some changes will be made to open up to private companies, but it may not allow a foreign-funded company that fails to pass the political review to control Shanghai’s power output ports.”

"Mr. Woods, I ask you to think about a question." Lawrence smiled indifferently, and said in a relaxed tone, "If the White House changes every four years, how can we ensure that each term of the president is able to take care of him?" Our good man."

Woods frowned.

"This is a technical question. First of all, we have to conduct research on voter support in each state, through—"

"It's not as complicated as you think."

Lawrence shook his head, and just raised two fingers, as if gesticulating a V representing victory, and waved lightly in front of the CEO of Mobil.

"To sum up, just hedge your bets."

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