Chapter 1019 – Visiting the Commonwealth

“You’re the most confident man I’ve ever met, though I don’t know where that confidence comes from, but it’s endearing.” Pamela Mountbatten wrapped her arms around her husband’s neck, if not for the fact that her children were present, she would be on a rocket right now.

One side of Alan Wilson’s trip was keen to visit the Commonwealth countries, to collude in tandem, er, to review traditional friendships. But mostly he came over to see his wife and children to be a good father, and husband, and brother-in-law ……

Is it too much for him to be concerned about Princess Margaret’s life out of love for the royal family, not in his personal opinion anyway.

Convincing Australia and Britain to take a united stance on the job, it was up to the Western Australian Regional Commissioner’s to convey the latest developments, and, raising his hand, Alan Wilson met with the other man at Mountbatten House.

“Permanent Undersecretary, I apologize for the traffic jam on the road, and I’m not unfamiliar with the road conditions coming to Mountbatten House.” Ekberg was sweating profusely, clearly jittery about keeping his top lieutenant waiting.

Allen Wilson made a face at his son, turned his head and inquired with a gentle nod, “What kind of car was Ekberg driving?”

“Uh, it’s a Holden.” Ekberg flinched, wondering why he was confronted with this question.

Holden is the pride of Oceania’s automobile industry. In 1948, the 48-215, the first self-produced automobile on the Australian mainland, was driven out of the Holden factory. The Holden logo is a red circular relief of a lion rolling a ball, a symbol of the powerful engines that Holden was known for forging.

Australian cars are similar to American cars in that they are large displacement gas guzzlers, which has a lot to do with the environment in which they live.

But as a British commissioner driving an Australian car, it?

“All the guests here ride in Mercedes, they’re all Rolls Royces.” Allen Wilson lit a cigar and threw the rest at Ekberg, “You do Holden, no wonder you’re stuck in traffic.”

“Well, you cut the crap too.” Pamela Mountbatten will understand, put down the youngest son to open his mouth, “Ekberg commissioner’s car will be given to me, originally Rover is considered more appropriate, but last year, Rover launched a new model of fame, do civil servants driving too luxurious, I think that the selection of a Jaguar to the commissioner as a means of transportation is more appropriate.”

“Our automobile industry has a problem, every brand to the high-end impact, mid-range models are not much, let alone low-end cars. Without a huge range of go-to models, the UK car industry is in danger. How much can the high end be sold again?” Alan Wilson said in exasperation, “If the Imperial Preference System is washed out, with the strong exchange rate of the British pound, I can’t even imagine what kind of astronomical price it will sell for when exported.”

There is no sufficient volume of models, the British automobile industry is certain to beat Japan and Germany. The reason why the sales volume of Japanese cars in the latter days was able to overwhelm German cars was also because Honda Toyota overwhelmed Germany in terms of volume-carrying models.

In any country, including Japan, the German trio can crush Toyota Honda’s high-end models, what Lexus insufficient production capacity, listen to the lying cost capable Japanese blow, sell but is not sell, find what reason. Play hunger marketing are not the German big three opponent.

German cars in the middle and high end is a steady pressure on the Japanese car, and the German car’s high-end car, here in the UK are lower than Land Rover Jaguar, which is very embarrassing, the German car is just a little higher than the Japanese car positioning, the total number of cars have been left behind by Japan, the United Kingdom, a bunch of positioning start and Porsche are similar to the car brand, the future will be what will be the end of the world?

However, the success of Japanese cars is not without pitfalls, the peak of Japan is also a blossoming country, many industries are in the lead, at least before the Plaza Accord is so.

By the Plaza Accord bloodletting of Japan is not so, in the previous generation downhill Japan, the entire national economy on the automobile industry has been thirty percent. That is to say, who want to be able to beat Japan in the automobile industry, the loss of automobiles as well as the derivatives of the materials, parts, paint the various industries of Japan, per capita income will certainly plummet.

Happy to bring a new car Ekberg, a grateful face to make a solemn guarantee, “will try to make Australia on the side of the United Kingdom, in fact, not against the United States, the Australians are still very brave.”

“As far as possible may not be enough. Of course I don’t know the specifics, but I hope you will.” Alan Wilson smiled and said, “Ike, it’s actually not bad for you to be a regional commissioner, the Mountbatten Group is right here and can give you a lot of convenience.”

Hit a slap to give a sweet date, what Allen Wilson said is actually not the truth, the headquarters of the Mountbatten Group actually has many, forced comparison is very much like the Wei Jin period of the five capitals system, the headquarters of Asia is in Malaya, the Kuching of East Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur of West Malaysia each have a headquarters.

The headquarters in Africa is in Northern Rhodesia, and the headquarters in North America is registered in Newfoundland, but the office is in Montreal, Canada. The Middle East is headquartered in Dubai, and of course we can’t forget London, the capital of the United Kingdom.

“Permanent Undersecretary, you wait for my good news and I will arrange a meeting with Australia.” Ekberg showed reliability.

Alan Wilson nodded and watched the other party leave before picking up a thermos for himself, “It’s a good time to take this opportunity to see if Australia treats the UK as it always has.”

“Where else are you going?” Pamela Mountbatten inquired softly, “How come Macmillan doesn’t come out himself.”

“Can a foreign minister do such a small thing? Jogging parallel to the earth? What minister would do such a thing.” Alan Wilson sighed, “It’s not like we, the underlings, are the ones who get things done, and people come out to reap the fruits of their labor.”

“Actually, what I want to ask is, are you sure about this diplomatic dispute with the United States?” Pamela Mountbatten looked at her husband with burning eyes, obviously wanting a correct answer.

“Nope. But sometimes victory is defeat and defeat is victory. If I can achieve results in Australia, after my trip to New Zealand and Canada, I will also visit the United States. Persuade the United States and the United Kingdom to take a common position and sanction the German biopharmaceutical companies.” Alan Wilson circled around and counted on informing his wife of his thoughts.

“The US won’t agree, and the more you go the greater the chances of failure.” Pamela Mountbatten shook her head, “I don’t know why you are dwelling on this matter, to do something that is doomed to fail.”

“Failure is victory, victory is failure, my dear, look long term to even exceed.” Alan Wilson laughed but did not answer, he would ask the United States on behalf of Britain to look at the special relationship between Britain and the United States and side with Britain in imposing sanctions on Germany.

This is not mentioned okay, mentioned the United States will be more for the German drugs into the U.S. market green light.

“If you have time, it’s better to focus on what’s going on with the automobile.” Alan Wilson saw his youngest son confused, backhanded his wife up and put her on his lap, “With the UK’s local manufacturing costs, car companies are still all rooted in high-end car manufacturing, the automotive industry is facing a rather dangerous situation. Labor costs have to be brought down, and the kids who went to Malaya in the first place are old enough to do some skilled work. It’s good to keep the high-end brands locally so that there is a division of labor.”

The traditional manufacturing industry is not very profitable, labor-intensive industries can be five percent profit would be good. High-end some of the industry profit is also less than ten percent, the United Kingdom’s automobile industry diversion is good, selected some car brands to go, the United Kingdom is also good.

To hold back the manufacturing country’s method is also simple, high-end manufacturing suppression, the lowest cost of raw materials to control the origin.

Just let the opponent in the middle and low end of the five to ten percent of the profits on the fight against the general manufacturing power has been enough.

The shipbuilding capacity of the three latter-day East Asian countries is horrible, right? Together they are not as profitable as the French LNG ship patent holder company.

The cost of each 170,000 cubic meters of LNG ship is about 200 million U.S. dollars, GTT charges patent license fee is not based on their own R & D costs, but directly charge five percent of the cost of each ship as a patent license fee, that is, about 10 million U.S. dollars.

And the profit of manufacturing LNG ships is about five to seven percent, and in a better case, there is still two percent left for the shipbuilding companies in East Asia.

So do not have to worry about the automobile industry transferred to Malaya will make the colony expansion, a little fluctuation in the market of raw materials, coupled with patent barriers enough to suppress the manufacturing industry in Malaya, there is no need to garrison that kind of simple and brutal approach.

Not to mention Malaya even if the production capacity of the Soviet Union is horrible, Allen Wilson is not afraid, to the profits of the Soviet Union industry, if the Soviet Union if there is a stock exchange, it is estimated that the king of the Soviet Union’s stock is vodka, and the white wine industry is sought after is a reason.

“I’m waiting for Marina to make me an offer to see how much Land Rover is willing to ask to sell.” Pamela Mountbatten nodded, then lowered her voice, “Darling, I’m recovering now.”

“That’s great news.” Allen Wilson, who had received the signal to ride the rocket, said with a tone of second-guessing.

Ackerberg arranged a meeting, Allen Wilson explained the current British foreign policy, for Australia’s concerns about diplomatic friction between Britain and the United States, he said that he did not deny that there is a certain amount of diplomatic friction, but the main now hostile in Germany and Iran two countries in the body, but also do not forget to Germany and Iran on the hat, say something about the ambitions of the Aryans and so on.

As for the deterioration of relations with the United States, Alan Wilson denied it, saying that Britain and the United States have no conflict, and his last stop on this trip was to go to Washington.

In the end, Australia, taking into account the sentiment that blood is thicker than water, formally announced before Alan Wilson’s departure that it was following up on its decision to sanction the German biopharmaceutical sector by issuing a ban on German biopharmaceuticals. Three days later, New Zealand announced that it was following suit, and before Allen Wilson arrived in Washington, Canada also announced that it was following suit with sanctions.

“At least now, the Commonwealth is still somewhat useful.” Allen Wilson walked out of the airport with a big smile on his face, mentally prepared for a gray face in the United States.