Du Mu was a businessman. As a businessman, he did not like politics becoming involved in business, but there was no helping it. The whole world was like this; politics was bound to interfere with business.
As for the free market promoted by the West, even Du Mu himself knew it was bullshit. Western countries, even the United States and Europe between themselves, had countless shady dealings.
Du Mu was actually filled with awe toward China, because whether from its history or its modern era, one could see that this country was truly something else.
It had to be said that, as the only civilization in the world with five thousand years of uninterrupted heritage, this country possessed a unique spirit the Western world had never been able to imagine, just as they could not understand why ordinary Chinese people thought the way they did.
But the many miracles this country had accomplished had already proven one thing: everyone who underestimated it had paid the price. Du Mu absolutely did not dare underestimate it now, but he could not make the decision either.
He could only sort out these issues first and discuss them at today's board meeting.
When Du Mu was awakened, the two chairmen in North America were also awakened: Paul Clay and Omar Ishrak. The former was Qualcomm's chairman, while the latter was Intel's chairman.
Although lithography machines seemed to have little to do with them, the connections involved were actually extensive. To say nothing else, when Qualcomm supplied its products every year, it had some say in which company's chips many Chinese manufacturers would use.
Of course, the foundries negotiated with Qualcomm, but now that China had developed new lithography machines, it became crucial which company their foundries would choose.
To say nothing else, there was