Its unique educational technology, military bases all over the world and omnipotent dollars are beyond the reach of other competitors.
Different from the simple middle and lower class Americans, the American elite knows that the dollar, high technology and military power are the foundation of his hegemony. Whoever shakes it will ask for it, no matter whether the challenger is an ally or an opponent.
The judicial department of the United States has used the long-arm jurisdiction of domestic laws to make many large multinational companies suffer. When a large company is accused of serious misconduct outside the United States-usually corruption or violation of US sanctions.
Once its executives fall into the American judicial system, it is the cheapest way for the parties and companies to pay a huge fine and plead guilty. After all, complicated, time-consuming and lengthy judicial administration, coupled with the detention of death row inmates in prisons,
Will make those pampered executives have to collapse and give in.
The following two situations can be seen.
Alstom France is a pioneer in the field of global transportation and power infrastructure. At its peak, Alstom had more than100000 employees worldwide, and China's CRH5 EMU had its own technology. 20 10 the U.S. department of commerce took the lead in tracing how Alstom obtained large orders through "improper" means. successive lawsuits and sanctions made Alstom exhausted, and Pieruzzi, vice president of international sales, and Lawrence Hawkins, vice president of Asia, were arrested one after another. Because he used the account of a bank in the United States to pay bribes to the account of Indonesian officials in the name of "consulting fees". Finally, under the sword of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Alstom pleaded guilty and was fined $772 million. Weakened, Alstom had to sell its assets to save itself, and finally sold its lucrative energy business (power generation and power grid) to General Electric Company of the United States for 65.438+0.24 billion euros.
Another case is the rape of Kahn.
Kahn served as French Finance Minister from 1997 to 1999, during which he presided over privatization. At that time, France was one of the fastest growing economies in the European Union. When the euro came out at the beginning of 1999, "sovereign countries" complained that they had lost their monetary rights. At that time, French Finance Minister Kahn replied: "No, the post-war monetary power is in the hands of the United States. After the euro comes out, we will work with our European partners to recover monetary sovereignty. " 20 1 1 year, IMF managing director Kahn was arrested and imprisoned at the American airport on suspicion of sexually assaulting a black waitress in a five-star Sofitel hotel. The US prosecutor subsequently accused him of sexual assault, illegal imprisonment and attempted rape.
But was finally released because of insufficient evidence. Later, it was discovered that this romantic French Jew was just a prostitute. This 32-year-old woman is a prostitute. She lied. Kahn later admitted moral defects but denied crimes, but the result was that he lost the opportunity to challenge Sarkozy as the managing director of IMF and the president of France.
It is worth mentioning that Lipski, the first vice-president of IMF and an American banker, temporarily took over Kahn's position. Lagarde, the official successor, is the first female IMF managing director. She studied in the United States for many years and served as an assistant to former US Secretary of Defense William Sebastian Cohen.