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"Eating and smashing pots, serving bowls and scolding mothers" is Gou!
Grassroots Terry Gou founded his "Foxconn Empire" step by step with the mainland's preferential support policies, and discerning people know that Foxconn and the mainland have always been mutually beneficial and win-win relations, but Gou taiming himself as the "food and clothing parents" of mainland workers, which is extremely ridiculous!
Recently, Gou Taiming is actively preparing to participate in the 2024 general election of Taiwan Province, in order to make more political capital, he even did not hesitate to completely tear off his mask and make enemies of the law, and also threatened that if the mainland insists on military unification, he will buy 80,000 robots to fight against us. But netizens saw his arrogant remarks but disdained: "Military nerd." ”
"Tasteless" Foxconn
Gou, who is over the age of antiquity, is a "resident guest" on the Forbes rich list, and as a self-made entrepreneur, he is a well-deserved "OEM king".
In 1950, Gou was born in Taiwan, his ancestral home was Jincheng, Shanxi, and his family was poor, he only completed his junior college studies and joined the work, working as an ordinary salesman in Fuxing Navigation Company.
At that time, the working conditions were very difficult, and Gou's co-workers complained about the noisy working environment day by day, but Gou Taiming was very unique in this group of people, and there was a calm of "what comes is safe".
But Gou doesn't think so, he doesn't complain because he knows that he won't be "imprisoned" at the bottom all the time, whenever a co-worker asks him: "How did you endure it?" ”
He always answered confidently: "I just endure it temporarily, and I still have to make a lot of money in the future!" Hearing him say this, the workers all laughed dismissively, and even ridiculed him: "Gou Fugui, don't forget each other!" ”
But I didn't expect that Gou Taiming was really not a casual person, at the end of the 70s, Gou Taiming tightly grasped the east wind of the times and took advantage of the trend.
With the 200,000 Taiwan dollars from his mother's turnover, he founded "Hon Hai Plastic Enterprise Co., Ltd.", and some partners couldn't bear the current downturn and left halfway, but Gou did not give up, but struggled to support a 70-square-meter factory and 15 workers alone.
At that time, black-and-white televisions began to rise in China, and Gou seized the opportunity to enter the production of TV buttons, and it was from here that his company gradually began to get out of trouble.
Later, his Hon Hai Co., Ltd. experienced several ups and downs, and Gou Taiming keenly shifted his main position to the OEM field of electronic products, and the Foxconn brand came into being in 1985.
Since he established the first Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, factories have sprung up all over the country, and indeed for so many years, Foxconn Technology has provided unstable jobs for workers on the mainland, which is an undeniable contribution.
But it should be recognized that Gou is a "businessman", not a "philanthropist", and he chose to set up factories across the country because the mainland has enough labor for him to make money and expand his business territory.
But Gou obviously did not recognize this, he once said: "Foxconn has provided millions of jobs to the mainland, this is giving the mainland food!" "But is that really the case? Just look at the tragic fall of Foxconn overseas.
In 2017, Gou threatened to bring tens of billions of dollars to the United States for dinner, and Trump danced happily when he learned about it, boasting that Haikou would give Gou more than $2 billion in tax relief.
The two hit it off, but in the end it ended awkwardly, and Gou returned to Qingdao with 46 lithography machines from the American factory. It turned out that these two "old traitors" released each other's pigeons, Gou's tens of billions of investment was actually only $2 billion, and Trump's tax cuts ended up only $80 million.
But Gou Taiming is still not dead, in order to prove his ability to "appreciate food", he went to India with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment to set up a factory, this time Gou Taiming fell not too ugly.
He thought he was going with his job, but India did not welcome him so much, but regarded him as a strong competitor and squeezed him jointly.
In addition, although India has the same labor dividend as us, their employees are far less down-to-earth than mainland employees, and inefficiency and strikes are common, so in July this year, Gou ended up losing India.
Gou ran for election
Recently, Gou Taiming ran for the next Taiwan general election with a high profile under the banner of "no integration in the opposition, cheap Lai Qingde".
The reason why Gou chose to participate in the election under such anxious election conditions is nothing more than two reasons: first, as he said, integrate the "non-green" camp and remove the DPP.
Another reason is that he is very well positioned for himself, in Gou's view, his management ability here and among the candidates is one of the best, and he has a feeling of ignoring Taiwan's political scene.
But in fact, Gou's accession not only cannot make Lai Qingde lose power, but will run counter to his declaration.
First of all, Gou is right that if you want to prevent the DPP from coming to power, the integration of non-green camps is the best way, and Taiwan has already had a trend of "blue and white" or "white and blue" before that, but Gou's addition has caused resistance to the cooperation between the two.
Now the three forces of the non-green camp are coming out together, not to mention that Gou Taiming will disperse the votes of Hou Youyi and Ke Wenzhe, and even increase the chances of the green camp to win over.
According to the current 6:4 vote support rate of the non-green camp and the green camp, this few 6 is divided by Hou Youyi, Ke Wenzhe, and Gou, even if one of them is far ahead, it is difficult to get more than 30% of the vote, and Lai Qingde "lying down to win" is almost suspenseful.
Therefore, Gou's constant claim to remove the "Democratic Progressive Party" is actually a "wedding dress" for him.
Of course, in this election, no matter who publishes a campaign manifesto, there is one theme, that is, "cross-strait relations." At present, the people on the island have been flustered by a series of provocative statements made by the independence faction.
This is also the reason why the DPP's vote support rate has frequently declined, and Gou's "riot operation" has undoubtedly pushed the possibility of cross-strait peaceful dialogue farther and farther.
Now he is clamoring in Taiwan's political arena with his huge assets, but he has forgotten where his assets come from, and instead uses "confrontation with the mainland" to make political capital.
Absurd statements
"I can't imagine what a disaster it will be for Taiwan if Gou becomes 'governor' one day!"
Taiwan's famous host Huang Zhixian did not shy away from preaching in an episode of the program, she believes that Gou Taiming is now in his seventies, the thinking of a businessman has been solidified, and he still has a long way to go when he thinks of becoming a politician.
In fact, her statement is not groundless, just look at Gou's absurd remarks in front of the media to know how outrageous he is.
He once threatened that if the PLA landed in Taiwan one day, he would use 80,000 robots to fight it, and then some netizens commented below: Gou Taiming has built factories in the mainland for many years, is it not clear about the strength of the PLA?
Indeed, when it comes to doing business, Gou Taiming is indeed an accomplished entrepreneur and big boss, but when it comes to cross-strait politics, the phrase "using robots to start a war" is too child's play.
As for the robots mentioned by Gou, they are most likely to be drones that can carry ammunition, and the mainland produces more robots of various types every year than the residents of Taiwan Province.
As a OEM giant, how much research and development can Gou provide to support this war?
Chongqing as an important industrial base, research proposed to build a "robot capital" strategy, after so many years of investment and research and development, Chongqing's robot industry has already formed a complete chain advantage, try to ask Foxconn what to fight with?
Moreover, if there is really a bad relationship between the two sides of the strait, even if Taiwan has a strong chip manufacturing capacity, but to produce robots can not be operated by chips alone, if the mainland cuts the supply of sensors to Taiwan, what should they do?
In addition to talking about using robots to fight, Gou also said that if he is elected, he will start developing nuclear power plants throughout Taiwan, and it has to be said that as a businessman, his thinking is too simple. Can nuclear industry technology be casually commercialized? Is it really appropriate to boast to voters about an intangible technology as a technology that has already been realized?
Written at the end:
Through his series of bewildered remarks and actions, in fact, Gou's position has long been clearly laid out; although he did not advocate independence in a clear-cut manner like Lai Qingde, he will not make any substantive contributions to the peaceful reunification of the two sides of the strait. Judging from Gou's trajectory of building factories around the world in recent years, the mainland is the soil on which he lives.
In recent years, the mainland's local industry has continued to rise, and Foxconn's existence in the mainland is the icing on the cake, but it is definitely not enough.