152: Chapter 152 Delisting, Glorious Independence

The deadline set by the Eagle Country for Huayao Communications quickly arrived.

The day had finally come for Bai Jingqing to make a decision.

A large number of SWAT officers arrived from the Eagle Country's side,

surrounding Huayao Communications' US branch so tightly that not even a drop of water could trickle through.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, James Smith, arrived in person.

He walked into the campus of Huayao Communications' US branch,

surveying the surroundings.

He was full of ambition,

feeling that this place would soon belong to the Eagle Country,

his heart filled with immense excitement.

At that moment, the head of Huayao Communications' US operations was on the phone with Bai Jingqing,

asking for his final decision.

James Smith stepped forward then,

shouting loudly with a face full of joy, "Kid from the Dragon Country,

it's Judgment Day.

You must make a decision now.

Either choose to sell Huayao Communications to the Eagle Country,

handing over all of Huayao Communications' data to us,

and let us conduct an audit!"

Bai Jingqing heard this clearly on the other end of the line.

This was something he would absolutely never do.

No matter what, he could not betray his country's core interests and information.

James Smith continued to shout, "Or you can delist,

completely withdrawing from the Eagle Country's mainland.

But that's not the end of it.

After you leave our Eagle Country soil,

you will also face comprehensive sanctions we will impose on Huayao Communications.

You won't be able to have any cooperation with any Eagle Country enterprise,

nor can you cooperate with any enterprise from our partner nations."

Bai Jingqing sighed.

If they did this,

it would be difficult to re-enter the Eagle Country market.

Because they pursued a cost-performance route,

the prices of Huayao Phones sold in the Eagle Country were relatively low.

Huayao Communications had lost a lot of money during this period.

Of course, with the global market as a guarantee,

losing this small amount of money

did not make Bai Jingqing feel distressed.

It was just that if they truly withdrew from the American market like this,

he was unwilling.

But no matter how unwilling he was, there was no other way.

"Delist."

In the end, Bai Jingqing helplessly announced this decision over the phone.

When James Smith heard those words,

his expression changed instantly.

He was a 'China Hand',

quite familiar with the Chinese language,

so he naturally knew what those words meant.

It was just that the decision Bai Jingqing made felt somewhat unbelievable to him.

If they chose to delist,

Huayao Communications would face comprehensive sanctions from the Eagle Country on a global scale.

No enterprise could possibly withstand that!

And since the other party was a high-tech enterprise,

how could he possibly bypass the Eagle Country

and continue to develop new processors, new chips, and new phones?

He said with a somewhat distorted face, "Since you've decided to delist,

then be prepared for our sanctions!

Now pack your things and get out!"

With that, he walked away without looking back,

while the surrounding SWAT officers supervised Huayao Communications as they began moving out of the Eagle Country.

...

Meanwhile, the Dragon Country officials took no other action

other than issuing another statement

expressing their dissatisfaction with the Eagle Country.

When other countries saw that Huayao Communications had actually lost its struggle with the Eagle Country government,

and that the Dragon Country officials hadn't stepped in to say anything,

they also began to harbor similar thoughts,

wanting to force Huayao Communications out of their own markets

to support their own domestic Mobile Communications industries.

Who would be willing to leave such an important industry as Mobile Communications in the hands of a foreign enterprise?

Having one Apple was already enough for them to handle,

and they were truly unwilling to have another Huayao.

But when they thought about doing so,

the citizens of their countries were the first to disagree.

In these countries,

the leaders hadn't thought things through.

In the Eagle Country,

Huayao had no way to fight the Eagle Country government

because TikTok hadn't completely spread across the Eagle Country yet,

so they couldn't broadcast their own opinions.

The people of the Eagle Country could only believe the official narrative.

But in those other countries where Huayao Communications had already spread TikTok,

TikTok was Huayao's most powerful weapon.

They only needed to insert some videos into the TikTok video stream that incited the public to oppose the national policy,

and the citizens would easily be incited to go against their government.

Ultimately, other countries had no way to completely clear out Huayao Communications,

so Huayao Communications' position in the global market—excluding the American continent—remained very stable.

Bai Jingqing didn't need to worry too much.

After Huayao Communications delisted from the American continent,

Bai Jingqing quickly made his next major decision: to spin off honor phones as an independent entity.

From then on, honor phones would have absolutely nothing to do with Huayao Communications.

They were two completely different companies,

and the two would no longer have any economic or technical dealings.

The first thing Honor did after becoming independent from Huayao

was to list in the Eagle Country,

and it soon took the lead by releasing its first new model after independence in the Eagle Country—the honor 10.

This phone featured a 5.84-inch LCD screen.

Its primary colors were Phantom Black, Seagull Gray, Phantom Purple, Phantom Blue, and Lily of the Valley White.

It used a pixel camera module with a 24-megapixel monochrome plus 16-megapixel color dual-camera setup on the rear.

It also supported professional photography, time-lapse, portrait mode, and other photography modes.

It had a 24-megapixel front-facing camera

and was equipped with a 3400 mAh high-capacity battery.

The configuration of this phone was very competitive for this era,

especially in terms of photography,

where its pixel count even surpassed 99% of the phones on the market.

However, there was one very mysterious point about this phone.

Its processor was only listed as an "octa-core processor,"

without specifying the exact model.

In reality, the processor used in the original honor 10 was the Kirin 970 processor.

At this time, it was very close to the next generation, the Kirin 980—a legendary processor—

and various manufacturing processes were becoming increasingly mature.

There was also a significant leap in performance,

even leading most of the phones currently produced by Huayao.

Of course, Huayao was Huayao, and Honor was Honor.

It was just an unknown octa-core processor.

Who said I was using the Kirin 970?

I have no relation to Huayao,

so don't talk nonsense.

And so, the honor 10 was launched in the Eagle Country as the first phone after Honor's independence.

In the independent Honor,

Zhao Ming remained the President of Honor,

responsible for all of Honor's affairs.

Over the next few months,

Honor held many more launch events,

releasing various new products,

including the Honor V9, Honor X, and so on.

No one knew where these phones came from,

while Honor insisted on claiming they were independent innovations.

However, during the launch events for these phones and products,

Zhao Ming frequently made slips of the tongue: "Our Hua... our Honor uses..."

"Our competitor Huawei uses basically the same configuration as us,

though we have our own unique optimizations,

striving to take down our competitors, to take down Apple!"

"The Huayao V9's... no, the Huawei V9..."

"Ah, no, that's not right either, the Honor V9..."

Even in the appearance of most of the phones Honor subsequently released,

one could find traces of previous Huayao Phones.

They looked like normal iterations of previous honor phones,

with the design language being basically similar

and consistently inherited.

By this time, everyone understood.

The so-called independence of Honor

was actually just to better sell in the Eagle Country.

They couldn't help but admire Huayao's approach—cutting off its own arm to survive.

This was indeed something an average person could not do.

Netizens joked one after another: "Oh, what Mom and Dad gave me is neither too much nor too little."

"When Zhao Ming got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, he found another new blueprint pushed through the crack in the door."

"Don't disbelieve it, our 'blueprints through the door crack' technology is truly self-developed."

"I don't know where you bought your door,

how can it sprout blueprints by itself?"