Lotte is one of the world's top 500 enterprises in South Korea, which has a wide range of business in China. However, Lotte Group recently made an issue on its own, that is, it provided a golf course for the South Korean government to deploy the Sade system. The Sade system is an anti missile system that China, Russia and other countries are very opposed to. Its deployment in South Korea is not conducive to our country, so it is strong by our country Strongly opposed, but why should an enterprise design political affairs?
Why did Sade use happy land?
In July last year, the South Korean Ministry of Defense announced that it would deploy Sade in the south-east of South Korea in the north of gyeongshang. However, after the announcement of the first site selection, South Korea's opinion polls showed that the opposition was ebbing and waning, and even melon farmers broke out large-scale protest demonstrations.
After that, the South Korean government announced at the end of August last year that it would carry out investigation and evaluation on three other places. In the end, they chose the golf course, which is also located in Xingzhou County, only tens of kilometers away from the first site, because of its high terrain.
According to the official statement, it is more than 200 kilometers away from Seoul and can cover the South Korean capital. However, in the eyes of Uncle Dao, the real consideration is: first, to cover the two bases of US troops stationed in South Korea while realizing their so-called "try not to stimulate China"; second, this is the base of South Korea's conservative forces, park Geun hye's hometown is nearby, which is the basic plate of the conservative forces and the far right forces. Deployed here, not only will there not be much opposition within the far right forces, but those who oppose thad have nothing to say.
Another reason is that Lotte Group itself.
Once thad enters South Korea, China will not rule out "quasi breaking diplomatic relations" with South Korea
Heavy pressure
As one of the world's top 500 and South Korea's five largest groups, Lotte has great interests in both South Korea and China. But they are under pressure in several ways recently.
First of all, according to Korean media reports, although Lotte duty-free shop is the largest duty-free shop chain in Asia, in order to get more privileges of duty-free shops, Lotte was involved in the case of Cui shunshi and was under threat from the South Korean authorities.
There may be two news reports that we have not noticed: last July, the daughter of Lotte's founder was arrested for her involvement in 'huge amount of funds and misappropriation of company money'; Two months later, shortly after the new site was located at the golf course, South Korean media reported that the central district attorney's office of Seoul applied for an arrest warrant for Xin Dongbin, the president of Lotte and the son of the group's founder, because he was suspected of embezzling huge amounts of money and violating trust responsibilities.
Secondly, although Rakuten is huge in size, they are not Korean enterprises of pure blood, but Japanese Korean overseas Chinese founded in Japan and then returned to China for development. Most of the actual managers are Japanese. Why did the South Korean government choose Lotte instead of Samsung and LG's land deployment Sade? Therefore, not only the military pressure, but also Japan may have played a huge role in this.
Similarly, with the escalation of the situation on the peninsula, the conservative forces and public opinion in South Korea have also exerted pressure on Lotte, raising the issue to the level of "patriotism". A few days ago, the media in South Korea have been discussing a question: if Lotte agrees to hand over the land, should there be some compensation for this "patriotic loss"?
Therefore, under the beating and persuasion of China and other countries, Rakuten still made such a decision. As they said, "after all, it is still a Korean enterprise.".
Interpretation of the influence of Lotte Group's support for Sade
"Under the pressure of Chinese public opinion, Lotte Group is in a dilemma, but its position of providing land for deployment to & lsquo; Sade & quo; remains unchanged," Yonhap news agency quoted a relevant person of Lotte Group on the 20th, saying that North Korea's missile test has made South Korea's national security situation more and more serious. Therefore, Lotte's decision to provide land for deployment to 'Sade' system will not change. Lotte will hold a meeting of the board of directors in the near future and a final decision will be made as early as this month, the person added. '
According to the report, Xinhua news agency, global times and other Chinese official media launched full fire on the 20th, criticizing South Korea's decision to introduce Saad into South Korea, which will pose a threat to regional security and stability, and told Lotte Group that if Lotte finally decides to provide land for Sade deployment, its business in China will be seriously affected. Considering the scale of Rakuten Group's business in China and the proportion of Chinese consumers' purchasing power in Lotte's overall sales, the above pressure from Chinese media is not groundless' verbal warning ', Yonhap said on the 20th. In addition, there will be a "3 & middot; 15" consumer rights protection programs and activities in China next month. At that time, Chinese consumers are likely to launch activities to boycott Lotte products, which causes a high degree of tension in Lotte.