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Oops, it's only in the french version, here's an article about that: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/-the-amer...

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Are you seriously citing an opinion piece written by one of the executives that admitted to bribing foreign officials as evidence that the US applied pressure to push through a partial acquisition of the executive's former employer?

Most importantly--the details of the article cited in relation to the GE deal (i.e., the claims that the CEO pushed through the GE deal due to US pressure) ignore the fact that the French government was the one that ultimately blocked the competing EU bids, even though the company itself favored the Siemens bid.

It's an opinion piece about a book, the american trap, which is a demonstration of the US being the bully of the world and racketing every country which make more sense to me that the french government choosing the wrong deal by incompetence

Money had a large part to do with it. GM upped their bid after the Siemens offer and Siemens didn't respond in kind.

GM now admits they severely overpaid for the French company and in hindsight should have let Siemens buy it because the French assets they acquired were a serious drag on the performance of the post-acquisition GM Power subsidiary.

I guess that's why they are firing more than 1000 people right now in France, the people building nuclear reactor turbines. Or maybe because it's more strategic to produce those in the US so the french can be at their mercy, I don't know what makes the most sense. Especially since the US tried to bully France when they refused to go to Irak with them, they halted all military exports to France but we are independent enought that it didn't do any dommage.

Ridiculous

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