Life at the Top

“Jasper, I don’t think I need to explain

anything to you.”

On the other end of the phone, Emil

displayed a very stout attitude.

“We are just partners working together

and we can’t continue to cooperate now, s

o such results are only to be expected,

right?”

Jasper sneered, “Partners? Do you still

acknowledge that we are partners?

“Does it mean that so-called partners just

abandon their comrades and run away at

the most critical moment in Sentel’s

corporate culture as well as also Coreana’s

national culture?

“I don’t have any opinions if Sentel got

scared and wanted to quit, but what you

shouldn’t do is withdraw the capital

unilaterally without prior notice. Do you

think this is reasonable?”

On the other end of the phone, Emil was

silent for a while. Then, he replied, “I

admit that Sentel made a mistake in this,

but you can’t blame me.

“Sentel is a multinational company. We have too many industries and businesses a t home and abroad, so we needed to make big-picture considerations based on the current situation. Now, the potential losses we might bear far outweigh the benefits of working with you, so we must divest.

to divest was made, 70% of Sentel’s global business was affected. The United States Ministry of Commerce even considered adding Sentel

that, even the Blue House has opinions about our cooperation with you. This is the United States government directly pressuring Coreana through official channels. You know that Sentel had no choice

only gave me three hours to make a choice, so I could only decide on

a long time, he said faintly,

be said that Sentel controls all aspects of Coreana

topic, but he still patiently replied, “Yes, I

Sunrise Land, such as Trider Financial Group and Sumotomo

increasingly indifferent and contemptuous. He continued, “But Mr. Emil, have you ever thought about this question? Coreana and Sunrise Land have the same national background. They are both resource-poor but economically developed small countries with small land masses. Trider Financial Group and Sumotomo Corporation are top

could the Trider Financial

the West Gate

reparations in 1996?

Trider Financial Group win

international arbitration lawsuit that

lasted 10 years?”

Sentel have the courage to do

“You don’t.

weakness

Even if I have

people of Sunrise Land, there

and I both

Sunrise Land are forced to

to reality, but even

on the surface, they still

intrinsic stubbornness, courage, and

refuse

deep into

is a nation without

body and soul makes you bow

even

that

could clearly

rapid

phone as his words

going to ignite

but he did not

M r. Emil, I will say this, I will not let this t matter rest. After this matter is resolved, I

hung up

decisively.

knew that

him

out

next time they interacted, they would be

and expressed gratitude when someone had helped him. I f

he would not

Christmas dinner until