Chapter 327: The Savior Arrives

While Fanghuan Investment was unleashing a massive wave in the US market, Europe, on the other side of the domino effect, was experiencing a prolonged economic winter.
The impact of the pandemic, coupled with the panic of the US stock market crash, left the entire European market teetering on the brink of collapse.
The EU had launched an unprecedented economic recovery and aid package totaling €1.4 trillion, but this massive injection into the market had only slightly slowed the pace of the collapse.
At a tense high-level EU meeting, a head of state spoke in a hoarse voice, filled with helplessness.
"What pains us most, gentlemen?
It's Fanghuan Investment, that evil dragon from the East, buying back the shipping companies we once took from them at rock-bottom prices!
And we, watching helplessly, can't even utter a single word of protest!"
These words stung everyone present.
But this is the truth.
Europe is a welfare paradise, but also a fiscal black hole.
To cope with the pandemic, the EU has already poured €800 billion into its economic recovery fund and added another €600 billion in emergency aid.
However, this is just the beginning.
"We've poured so much money into this market, has any country's financial market improved? No! Not a single one! They're all getting worse!"
Another leader slammed his fist on the table in anger.
"What can we do to stop Fang Huan? We can barely protect ourselves now!"
Our finances were already strained due to the implementation of welfare policies, and now, in order to save the market, we are even more heavily indebted.
"
"To put it bluntly, we should be grateful that Fang Huan is willing to pay to take over those heavily indebted messes!
At least he's helped us absorb those enormous debts!"
Even more crucially, Fang Huan holds the trump card of "vaccines."
Anyone who dares to offend Fang Huan at this critical juncture, in the event of a vaccine supply disruption, would face another disaster capable of bankrupting any country.
"But... what's going on with the US stock market?"
An EU official asked, puzzled.
This question plunged everyone into silence.
While the global market crash was certainly due to market fluctuations, the collapse of the US stock market was the primary domino effect.
Everyone predicted that the US stock market bear market would last at least a year.
However, reality delivered a resounding slap in the face.
“The US stock market has actually stabilized! And in an almost supernatural way, a strong V-shaped reversal!”
“Thanks to them, our European stock market has finally seen a glimmer of hope…
I heard that the China Strategic Investment Fund and Fanghuan Investment played a decisive role in this market rescue?”
“Yes,” explained a well-informed official.
“The US government was supposed to inject its own bailout funds, but they had China inject hundreds of billions of dollars first.
Everyone thought this money would be wasted, but who could have imagined!
This money actually became the fuse that ignited the market, directly reversing everyone's pessimism and triggering the current retaliatory rebound!”
A staggering gamble of hundreds of billions of dollars!
Moreover, this wasn't a traditional market rescue; rather, it involved a foreign institution and company, acting like a well-coordinated "national-level market manipulation team," precisely selecting the sectors and stocks most likely to ignite market sentiment, using massive amounts of capital to directly drive up prices, forcefully reversing pessimistic market expectations!
Such behavior would be a serious crime of market manipulation under any circumstances.
But ironically, this was tacitly approved by the US government!
Thus, an unprecedented short squeeze unfolded.
Investors, long suppressed by panic, saw Fanghuan Investment as a savior!
They all rushed into the market like madmen, chasing highs and selling lows, turning a market rescue operation into the prelude to a nationwide bull market frenzy!
"So...the Huaxia Strategic Investment Fund and Fang Huan, haven't they...made a killing?"
"Yes." The official's tone was filled with envy, jealousy, and resentment.
"The US stock market rebound started the moment they massively built their positions.
They picked up the cheapest chips at almost the market's lowest point.
From the moment the rebound began, they've been making crazy profits.
Conservatively speaking, their returns are already an astonishing figure!"
This result left all the European tycoons present feeling like their minds were about to explode.
The US government, instead of using Fang Huan as cannon fodder, had personally elevated them to godlike status.
While all the EU countries could only watch from the sidelines with envy, Fang Huan's investments had picked up the most valuable diamonds from the ruins.
"Of course, Fang Huan's operation was also flawless.
They specifically targeted star stocks that could ignite market sentiment, using massive amounts of capital to create a shockwave, generating a profit-making effect and completely revitalizing the entire market.
The timing, the intensity, the rhythm—all were exquisitely precise. It was simply divine manipulation!"
The European heads of state and finance ministers present exchanged bewildered glances, feeling their worldview shaken.
How could such a market rescue exist?
One country's financial market was actually saved by another country and its companies?
This was nothing short of a blatant conspiracy!
A blatant trampling of all financial rules!
"But… the result was good; they did successfully rescue the stock market.
Now, there's absolutely no criticism of them."
The conference room was deathly silent.
Everyone felt a profound sense of absurdity and powerlessness.
Should they praise their decisiveness and success, or criticize their recklessness and madness?
Entrusting a nation's financial security to companies in another country is an incredibly dangerous gamble!
"But...they won, didn't they?"
That one sentence struck a nerve with everyone.
Yes, the outcome was good.
While Europe is still struggling in the mire, America has risen from the ashes and returned in force!
"We...don't we also have to inject money into the market?"
"Sigh, our national treasury is almost empty, and we have to inject more money...when will this end?"
Everyone looked gloomy.
With America doing well, the comparison and discontent among the European people rose: Why is America doing well, but we can't?
The problem is, the EU has already spent nearly two trillion euros. What will be the result of further spending?
Nobody can say for sure.
After a long silence, the EU's rotating president hesitated for a long time before finally speaking tentatively, almost inaudibly.
"Well, gentlemen… perhaps…"
Instantly, all eyes focused on her face.
"Perhaps… we should also ask Fang Huan and the others… for help?"
After she finished speaking, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence.