The International Herald Tribune<\/a> signale que les Chinois viennent de subir deux revers, dont un dans l’affaire Unocal qui nous int\u00e9resse. Ces revers sont clairement interpr\u00e9t\u00e9s dans une perspective politique, voire g\u00e9opolitique. Ils confirment une \u00e9volution qui va dans le sens de la th\u00e8se de Weinstein.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab Two of China’s most ambitious companies were dealt setbacks in their attempts to take over major American corporate brands, as the board of the oil company Unocal endorsed a sweetened takeover offer from Chevron over a higher bid from Cnooc on Wednesday and Haier Group abandoned its bid for the appliance maker Maytag.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Unocal’s decision in favor of Chevron came after Haier Group, a Chinese conglomerate, dropped its $1.28 billion bid for Maytag. Haier said it was not prepared for a takeover battle with Whirlpool, a rival bidder.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The Chinese takeover attempts had fanned concern in Washington about the possibility that two American corporate brands would fall into the hands of the Chinese. Unocal’s board voted to accept Chevron’s increased offer of $17.1 billion, or $63 a share in cash and stock; it rejected, as too politically risky, the all-cash offer of $18.5 billion, or $67 a share, from China National Offshore Oil Corp., or Cnooc.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’important, outre l’annonce g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, est le terme qualifiant le rejet de l’offre CNOOC par Unocal \u00ab as too politically risky<\/em> \u00bb, ce qui est une nouveaut\u00e9 incontestable dans un monde normalement organis\u00e9 selon les seules lois \u00e9conomiques. C’est en ce sens qu’on peut voir confirm\u00e9e, pour ce cas, la th\u00e8se de Weinstein.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tPour autant, la bataille n’est pas finie. CNOOC peut rench\u00e9rir, et il le fera sans doute. Mais les Chinois semblent ne plus gu\u00e8re entretenir d’illusion : \u00ab Ma Shang, an energy industry analyst in Beijing for Fitch Ratings, said Chevron’s latest bid was unlikely to be decisive because it remained inferior to Cnooc’s offer. But with resistance in the United States on the grounds of energy security to Cnooc’s bid, political factors may ultimately prove more important in the decision, he said. Still, it is possible that Cnooc could return to the negotiating table with a higher bid.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tUn probable rench\u00e9rissement de CNOOC, en insistant sur la contradiction entre libre-\u00e9change et lois du march\u00e9 (profit) d’une part, et la question de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale d’autre part, va rendre le d\u00e9bat contradictoire aux USA encore plus intense et int\u00e9ressant. (Si Unocal avance l’argument \u00e9conomique, on peut aussi admettre que c’est pour pousser CNOOC \u00e0 rench\u00e9rir pour finalement vaincre les r\u00e9ticences politiques \u00e0 cause de l’importance \u00e9conomique d’une nouvelle offre \u00e9conomique. Le profit est chose vitale aux USA, c’est l’oxyg\u00e8ne des am\u00e9ricanistes.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 21 juillet 2005 \u00e0 07H40<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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