主题：【原创】中国给英国颜色看了 -- 阳明

欧盟不解禁。

第二天，上汽集团退出１０亿英镑收购谈判。

布莱尔与温家宝通话２５分钟。

上汽集团发传真到ＤＴＩ。

ＭＧ ＲＯＶＥＲ破产。

工党承诺筹集６。５亿英镑工资。

英国即将大选。

嘿 嘿 嘿

也许，谈判破产的时机比较敏感。

MG Rover的债务是个黑洞，这应该是最根本的。车不错，怎么会混到这个地步？

6000名职工下岗，还没算上受影响的相关产业。英国哭哭啼啼地磨叽几个月了，贸工部长最近一直在中国。

单纯从技术上分析，收购中的债务问题凭谁都会止步。如果中国真是因为政治因素而点头（假设解禁），才是“大头”。

也轮到西方人要看中国人的脸色了，想当初1840年...

WIVES and children of workers from the MG Rover Longbridge factory in Birmingham turned up in Downing Street on April 13th hoping to persuade the government to save the company. In particular, they want it to keep paying the workers' wages while the company's bankruptcy administrators try to revive a deal with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC). But the £6.5m ($12.3m) in ad hoc state aid the government has already promised the company to keep paying wages and thus try to stave off 6,000 job losses just before an election may contravene European law. The European Commission says it has not made its mind up about the matter yet.

Nor is there much prospect of the Chinese renewing their interest. SAIC walked away from a proposed joint-venture with Rover last month because it feared that it would be landed with the liabilities of a bankrupt partner as Rover ran out of cash. Not even the offer of a government bridging loan of £100m was enough to keep them talking. Now SAIC says it rules out becoming involved with MG Rover again while it is in administration or buying it as a going concern. “But the door is ajar,” says a spokesman, tantalisingly.

SAIC makes cars in China under licence in joint-ventures with GM and Volkswagen. It is desperate to get its hands on carmaking technology of its own, and even a battered brand like Rover would help it become a proper car company not just in China but internationally. But it looks as though it has gone quite a long way already to achieving these aims.

Last autumn, the Chinese paid £67m to acquire various intellectual property rights (IP) from Rover. There is still some confusion over the precise status of various deals, but car-industry sources have told The Economist that SAIC has acquired the property rights to the Rover 25 and the Rover 75. “They've got every last drawing they need to build them,” says someone close to the negotiations. In addition, SAIC has acquired and sold on to another Chinese carmaker, Nanjing, the similar rights to make the Rover 45, including the design details of a new model under development. With the IP went the right to use the Rover brand in China, but there is some suggestion now that SAIC might have to go back to BMW, the residual owner, and buy it outright.

In addition, SAIC has acquired not just the technology but also the production equipment for making Rover's K series petrol engines and for a diesel version which would be handy if SAIC ever dreamed of selling Chinese Rovers back in Europe. Whatever ambitions SAIC might still harbour, they are very unlikely to include the Longbridge factory itself, since it is unproductive by international standards and cars can be made much more cheaply in China. That leaves the most valuable part of MG Rover as the right to use the MG brands for sports cars. But even that could be compromised by the fact that SAIC seems to have acquired the right to use it on saloon cars in China.

现在Rover的OWNER从BMW手上白来的. 双方成交的价钱是15英磅,BMW还得提供的上亿英磅的低息贷款, 无偿使用BMW的现有技术.