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SoftBank Pledges $100 Billion US Investment at Trump Event
软银承诺在特朗普活动中投资1000亿美元
President-elect Donald Trump announced that SoftBank Group Corp. planned to invest $100 billion in the US over the next four years during an event alongside Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son on Monday.
当选总统唐纳德特朗普宣布，软银集团公司。周一，在与首席执行官孙正义（Masayoshi Son）一起举行的一次活动中，该公司计划未来四年在美国投资1000亿美元。
“He’s doing this because he feels very optimistic about our country since the election,” Trump said, adding that the pledge represented a “demonstration of confidence in America’s future.”
“他这样做是因为自大选以来，他对我们的国家感到非常乐观，”特朗普说，并补充说，这一承诺代表了“对美国未来的信心”。
“I’m very, very excited,” Son, who met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, told reporters. “I would really like to celebrate the great victory of President Trump and my confidence level to the economy of the United States has tremendously increased with his victory.”
“我非常非常兴奋，”在佛罗里达的Mar-a-Lago庄园会见特朗普的儿子告诉记者。“我真的很想庆祝特朗普总统的伟大胜利，我对美国经济的信心随着他的胜利而大大增加。
The plan includes a pledge to create 100,000 jobs focused on artificial intelligence and related infrastructure, including investments in data centers, semiconductors and energy, according to a person familiar with the plan.
据一位知情人士透露，该计划包括承诺创造10万个专注于人工智能和相关基础设施的就业岗位，包括对数据中心、半导体和能源的投资。
The SoftBank announcement immediately prompted the question of where the company will get the capital for its latest pledge. During Trump’s last term, Son was raising his $100 billion Vision Fund with money from outside investors and poured the cash into startups such as WeWork, Uber Technologies Inc. and DoorDash Inc.
软银的声明立即引发了一个问题，即该公司将从哪里获得最新承诺的资金。在特朗普的最后一个任期内，孙正义用外部投资者的资金筹集了1000亿美元的愿景基金，并将现金投入了WeWork，Uber Technologies Inc.等初创公司。关于DoorDash Inc.
SoftBank doesn’t have the cash on hand to deliver on Son’s pledge this time. The company had the 3.8 trillion yen ($25 billion) in cash and equivalents on its balance at the end of September. Still, the company’s finances have recovered with the initial public offering of chip design firm Arm Holdings Plc. SoftBank still owns about 90% of Arm, which now has a market capitalization of about $160 billion.
软银手头没有现金来兑现孙正义的承诺。截至9月底，该公司拥有3.8万亿日圆（合250亿美元）的现金和等价物。尽管如此，随着芯片设计公司Arm Holdings Plc的首次公开募股，该公司的财务状况已经恢复。软银仍持有Arm约90%的股份，该公司目前市值约为1600亿美元。
Shares of SoftBank climbed 3.3% in early Tokyo trading on Tuesday, bringing their gain this year to 55%.
软银股价周二在东京早盘交易中上涨3.3%，今年涨幅达到55%。
The Japanese billionaire joins a number of technology executives angling to win favor from the incoming administration. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will give $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund after having previously donated to President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign. Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and artificial intelligence startup Perplexity have also pledged $1 million apiece.
这位日本亿万富翁加入了许多科技高管的行列，试图赢得即将上任的政府的青睐。OpenAI首席执行官Sam Altman将向特朗普的就职基金捐赠100万美元，此前他曾向拜登总统2024年的连任竞选捐款。Meta Platforms Inc.，Amazon.com www.example.com和人工智能创业公司Perplexity也各自承诺了100万美元。
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Trump on Monday marveled at his embrace by business executives, saying it was a stark difference from his first term.
特朗普周一对他受到企业高管的拥抱感到惊讶，称这与他的第一个任期截然不同。
“In the first term everybody was fighting. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend,” he said.
“在第一个赛季，每个人都在战斗。在这个任期内，每个人都想成为我的朋友，”他说。
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Son forged a strong relationship with Trump the last time he was president, making a similar visit to Trump Tower in December 2016 and promising the creation of 50,000 jobs as part of a $50 billion investment.
孙正义在上一次担任总统时与特朗普建立了牢固的关系，2016年12月对特朗普大厦进行了类似的访问，并承诺创造5万个就业机会，作为500亿美元投资的一部分。
SoftBank was one of several companies that made such pledges at the time. The company did actively invest in US companies through its Vision Fund investment vehicle. But Softbank later ran into trouble as many of its deals floundered, including a multi-billion dollar investment in WeWork, the office space startup that ultimately filed for bankruptcy.
软银是当时做出此类承诺的几家公司之一。该公司确实通过其愿景基金投资工具积极投资美国公司。但软银后来遇到了麻烦，因为它的许多交易都陷入了困境，包括对WeWork的数十亿美元投资，WeWork是一家办公空间创业公司，最终申请破产。
Son’s announcement this time marks the highest-profile commitment by a company to expand investment in the US since Trump’s election win. The president-elect promised during his campaign to boost the US economy by cutting corporate tax rates, using tariffs to spur domestic investment by foreign companies and rolling back regulations Republicans say have hampered economic growth.
孙正义此次的声明标志着自特朗普当选以来，一家公司扩大在美国投资的最高承诺。这位当选总统在竞选期间承诺，将通过降低企业税率、利用关税刺激外国公司在国内投资，以及取消共和党人所说的阻碍经济增长的法规，来提振美国经济。
Trump also promised to speed permitting for anyone willing to invest $1 billion or more for projects in the US. While he offered no specifics on how he would accelerate approvals, his pledge addressed a key concern among tech and energy companies that regulatory delays risk slowing upgrades to US energy infrastructure needed to drive development in AI.
特朗普还承诺加快批准任何愿意为美国项目投资10亿美元或更多的人。虽然他没有具体说明将如何加快审批，但他的承诺解决了科技和能源公司的一个关键担忧，即监管延迟可能会减缓推动人工智能发展所需的美国能源基础设施升级。
“This is President Trump delivering on the promise he made to the American people on the campaign trail that he was going to make the United States of America the manufacturing superpower of the world,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump transition, told Fox Business on Monday.
“这是特朗普总统兑现他在竞选活动中向美国人民做出的承诺，他将使美利坚合众国成为世界制造业超级大国，”特朗普过渡发言人卡罗琳莱维特周一告诉福克斯商业。
But Trump also told voters that he wanted foreign-owned corporations to become US-based entities, pledging tax cuts and deregulation to lure companies onshore. The Softbank investment shows that is unlikely to come to fruition, with global companies eager to make announcements viewed favorably by Trump, but don’t want the commitment of uprooting their headquarters and supply chains.
但特朗普也告诉选民，他希望外资企业成为美国实体，承诺减税和放松管制，以吸引公司在岸。软银的投资表明，这不太可能实现，全球公司渴望发布特朗普看好的公告，但不希望承诺将其总部和供应链连根拔起。
It’s also unclear how much of the SoftBank pledge would be fresh investment. Even before the election, Son had been planning a $100 billion chip venture to develop chips for artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported.
目前还不清楚软银的承诺中有多少是新的投资。据彭博社报道，早在大选之前，孙正义就一直在计划一家价值1000亿美元的芯片企业，为人工智能开发芯片。
In the months following Trump’s election to his first term eight years ago, several major companies announced spending pledges — some of which were tied to projects long in the making. Ford Motor Co., for example, announced plans to cancel a new $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and invest in US facilities after strong criticism from Trump. The company announced $1.2 billion in investments in three Michigan factories, but some of those plans had been part of contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union in 2015, Ford’s president of the Americas said at the time.
在特朗普八年前当选第一个任期后的几个月里，几家大公司宣布了支出承诺-其中一些与长期计划的项目有关。福特汽车公司例如，在特朗普的强烈批评后，宣布计划取消在墨西哥新建的16亿美元工厂，并投资美国设施。该公司宣布在密歇根州的三家工厂投资12亿美元，但其中一些计划是2015年与美国汽车工人联合会（United Auto Workers union）合同谈判的一部分，福特美洲总裁当时表示。
Son has vowed to increase his investments in artificial intelligence, which he has described as a technology that will change virtually every business. SoftBank invested $500 million in OpenAI in October and is aiming to increase that investment by acquiring up to $1.5 billion in the startup’s stock through a tender offer for existing shareholders.
孙正义发誓要增加对人工智能的投资，他将人工智能描述为一项将改变几乎所有业务的技术。SoftBank在10月份向OpenAI投资了5亿美元，并计划通过向现有股东提出要约收购高达15亿美元的初创公司股票来增加投资。
“President Trump is a double-down president, I’m going to have to double down,” Son said at the Mar-a-Lago event.
“特朗普总统是一个双重下降的总统，我将不得不加倍下降，”儿子在Mar-a-Lago活动中说。
Trump, with a grin, said he wanted Son to actually invest $200 billion in US ventures.
特朗普笑着说，他希望孙正义实际上向美国企业投资2000亿美元。
