Chapter 1367: Pre-War Rush Luck
As for China's predatory transportation, only some reporters from some Western media outlets scolded China, saying that China was too greedy, that it was simply eager to load all the belongings of the former Soviet Union on a train and transport them away, saying that China's methods were too bad, and that it had first abducted all kinds of Soviet talents, and now it had transported almost all the equipment.
Someone asked maliciously: "Do you want to build China into another Soviet Union?" Aren't you afraid that it will collapse after it is built? ”
Some in the Indian government are filled with mixed feelings, from being happy that China is not aware of their small moves on the India-Pakistan border and jealous of China's wanton removal of equipment from the former Soviet Union.
India really looks at this kind of thing that China has shipped back, and you must know that the weapons and equipment and warships that India imported from the Soviet Union were all retired or about to be retired by the Soviet Union, and they spent a lot of valuable foreign exchange for this, and they also said a lot of good things to the Soviet leaders at that time, and they did not give a lot of bribes. But now China is actually transporting it back like garbage at the price of scrap iron, and people still wish they could transport it a little more, which makes the Indian government embarrassed? It's embarrassing and sad for them
They thought that Western countries would oppose it and try their best to stop it, but Western countries did not make any big moves at all, that is, a few media outlets just scolded them.
It's not that Western countries are good for China, it's that they look down on the Soviet Union. Except for some high-tech factories, I don't care if the other factories are shipped away by China, you must know that what the American weapons cemetery discards is far more expensive than the old equipment and old weapons of the Soviet Union, and China's current behavior is regarded as a tattered in the eyes of Western countries.
Of course, they are not unpopular, but they are very limited in what they are jealous of, and what they are jealous of is that China has transported those large shipping companies, large steam turbine equipment companies, and a lot ......of aerospace-related instruments and equipment, but they are powerless to stop it. Because the former republics are so poor that they have to sell these equipment and instruments that they cannot use for the time being to China in exchange for grain and light industrial products from China, that is, the necessities of people's clothing, food, shelter and transportation, and at the same time they have to use these equipment to offset their accounts.
On the one hand, Western countries have to invest huge sums of money in aiding Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Estonia, Armenia and other poor countries that have newly left the Soviet Union and joined NATO. You must know that the economy of their Western countries has not been very prosperous in recent years, and it is a little overwhelming to suddenly have to help so many countries, and they will not be able to come up with enough money and materials for a while.
Several Western countries quarrel with each other over the question of the burden of aid and the distribution of aid. Endless negotiations were carried out, and in the end it was impossible to determine it.
In the few countries that are in a position to provide assistance, the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that the allocation of aid should be based on the population of these countries in urgent need of assistance, that is, less aid and money should be allocated to countries with small populations and more to countries with large populations.
If you want to have an inclination and focus. It should also be allocated more to Lithuania, Estonia, and Armenia, the three countries that split from the Soviet Union, because these countries now have nothing, unlike Poland, East Germany, and other countries that already had state institutions and functioning governments, while these three new countries were newly formed and did not have their own army, no existing government, and no even their own defensive weapons. There is no supporting and complete national economic system, and large-scale support is urgently needed.
The United States and Great Britain also consider these three countries to be strategically important on the eastern shore of the North Sea, the main exit route for the former Soviet Union and now the Russian North Sea Fleet. NATO's foothold here is tantamount to choking the lives of one-third of Russia's future military power. Moreover, there is also a political significance in supporting these three countries:
It was also independent from the former Soviet Union, and it was also a Soviet republic, if it got out of poverty with the support of Western countries. Even becoming wealthy would serve as an example and example for other independent republics. It will attract more republics to the West instead of China, attract more countries to join NATO, and push NATO's front further to the East.
However, the Federal Republic of Germany believes that they should fund East Germany the most, not to mention that East Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany are originally one, brothers are family, if they do not fully fund them and go to other places, the people in the country will not agree, and they may rise up to protest and overthrow the government in the first place, even in terms of political and geostrategic considerations, they should also give priority to funding East Germany.
Because East Germany is the center of Europe, as long as East Germany is stable, Europe will also be stable, and Lithuania and Estonia are all peripheral countries in Europe, and they will have a war there, and the impact on Europe will not be great. Now that Russia is dying, does it need NATO to watch out? Is it necessary to jam the lives of the Russian army?
Besides, East Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany have always been models that the Eastern and Western camps often compare, and the affluence of the Federal Republic of Germany has always been the subject of international propaganda by Western countries.
If Western countries can't even do this, and can't even solve their living problems, the people of East Germany will definitely be disappointed, and the people of other countries such as Poland and Hungary will also be chilled and sneered, and they will say that Western countries are just mouthful, and you see that they don't even want to help their brothers and families, but they can still help us?
However, France believes that whether it wants to provide assistance to the former Soviet Union, East Germany and Poland in the former Warsaw Pact, it is not the best and most fundamental way to rely only on providing funds and materials, this is a bottomless pit, not to mention that European and American countries cannot afford it, even if it is to add another European and American country, it will be difficult to meet their needs and improve their living standards. We should tell them how to develop the economy, and we should think about how to let them develop production, especially agricultural production, and let them give priority to solving the problem of hunger.
Therefore, in terms of aid funds and materials, France believes that priority should be given to Ukraine, which is not only the granary of the former Soviet Union, but also the granary of Europe, only if their agricultural foundation is not destroyed, only by investing more production funds in them, investing more fertilizers and agricultural machinery, they can get a good harvest, they can solve their own problems, and in the future, we Western countries can reduce the burden, we can reduce aid, and let them solve their own problems.
All in all, the United States and Britain are considering the problem from the perspective of global strategy, taking precautions and firmly controlling Russia, a permanent member of the United Nations; The Federal Republic of Germany is considering its own strength, and if East and West Germany are united and developed, Germany will become a giant in Europe, and it will be able to regain its status as a world power, and it can compete with the current powerful Britain and France, or at least not be weaker than them economically, or even surpass them. France, on the other hand, is from the point of view of its own desire to cultivate its own forces, France has always been a Western country that emphasizes independence, and does not walk with the United States and Britain very much, and is inseparable from them, always thinking that they can have a bright future, and they support Ukraine because they want to find allies from there, and they also want to get some advanced technology from the former Soviet Union.
When Western countries quarrel and cannot reach an agreement for the time being, neither can determine the share of funds and materials borne by each other, nor can they determine how these funds and materials will be distributed, and the consortiums in Western countries are busy acquiring various mines and resources in various newly established countries, especially oil fields, coal mines, metal mines, diamond mines, etc. are the focus of their acquisitions, in their eyes these are treasures, and they even laugh in their hearts that the Chinese are stupid, how can they look at those old, clumsy, and thick machine qì instruments and equipment, Even scrap steel is required, it's really poor and crazy, don't you know that the real value is minerals? Too uneconomical and long-term.
It is precisely because the governments of Europe and the United States have no time to take care of other things, and the non-governmental consortia mainly focus on minerals, that no one is too opposed to China's large-scale transportation of steel, equipment, and instruments, and no one pays too much attention to it.
Compared with European and American countries, China is indeed lacking in everything, Westerners simply look down on scrap steel, China is in great need, how much to need, anyway, the transportation of scrap steel is much better than the transportation of iron ore, this is a lot of good quality steel, on China's current technical level, many can not be refined. The Soviet Union was a big steel country before World War II, their smelting technology was the first in the world, and the steel parts they refined were large, thick and stupid.
China now needs too many places for steel, from Qionghai Island to the construction of the steel base in Nanyue Province to produce steel is not enough for shipbuilding enterprises, automobile companies and machine tool manufacturers to need, and railways, bridges, household appliances or something are steel giants, especially railways, don't look at just two rails laid on the ground, but a railway needs steel can be calculated with 100,000 tons, millions of tons, because it can't stand its length.
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