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"General Secretary Yanayev, this time French President Jacques Chirac visited Vietnam, I think he is going to China, right? After all, the arms deal we made in the Asia-Pacific region has made all the Western European countries very angry. Pavlov inadvertently mentioned this while chatting. In a conflict that lasted for more than five months, but in the end the Soviet Union completed a $2.5 billion arms deal as the winner in the Asia-Pacific region, Yanayev's move made almost all professors of international political relations fall through their glasses.

In the past, Western European countries only dared to carry out such high-risk and high-reward regional conflict actions in small countries such as Africa, but no one expected that the Soviet Union would dare to use this Asia-Pacific crisis to maximize its own interests, and directly make an unrelated outsider country a big winner to obtain the greatest benefits.

France wants to get involved, but it doesn't have deep roots in East Asia, the most economically powerful country, and the Chinese side, which has just bought the Soviet Glory, doesn't look down on the French navy.

After thinking about it, France will choose Vietnam, a former colony with which it is inextricably linked, and in the face of the South China Sea dispute, Vietnam can put aside its position and cooperate with the capitalist enemy it has to fight before.

Yanayev stopped sliding the tip of his pen, leaned back in his chair and said slowly, "Visiting Vietnam? What else, Chirac, of course, went for his own economic problems. France is like a swarm of locusts that have plundered the economic lifeblood of the countries of Eastern Europe, and I think they are looking at the rapidly developing Asian countries. ”

Yanayev said with a smile, "After all, France has suffered a dark loss in Libya, originally thought that Gaddafi would be able to make a lot of money in Libya after he stepped down, but after hitting Gaddafi's ambition to establish a unified African bank, the United States, which intervened in the United States, seized the interests that originally belonged to France." ”

Although Gaddafi has not really had the will to establish the African Monetary Fund and the African Bank, Gaddafi, who likes to work against France, has never liked the Western powers. If it weren't for the Soviet Union's obstruction of Gaddafi's attempt to create the African Monetary Organization, and misleading the CIA and MI6, Libya would have been alive for more than a decade.

When the little expert chose to move closer to the West, Yanayev knew that his last bit of use as a Soviet arms customer was lost.

The United States can tolerate your opposition to its position as a world rogue and even allow you to build nuclear weapons, and it is a big deal to coerce you into submission with economic sanctions and threats of force, but if you want to prevent the IMF and the World Investment Bank from controlling the economic lifeblood of Africa, then you have to wait to die. This is the big cake related to the vital interests of Western countries, and whoever moves will die first, and it is still an ugly way to die.

"That's why France is now in a hurry to find a way out, this time to Libya, France took the lead, both money and effort, trying to draw Germany, Britain and the United States in to share the pressure for him, but France did not expect that these countries would keep their hands behind, and finally fell into such a thankless situation."

"Now Vietnam is France's only chance to turn around, after all, a single arms deal can even be worth the income brought by economic and trade cooperation for a year." Yanayev smiled slightly, "Of course, everyone does business the same, and we also need to take care of Southeast Asian customers, but if we intervene, this business in France will not be able to be done." ”

The two Casal-class destroyers that the French Navy is no longer ready to ask for were directly thrown to the Vietnamese government, and on the whole, Vietnam has suffered a dark loss, although the Casal-class destroyers are described as falling into the sky, but the SM-1 anti-aircraft missiles with a range of only 40 kilometers and a full semi-active radar guidance, and even the MK-13 device are removed from the Type 47 destroyer air defense type and continue to be used, so the air defense capability can only be regarded as a small improvement at bestIt is not at all possible to talk about cross-generational upgrades, because the French Navy intends to modify the design of the Casal-class follow-up ships when the funds are abundant, and replace them with the new vertically launched Aster air defense missile system that was being developed in cooperation between France and Italy at that time. However, it is clear that the Kassar-class destroyers sold to Vietnam will not enjoy such treatment.

After all, there is a naked unspoken rule for selling ships between Western powers, that is, it is impossible to sell 100% perfect ships to third world countries, just like the Soviet Union's attitude towards India's Asan, the monkey version of the T72 tank, as well as the half-dead Kiev-class aircraft carrier, was abducted and deceived by Asan after violent modification, and it is also called the Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier that is "shrunken but the function has not changed". As a result, the boiler blew up not long after driving back.

"In addition to the Casal-class destroyers, we have other preparations." President Chirac, who thought that he could make a fortune, said sincerely, "We also have Fighter-class fast-missile patrol ships, weapons specially prepared for Vietnam's dispute over the Paracel Islands, and didn't China just buy Glorious-class cruisers with amazing tonnage?" However, although the tonnage of the Fighter III-class fast missile patrol ship is not as good as that of the Glorious-class, once a battle group is formed, it can still pose a threat to the Glorious-class. Moreover, it can launch anti-ship missiles and torpedoes, and can well complete anti-ship combat missions. ”

The Fighter III class is indeed the most favored type of ship for developing countries, first of all, because it is affordable, and secondly, it has the ability to launch anti-ship missiles and has a certain air defense capability, which is acceptable for Vietnam, whose economic strength cannot be compared with China's.

"It's a big order, President Chirac. I hope I'll think about it before I get back to you. Vietnamese President Le Duc Anh hesitated, two Kasar-class destroyers, plus Fighter III-class fast missile patrol ships, this is indeed a bit difficult for Vietnam.

Chirac knew that he couldn't tighten the bait too tightly, not to mention that he had already blown the wind on the Vietnamese army, and of course he was using the false information at hand to spread the theory of China-state-threat-threat to the Vietnamese army. Then let the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense work together to put pressure on Le Duc Anh.

"Of course there is no problem, and I very much look forward to your reply." Chirac's state visit is coming to an end, but the arms business will continue. And Chirac also knows very well that in the face of the general situation in the South China Sea, Li Deying will choose to buy French ships. (To be continued.) )