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French President Jacques Chirac even believed that the Soviet Union's arms sales were aimed at delineating Russia's sphere of influence in the Asia-Pacific region, and even wanted to annex the entire East Asian region and refuse to allow other European countries to meddle in the affairs of Asia-Pacific countries. Make them their own arms dumping areas with peace of mind.

Now every country in Europe is looking for a way out of its own economic crisis, and even France has begun to put down its position and seek cooperation with Southeast Asian countries, striving to use arms sales to reduce the losses caused by the economic crisis, in other words, to save the country with arms deals.

France has already engaged in economic plundering of Central and Eastern European countries, including buying up their state-owned assets at low prices and then reselling their industrial products to Central and Eastern European countries at high prices, in order to amass sufficient government revenues for themselves in response to the deepening economic crisis.

Even after the loss of a large number of economic colonies after World War II, the French government was still able to find a new source of blood for itself, and it can also be called a great contribution to economic globalization, but in fact, except for plundering the economy of Eastern Europe and destroying the industrial system, France has not been seen to have helped other countries.

After Hungary and Poland revolted, President Jacques Chirac realized that Eastern Europe alone could no longer afford to pay for France's economy.

So when President Chirac found that this method alone was no longer enough to maintain a high government fiscal deficit, the successful experience of the Soviet Union in the Asia-Pacific crisis gave the French president a hint of inspiration, and he began to play the idea of arms sales, and the military attack on Libya has made France complain, they think that it is shameless and stupid aggression to declare war on another sovereign country without solving their own crisis, not to mention that France's previous target was oil under the control of the Libyan government army, I thought that as long as I could hold on to the rich oil resources, it was only a matter of time before I got out of this economic crisis.

However, everything did not go as President Chirac thought, although France wanted to preemptively take the lion's share, but did not expect Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, which were eyeing the Gaddafi regime, to rush to the top immediately after the collapse of the Gaddafi regime, and to support the domestic forces at a speed that made France jaw-dropping, and controlled Libya's oil resources. It can be said that France has suffered heavy losses this time, so he wants to blackmail France into withdrawing from the European Union and give European countries some color.

However, this behavior seems to others as ridiculous as a three-year-old child crying without candy.

Chirac, who originally wanted to turn the Libyan Interim Transitional Government into his follower, found that now that the powers of the Interim Transitional Government have been hollowed out from within, the organizations with military and armed forces are the real speakers of Libya.

At this time, the Paris Co-ordination Association banned the sale of arms to the communist world, as well as those who supported terrorism~ countries, so Minister Chirac wanted to sell their weapons in some way that could not see the light of day.

President Jacques Chirac had the idea of using shell companies to smuggle goods, as in the case of transactions with the Chinese side, as long as an agreement was reached between the two sides, so that they could be sold in the form of civilian products.

President Chirac re-established ties with Vietnamese President Le Duc Anh because the Soviet Union sold Kirov-class and Glorious-class cruisers to China, and specifically named them to join the East China Sea and South China Sea fleets, which means that the strategic mission of the Chinese Navy is gradually changing, from the initial defense of Beijing to the function of defending territorial waters. What does this change mean, Vietnam knows best that various disputes such as the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea can be justified in the previous era by "shelving disputes and joint development", and when the navy becomes stronger, it will be "the South China Sea has been an inalienable territory of our country since ancient times." ”

On this basis, France and Vietnam, which have a somewhat complicated relationship, have a tacit understanding to move closer to each other, one thinking about buying weapons and the other thinking about selling weapons; even if France claims that this is just normal trade between the two countries, it is difficult to hide the smell of embarrassment. However, the United States, which has just suffered losses in the Asia-Pacific confrontation, naturally turns a blind eye to arms sales and is eager for another large-scale military conflict in the South China Sea.

France is ready to sell Casal-class frigates to Vietnam, which is called frigates because there is no internal designation for destroyers in the French Navy. So far, two Casal-class frigates have been built, but due to the sluggish French economy and the tight defense budget after 1990, the construction of ships 3 and 4 was finally cancelled in 1990. So now the French side is ready to throw the unfinished Casal-class to Vietnam as a burden.

From the very beginning, President Jacques Chirac began to hint that Vietnam should strengthen its naval forces, comparing the Chinese aircraft carrier battle group with Vietnam's navy, and also exaggerating with Vietnam how terrifying the surface combat capabilities of the Soviet Union's Glorious-class and Kirov-class cruisers were. All in all, even if the Vietnamese Navy pulls in all the ships that can do war, it may not be the opponent of the East China Sea Fleet.

Under the intimidation of President Chirac, Vietnam, which has a dispute with China over islands, realized that it should build up its military forces. But with whom to buy ships, this is a question.

President Chirac in front of him timely proposed that the French side still has two frigates under construction, which are very much in line with the operational needs of the Vietnamese army.

Although Le Duc Anh realized that President Chirac was here to act as a lobbyist, Vietnam really had no choice in the face of reality.

The stronger the enemy next to him becomes, the more difficult it will be for him to keep those islands, and if he does not strengthen his military strength, he will only be eliminated in the South China Sea dispute.

Although Li Deying has considered using the South China Sea countries to form an alliance to put pressure on China, it is easy for countries with maritime contradictions between them to be pulled one by one, and one by one is broken. At least China's use of this tactic in the South China Sea has been tried and tested.

"I think everyone is aware of the problems facing Nanhai Zhudao, President Le Duc Anh. France has had a series of unpleasant conflicts with Vietnam in the past, but this is a very practical business, and we have the ability to build large ships, and you lack large ships. With a displacement of 4,000 tons and the current main frigate of the French Navy, I think that the combination of the above factors will not be disadvantageous to you. (To be continued.) )