Chapter 1110 China-Africa Economic Cooperation Organization

However, it is obviously not feasible to build economic cooperation in Central Africa by relying on East Africa and South Germany alone, because South Germany itself is a landlocked country, and the seaports of Central Africa are controlled by East Africa, Belgium and Germany.

Although East Africa has its own seaports, it is still a bit far from the northwest of East Africa, so the best way is to open up the sea access channels of Belgium and Germany.

Morris said: "Belgium and Germany are both strong economically, but the two countries cannot effectively radiate their colonies in Central Africa, so building the Central African economy requires cooperation between us."

"The first step is to build land transportation interconnection, including the construction of railways, roads and other infrastructure, and jointly develop mineral resources in the region, so as to bring economic benefits to all countries."

"The second step is to open markets in the region, unify tariffs, build a Central African Economic Union, and realize resource monetization and trade exchanges."

"There is no doubt that once the Central African Economic Union is completed, we in East Africa will be able to expand our influence in the region and strengthen economic exchanges with member countries, and you can also accelerate the development of colonies through this regional economic union and enhance the value of your colonies or territories."

The conditions offered by East Africa are quite sincere. After all, according to the logic of the international community in the current era, East Africa's approach does not conform to the style of ordinary imperialist countries.

For example, the United States is eager to expel all other colonial forces in the Americas, and then the United States will dominate the Americas.

As the most powerful country in Africa, generally speaking, if East Africa wants to come up with an East African version of the "Monroe Doctrine", it is not impossible. If East Africa participates in the competition on the African continent, European countries will basically have nothing to do.

The Central African Economic Union proposed by East Africa now means that East Africa is willing to cooperate with Germany and Belgium on an equal footing. In a certain sense, this represents East Africa's recognition of the interests of Germany and Belgium in Central Africa.

To put it bluntly, the entire Central Africa is to East Africa what Mexico is to the United States. The United States can drive Spain and France out of Mexico through various means, and it is even easier for East Africa to control Central Africa by force.

After all, although Mexico's performance is very bad, it is also a regional power in the world, and the colonies of Belgium and Germany in Central Africa are not comparable to Mexico at all.

Xavier: "We appreciate East Africa's good intentions, but I still need to discuss this matter with my country first. I personally believe that Germany and East Africa will reach a consensus to provide a stable environment for the development of the Central African economy."

Governor Klein of the Belgian Congo colony was much more straightforward. He said to Morris: "We in Belgium are very interested in East Africa's plan."

Morris nodded with satisfaction and said: "The communication in Bangui is very developed. You can use the telegram here to communicate with your respective countries. If you are willing to accept our goodwill in East Africa, we will finalize the agreement in Bangui next."

It is not easy for the German and Belgian delegations to come to Bangui, because the transportation in their colonies is really hard to describe, so letting them get everything done directly in Bangui can also reduce a lot of trouble.

In the following days, the German and Belgian delegations sent their respective situations back to their countries through the telegram of Bangui. The result is self-evident. The China-Africa Economic Cooperation Organization, led by East Africa, was also established in due course.

In fact, the German government had long wanted to use the power of East Africa to develop the Cameroon colony, but at that time East Africa was focused on its own construction and was not interested in the German government's request.

Times have changed. Now that East Africa's industrial strength has greatly increased and domestic transportation construction has been quite complete, it is natural to expand its economic frontiers outward.

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Looking at the email sent back by Morris, the officials of the East African government were very satisfied.

Ernst said: "If you can handle Germany, you can basically handle Central Africa. Central Africa is the throat of the sea and land connecting my country and West Africa, so when constructing local transportation construction, East Africa should be used as the standard, so as to build an economic radiation zone with East Africa as the core."

The Central African Economic Cooperation Organization, which is dominated by East Africa, has many relevant standards based on East Africa. For example, railway and highway construction, East Africa undertakes the construction of Central African railways, which is actually to make up for the problem of sea access in northwest East Africa. If the railway standards of Belgian Congo and German Cameroon can be consistent with those of East Africa, many intermediate links can be reduced, and the railway-sea combined transportation in northwest East Africa can be realized.

As for Germany and Belgium, they actually have the ability to build railways, but the cost of building colonies is too high, so they can only accept the plan provided by East Africa.

And East Africa is not a philanthropist. The so-called Central African Economic Alliance is essentially to bring this area with similar culture, language and ethnicity to East Africa into its sphere of influence.

There is no need to talk about southern Germany and Germany. Belgium itself is a semi-German country with a large number of German-speaking people. This is even more obvious in the Belgian Congo. Because the main trading partner of the Belgian Congo is East Africa, the proportion of German in the Belgian Congo is even higher than that in the mainland.

So from the perspective of East Africa, the entire Central African region is naturally suitable to be a subordinate force of East Africa, and the only obstacle for East Africa to assimilate the local area is Germany. However, when the European war breaks out, Germany may not have the heart to take care of the Cameroon colony thousands of miles away.

Siwei Te said: "The Central African Economic Cooperation Organization is an important link for us to further expand and deepen our influence in Africa. Through infrastructure construction and trade exchanges, we can bind here with East Africa. In the future, we will further expand to West Africa, North Africa, and even South Africa, and our basic base will be more stable."

Now the South African colony is under the control of the British, which is a rather annoying existence, but East Africa does not have much idea about South Africa for the time being.

Because South Africa is not like Central Africa, it is similar to East Africa in culture and language, and there are many Boers in South Africa. Many of these Boers were driven away by East Africa, and they have a blood feud with East Africa, so East Africa is not keen on intervening in South African affairs.

As for the Cape of Good Hope, although its strategic position is quite important, it is not as attractive to East Africa as imagined. After all, East Africa's own railways can play a certain role as a substitute.

Of course, the British hegemony is still stable today, which also makes East Africa cautious. If it changes countries, East Africa will never let South Africa break away from East Africa's control.

For example, the East Indies controlled by the Dutch is the object that Ernst wants to dismantle next. The entire East Indies is too large, and the Dutch have incorporated these large and small islands into the unified colonial government, which is actually the integration of local political forces.

Ernst does not want the East Indies to have a strong regime like Indonesia in the past, which is not conducive to East Africa's future strategy for the South Seas.

Moreover, although the Netherlands is not as declining as Portugal and Spain, it does not have much strength in the international community today, but it occupies such a large colony. For a big country like East Africa, it is a crime of holding a treasure.

Of course, now is not a good time to cause trouble in the East Indies. After all, there is Britain behind the Netherlands, and there is actually a certain cooperative relationship between the two countries. Otherwise, Britain would not allow the Netherlands to occupy so much land in the East Indies.