Chapter 655 Thirty Years in the East

"African people are not born to live the poorest life. They can also appear on the world stage with dignity. Mr. Bongo, I am very sure of this, but before that, you need to understand that everything you get cannot be simply given by others, but requires your own efforts. I can help the people of Koror live a better life and enter modern civilization, but all this also has a price..."

In the wooden house of Grace Lavender Manor, looking at the beautiful scenery of the sea of ​​flowers blowing in the wind outside the window, Barron said to Jammeh Bongo in front of him:

"Facts speak louder than words. The people of Koror now have undergone earth-shaking changes compared to five years ago, and all these changes come from our cooperation. Yes, cooperation, you will never get such conditions from others."

After winning the Koror election last year, Jammeh Bongo started his second term.

This time, Jammeh Bongo visited Australia after visiting European countries including Britain, France, and Germany. He specially took time to come to Barron to meet with the Duke of England.

It can be said that compared with Jammeh Bongo's visit five years ago when the new government of Kolo was just established, his visit this time was more warmly welcomed by those countries.

After all, at that time, Jammeh Bongo was only the president of a small African country that was one of the least developed countries in the world. Now, with relatively rich oil resources, his position has become more important for European countries with huge energy demand.

Especially in Britain, during the period of the subprime mortgage crisis, international oil prices remained high, and facing the cold winter, it also made ordinary people in Britain more difficult.

And Kolo's oil and gas resources, as a member of the Commonwealth, and its close relationship with Barron, the Duke of England, also made Brown attach great importance to Jammeh Bongo's visit this time.

After meeting with Barron, Jammeh Bongo will start his trip to Asia, and the first stop is China.

Speaking of which, although Kolo was one of the least developed countries in the world before, they were very lucky to discover oil in their territorial waters.

Moreover, Kolo itself is a small country with a population of only about 7 million, so their oil resources are enough for Kolo people to live a good life - a country of this size, with enough resources, or when it has a leading position in a certain field, it is easy for its citizens to live a good life.

Unlike China, the population will increase to 1.4 billion in the future, and there are only a total of "golden billion people" who can be called developed countries. Just like later, Ao Guanhai said bluntly:

"It is impossible for Chinese people to live an American life, otherwise Americans will have no good life, and even the whole world may fall into disaster."

His words do represent the thoughts of many Americans, even Westerners.

After all, the United States consumes up to one-third of the world's resources with less than 6% of the world's population...

Even if we don't talk about the wasteful lifestyle of Americans, if all Chinese people live the average quality of life of developed countries, it means that it is far from possible for China to be just a "world factory" and occupy many high-profit industries - those fields currently controlled by developed countries.

After all, the growth of global resources is relatively slow. It can be said that under the "zero-sum" thinking, if all 1.4 billion Chinese people achieve the living standards of developed countries, it is impossible for the West to continue to "lying down" and grab the most profitable parts.

So are the Chinese not qualified to live such a life?

The answer is obvious, and conflicts are inevitable.

But at the same time, because Colo is a small country, it is impossible for them to really enjoy their resources completely-don't forget that even the rich countries in the Middle East with rich oil resources need to keep "tributing" to the United States...

And most African countries, even if they are rich in resources, it is difficult for even a smaller proportion to fall into their hands.

Is it true that after Colo discovered rich reserves of oil, it has never been coveted?

Just from what Jammeh Bongo and Barron know, the French mining companies that stayed in Colo have contacted Colo's senior management, including Jammeh Bongo's biggest competitor, Thomas Kaboré, the leader of the Colo Socialist Party.

Even Jammeh Bongo himself has been asked to "cooperate" either explicitly or implicitly.

As for the United Energy Group, which holds a relatively high proportion of shares in Colo Oil, American capital has also joined. Otherwise, I am afraid that the CIA would have taken more active actions long ago.

Therefore, as Barron said to Jammeh Bongo, the deeper meaning is that he can help Colo obtain their part of the benefits steadily - the Colo government holds 40% of the shares of Colo Oil through the Colo National Development Investment Company, and can obtain a total of about 50% of the oil benefits through related special taxes, which is enough to make the lives of the people of Colo leap from one of the least developed countries to one of the richest countries in Africa.

What Barron needs is to ensure that his part of the benefits are obtained, so he defines the relationship between himself and Colo as a form of cooperation.

And Barron is not worried about whether the local forces in Kolo, including Jammeh Bongo, will "backfire" in the future.

Because from the perspective of Kolo's national system, Barron has already guaranteed that he is not worried that the other party will escape from his control, not to mention that Kolo's military force, the Kolo Corps, is still controlled by Barron, which also prevents the occurrence of a "coup".

You must know that the current Western-style "democratic system" itself is the basis for the United States to rule the world, because under this system, weak countries cannot escape the fate of being controlled in various ways, and America is the strongest existence in this system-in essence, America is not a country composed of Americans, but a community of interests of the world's top capital under the capital system.

This is why Barron needed to integrate into Wall Street capital to some extent before.

Because if they are not regarded as "their own people", it is difficult to develop at all.

Especially under the premise that Barron is an Englishman in this world-after all, England is not China, and it has no ability to fight against Wall Street capital.

Back to Kolo, with Barron's current power in Kolo, there is no need for him to interfere in the competition within Kolo - just like before the election last year, when Thomas Kabore "expressed his loyalty" to him, Barron did not make any clear statement.

Because now that he has a significant influence on Kolo's media, economy and military, he only needs to have a dialogue with the winner within Kolo.

All he needs to do is to prevent the possibility of being influenced by other forces within Kolo, and then make the winner within Kolo his partner and obtain corresponding benefits.

After all, judging from the interference of the United States in many countries before, the more frequent the "pointing fingers", the greater the backlash from the internal local forces.