Chapter 1381 - Going to Southeast Asia

With the world stumbled, the fourth US 10,000 troops evacuated from Iraq, left from the Persian Gulf by boat, then entered the Arabian Sea, then entered the Red Sea, entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, and headed to Israel.

According to the plan announced by the United States, 30,000 US troops will be deployed on Israel's border to maintain regional peace and stability.

Although this move was strongly opposed by the Arab world, the United States still did its own thing and insisted on making such arrangements to provide Israel with national defense and security.

In order to win the support of Jewish capital, Barack not only made his attitude sufficient, but also implemented it in place.

According to the Defense Budget Act of the New Year, the US military spending exceeded one trillion US dollars, not for war, but a considerable amount of military spending is for resettlement of veterans and replenishing weapons and equipment. The evacuated US troops left a large amount of weapons and equipment to Iraq The army of the puppet government.

This is also something Americans often do in the war. A large number of weapons will be left locally because evacuating weapons and equipment costs money, and it may not be much cheaper than repurchased.

The medical insurance reform bill implemented by Barack has also been constantly exposed, which has made Barack disappear from his past relaxed and humorousness.

The upcoming midterm elections put a lot of pressure on Barack.

After all, if he loses miserably, his life will be even more sad.

The reason why the military budget is still so high is that there is a compromise between Barack and the military-industrial complex, so as to win the midterm elections.

Since taking charge of the White House, Barack has given people the impression of being relaxed, humorous, dedicated and diligent. When he came to power, people were excited and excited, not only because he was the first black man to master the most powerful country in the world and created American history, but also because he seemed resourceful, majestic and noble, and extraordinary. In short, at that time, Barack became the god in people's minds who could heal domestic trauma and reshape the image of the United States overseas.

People have great hope for him, just like his campaign slogan, and many people think he can do it!

However, now, people are becoming increasingly disappointed.

In the United States, Barack became the source of all evil. For many leftists, Barack is a cowardly compromiser, and the immature reemployment plan has not brought much benefit to the voters who support him, and medical and financial reforms have been eroded by special interests. In the eyes of many right-wing people, Barack seems to be a dogmatic man who squanders his squandering trillions of dollars on the bureaucracy, and failed to solve the most pressing problem at the moment.

Many people who believe that Barack can bring the United States out of the quagmire of economic crisis, but found that the economic crisis has not been overcome until now, the unemployment rate has not decreased, and the inflation rate has continued to rise. If it weren't for the European debt crisis that caused part of the capital to flow out to the United States, the US economy It will be even worse.

There are also groups who are very dissatisfied with the high military expenditure, and are also very dissatisfied with the fact that military expenditure has not been reduced much. Even if Barack launched a disarmament plan and promised to significantly reduce military expenditure, the fact is that so far, military expenditure is still high. The military-industrial complex can still get a large number of orders and eat all over the mouth.

With high military expenditures and the United States withdraws troops in Iraq, the territory controlled by Sadam's army is constantly growing. The people expressed great doubts about what Barack said that the powerful army of the Iraqi democratic government would easily crush Sadam's evil army.

In Europe, the United States is constantly being squeezed out of Europe.

The strengthening of the allied system that Barack emphasized seems to have no effect. More and more European countries have been pulled into the French-German alliance system. The French-German quick-resistance anti-troop forces have actually replaced some of the functions of NATO, and NATO has appeared within The division is long gone, and the French president even publicly stated that NATO was brain-dead, and even bluntly stated that when NATO's historical mission had already ended, it was time to disband NATO.

The impact of Turkey's withdrawal from NATO still exists.

In fact, it has been proved repeatedly that national defense security should be firmly in one's own hands, and without national defense security there is no real sovereignty.

In Europe, the United States is constantly being excluded, and the EU even issued sky-high fines to American Internet technology companies. The EU has also reduced the purchase of natural gas and oil from the United States, further increasing imports of natural gas and oil from Russia.

It should be noted that the United States has actually reduced oil imports significantly, and overall it has become a net oil exporter, rather than the world's largest net oil importer in the past.

The United States thinks that Europe imports oil and gas from the United States, not from Russia, and that will only make Russia stronger.

Americans are very upset that Russia is the first to recover from the economic crisis.

There is no complicated operation in the recovery of Russia's economic crisis, and it relies on oil and gas orders from Europe and East Asia.

Even if the prices of natural gas and oil are not as high as before, the problem is large.

Especially with the regional integrated development of China, the demand for oil and natural gas will inevitably continue to grow relatively quickly.

In fact, Huaxia also has its own judgment on future energy demand.

For example, during this Two Sessions, topics such as diversification of energy import sources and energy lifeline are very popular.

In modern society, oil is the ‘blood of industry’!

Without oil, we cannot talk about industry and modern society!

Even if it is not an industrial country, once there is a lack of oil, cars, motorcycles, trucks, aircraft, etc. will all become a pile of scrap copper and iron.

China is vigorously promoting electric motorcycles, electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, etc., which are not without considerations in energy security.

Even with the strengthening of geological survey and drilling, oil fields are constantly discovered in China, the South Ocean land and the ocean, mining is not that easy and the oil quality will be relatively poor.

Considering the relationship with these oil-producing countries, China has steps to carry out shale oil extraction, rather than spending all its money to explode production capacity.

Since it is integration, the development of the entire region must be considered in a coordinated manner, otherwise the development will be too unbalanced and will not be beneficial to the development of integration.

After the Two Sessions ended, Liu Tao went to Nanyang for a field inspection.

As the first to go abroad after the reform and actively invest in Nanyang, Panshan Group has very broad interests in Nanyang and its assets are extremely amazing.

Panshan Group has the most ports, the most railways, the most gas stations and the most power stations in Nanyang.

Transportation, energy, etc. involve basic people's livelihood and economic arteries, and Panshan Group is involved, and it is also the largest.

For example, now, the Southern Power Grid, which belongs to Panshan Group, accounts for half of the entire Nanyang power supply, and a large number of hydropower stations and thermal power stations are controlled by the Southern Power Grid.

For example, ports, many controlling shareholders of modern ports are Huaxia Port Group Corporation, which belongs to Panshan Group.

This field trip to Nanyang for on-site inspection, in addition to inspecting the situation of Panshan Group in Nanyang, we also need to examine the people's hearts and the integration of the Kuangyang Force.

Learn from the EU's fast-resistance force, and ASEAN also builds fast-resistance force. A total of 42 synthetic brigades and 2 synthetic divisions have to be integrated into a total of 500,000 land fast-resistance force. The fast-resistance force is mainly light synthetic brigades, supplemented by medium-sized Synthetic brigade, amphibious synthetic brigade, air burst brigade!

The Express Resistance Force mainly ensures the security of ASEAN!

As for the Navy, it is a four aircraft carrier formation formed by four 001 light aircraft carriers as the core, which is used to ensure the safety of the sea area.

The Air Force includes a large number of second-generation aircraft, second-generation and a half-generation fighter aircraft, and a part of third-generation aircraft.

As for the J-20 fighter jets, they will be deployed in China in a short period of time.

With all the troops, Wu Jing's troops, the entire ASEAN has a total of one million armed forces, which is enough to ensure the security of the entire region.

After all, these million armed forces are positioned as regional defense, not strategic offense.

Starting from before, it is expected that by 2015, these million armed forces will be built.

This process cannot avoid eliminating some of them and will affect the interests of some people.

However, integration is the general trend, and no individual or individual force can stop it.

In mid-April, Liu Tao came to a large military base on the Indochina Peninsula. This is a super-large contract tactical training base, named "China-South Joint Training Base" or "China-South Contract Warrior Training Base".

This place will be used as a combat for training the environment of the Indochina Peninsula, including mountain and forest operations, rainforest operations, amphibious operations, etc. The entire military base area includes rivers, mountains, forests, rainforests, quagmire and other complex terrain environments.

At present, the entire military base is still under construction and is expected to be completed and put into use until 2011.

During the construction period, a light synthetic brigade was mobilized here for confidentiality and preliminary environmental adaptation.

Liu Tao arrived at the military base and personally inspected the large military base under construction. He met construction workers. These workers have been here for several years, and each person only has one month of family leave each year.

Only by coming here in person can you feel the complexity of the terrain here and you can better understand the difficulty of modern combat in this complex terrain environment. If you don’t understand the environment, then the combat effectiveness of the troops will not be able to be even half of it.

Desert combat, plain combat, southern multi-water combat, mountain combat, plateau combat, mountain combat, rainforest combat, amphibious combat, etc., all these require exploration and targeted training to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Of course, in islands, training subjects such as landing warfare are also available.

Zhong Yuemin accompanied Liu Tao to inspect the military base on site and introduced the situation.

That year, he was transferred to the position of a heavy synthetic brigade as deputy brigade commander and also served as battalion commander of the heavy synthetic brigade. A few years ago, Zhong Yuemin was transferred to the position of a light synthetic brigade commander. Because of his experience in mountain and forest combat and rainforest combat, he was transferred here to defend the military base. Going smoothly.

After seeing each other again for many years, Zhong Yuemin felt more and more moved.

The quick decision of that year brought about a huge turn in his own destiny.

Give him another chance to do it again, he will still make such a choice.

After on-site inspection of this military base, Liu Tao continued to go south.

More than half a month later, he arrived at the Kara Canal, which had been completed and put into operation.

Because the voyage of at least 1,200 kilometers has been shortened, many ships have chosen the Kara Canal, even if they have to pay a fee for it.

The annual revenue of the Kara Canal exceeds 6 billion yuan, which does not take into account additional benefits such as material replenishment, ship repair, and crew ashore consumption.

The surrounding area can be said to have benefited a lot from this canal.

In order to protect the safety of this canal, not only air defense missiles were deployed, but also shore-based anti-ship missiles were deployed.

There is also a dedicated coast guard force here to fight pirates and extremists.

Also because of this canal, Panshan Group is planning to establish a large petrochemical base around it to supply the surrounding area, thereby reducing costs.

Not far from here is a light aircraft carrier formation. When a situation occurs here, this light aircraft carrier formation will support it as soon as possible.

On the other side, there is also a naval military base, not far from here.

Of course, the canal is put into operation and will have an impact on the Strait of Malacca, but it will not completely replace the importance of the Strait of Malacca.

Because of the busy shipping, Singapore's economy is actually developing very fast, and it was the first thing that Nanyang has escaped from the economic crisis. Moreover, Singapore also took full advantage of the small ship's advantage of turning around and quickly completed the transformation.

At least when Liu Tao left the Kra Canal and came to Singapore, he felt the prosperity of Singapore. So far, Singapore is the best developed city in Nanyang.

This is a truly modern city!

Although Singapore is very small, with a total area of ​​only 733 square kilometers and a population of 5 million, which is about half the size of Hong Kong, Singapore is a developed region.

If there is no developed area in the entire Southeast Asia, it is the city of Singapore.

Against the backdrop of regional integration, Singapore also has great potential. For example, Singapore is actively striving to become a financial center and an international metropolis in Nanyang.

Singapore is one of the places where wealthy people and wealth gather in the entire Southeast Asian region, and it is one of the cities where wealthy people want to go the most.

Singapore’s higher education is also doing well, and it is the best education in Nanyang in the whole of education.

Moreover, achieving regional integration means that Singapore no longer has to invest a lot of military expenses to maintain a modern army. Just like the original European countries, it enjoys huge dividends and can save a lot of military expenses to social welfare and economic structure. Adjustment.

The water and electricity here can also be guaranteed.

As for opposing integration, it almost does not exist in Singapore. After all, this place was originally a city with Chinese as the main body. Now, the proportion of Chinese and overseas Chinese has reached 90%, which makes Singapore actively promote regional integration. The attitude can be said to be It is the most active in Nanyang.

Singapore is very prosperous, it is the most prosperous city in Liu Tao’s field trip to the south. It is also a role model that is worth learning from in terms of diversity, inclusiveness, openness, etc. in many aspects. (End of this chapter)