Chapter 238: The International Situation
Fan Yang knew that everyone else was assisting, and the main counterpart was this director.
He cheered up and said, "Then let me say a few words? The two leaders don't laugh. ”
"Be bold and say. ”
"Thank you, leader, personally, it is not difficult to successfully complete this trade, because they are actively seeking cooperation, and if there is no actual need, they will not be able to initiate this trade contract, right? ”
Fan Yang's words are still relatively level, expressing his two-sided nature.
After all, he was appointed by the British, so he must know the inside story.
Director Zheng smiled and nodded, motioning for Fan Yang to continue.
"Why do they come all the way to seek cooperation? I think there are three main reasons. ”
"First, the international situation, the current international situation in Europe, is facing an alternation of the old and the new, the old capitalist power, Great Britain, having lost all its economic colonies after the Second World War, and the leading position in Europe, has been replaced by Germany. ”
First of all, Germany is at the crossroads of Europe, the node of land transportation, extending in all directions, and the vast majority of import and export trade between east, west, north and south Europe must pass through Germany. The innate geographical superiority makes any country in Europe and Germany's PK export industry, as long as the quality is similar, will be defeated. ”
Director Zheng never imagined that the young man in front of him would open his mouth and close his mouth about the international situation, and began to comment on Germany's export industry in two sentences.
He smiled slightly and said: "Not necessarily, the land advantage is also a disadvantage, the land of the four wars, the country of the four stops, more than half of the sea access is blocked by Denmark in the north, the mouth of the Rhine River in the west is occupied by the Netherlands, the Baltic Sea in the northwest is a dead end, and in the east, the land trade route has been necked by Erosca for decades, which is extremely unfavorable to the export of non-European countries." ”
Fan Yang laughed, talking to such a character, it was really happy.
I simply let go of the conversation.
Director Zheng Gao saw that this is indeed the case, so Germany is eager to open up the land trade routes in Central Asia, there is no direct access to the sea facing the Atlantic, and it can only rely on the world's largest container port with the highest route density, the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, which is subject to others. ”
Deputy Director Xiong looked confused next to him.
He is the director of the general office, and to put it bluntly, he is still a miscellaneous person.
In the face of this level of dialogue, it is completely impossible to interject.
At the same time, he looked ashamed, and took a deep look at Fan Yang.
Come to think of it, others have studied in the UK, returnees, can we compare?
When I think about it, it's a relief.
Erlang's legs to watch the conversation between the two.
The two officers next to him also looked surprised.
Director Zheng is a veritable son of a high-ranking cadre, with a family history, a doctor in the United States, and the Foreign Trade Department is the fist department of the entire Foreign Economic Cooperation Department.
Oh, my God.
"Insightful, go on. ”
Fan Yang smiled slightly: "What about the UK?" He is an old capitalist power, hundreds of years of precipitation by shipping, the two industrial revolutions originated in the United Kingdom, developed in the United Kingdom, and the recovery after World War II is also the fastest, but there is a very fatal point, or the geographical location, he himself is an island country, born with a geographical disadvantage, can not carry out fast land trade with European countries, and any goods must rely on shipping, however, a series of decision-making mistakes, the first is not to build a port at the mouth of the Thames, completely abandon the super attraction of London as the world's financial capital, do not use the port to attract manufacturing, and instead build a port in Southampton, a poor rural area 100 kilometers south of LondonThe main industrial city of Birmingham is too inland, and the other major industrial cities of Manchester, Liverpool, and the mouth of the sea are actually facing the west of Iceland, which is completely far from the main trading object of the European continent. ”
This remark made Director Zheng a little confused.
When it comes to rice countries, Director Zheng is like a treasure, and he may not be as familiar with Britain as Fan Yang.
Still smiling.
"The kid has the courage to say the last sentence unashamedly, wrong, after World War II, the Anglo-American alliance, after the Marshall Plan, Britain once thought that it only needed to follow in the footsteps of the United States, it could solve all its own problems, he thought that he was the same as Iceland, all belong to the Anglo-Saxon system, geographically, they are at the junction of the Eurasian plate and the North American plate, Iceland and Northern Ireland temporarily benefited, but also once blinded, put all the footnotes on the United States, but are the United States people reliable?"
"The kid has the audacity to say that geographically disadvantaged countries and regions must maintain independent currencies and fiscal policies, and implement weak currencies and low tax policies for a long time to offset the disadvantages of geographically advantaged countries in order to maintain export competitiveness, which is the monetary policy recognized by macroeconomics, but what? Britain did not do this, has been a strong monetary policy, even after joining the EU's exchange rate system, it is still unwilling to compromise, hard to insist, and finally Soros a round of short harvesting, the pound and Germany in the competition, defeated, so that Britain completely lost the right to speak in Europe, all European countries were deceived, thinking that the implementation of the European common market, a unified currency, will avoid being harvested by the behemoth of the United States, but the result is that it was not harvested by the United States, but by Germany. ”
Germany is rising, Britain is declining, the Western European market has been monopolized by German manufacturing, coinciding with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a brand-new market and countless emerging economies, is starting, whoever seizes the market first, will get the first opportunity, not only China, India, Southeast Asian countries, and even the Middle East, will become a new hot spot for investment, will provide a new battlefield for the Western economy. ”
Fan Yang patted his thigh: "So, we are very confident, in the past ten years, the first decade of reform and opening up, we have endured humiliation and burden, exchanged resources for foreign exchange, exchanged the market for technology, and exchanged manpower for technology." ”
"But what. ”
Fan Yang slapped his thigh again: "It's different now." ”
"We have 1.3 billion people, 1.3 billion consumers, the world's most valuable wealth, land, resources, and the most stable regime, which can ensure long-term peace, and more importantly, ten years, China's speed, the world's attention, just ten years, we have gone through a hundred years of Western countries, established the world's largest industrial chain and manufacturing system, in the world's economy and discourse power is becoming more and more important, to talk about cooperation, can, show your sincerity, the 4 million US dollars, not to mention cotton, food, the elder, and the leaders have a far-sighted, as far as I am very admirable, this is the price we pay for ten years, we should have the confidence, I am like this, even if the 4 million dollars are all fertilizer, you must swallow it for me, otherwise, no way. ”