Chapter 378: It's Just the Beginning (Part 3)
Chapter 377 This is just the beginning
President Wen is really angry to death, do you people have a bit of backbone, you are also the president of a country, but you were beaten up by others, and a sum of money was taken away from you, and you still want to be someone's dog?
But now, they really can't do anything, mainly because people are making excuses, so that they can't find any fault at all, and any country has zero tolerance for terrorist organizations, so this excuse they can only ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate with the other party, and if there is no result of the inspection, let them let them go as soon as possible.
Although the refining industry of the stick country is extremely developed, they do not have crude oil, almost all of the crude oil has to be imported, close to 150 million tons of imports per year, as a country with a population of less than 50 million people, this crude oil use is already quite large.
There is another reason for this, that is, there are quite a lot of oil refining ancillary products to be exported, such as plastics, and so on, of course, most of them are used for domestic gasoline.
The monthly crude oil transportation is customized, although there must be a national strategic reserve, but the national strategic reserve and the crude oil import between private enterprises are two complementary, most of the time Li Man, the national strategic reserve of crude oil or other refined oil are imported from private enterprises to buy.
To put it bluntly, the state gives money to these private companies, and then lets the private companies import them on their behalf, and when the crude oil comes back, the crude oil will be turned into strategic reserve oil after refineries and other measures.
Whether it is refined oil or crude oil, it is necessary to reserve a part, but the strategic reserves of the stick countries are not very large, because they do not have so much economic strength to reserve so much, like other countries, the strategic reserves are their own oil fields to produce and then store, and then import for consumption.
According to the current level of market consumption and inventories, their country's crude oil can only be used for about a month without considering strategic reserves.
In other words, if these crude oils are restricted, after a month, their domestic crude oil will be in short supply instantly. When the time comes, without energy, the entire system of the country will collapse.
You must know that crude oil is not just what everyone thinks, but gasoline, which can be used in the car, as well as aviation kerosene for aerospace, diesel fuel and heavy oil used by various ships of large cruise ships in ports. All kinds of oil used in tanks and armored vehicles, as well as various plastic products, etc., are all refined from oil.
These things have a very good oil refining industry in China every day, so naturally there is no need to import them from outside, but now if crude oil is interrupted, it means that these semi-finished plastic products and so on will be directly missing, and what is missing is not a small number.
This is the entire continuous industrial chain.
It's just that what makes President Wen feel painful is that the result here is not over yet, and the official of the energy department immediately spoke up again after answering a phone call: "Mr. President, a cruise ship located in a port in Malaysia has also been detained, and there are also Indonesian cruise ships, not only cruise ships transporting crude oil, but also several cargo ships." ”
"Assi!" President Wen couldn't help but burst into a foul language, what does this mean, of course President Wen understands, these three countries don't need to think that they are all victims of the last Hu Fei attack, but fuck, you are victims, and we are also victims.
Why are we in such a hurry? We should be in the same camp, right? Are you coming here to bully us because someone else has bullied you?
But this is not the key, the key thing is that after these three countries are specially united, it means that they will have no place to stop here in the Strait of Malacca! Can they still make a detour from Australia? It will be thousands of nautical miles and nearly 10,000 kilometers away!
The problem is, almost all of their crude oil comes from the Middle East! That's the most important thing!
And now it's not just crude oil, but also other freighters, South Korea's economy is very developed, they have a lot of equipment for export, but now if freighters are restricted, although the earth is round, but you can't transport anything to Europe across the Pacific Ocean and then from the Atlantic, right?
How much does the shipping cost have to be increased?
Although they don't blockade the strait, they just restrict them in the port, the question is, all cruise ships have to be replenished, why is Singapore's economy awesome?
It's not because Singapore is in a good place, that port occupies an important supply position, and all cruise ships have to come to the port, which is an important reason for their economic development.
Sometimes, these ports are irreplaceable. Although almost all countries in Southeast Asia now have similar ports, other places have to be detoured.
All of the optimized ports now belong to these three countries.
"Contact all the staff and ask them to come over in the evening for an emergency meeting. President Wen said with a wry smile, now they have all confessed, the problem is that this confession is not enough, this shows that it is obvious that Hu Fei is doing it, and they are warning them.
I can do it with you without even using the foreign exchange market, it's just up to me whether I want to or not.
He has other schedules to make during the day.
At about eight o'clock in the evening, President Wen was about to convene a meeting of all his staff, and just as he was about to have a meeting, suddenly his secretary broke open the door of the conference room and rushed in, "Mr. President, something is wrong." The secretary spoke loudly.
"What's the matter?" President Wen immediately stood up anxiously.
"Saudi Arabia has announced that it will stop all our oil supplies, and not only Saudi Arabia, but almost all Arab countries in the Middle East that are on the same side as Saudi Arabia have made similar announcements, as long as they have contracts with us for the supply of crude oil. The secretary whispered quickly.
"What?!" Wen President shook his body, and his whole body almost fell directly to the ground.
"What the hell is going on?" asked President Wen as he steadied himself with his hands on the table.
"There was an explosion in the Saudi oil field where we signed the crude oil supply agreement, it is said that it was artificially blown up, and the Saudi intelligence department has investigated, saying that it may be our country's independent terrorist organization that did it, just to get you down, Saudi Arabia said that our country has not handled its own affairs well, and it has seriously affected the security of their country, and before the investigation is clear, all oil supplies between us and us will be terminated. The secretary gave a rough explanation of why.