Bao Feiyang nodded, purely from an economic point of view, with the support of a huge hinterland, not far from Japan and South Korea, Pujiang Port has a great opportunity to become a transshipment center in Northeast Asia, but in fact, even if Pujiang in later generations has become the world's largest port, the international transshipment volume is still not large, and it has never been able to become an international transshipment hub.

On the one hand, the construction of Yangshan Port is not enough, and the competition of domestic ports is related, but the influence of political factors is also very great, and the near-sea flights of Japan and South Korea are more willing to choose Busan for transit, even if the efficiency of transshipment to Pujiang is higher, and the possibility of full load is greater, and ocean-going flights are more willing to choose to berth in Xincheng for turnover, rather than Pujiang, and some will even choose to berth in Kaohsiung......

Although this choice is not the most economical, the economy will always be affected by politics, and in the process of China's rise to become a great power, it is indispensable to be hindered and hindered by the developed countries. But the surging trend, after all, no one can stop it, Huaguo will still rise, Pujiang Port will still become the world's largest port, as long as the construction standard of Yangshan Port is high enough, it will inevitably attract more international transit business.

Not only Bao Feiyang firmly believes in this, Yang Chenglin and others actually have such confidence, and the past development of Huaguo also shows this, but there are many factors that need to be considered in decision-making, and they also need to be more cautious.

"Our relationship with Xincheng is generally good, although the two countries established diplomatic relations relatively late, but in fact, Xincheng has a great impact on our relations with Southeast Asian countries, and our relationship with Southeast Asia has a very great impact on our international relations, and Malacca is the lifeblood of our economy, so the friendly cooperation between the two sides, this situation still has to be maintain......ed," Yang Chenglin said.

Yang Chenglin didn't say it very clearly, but Bao Feiyang knew what he meant, which was also something that Zhao Genzheng reminded him.

The relationship between countries is more about interests, why has the relationship between China and Pakistan always been iron? Because both countries have a common opponent, that is, the country of the moon and the moon, which has a land area similar to that of China, second only to China but has a faster growing population, and the two countries are neighbors, but whether it is geopolitics or territorial disputes, all determine the fierce competition between the two countries.

Why do the developed countries in the West suppress China's development? The so-called ideological disputes have basically ceased to exist with China's reform and opening up, so the fundamental reason lies in China's development, which will affect the interests of these countries. They prefer Huaguo as a market for their goods dumping, or a production base for the supply of cheap labor, but if Huaguo wants to rise, it will compete with them for the market, catch up with them in one field after another, surpass them, make it more and more difficult for them to make money in China, and finally rob them of the international market, even the domestic market.

Due to the needs of geopolitical and international relations, Xincheng has always maintained a cautious attitude towards relations with China, and is the latest country in Southeast Asia to establish diplomatic relations with China. Although the relationship between the two countries has had a honeymoon period, it is basically during the honeymoon period now, because Xincheng is a Chinese country, and this relationship is very special during the honeymoon period. The new city has been a great help to the development of China, and the development of China has made the Malacca route extremely busy, and the two sides can be described as mutually beneficial. However, the plan of Pujiang to build a hub port may make Xincheng feel the threat that the development of China may pose to Xincheng for the first time, and the Yangshan deep-water port plan is even more murderous, and the people of Xincheng should be able to understand that Huaguo is not only seeking to get rid of poverty and backward development, as the world's first power, even if Huaguo does not want to dominate, it will inevitably become the most powerful country in the world.

Generally speaking, the development and rise of China is beneficial to the improvement of the status of the Strait of Malacca, because the rise of a country is bound to drive the development of the surrounding areas, but the rise of China will not allow its throat to be grabbed by others.

Because of the special geographical relationship, Xincheng has always been relatively close to the world hegemon the United States. The small country of New Town, compared to Equestria and Java, is a superpower, and neither country would mind swallowing it if it was possible. In particular, the new city was originally independent from Equestria, as Malaysia and Java, which have the same geographical conditions, but the degree of development is not as good as the new city, and the two countries have coveted the new city for a long time.

Therefore, Metro has always relied on the United States for national security, and the United States also needs to control Malacca through Metro to ensure its influence in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

At this stage, and even for a long time to come, this alliance between Metro and the United States is irreplaceable. With the enhancement of China's national strength, under the premise of peaceful coexistence and interdependence, the confrontation and competition between China and the United States will become more and more intense, the United States will continue to seek containment of China, and this alliance between the United States and Singapore will form a threat to China, and China will inevitably seek ways to get rid of the threat to China in the Strait of Malacca under special circumstances and reduce its dependence on the Strait of Malacca, and this will make the new country feel threatened.

The development of international transit business in Pujiang Port will not directly shake the status and role of the Strait of Malacca and Xincheng Port, but as long as Pujiang Port controls enough flight routes, it is possible to abandon Malacca and replan the routes, such as opening the Kra Isthmus Canal in Taiguo, bypassing Malacca, and entering the Indian Ocean from the Kra Isthmus.

Although Huaguo did not have such intentions at this time, for Xinguo, they knew their destiny very well, and if Xincheng Port wanted to become an international hub port, they would not be willing to see a stronger transshipment port than themselves in their main source of goods and transshipment destinations. Such an existence will not only affect the business of Metro Port, but may even directly subvert the status of Metro Port and Melaka.

It can even be said that with the rise of China, such a situation will become inevitable. Unless Seazen is willing to change its flag and let China replace the United States as an ally of the new country, and let China directly intervene in the control of Malacca, China will inevitably seek to reduce its dependence on Malacca.

This is also the fundamental reason why the relationship between Huaguo and Xincheng is not so close for a long time after a honeymoon period, and it can't even go together.

However, there is one thing that is difficult to change, it is difficult for China to get rid of its dependence on Malacca, and this dependence will increase as China's economy develops from an exporter of oil to an importer. Economically, the new country is not immune to the influence of China, and politically as well.

Economically, the United States has limited direct influence on the Strait of Malacca and on the new city. Flights between the United States and the Middle East and South Asia are all on the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean, or the Cape of Good Hope Africa route, which has little to do with the Strait of Malacca. Trade between the United States and Australia, East Asia, and even Southeast Asia follows the Pacific route, and the United States is one of the countries least affected by the Strait of Malacca in terms of international shipping map.

Of course, the United States and the new country still have economic exchanges, after all, the influence of American multinational corporations throughout the world, American shipping companies will also contract shipping business from Northeast Asia to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, American oil companies also have oil refining business in Xincheng, and American financial companies will also conduct business in Xincheng, but the economic ups and downs of the United States have a small direct impact on Xincheng, but the indirect impact is also not small. Because as the world's only superpower, once the US economy has problems, it will inevitably affect the whole world, and Xincheng is no exception.

However, the international shipping that Xincheng relies on for its livelihood depends heavily on logistics in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. It is said that one-third of the world's cargo passes through the Strait of Malacca, and at the same time, the container throughput of the entire Northeast Asian ports also accounts for one-third of the world's total port throughput, and this proportion will continue to rise in the future. In the future, seven of the world's top ten ports in terms of throughput are Chinese, which shows the status of China in the world's shipping. Once the Kra Isthmus became a reality, it was not an exaggeration to say that Malacca's status plummeted.

Therefore, there is actually a good foundation for cooperation between Xincheng and Huaguo, so Yang Chenglin said that the friendly situation between Huaxin still needs to be maintained.

The U.S. control of Malacca has little to do with its own domestic economy, and the U.S. control of Malacca is aimed at controlling the Asia-Pacific region, Southeast Asia and East Asia as a whole. Hua Guo does not want its lifeblood to be controlled by others, especially by the United States, so it wants to break this situation, and the ideal state is for Xincheng to form an alliance with Hua Guo and drive out the United States, an outsider. For the United States, Malacca is a tool to contain China and control East Asia, and China, or several countries in East Asia, is closely related to Malacca's development.

However, China did not yet have the strength to control Malacca, so Xincheng had no choice but to seek refuge from the United States and form an alliance with the Americans for national security considerations.

From the perspective of Chinese people, they naturally don't like Xincheng very much, and even many Chinese people will think that Xincheng is also a Chinese country, but it is on the side of the Americans, which is simply forgetting their ancestors.

But from the perspective of the new city, this is their only option. It is unlikely that Xincheng will choose to form an alliance with Huaguo, and objectively speaking, due to historical and practical reasons, it is likely that Xincheng will be isolated if it does. Although Huaguo is important to Xincheng, it cannot give Xincheng the most important security guarantee, at least not yet. Therefore, a very real problem is that economic expansion will inevitably require a strong military backing, and future development will also prove this.