Chapter 627: The Sorrow of a Small Country
"Why, we are the same people, and if we want to sit down with them, they may agree to us!" Han Zaixi asked.
"It's useless, they can't listen to anything, they have been brainwashed by socialism, they think that our side is made into a miasma by capitalism, the other side disdains to contact our side, and our side has no way to contact each other at all!" Park's answer at the time made Han Jae-hee understand the position of both sides.
In fact, there is one more thing that Park Geun-hye did not say, that is, the contradictions between North and South Korea are also what they want to see. Any socialist country is their enemy, and they need South Korea to contain North Korea. China's current attitude is very vague, and it will not take the initiative to provoke a war, but it will resolutely defend its territorial sovereignty and national interests.
But there are also some big problems within China, after the Wenchuan earthquake, the whole of Sichuan is in ruins, and the state has invested a lot of money in order to restore Sichuan's economic strength. Later, the United States printed a large number of dollars, which led to the depreciation of the dollar and the appreciation of the RMB, which made it difficult for Chinese goods to move in the United States.
The U.S. dollar is now an international currency, and it can be exchanged for the corresponding currency at the local bank wherever you go. The consequence of the depreciation of the dollar is that the sales volume of goods from other countries in the United States is constrained by prices.
Even South Korea, the younger brother of the United States, is the same, most of the products produced in their country are exported to other countries, and their biggest customer is the United States, followed by the European Union, followed by China and Japan.
As the economic crisis raged, major countries in Europe and the United States suffered greatly, and social welfare did not achieve what they had planned, but instead became a burden on government finances. Social welfare policies have been around for decades in countries such as Europe and the United States.
Even beggars on the streets are very satisfied with the system.
Not only does this system ensure that they survive and get a good education for their children, but the United States also encourages them to have children. There is now a labor fault line in the United States, a large number of workers are retiring, and there are not enough workers to fill their vacancies, which is very detrimental to the development of various enterprises.
At this time, they need to be supplemented by a large number of laborers, and these labor forces are those young people. But there are some problems in the United States now, because of the social welfare system, many people don't need to think about what happens after they retire! It is because of this that many American couples do not want to have a child, for them, as long as they can live a very ordinary life, it is enough.
Although the welfare system is conducive to stabilizing the current situation in the United States, it is also a big money-absorber, and why the United States has such a high fiscal deficit is not only a matter of military spending but also a problem of social welfare.
After an economic crisis, many people in the United States have no money to eat and can only rely on the welfare system to survive, which also leads to an instant shrinkage of taxes in the United States, and the price of food in the market is not fixed, which brings a lot of trouble to their procurement, each of which makes people very speechless.
South Korea's social welfare system is much worse than this, and it only guarantees that those citizens will not die, but their lives are also very miserable.
Lee Myung-bak wants to manage but the government's finances can't manage it at all, and more importantly, he needs to stabilize the current situation now, otherwise South Korea will be really in chaos. Most of the people of South Korea are waiting for him, and he must lead them out of the current predicament.
And those who came from North Korea, Lee Myung-bak can only say sorry, the other party has no hukou in South Korea, and he does not have any documents, so it is very good to be able to let them stay in South Korea. Why do they provide food and clothing to these foreigners who do not have a Korean hukou? This is the reality, the gap between North and South Korea is already very large, and perhaps by the time the next generation comes, the North and South Korea will not be what they are now, and reunification will become impossible. Just and in. The relationship between China and Taiwan is the same.
Now the older generation in Taiwan is slowly passing away, and the people above Taiwan are currently divided into three categories. One is the local aborigines of Taiwan, the other is the Chinese-Japanese mixed race who left Taiwan at that time, and the last group is the troops and their families that the Kuomintang carried when they left Taiwan.
Among these people, these people who have passed from the mainland miss their hometown very much, and the others basically do not have the slightest feeling for the mainland, even the descendants of these people.
Young people in South Korea do not understand the nostalgia of the older generation for their homeland, when many people were forcibly taken away by the South Korean government during the Civil War and came to the south, far from their homeland. When you come to the South, you have to start from scratch.
With the support of the United States, life is still very good, but the absence of ancestral graves when sweeping graves makes them very sad.
In the future, North Korea's frequent missile launches have tightened the strings in the hearts of South Koreans, and some people are even considering whether to buy some emergency supplies to prevent a shortage of goods in wartime.
Some wealthy families are already building private bomb shelters, which are worth a lot of money, but they are nothing compared to their own lives.
This is also the reason why South Koreans hate North Korea so much, once the two sides start a war, the worst is always these civilians, for civilians, war is a meat grinder, each does not know what will become of them.
It's just that no matter how much these people hate war, it will still come. North Korea's ultimate goal is to reclaim South Korea by force. But it is very difficult to do so, and South Korea is an important pawn in the US layout in Southeast Asia, which can closely monitor China and Russia.
South Korea is indispensable to US hegemonism, and like Japan, the United States has also begun to support South Korea's military strength, but South Korea's own military strength is still insufficient, many weapons are in disrepair, and although the country's annual wholesale military spending is increasing, as far as South Korea's current military strength is concerned, even North Korea cannot defeat it. If it weren't for North Korea's fear of the United States, which is behind South Korea, it is estimated that South Korea would no longer exist by now.
South Korea understands this, so they are still in line with the United States in the general direction, and even those politicians have to agree to the United States' request on the deployment of THAAD missiles. A small country has no diplomacy, and no matter how strong its economy is, it is just a lamb to be slaughtered.