Chapter 705: The relationship is complicated

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For the Chinese. Mongolia is a special country.

Because for a long time in history, Mongolia was once part of China. For the Chinese, Mongolia is a strange country. We are so ignorant of our neighbor, which shares a border of more than 4,000 kilometers with us, that some people in the country are still wishful thinking about the possibility of a "return."

"Regression is 100 percent impossible. Neither the Mongols nor the Chinese in Mongolia will have a second answer to this question. The staff of the embassy in Mongolia replied like this when receiving Fan Wuxian and his party.

One of Fan Wuxi's attachΓ©s asked with some curiosity, "I heard that the Mongolian Great Hural is discussing the issue of returning to China. ”

"That's also pure good-spirited people's paintings. The reality is that the Mongols have not been able to reject China thousands of miles away, so how can they talk about throwing themselves into their arms? The embassy staff replied, "Do you want to know what is the place of the Chinese in the hearts of the Mongols?" What the Japanese are in the hearts of the Chinese, what the Chinese are in the hearts of the Mongols. Chinese who have been to Mongolia have had unpleasant experiences to some extent. Before I came to Mongolia, a friend from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned me to be careful on my own, especially at night, and to stay away from drunks on the streets. ”

Chinese companies in Mongolia are the biggest victims of this resistance. When a domestic company, Ruide develops a gold mine in Sukhbaatar province, the local environmental police and county magistrates often come to find trouble. At another project site this year, the local environmental police had all the Chinese workers stand in a row in the sun while they sat in a yurt and drank alcohol.

"It's an insult, but we have to swallow it, and other foreign-funded companies won't be treated like this." Sun Zhengyuan, the person in charge of Ruide Company, who came to receive Fan Wuzhi and others with the embassy staff, expressed great anger and helplessness about this.

An employee of Ruide also said that this year, he was stolen by a thief in Sukhbaatar Square, but after he chased the thief, he was taken to the police station by the local police, and the thief was let go, and he was beaten instead.

"If it weren't for the fact that there is gold here, the ghosts would have come here, and they would have been starved to death and starved to death!" The employee said with some resentment.

Embassy staff also said that Chinese-Mongolian people of mixed descent in Mongolia generally do not take the initiative to talk about their Chinese ancestry to others, especially Mongolian officials with Chinese ancestry, because it is a dangerous move to ruin their political future.

The Mongolian media undoubtedly played a role in fueling the unfriendliness of the Mongols towards the Chinese, often rendering things that were concentrated into one side, so that the Chinese embassy had to do some public relations work to maintain China's image in Mongolia.

However, if a local newspaper makes a positive report about China, it often has to make a corresponding negative report soon to neutralize it, which shows the social situation and public opinion of its domestic readers. The same is true for political parties in Mongolia, where they often become political bargaining chips in parliamentary elections. In a ** country, this at least reflects the likes and dislikes of the local population.

Under such public opinion in Mongolia, the Chinese people demanded the return of Mongolia. There is undoubtedly a lack of deeper thinking. I don't know myself or the other, and I only care about talking to myself on the Internet, and sometimes I can only help.

In this regard, Fan Wuxian said with deep feelings, "China's rise, the concept of history must mature, frankly speaking, if the historical problems are not faced, the problems of many neighboring countries cannot be solved." The country's development is staged, there is a big long-term strategic interest in it, and the state has repeatedly stressed respect for Mongolia's sovereignty, but we people have different views, and we cannot say that these people are unpatriotic, but we must seriously consider these issues. Wishful thinking and rhetoric without facing history and reality squarely is really boring. ”

Indeed, if we think about it from another perspective, when successive Japanese prime ministers went to pay homage at the Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese were still furious, and when Mongolian people who understand Chinese opened the Chinese website, all they saw were speeches calling for the retraction of Mongolia. What will the Mongols think? If this problem cannot be bypassed, it will be impossible for the Chinese and Mongolian people to have genuine friendly exchanges.

In fact, in the eyes of the Chinese, the American language is out-and-out great-power chauvinism, but how do these neighboring countries near China, especially independent countries such as North Korea or Mongolia or Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, etc., which were previously traditional Chinese vassals, view a strong China?

This truth is actually very easy to understand, of course, everyone wants to have good things, but others also have other people's ideas.

"Boss, it looks like this is a bit of a problem." The entourage said to Fan Wuxian.

Fan Wuxi shook his head and said, "What's so bad about that?" We are a multinational company, and we have China and Russia as backers, how much chaos do you think can be caused by relying on these Mongolian guns? ”

"That's what I said, but isn't there still such an old saying, the county magistrate might as well be in charge now." Someone said.

Fan Wuxian smiled, and then said to everyone, "Did you notice it on the street just now?" Even the security guards here are equipped with guns. ”

Many people nodded their heads, and the embassy staff explained, "The security situation in Mongolia is very poor, and there are many wild animals in the steppe, so it is not surprising that the security guards carry guns." ”

"I plan to make another order with Lockheed Martin, buy more armed helicopters and individual soldiers, how can I arm a team of tens of thousands of people, the name of the factory protection team is very useful." Fan Wuxian said his thoughts to everyone.

"Mr. Fan, your idea seems to be a bit problematic, and it will cause international disputes." The people in the embassy were suddenly taken aback, and said in their hearts, did Mr. Fan come to Mongolia to invest, or did he pull the pole and pull the team to make a riot?

You know, the armed forces of the whole of Mongolia are only 20,000 people. It's just a couple of brigades, and they're all old weapons in terms of equipment. If Fan Wuxian really has to raise an American-style armed force of tens of thousands of people, he will scare their guts.

Fan Wuxian smiled disapprerovingly, in fact, he had already imagined this situation, although Mongolia has resources, but food and daily necessities are dependent on imports, although Russia is a big country, but now the economic situation is very poor, and the lives of the people in his own country can't take care of it, how can he come to help Mongolia?

And China has been aiding Mongolia in terms of food and daily necessities, but it is only moral aid, once China's aid to Mongolia is stopped, then they will really go crazy, especially Fan Wuxian can say that at the same time the high-level of China and Russia to take unified action, which is equivalent to completely encircling the landlocked country Mongolia, not only losing the channel of contact with the outside world, but also losing any possibility of receiving external assistance.

It's not that Russia has no intentions for Mongolia, it's just that they withdrew their troops from Mongolia after the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations, and then the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia's economy was in dire straits, and there was no time to look eastward, and Mongolia was thrown away.

Now is the best time for me to enter Mongolia and develop. Once Russia recovers in a few years, coupled with the rapid rise in the prices of various resources in the international market, the Mongols react and feel that it is not cost-effective to take over various mineral resources by themselves, and then they will lose this good opportunity to develop the resource market.

Besides, now that Fan Wuxian knows several important mining areas, they have not yet been explored, which is a good time for monopoly, and there will be no such shop in this village after that.

The factory protection team must be engaged! Private armed. It's just a little bigger.

If the Mongols really dare to turn their faces against themselves at that time, it is also necessary to teach them a lesson, as if Russia has Chechnya making trouble with them, what is the big deal about a war? Even if the country is reluctant to provide arms for fear of interference, the Americans dare to sell anything, and Russia is beyond the reach of the whip, and most of them will sit idly by and watch the sudden deterioration of Sino-Russian relations.

However, the people in the embassy seemed very nervous, and they vigorously asked if what Fan Wuxi had just said was true, which made Fan Wuxi very bored, and casually found some nonsense to deal with them.

For this, Fan Wuxi felt very unhappy, within his sphere of influence, what scruples do you have to have? Could it be that you bully children at your own doorstep, and others still run over to help others out of anger when the road is uneven? In this era when the economy is king, the so-called axiom and morality are just a fig leaf, and it should be true, as strong as the United States, do we need to explain any reason?

If we do not start by bullying the weak, we will never be able to become a truly influential power.

In the pattern of international relations, Mongolia is not a country of great status in terms of power and influence. However, due to the peculiarity of Mongolia's geopolitical position, Mongolia is like a weight in the strategic relations between major powers, which can tilt the balance of the Asia-Pacific strategic structure.

Mongolia is of great strategic value to China, Russia, the United States, Japan and other major powers, and its foreign policy orientation will have a profound impact on the complex strategic relations between these major powers. At the same time, Mongolia is located in the geopolitical structure formed among the major powers, and Mongolia's national strategy and foreign relations are seriously constrained by the relations between the major powers, and it has clear geopolitical characteristics and patterns.

Mongolia's predecessor, the People's Revolutionary Party, whose predecessor was Mongolia, whose goal was to build a society and develop a free-market economy, believes that the government should have at least a 51 percent controlling stake in the mining industry as a majority shareholder. The second-largest coalition of parties, on the other hand, is a pro-Western party whose aim is to develop a society of human rights and freedom, arguing that the private sector should become the largest shareholder in the mining industry.

It seems that this is a question of whether to insist on public ownership or to promote privatization, but in fact, the covert contest between Russia and the United States is also closely infiltrated into it. Back in the early nineties, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mongolia had been settling its historical debts with Mongolia, which owed about $11 billion in foreign debt for decades, while Mongolia at that time had only about $200 million in foreign exchange reserves, almost no industry, and was simply unable to pay off this huge debt.

One of the solutions proposed by Russia is to convert this 11 billion dollars into state shares. Russia now owns 49 percent of Mongolia's state-owned railway transport. Although Mongolia has a large amount of oil and gas resources, 90 percent of the country's oil supply comes from Russia's national oil company, and Russia has given a preferential price slightly below the market price in exchange for part of the management of Mongolia's national oil industry.

Mongolia's uranium reserves are about 1.3 million tons, and the resources can be said to be very rich, so this rumor makes the Americans feel very worried, after all, the thirst for uranium resources of any nuclear power is endless.

Therefore, Fan Wuzhi also considered that by virtue of his newly established cooperative relationship with Russia and his personal relations with various circles in the United States, it should be possible to settle the matter in this side by engaging in balanced diplomacy between the two powers, after all, he also has a relatively independent international investment company as a tool to participate in Mongolia's development, which can be put to good use.

"How did Mr. Fan get here?" The embassy staff asked.

"Take the train, this place is really boring." Fan Wuxian couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of the train he was on when he came.

When he came over, Fan Wuxian took the international train that went directly to Ulaanbaatar, although it was said to be an international train, but its dilapidated degree was worse than the trains that were eliminated and not used in China.

Although he didn't come to Mongolia for a long time, when he saw Rolls-Royce and other luxury cars running on the street, and then looked at Mongolia's extremely poor infrastructure, how could he have imagined that the level of officialdom here would only be worse, not the worst.

However, Fan Wuxian also made up his mind, it is naturally necessary to invest here, but it should also be used as a threat to fight for more privileges, such as air flight permissions, etc., plus the government officials in Mongolia are very **, and they only need to pay a small amount of investment to get these things done.

Once you have a firm foothold in Mongolia, you have the final say on what to do.

After Fan Wuxian and they discussed for a while, someone proposed to go to the largest shopping mall in Ulaanbaatar to have a look and experience the consumption and daily life of Mongolians.

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