Chapter 791: Lobbying

The meeting between Tang Feng and Bainimarama went smoothly, and because he needed to go to the United States to lobby Jeb. At the insistence of Bainimarama, Bush and Tang Feng won the title of "Prime Minister's Special Economic Envoy" to Fiji.

Because Tang Feng is now holding a U.S. passport, although the United States now adopts a tacit attitude towards dual citizenship, the U.S. Constitution clearly stipulates that the United States does not recognize dual citizenship. Therefore, if Tang Feng silently obtains Fijian nationality, the US authorities can only turn a blind eye, but if Tang Feng wants to obtain the status officially recognized by Fiji, it will be very inappropriate if he has the status of an American citizen.

In fact, there are currently 225 countries and regions in the world, of which 195 are sovereign states and 192 are members of the United Nations. Among these countries, there are very few countries that can really explicitly recognize dual nationality, but similarly, there are very few countries that do not recognize dual nationality completely and unequivocally, such as Huaxia. Most of these countries have adopted a tacit attitude towards dual citizenship.

Like the United States, this is the case, and Fiji's constitution also does not recognize dual citizenship, but in Fiji, dual citizenship is also tacitly allowed

It is precisely for this reason that Tang Feng was given the unofficial title of "Fiji Prime Minister's Economic Envoy", although this title is not an official position in Fiji, but because of the prefix of "Fiji Prime Minister" in front, this title is very high-end and high-end.

Tang Feng flew back to the United States with such a title, and with him flew back to the United States, as well as the real special envoy of the Prime Minister of Fiji. That's the high-level person who can really represent the official meaning of Fiji. Tang Feng is just pulling a pretense.

After all, Fiji belongs to the British Commonwealth countries, and if it suddenly gets too close to the United States, it will not be a face-saving thing for Britain, a hardcore brother of the United States. So this kind of thing can't be done blatantly. Don't put the gun, quietly drop

For Tang Feng's visit, Jeb. Mr. Bush and his think tank gave an answer that they could cooperate cautiously after listening to what Tang Feng said about cooperation between Fiji and the United States.

The Southwest Pacific has always been a British reserve. Whether it is Australia, New Zealand, or PNG, they are all Commonwealth countries, the three largest countries in Oceania, and the common head of state is now Queen Victoria.

Of course, the United States wants to extend its hand into the southwest Pacific, but because of its relations with Britain and the closeness of Oceania countries to Britain, the United States has not made much progress in this strategy. Now that Fiji has suddenly put forward such an offer for close cooperation, the US Government will naturally not refuse.

Although Fiji is also a Commonwealth country, Fiji's supreme head of state is the president. And not the Queen of England. Therefore, in terms of independence, Fiji is more suitable for cooperation with the United States than Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

Of course, Fiji's request is that there is no problem in cooperation, but the United States has to agree to some conditions of the Fiji military, such as two Hyundai-class missile destroyers, Su-30 heavy fighters, and the S-400 missile defense system

These things are nothing to the United States, even if Fiji has them. It is also difficult to shake the global strategy of the United States, but if these weapons and equipment appear in Oceania. The U.S. government will have to take into account the attitudes of Australia and New Zealand.

Originally, President George W. Bush's think tank did not agree with Fiji doing this, but Tang Feng came forward, and as the actual richest man in the United States, Tang Feng's face was still very large. After Tang Feng lobbied and made a series of promises, the US government finally agreed to Fiji's request for additional weapons and equipment in the army.

That's it. After five or six days of talks with the US high-level officials, Tang Feng finally returned to Fiji with the sincerity of the US authorities, and since the US authorities did not stop some of the actions of the Fijian authorities, the next thing was to bring these weapons and equipment to Fiji.

To talk about these weapons and equipment. And thanks to Hugo. Sigman. In the former Soviet era, a total of 14 modern-class missile destroyers were equipped in the former Soviet Union, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, although these missile destroyers did not flow to other countries, they were all divided among the CIS countries at that time.

As the most important nuclear base of the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukraine received a total of four modern-class missile destroyers, the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis a few years ago, led to a sharp decline in Ukraine's economic situation, and the new president and commander-in-chief of the forces of Ukraine Poroshenko and Hugo. Sigman's personal relationship was excellent, and under these conditions, Tang Feng entrusted Hugo. Sigman and Poroshenko are in private contact and are willing to buy two Modern-class missile destroyers for $400 million each.

Ukraine's four modern-class missile destroyers have been in service for a long time, they are all more than 20 years, and their value is certainly not as high as it was back then, and Tang Feng spent 800 million US dollars in one go to buy two missile destroyers, which are no longer the top missile destroyers, which makes Comrade Poroshenko very willing.

In addition, Tang Feng also has to invest in the purchase of other weapons and equipment, such as the twelve Su-30s, the price given by Tang Feng is also very moving, and the price of one is as high as 45 million US dollars. The total value of this arms sale alone is more than $1.5 billion.

This is undoubtedly an extremely cost-effective deal for Ukraine, which is in economic distress, so Comrade Poroshenko happily agreed to this arms sale. After all, the weapons and equipment sold, except for individual equipment, are second-hand. Second-hand goods can be sold at the price of new goods, so fools don't do this kind of business.

As for the 16 sets of S-400 missile defense systems that Tang Feng needed, Tang Feng bought them through Hansen from international arms brokers. These S-400 missile defense systems are what Tang Feng really wants, as long as eight sets are installed on Lausara Island, it is enough to ensure the safety of Lausara Island.

These things have now passed safely through the Bosphorus and into the Mediterranean, along with the two Hyundai-class destroyers, which are anchored in the military port of Izmir, Turkey. As long as Tang Feng gives news, it will not take ten weeks for these two Hyundai-class missile destroyers to appear in Fiji's ports with those weapons and equipment.

So, as long as the U.S. side nods, then everything will fall into place.

After Tang Feng returned to Fiji, he did not wait for the arrival of the two modern-class missile destroyers with the anxious Mbanimarama, and it would not be good for Tang Feng to come forward again in those things. He takes Sophia to Lausara Island, ready to explore what interests him (to be continued). )