Chapter 699: The Foundation of the New Alliance
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Although at present, Russia has some favorable conditions for easing the economic crisis. But the challenges remain daunting.
In the early nineties, shortly after Russia's economic reforms, there was a massive capital flight, which continued to deepen as the economic depression continued. According to the balance of payments sheet compiled by the Bank of Russia and the estimates of some experts, Russia's annual capital flight since 1994 has amounted to about $17 billion. So far, about $180 billion to $210 billion has flowed abroad.
The large-scale flight of funds has caused a large amount of investment funds to be lost in Russia, and the risk of debt has continued to increase, resulting in a stagnant and dynamous economy in Russia. At present, the most important thing for the Russian Government is to speed up economic development, create a good investment environment in the country, and take corresponding measures to strengthen control over Russia's foreign trade and strengthen legislative work on capital flows in order to eliminate illegal capital flight.
However, Russia is rather weak in attracting foreign investment, and judging from the current situation of attracting foreign investment, it lags far behind Western countries and many developing countries, and is also inferior to Eastern Europe and some CIS countries.
Over the past nine years, Russia has brought in a total of $23 billion in foreign investment, of which less than $10 billion has been direct investment. Last year, due to the impact of the Southeast Asian financial crisis, the total amount of foreign investment in Russia declined, and direct investment fell by 40 percent. Therefore, in the period of economic transition, in order to get rid of economic difficulties and develop the economy. In order to effectively attract and utilize foreign investment, the Russian government must first ensure the stability of Russia's domestic political situation and good social order, and on the other hand, it must also improve laws and regulations, maintain the continuity of policies, protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors, and earnestly improve the domestic investment environment.
The current sale of fuel and raw material products by Russia provides the country with the funds it needs to carry out reforms and repay foreign debts, but at the same time makes the structure of Russian exports more vulnerable. Although the Russian Government has made some efforts to improve the structure of foreign trade import and export commodities and to encourage and stimulate the export of manufactured products and high-tech products, it has achieved little success. In order to improve the efficiency of exports, Russia has begun to reform its oil companies, but the reform will take time and money, and this will be another severe test for Russia's foreign trade situation.
In fact, the poor performance of the Russian economy is not only due to macroeconomic factors such as high inflation and floating exchange rates, but more importantly, the government's intervention in the microeconomy, such as subsidies and tax exemptions, has put a heavy burden on the government, and the government's excessive spending and deficits have triggered a financial crisis.
In Russia's steel industry, which is most affected by government intervention, labor productivity is only one-tenth that of U.S. steel, while Russia's food service and software industry is more efficient without government intervention.
Although Russia has only 6,000 people working in software development, it is about 70% more productive than in the United States. It also shows that governments tend to undermine the best macroeconomic policies by taking too much of the microeconomy into account.
In this case, Yeltsin's overall deserving is also very unsatisfactory, no wonder he will be tired and suffer from heart disease.
From a medical point of view, Yeltsin can be said to be a typical example of coronary heart disease, and he has almost all the risk factors: high-fat diet, smoking and drinking, emotional agitation, severe obesity.
Yeltsin himself admitted that he had already suffered five heart attacks during his presidency, as well as one heart operation.
Twelve years ago, actually. Yeltsin was diagnosed with coronary heart disease, but he did not pay attention to it, not only did he not carry out standardized treatment, but he still maintained his original way of life, continued to enjoy the Russian food he loved, and smoked smoke while sipping on strong vodka.
By the year before last, Yeltsin's coronary heart disease had developed to a very serious point, three coronary arteries diffuse serious lesions, and combined with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, at this time his condition was no longer suitable for internal medicine stent implantation, can only take surgical coronary artery bypass surgery, at that time the operation lasted more than seven hours, a total of four vascular bridges.
For coronary heart disease, the most emphasis is placed on early prevention and treatment, secondary prevention, and attention to lifestyle adjustment. However, if the medical history is very long, and the disease progresses to the point of diffuse lesions of multiple blood vessels such as Yeltsin and cardiac insufficiency, the chance of sudden cardiac death is more than 90%. Any little bit of wind and grass, such as a cold, emotional agitation, or a little exertion, can become the fuse of sudden death.
Fan Wuzhi can say without hesitation that Yeltsin's illness has developed to such an extent that sudden death is already an inevitable result. Good medical conditions in Russia can only slow the progression of the disease, but not prevent the tragedy from happening.
The Russian diet can be called the "coronary heart disease diet", butter, sausages, and bread are the daily diet of the Russian people, and they are also typical high-fat, high-sugar, and high-calorie foods. Yeltsin, as the president of Russia, of course, ate with the people, and often ate such three-high foods, which laid the bane of diet for coronary heart disease.
Among the obese population, the most dangerous are those with obesity in the abdomen, that is, those who are known as apple-shaped people. The fat cells of these people accumulate around the main organs in the abdominal cavity, which affects blood sugar metabolism and can easily cause abnormalities in blood lipids, cholesterol and triglycerides. And Yeltsin, who had a big belly, unfortunately had this very important risk factor.
Character determines fate, and no one can do anything about temper. As we all know, Yeltsin, Russia's first democratically elected president, has never been easy-going, is a temperamental, does whatever he wants, and never listens to the advice of others.
Yeltsin is a typical type A personality person, this type of person's personality characteristics are irritable, competitive, fast-paced, efficient, ambitious, dominant, and type of personality are at high risk of coronary heart disease. And on the basis of this character, Yeltsin was often under great pressure.
Yeltsin was born into a peasant family, and his poor family and difficult childhood life cultivated his stubborn and aggressive character, which accompanied him for almost all of his political career. During his presidency, his violent temper led him to change government as naturally as it did to change his shirt.
Under emotional agitation and stress, people will cause sympathetic nerve excitation, increase the secretion of catecholamines in the body, and act on blood vessels, which will cause blood vessels to constrict and increase heart rate. It strengthens myocardial contractility, increases myocardial oxygen consumption, increases the load on the heart, and leads to angina pectoris and even myocardial infarction. If Yeltsin planted a bomb in his heart due to the enormous pressure over time, then his violent temper was the fuse of this bomb, which could detonate at any time.
Yeltsin was also an avid smoker and drinker, and he was Russia's most loyal customer of vodka, often using alcohol to relieve the stress of work. Every day at 11 a.m., Yeltsin would start drinking glass after glass, even until dinnertime, and he had delayed his scheduled meeting with the then Irish prime minister because he was so drunk at the White House farewell banquet that he had so drunk that he had delayed his meeting.
The relationship between smoking and coronary heart disease is also clear, and harmful components such as coal tar and nicotine in cigarettes can damage vascular endothelial cells, causing plaques to form or aggravate the original plaques; Causes vasospasm, further aggravating vascular stenosis. It was under the influence of the two major killers of tobacco and alcohol that Yeltsin made his coronary heart disease more serious.
When Fan Wuxian met with Yeltsin, he checked him very seriously, and then had to shake his head and say, "Mr. President, with all due respect, if you don't change your ways, I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive ten years, and your current health can be said to be a mess, and it can't be worse!" ”
Yeltsin's physical difference. It is simply a fight with the original dikes in Jiangnan Province, which are full of holes, and any larger wave rushes over, which can break the embankment, when Fan Wuxian used his true qi to check Yeltsin just now, he felt that he could burst his meridians with a little more true qi, and he was simply cautious as if he was walking on thin ice, and after finally checking it, a lot of cold sweat broke out on his head.
Even if he examined those critically ill patients who were endangered in the past, he never bothered Fan Wuxian as much as he did today.
Yeltsin also knew his condition very well for a long time, after listening to Fan Wuxi's words. smiled and said, "Anyway, it's already like this, it's fate, you can eat when you should eat, drink when you should drink, people die and birds are facing the sky, and you won't die for thousands of years." ”
Fan Heng came with Fan Wuxi, he had studied Russian, and the technical materials he came into contact with when he was in the Pingyuan Factory were basically in Russian, and the experts he contacted were also Russians, so there was no obstacle to communicating with Yeltsin, and he directly bypassed the translation.
"My son has a very good set of serious patients, so you might as well ask him to prescribe a few prescriptions for you, or treat them." Fan Heng said to Yeltsin.
"For people like me, there is probably no need for healing." Yeltsin didn't have any expectations for Fan Wuxi, shook his head and replied.
Fan Wuxian patted his head, and said in his heart that now Yeltsin has refused his own treatment so simply, not necessarily because he feels that he has no ability to heal him, but that he is already working on arranging the future of Russia, and is ready to bring Putin to the forefront.
Yeltsin's recent visit to China was actually for two major events, one was to pave the way for Putin to come to power, and the other was to discuss the Kosovo war launched by the United States and the European Union.
The most striking issue of national independence this year is the issue of national independence, which has been ignited in Kosovo in Yugoslavia, Chechnya in Russia, and East Timor in Indonesia. The first is the success of national independence under the armed intervention of foreign forces, and Kosovo in Yugoslavia is this model; The second is the peaceful success of national independence through a referendum, as was the case with the independence of East Timor in Indonesia; The third is the failure of independence under the armed suppression of the suzerain's government, as was the case in Russia's Chechnya.
If a weak nation wants to become independent from its own suzerain, it must have strong international support. If we can get the full support of the big powers or even intervene by force, the possibility of independence success is very high. This NATO armed intervention has brought Kosovo to independence, which has greatly encouraged other ethnic groups or regions that want independence. Since the United States can support Kosovo's independence by force, can it also support our independence by force?
Indonesia's East Timor, encouraged by NATO's intervention in Kosovo, has launched a rising independence movement. Under strong pressure from the United States and other countries, Indonesia's Habibie government had no choice but to agree to East Timor to vote on independence in a referendum and allow Australian-led United Nations troops to be stationed in East Timor to maintain law and order.
This NATO operation to send troops to Kosovo has set a precedent for foreign forces to support the national independence movement by force. The domestic government is naturally worried that when separatist movements emerge in some regions, the United States and some other countries will also send troops to intervene or support them by force. Therefore, it is reasonable that the domestic government strongly opposes NATO and US interference in Kosovo's independence.
Of course, it is not only China that opposes the United States and NATO, but also Russia, India, and other countries with national independence and regional separatist issues are worried that a super-large country like the United States will convene some countries to jointly interfere in their own national issues, so they also vigorously oppose US armed intervention in Yugoslavia.
This time, Russian President Boris Yeltsin dragged his sick body on his visit to China, and China's support for Russia's suppression of Chechen independence also reflected the sympathetic stand of China and Russia on the issue of opposing separatist forces.
The bombing of the embassy was, of course, a simple accidental bombing, and even if the inside story was left aside, it is not very likely that such an obvious target as the embassy would be bombed by mistake with high-tech US weapons. Although the bombing of the Chinese embassy was not necessarily directly planned by Clinton and other high-level government officials, it is very likely that some US military officials wanted to use the bombing of the Chinese embassy to give a color to the anti-American China and to warn Russia, India, and other countries to restrain themselves in their anti-US efforts.
Lee Teng-hui's dishing of the two-state theory at a time when Sino-US relations are at their lowest ebb, is also a strategy of throwing stones to ask for directions, trying to find out how much support the Americans can give to Taiwan.
Now that the United States is powerful, and it is entangled in the European Union, and the momentum is so fierce that even Russia feels lonely, so Yeltsin has to come to China with his sick body and once again set up the Sino-Russian alliance to cope with the pressure from the United States.
The two big countries, both of which have national problems, have finally joined hands again in response to the tremendous pressure from the United States.
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