As the people of Tuvalu were trying to live happily ever after, a piece of news caused panic in them.

According to a BBC report on May 31, between May 25 and May 31, the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, the largest ice shelf in Antarctica, suddenly expanded by 16 kilometers, and the direction also changed significantly, with a significant deflection to the right and an overall movement of 13 kilometers.

The 200-kilometre-long 55,000-kilometre Cice Shelf rift is about twice the size of Belgium and the fourth largest ice shelf in the world.

Researchers say the Larsen C ice shelf is thinning and could collapse in a century or less.

The collapse of the ice shelf itself will not have a significant impact on sea level rise, but the glaciers blocked by the ice shelf will flow into the ocean and melt, causing the ocean to rise.

The rise of the ocean is bound to be devastating for low-altitude island nations like Tuvalu.

The follow-up reports are becoming less and less optimistic.

As extreme weather continues, the rifts in the Larsen C ice shelf are separating faster and faster, reaching distances of more than 10 meters per day.

The iceberg is still attached to the ice shelf, but its outer end is moving at the fastest speed ever recorded.

The timing of the iceberg collapse is still unpredictable, but researchers have dramatically shortened the period, from a century or less to weeks, days, or even hours.

The Anglo-American Foundation's most optimistic estimate so far is that sea levels could rise by 1 to 2 metres by 2100.

The sudden change has put countries at lower elevations such as the Maldives, Kiribati and Tuvalu on pins and needles.

Kiribati, in particular, has a maximum altitude of only two metres above sea level, and if the sea level rises by 2 metres before 2,100, the vast majority of the country will be submerged below sea level.

Less than a third of the time has been completed, and it simply does not provide adequate protection for Tuvalu itself.

Prime Minister Enel urgently met with Wei Minsheng and asked the Shuguang Group to concentrate its efforts on speeding up the construction of the wave-proof embankment.

Wei Minsheng's reply was: "Shuguang Group has put all its energy into the construction of the breakwater embankment.

According to the size of the population of the Special Economic Zone, if the construction progress of the breakwater embankment is further increased, the working capital of the Shuguang Group will not be able to turn over. ”

Without the income from immigrants, there is no way to make sustainable investment in construction.

Therefore, the speed of construction must match the scale of migration in order to be sustainable.

Moreover, the sooner the breakwater embankment is completed, the less beneficial it will be to Wei Minsheng's plans.

However, it is not advisable to refuse the request of the Government of Tuvalu too thoroughly.

For Wei Minsheng, Tuvalu's roots are not those small islands, but those people.

Because Tuvalu is a democratic and sovereign country, and the members of Parliament are directly elected, only the citizens of Tuvalu can directly determine the future of Tuvalu.

For the Government of Tuvalu, those small islands are the foundation of Tuvalu's existence.

Because if there is no land left, Tuvalu will also disappear into history.

There is no fundamental conflict of interests between the two sides, and they are interdependent.

Integration is the best thing, but how to dominate the integration process is something that both sides are considering.

But the chain effects of the collapse of the ice shelf are unpredictable.

In order to add fuel to the already stormy Tuvalu government, Wei Minsheng stopped all the work on the construction site and swaggered to the Maldives by boat.

When immigrants who habitually accept work assignments on online platforms every day, they find that the construction jobs on the online platforms have suddenly disappeared.

Tuvaluans, who are very concerned about the construction work, immediately noticed the anomaly and reported the situation to the Tuvalu government.

Prime Minister Enel was extremely angry, he had just made an appointment with the top management of the Shuguang Group, but instead of speeding up the construction of the breakwater embankment, they stopped all the construction projects.

But when he contacted Wei Minsheng again, he was told that he was not in Tuvalu at the moment.

In desperation, Enel could only find Long Hao, the person in charge of the Special Economic Zone, to learn about the suspension of the project.

Long Hao didn't answer this directly, but just said that the shutdown was a decision made by Wei Minsheng, and everything would be said when he came back.

Long Hao said that the Kiribati government is also actively contacting the Sugon Group, hoping that they can make efforts for Kiribati to cope with rising sea levels.

And Kiribati seems to have given the Dawning Group some promises, such as that all the personnel involved in the construction of Kilimas can obtain their full national status, obtain permanent residency in Kiribati and other national treatments.

Similar circumstances and similar predicaments make Kiribati a natural competitor for Tuvalu.

The current reaction of the Sugon Group is obviously hesitant in the choice of many countries.

If the Tuvalu government does not come up with the same or even better commitments as other countries as soon as possible, the likelihood of Dawning switching to another country is very high.

In these circumstances, Tuvalu immediately passed an emergency bill that established the right of immigrants from the Tuvalu Special Region to permanent residence in Tuvalu and the right to participate in elections.

Most of the citizens who have already benefited from the Tuvalu SAR will certainly not be able to vote against it at this time, as their interests are already tied to the SAR and if Kiribati resolves the issue of the status of these migrants, the treaty between Tuvalu and the Dawning Group will no longer have any value.

If Shuguang Group removes all these steel modular houses in the city and drags away the boulders under the embankment, everything here will soon be restored to its original state, and it will not change the fate of the whole country's migrants.

But finally encountered such a God-given opportunity, Wei Minsheng could never be satisfied like this.

On the first day of the Tuvalu Emergency Act, Wei Minsheng instructed Long Hao to launch a referendum through the online platform of the Tuvalu Special Administrative Region.

The referendum is not aimed at the existing Tuvalu government, but rather to establish that all immigrants in the Tuvalu Region have the same rights as Tuvalu nationals, and of course, that all Tuvaluan nationals also enjoy all the benefits of the SAR immigrants.

There is no doubt that driven by Chiguoguo's interests, the SAR immigrants passed the first referendum by an overwhelming number of people, achieving great integration among different ethnic groups in Tuvalu and removing all obstacles to the future development of the Shuguang Group in the country.

However, according to the previous treaty, the ownership and management rights of the special zone built by the Shuguang Group with a huge investment in Shuguang Group will still be owned by the Shuguang Group, but it must ensure that the way of renting and using the houses in the special zone will not be shaken for 100 years.