Chapter 416: Challenges and Opportunities Coexist
Wang Dongmeng was stunned and looked at Yunlong in disbelief.
"What is 'America'? Don't tell me it's a citizen with a ballot, and don't say it's the president who lives in the White House, the congressman in the Capitol, and the justices of the Supreme Court. 'America' is the financial capitalists of Wall Street, the oligarchs who hold the lifeblood of the economy. ”
"We all know that Lao Maozi has always been insatiable in business, and he can't pay for his life, and India is deeply aware of this, and the US financial oligarchs have surpassed it. If there is any difference, it is only bandits who are better disguised and behave more civilized, wearing tuxedos. ”
Luo Qing and Wang Haotian both laughed, but Wang Dong didn't laugh because he didn't think it was funny.
"In fact, the Saudi royal family has long seen the ugly face of the American financial oligarchy."
"Back then, in order to recover the oil fields that originally belonged to them, the Saudi royal family tightened their belts and took more than 20 years to pay off the money for the repurchase of oil fields, paying a total of hundreds of billions of dollars."
"Although in the following decades, Saudi Arabia pursued a pro-American policy and had a good life, until now, Saudi Arabia is still a pure oil exporter, sustained by the sale of oil. From the point of view of modernization, especially industrial construction, Saudi Arabia is even inferior to Iran, which has been blockaded by the West for decades. ”
"Take the military industry as an example, Iran can produce fighter jets, tanks, missiles, ships and guns of various calibers, but what about Saudi Arabia? So far, only firearms can be produced, and D&F provides the technology, which is produced in Saudi Arabia, and the key technology is also from China. ”
After Yunlong said these words, Luo Qing and Wang Haotian also put away their smiles.
"Obviously, with the United States, Saudi Arabia is just a big oil field, don't count on the rest, and those financial oligarchs who are obsessed with interests will definitely not let Saudi Arabia develop and grow, especially industry, because at that time, they don't want to make super profits in Saudi Arabia. It is precisely because of this recognition that after Crown Prince Mohammed came to power, he insisted on pursuing a pluralistic diplomacy and gradually strengthened relations with China. ”
"Asking for Huaxia's help?"
"If we want to talk about construction, especially modern industrial construction, if Huaxia recognizes the second, no country dares to recognize the first."
Yunlong smiled faintly and said: "The miracle created by Huaxia is obvious to all, after World War II, Huaxia is the only country with a population of 100 million that has achieved comprehensive industrialization. ”
"More importantly, China adheres to the basic policy of common development, cooperation and mutual benefit, helps and promotes the modernization of friendly countries and develops foreign relations, emphasizes the basic foreign policy of seeking common ground while reserving differences, and creates a foreign relationship that is completely different from that of the United States and other Western countries."
"Just like some Western media have said, the United States has been exporting wars, turmoil and strife to the outside world, and everywhere the US military goes, there are wars and homes, but China is engaged in construction everywhere and helps other countries get out of their predicament through investment and construction. It is not the army that can make a country rich and strong, but the engineering corps, and it is not artillery fire that can make a country develop and grow, but modernization. ”
"If the heavily armed US military is the business card of the United States, then the professional and efficient engineering team is the business card of China. To put it a little self-aggrandizing, if a certain country wants to carry out modernization now, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely not the United States, but China. ”
Wang Dong nodded slightly and didn't say anything more.
In fact, Wang Dong has thought of these things for a long time, and has always thought that Crown Prince Mohammed gave him face because he was Chinese.
"Of course, as I said at the beginning, it is certainly not easy to turn a ship that has been sailing in this direction for decades. Turn too fast and the boat will definitely capsize. If the operation is not done properly, the captain may not be able to protect himself. It's a process, and it has to be gradual. ”
"In that case, Crown Prince Mohammed will inevitably consider other issues, and it is impossible to end this war in the most favorable way for China."
"So, we don't expect this war to end immediately."
Wang Dong frowned and let Yunlong continue.
"At the beginning, I said, everyone is staring at the Iraqi civil war, analyzing the direction of the civil war, speculating on the impact of the civil war, how many people think about what will happen after the civil war?"
"You mean ......"
"The effects of the civil war in Iraq have become felt, they have become a fait accompli, and even if they end immediately, they will continue to exist and grow for some time. Oil prices, for example, will certainly remain high for several years, and will not fall immediately after the end of the civil war. ”
Wang Dong sighed and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"No matter what we think, we can't change the fact that oil prices have skyrocketed. It's just that high oil prices are not a hurdle that cannot be overcome, and similar things have not happened before. Before the outbreak of the global financial crisis, oil prices remained high for several years stimulated by the virtual economy, but we still survived and achieved good construction results. Perhaps in the next few years, China's economic development will encounter difficulties, but there are opportunities. ”
"Opportunity?" Luo Qing looked at Yunlong incomprehensibly.
"The U.S. financial oligarchy takes it for granted that it can deal with China by raising oil prices, just as it did when oil prices were lowered and the Soviet Union was buried, and China is pushed into the abyss of no return by raising oil prices, so that China can be transferred into the middle-income trap, and it will never recover. The problem is that China is not the Soviet Union, and the key factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union is not that oil prices are too low, but that it is a wrong strategic thinking. ”
At this time, Wang Dong and others were interested.
"To put it bluntly, the Soviet Union was brought down by itself. If the Soviet Union had not engaged in an arms race with the United States, and after establishing a nuclear balance of power, had invested more resources in improving the national economy and people's livelihood and raising the living standards of the people, instead of using it to manufacture weapons and equipment that would never run out, the Soviet Union would definitely not have collapsed at that time, would certainly have survived, and perhaps even been able to drag down the NATO bloc. ”
"It's a pity that there are no ifs."
"Fortunately, Huaxia did not repeat the mistakes of the past." Yunlong smiled faintly and said, "In fact, this is also the key to the fact that the United States has to take up oil as a weapon and attack China in the economic field after hesitating for more than ten years, because there is no other card to play." Ten years ago, this would have been a huge threat. Only now, I'm afraid, even the most confident financial oligarchy will not have much luxury. ”
Wang Dong and the others fell silent.
At this time, Saleh rushed over.
Crown Prince Mohammed has already set up a supper and invited Wang Dong and Yunlong to come over.
Luo Qing was a little dissatisfied, but he had long been used to it, in Saudi Arabia, women have no social status.
Wang Haotian is self-aware, and he is already very satisfied to be able to follow Wang Dong to the palace to open his eyes.