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86_86661Two days later, Lieutenant General David came to Hainan, and Chen Zhong held a ceremony at the Hainan Palace to welcome Lieutenant General David's visit. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoZhang Tong and General Chen Fangzheng accompanied the ceremony.

Chen Zhong first thanked General David for everything he had done for Hainan, especially the issue of 12 children studying at the US Military Academy at West Point every year.

On the issue of Hainan's current naval development, Chen Zhong said: In recent years, Hainan's dependence on overseas trade has reached an unprecedented height, and it is impossible to continue to ignore maritime development. During this period, the development of the navies of various countries was very rapid, so how and how Hainan will continue to develop under such a world maritime pattern is a question that needs to be discussed.

Vice Admiral David praised Hainan's naval construction and expressed some of his own views.

Vice Admiral David said that it is a very good thing that Hainan's maritime trade is becoming more and more developed, and with overseas trade, and even if the profits of overseas trade are slightly higher than those of the domestic market, it is impossible for the Hainan Navy to suddenly stop its development or be suddenly stifled.

Because there is overseas trade, it is determined that Hainan has overseas interests that need to be protected, and this requires the presence of a navy to protect these overseas interests.

Lieutenant General Chen affirmed Lieutenant General David's views. Chen Zhong said that if overseas interests continue to develop, including the expansion of foreign trade cooperation in Africa and Europe, and at the same time we follow the correct strategy, Hainan is likely to rise rapidly.

But this strategy needs to be thought through very carefully. In addition, while Hainan rises, it will inevitably have a confrontational relationship with another major power in the Pacific region, Britain, Germany, Japan, and even the United States and Russia.

At present, the Germans hope to challenge Britain's position as world supremacy by force, which is a head-and-blood competition.

But your America also wants to rise, and you are smart enough not to resort to provocations as forcefully as Germany.

Vice Admiral David, we in Hainan hope to learn from the development model of your US Navy, and your United States pursues the concept of equal cooperation, which is actually a very wise approach.

In doing so, you are secretly not giving up your own rise, accumulating strength, and once the opportunity comes, when you have accumulated enough strength, you the United States will not hesitate to replace the former world hegemon.

Lieutenant General David smiled and said: "Your Excellency the King of Hainan, your wisdom is rare in the world today. Let's change the subject. ”

Chen Zhong smiled and said: "Well, in order not to make our vice admiral make a mistake, then we can take a small look at the issue of the arms race between the German Navy and the British Navy." ”

Chen Zhong said that Germany's attempt to challenge Britain's sea power is actually a challenge to free trade.

Eight years ago, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor of the Second German Empire, gave such a speech on the importance of ensuring control of power at sea.

He said that the image of Neptune, the god of the sea, with the trident in his hand, is a symbol of the new mission that our generation must accomplish. Wherever in the world, we must protect the citizens of Germany; And wherever we are in the world, we must also defend the honor of Germany!

The emperor, who was only twenty-nine years old and hastily ascended the throne, soon came into opposition to Bismarck, the "chief architect" of German reunification and the chancellor of the Reich, forcing Bismarck to resign and declare himself in the pro-government.

After Wilhelm II's accession to power, the most striking thing was his so-called "world policy", which, as he himself declared on January 18, 1895, "should develop into a world empire." "The creation of a large fleet in order to implement world policy is at the heart of world policy.

David said that Wilhelm II himself was a man with a fanatical love for the navy, and he not only liked to wear the uniforms of the navies of various countries and personally drew the design drawings of warships, but also hungrily "devoured" Mahan's "Treatise on Sea Power" and was obsessed with building a powerful navy.

He fanatically demanded that Germany develop overseas, and strongly advocated that Germany must have a naval force to rival that of Great Britain and that it should acquire its "land under the sun".

Wilhelm II believed that the colonies should be redistributed from the dying Reich powers, and issued a declaration of the future of Germany at sea, which was like firing the starting gun for the German naval construction to run wildly. As a result, Germany set off a large-scale arms race in the world -- the Anglo-German shipbuilding competition.

Chen Zhong said that since the Battle of Trafalgar, the British Navy's superiority in the seven seas has been unshakable. Germany, on the other hand, was a traditional land power, with a negligible navy.

After the reunification of Germany, Reich Chancellor Bismarck had a sophisticated political and diplomatic outlook. In Europe, he was content to maintain the structure of the five great powers, isolating his old enemy, France, from making a comeback. In addition, in response to the potential crisis in the Balkans, efforts were made to prevent neither Russia nor Austria-Hungary from gaining absolute power there. On the colonial question, he only took a blank space and effectively controlled public opinion, curbed the domestic colonial policy cry that was eager to "rise", and tried to avoid conflict with the maritime empire of the time, Britain.

Under this realistic diplomatic line, the German Empire also flourished day by day, and its industrial technology developed rapidly, and it quickly became a major power on the European stage.

Unfortunately, after the accession of Wilhelm II and the disgraceful departure of Bismarck, Berlin was reduced to self-isolation and self-"siege" from the diplomatic center of the European continent and the hub of the alliance network in just a few years.

Bismarck's long-planned pattern of European diplomacy was quickly shattered, and the army powers of France and Russia on the east and west sides of Germany quickly formed alliances, and Germany lost the stage for dominating Europe. The more Wilhelm II tried to forcibly destroy this self-inflicted "encirclement", the more passive and isolated he became.

Chen Zhong said that the reason for such a situation is that Wilhelm II was a monarch who was very eager for quick success and longed for public recognition.

Moreover, he was morbidly fond of the navy, so he expanded his sights from the European continent to the whole world, and planned to devote himself to the construction of a large navy for this purpose. This "world policy" and the "new approach" of naval supremacy led Germany to abandon Bismarck's prudential policy.

Therefore, we in Hainan have seen the crisis that we will face in the future from this too hasty development in Germany.

The model of development of the German Navy will inevitably lead to the inability to contact the first place, and this radical approach will inevitably lead to its failure.

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