Chapter 211: Stern Diplomatic Warning
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Following the South Sudanese government's response and the Xinhua News Agency and Star's report, the Harmony News Agency published an article dedicated to the cause of the incident.
According to an article published by Hezhong Press, the cause of the armed conflict came from an arms company called "Future Technology Group", a newly emerging arms company founded in Bossaso, Somalia, which has a large number of customers in a short period of time and is favored by many illegal arms dealers.
The most fundamental reason for this escort mission is that South Sudan has purchased a large number of arms from this company, and the estimated price will exceed 100 million US troops, which South Sudan purchased with its own oil foreign exchange. The arms were escorted by a mercenary company called "Armed MCV", which charged 3% of the total value of the arms as freight.
According to the answer of Hezhongshe, in fact, these two companies are the hands of one person, that is, Li Lan, a Chinese who rose in Somalia.
He Zhongshe also pointed out sharply that this armed conflict was just the words of Li Lan's family and could not be established at all.
Following this report, NATO countries led by the United States have asked Li Lan to clarify this matter and give an explanation to the international community. Otherwise, severe sanctions will be imposed against Li Lan in order to ensure peace and stability in Shijie.
This note was quickly submitted to Li Lan's hands, and seeing such a tough tone from the Shijie NATO countries, Li Lan suddenly felt a sense of relief. This note has already explained the attitude of the United States and NATO countries. The American side, in particular, simply demanded a reasonable explanation. It seems that he didn't want to make a big deal out of it.
Diplomatic notes, capable of receiving notes from various member states of NATO countries at the same time. This also made Li Lan feel that his influence was also surging. If he is a small character, no one will come with him at all, and the sanctions have already come. Now Li Lan already has the strength and value to let Shili, who wants to target him, think about the influence.
Nowadays, shijie is a shijie of global integration, and many things are also involved in the whole body, and it is very necessary to maintain a certain sanity when there is no absolute grasp or the bottom line is touched. Otherwise, this shijie would have been beaten into a pot of porridge.
in the conference room. Li Lan sat on the main seat and slowly flipped through the official documents of the notes of various countries.
Below, Mohammadi and the others were sitting quietly in their respective positions, and everyone was also looking at the contents of the diplomatic note.
The diplomatic note is tantamount to acknowledging Li Lan's international influence, but the extremely harsh words in the note also indicate the attitude of various countries. In particular, the meaning of the US note was even more obvious, and it almost directly told Li Lan that as long as he did not give a haode explanation, he would make a decision to fight.
After reading more than a dozen diplomatic notes. Li Lan's heart suddenly flashed with a hint of satisfaction. Even he didn't know what he was satisfied with, but after reading the contents of these diplomatic documents, he didn't feel worried about it.
"Let's talk about how to give a reply!" After seeing that everyone has finished watching it. Li Lan was the first to speak.
After everyone looked at Li Lan, who looked casual, they suddenly didn't know what to say. They've never dealt with a country before, and it's been such a wary diplomacy. Before, they weren't qualified to touch these things. Now I don't know how to answer. Because what they saw from Li Lan's face was calm, and there was no panic in the slightest. I don't see any displeasure either.
"This kind of thing is the first time we have come into contact with it, how to deal with it. I also hope that the chief will show it. Muhammadi spoke.
"Is it hard?" Li Lan was not angry because they were indecisive, this kind of thing needs a process, including him. Now he is the office worker who went out early and returned late at the beginning, and he is not a struggling public under the house slave and car slave, but a figure who can attract the attention of Shijie mainstream countries, his words and deeds are related to the life and death of millions of people, even the United States cannot ignore his existence. And he is also gradually accumulating, and he slowly has the mental quality of a strong man, which is not achieved overnight. If it was Li Lan, who had just come to Somalia, I am afraid that in the face of such diplomatic documents, it would not be much better than them.
"These things are nothing more than telling us that they are annoyed by our unscrupulous arms trade and tell us to restrain it. We must resolutely implement the UN Charter and refrain from aggravating the turmoil of armed conflicts in the region. To put it bluntly, it is to be both a bitch and an archway. To put it simply, our arms trade has touched their covert interests. Shijie arms dealers, at least sixty percent of them are in control. As a result of our rise, we have affected the interests of high-level covert arms sales in various countries. This diplomatic edict is just the second step they have made, the first step has been smashed by us, and the second step is more to save their own face. With regard to these diplomatic notes, Li Lan understood the tone between various countries early on.
The international arms market, the arms trade between countries, is only one piece of the pie. And the arms market in the dark, also known as arms smuggling, is also a huge cake. No country is clean in this regard, and they all have their own circles of interest.
Africa and the Middle East, as well as South America, have been the main sales channels for underground arms dealers. Among them, the Middle East and Africa have the largest share, and their intrinsic interests are not much worse than the volume of the arms trade on the surface. Guy is in huge demand, and the quantity has determined the size of the benefit.
However, the cake is just that piece, and everyone used to have their own circles of interest, and there was a certain balance between you and me. However, the emergence of Future Technology Group soon broke this relationship of interest. As far as the United States is concerned, there are no less than 50 arms dealers according to Li Lan's investigation alone, some of which are secretly supported by the government, and some of which are spokesmen of major consortia and arms companies. Specialized in arms sales that are shady.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, how many war-ready arsenals were formed in mid-emptiness under the operation of these secret arms dealers in the United States. The Soviet Union's powerful arsenal of weapons that had been stockpiled for decades to counter the United States had been almost emptied in just a decade or so. After being sold by arms dealers, it was sold to all parts of Shijie. This method can not only reduce the threat of Russia to the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but also obtain huge benefits from it.
Don't think that selling planes, tanks, warships makes money, the real money-making arms business is still the benefits brought by small guns and small artillery. Airplanes, tanks and warships, these things are not affordable for ordinary people, because the maintenance and training costs are very expensive, and it is very difficult to train operators. Few countries in the Middle East and Africa can afford it.
And the small gun and small cannon can be used by everyone, as long as they train slightly. And under the war year after year, the demand has been increasing unabated. Every year, there is a large arms trade, far more than the intermittent and large arms business. Every year, the trade volume is completely comparable to the shijie arms trade on the surface.
Far from it, the loss of bullets and guns alone is a huge amount. The gold and diamonds mined in Africa do not go to the jewelry companies, but all go into the pockets of arms dealers.
Now Li Lan is still intervening, and in South Sudan alone, he has obtained orders of hundreds of millions of dollars. Even the United States will not be able to sit still. Although South Sudan is not in the traditional Shili area of the United States, it cannot withstand the negative impact of arms sales elsewhere.
This is also one of the reasons why the United States Weishenme wants to send special forces to intervene. According to the thinking of the Americans, after hijacking this batch of arms, the first thing is to break the credibility of this future technology group, so that the arms business will have a basic credibility crisis from the beginning. Immediately afterwards, with the help of the hijacked arms, he immediately attacked Li Lan, and as long as the arms were in hand, the Americans would say whatever they wanted.
However, what the United States did not expect was that it not only accompanied 48 elite special forces and four Predator drones for this purpose, but also had to say bitter. Because it is impossible for the United States to admit this matter, if it says it, it will not only be cutting its own face, but will also put the United States at a diplomatic disadvantage, and China and Russia will also take advantage of the topic. And the most important point in this matter is that the United States did not greet the other NATO countries in advance, and it was its own maverick.
Since this kind of thing cannot be said explicitly, Li Lan took care of the face of the United States very much and did not make all those corpses public, which allowed the United States to save face and give the United States a lot of leeway. Therefore, the United States has chosen the second path, that is, to issue a warning to Li Lan in an official form. With the help of the influence of NATO countries, Li Lanzhao was put under such pressure, hoping to achieve the ultimate goal.
Li Lan naturally understands the twists and turns in this, and diplomacy is originally a means of figuring out the hearts of both sides, and in words, it is necessary to make clear one's own position and let the other side understand what one means.
"Then do we really have to restrain ourselves and avoid letting the other party find an excuse to get mad?" Farah asked tentatively. On this matter, he believes that it is necessary to soften and not touch the sensitive nerves of these countries.
"Not at all." Li Lan already has a certain idea about this matter, and in this matter, he can't admit it, let alone that it's not time to admit it. Moreover, he also has to use this matter to make all his subordinates have a minimum of self-confidence. We should not start backing down because of the diplomatic protests of the United States and some European countries. He couldn't afford to lose that man.
The main thing is that he still has a killer trick that he hasn't used yet. (To be continued......)