The European Union's trade protection actions aroused Datang's strong dissatisfaction, but as expected by the Europeans, Datang did not take any substantive countermeasures. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoDatang has suspended academic exchanges from European countries to Datang, stopped recruiting international students from Europe, and even Europeans who are studying abroad have been sent back to China. There has also been a sharp decline in intergovernmental exchanges, with the cancellation of business and trade talks and the outright termination of some political meetings.

However, the faces of both sides have not yet been completely torn. European countries are still repaying various loans provided by Datang before. European countries have received huge amounts of loans from the Tang Dynasty for decades, and have made significant contributions to the progress of European industrialization at a time when Europe was not yet able to obtain primitive capital through colonial looting. During this period, you can basically do anything to make money, and it is easier to repay the loan. Therefore, after the loan expired, European countries also honestly repaid the loan to Datang. This interest income is also very substantial.

European countries dare to play a big role in trade, but they dare not play debt default. Basically, this social economy is built on credibility, and if European governments and debtors default on their debts on a large scale and do not repay Datang's loans, then they themselves will encounter great distrust, and it will be difficult to do any projects in the future.

Similarly, Datang is still exporting some goods to Europe. These goods are basically still profitable after the European tariffs have been added. Although the increased tariffs have forced some Datang goods to withdraw from the European market, especially such as cars and daily necessities, which were more sought-after before. But there are some goods, even if the tariffs are raised, Datang is still profitable, because the relative unit added value is relatively high, and the substitution is relatively poor, so Europeans still have to buy.

In fact, the main thing about the increase in tariffs is that it will affect the lives of Europeans, and what was previously available is now unavailable or unaffordable. Some companies have purchased Datang's machinery and equipment more expensively, and even their profits have been seriously reduced.

Naturally, the European side is also very shrewd. The tax rate of some things has been raised very outrageously, such as textile machinery, the technical content of this kind of machinery is not too high, basically all countries can produce it, but limited by the advanced nature and quality of Datang products, so many users will give preference to Tang goods. Industrial equipment such as those made in Germany and the United Kingdom is not popular. Government procurement can also procure domestic goods, but not necessarily private capitalists. As a result of the tax rate, these people had to buy cheaper domestic goods, which expanded the market for European products.

For others, the tax rates have remained almost unchanged, and there have even been very few reductions. A typical example is airplanes, although since 1810 Datang has not exported any complete weapons systems to Europe, and fighter jets and nothing are sold. But airliners for civil aviation are still being sold. Today, European countries have worked hard to produce fighter jets similar to those of the early World War II and some bombers with a small bomb load, while Europeans do not have this ability at all as for large passenger aircraft. Even some large passenger planes were secretly used by the Europeans as transport planes, and Datang turned a blind eye.

However, Datang has completely stopped any form of technology transfer and technical cooperation with Europe. Europeans also have a certain psychological expectation of this, in fact, Datang now reveals a lot of knowledge, European countries often engage in some of Datang's university textbooks and then get their own reverse thinking things, in recent years there are also some results.

In fact, European countries feel that Datang is unlikely to maintain high-speed scientific and technological output, and many people think that the outbreak of Datang's scientific achievements has begun to decline, and it is a good time for European countries to catch up, so although it may not be possible to obtain the technology transferred by Datang due to twists and turns for the time being, reverse imitation and research at this stage are very useful for European countries.

That's all the means used by Datang, for which Hu Fakui has also been attacked a lot in China, believing that he is far from the courage of his predecessor Bai Nan, and in the face of provocations from European countries, he has failed to defend the dignity of Datang and damaged the interests of Datang. Even some of the more fierce rhetoric called Hu Fakui "the first person to lose power and humiliate the country", which put Hu Fakui under a lot of pressure.

European countries also breathed a sigh of relief, and in all fairness, they were not worried about the severe economic blockade imposed on them by Datang. For European countries, their main industrial raw materials, coal, iron, and oil, can be provided in Europe, cotton and linen can come from Egypt, and rubber can come from South India. What is slightly worried is that if Datang completely blocks raw materials from entering Europe, it will be more troublesome. As for the external market, it's basically something that is better than nothing. Or is it the European internal market that is more important. Squeezing out Datang will do more harm than harm to Europe.

Only Hu Fakui and Datang's high-level officials know that Datang's inaction now is not really conniving at the Europeans, but that Datang is preparing for a full-scale war with European countries, and is no longer in a hurry for this moment.

The European Union, however, feels that it has won a major diplomatic victory, and everywhere it is preaching that the Europeans have maintained their dignity and decency, and that Datang must face up to the existence of Europe in the future, put aside its arrogance and superiority, and talk well with Europe. Although the political dialogue between the Tang Dynasty and the European side has almost been interrupted, there seems to be no apparent conflict between the two sides.

Europe, on the other hand, hopes to take advantage of this adjustment of trade rules to integrate its large internal market and coordination mechanism as soon as possible, so that the synergistic forces of European countries can achieve a multiplication effect. After all, Europeans also understand that national competition is, in the final analysis, a competition of national strength, and national strength is built on economic strength. After all, Europe is also a civilized society that has developed for hundreds of years, with a population of more than 100 million, even if it is still slightly weaker than the Tang Dynasty, but it is not without a hard fight.

It's just that the competition between Europe and Datang is, after all, in the form of a multi-entity alliance against a relatively unified superstate, maybe Datang itself has a lot of internal contradictions, but the little bad things that Europe itself has accumulated over thousands of years is enough for Datang to make some trouble for Europeans.

For a long time, Datang was not too enthusiastic about making wind and rain in Europe, and once upon a time, Datang relied on the power of manipulating the National Revolution to set off a wave of revolution in Europe. After the revolution, many national revolutions quickly became pragmatic and nationalistic, and gradually drifted away from the Tang Dynasty. But Datang's ability to stir up the storm has never deteriorated. (To be continued.) )