747 Myths and Reality
The Two Rivers Plain is the birthplace of the world's ancient civilizations, and although the climate in the Middle East is really not good, the Two Rivers Plain is indeed the most valuable piece of land during this period. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 It is not for nothing that Iraq was able to feed 30 million people in later generations, and that Iraq before the Gulf War was even known as the world's fourth military power.
The National Security Committee does not have a definite conclusion on how to lay out colonization in the Middle East. Of course, Bai Nan must have his own ideas, and for Middle Eastern design, Bai Nan had it more than ten years ago. In the next century, unless a brilliant super scientific genius emerges in Datang and directly leads Datang into a completely different direction of energy technology tree, oil will inevitably be the core resource that will determine the future of industry.
Bai Nan has no intention of letting Datang fall into an energy trap and become an oil tyrant in the Middle East, relying on oil to live in luxury. Bai Nan has his own vision of the future of the world's energy and politics. Datang controls the vast majority of the planet's oil resources and nationalizes them for exploitation by heavily regulated oil companies.
In fact, the current Datang Petroleum Corporation has also begun to enter into a split, and some monopolies will inevitably have inertia in development without competition, and it is difficult to be satisfactory in terms of service consciousness and enterprising spirit. Of course, Datang can't just follow the situation and split a head oil company into three barrels of oil. In fact, Datang will split more enterprises and make adjustments in the industrial chain, and divide the upstream and downstream. Private companies are also allowed to develop oil, but it is unlikely that they will be able to contract out the gold-producing fields along the Persian Gulf coast in the Middle East in the future.
In the final analysis, Datang is not a capitalist country. Under the condition that corruption is eliminated and regulation is profitable, a large amount of oil profits can be converted into financial sources for investing in the national economy and people's livelihood, and developing national health care and education. Datang's profit extraction of state-owned enterprises is formulated according to the actual situation, and in the future, profiteering industries such as telecommunications, petroleum, and banking will pay huge profits. Similarly, in the future, Datang will make state-owned enterprises more commercial, such as recruiting middle and senior managers, while the state-owned assets will only play a similar role to the supervision of the board of directors and shareholders' meetings, so as to avoid the emergence of small interest groups and private interests.
Bai Nan intends to control the vast majority of the world's oil production, and also intends to manipulate oil prices. On the other hand, because of the fluctuation of oil prices, the world economy has been violently shaken. A group of oil-producing countries with little national strength have used oil as a weapon to create OPEC to manipulate oil prices in accordance with their national interests without considering objective economic development. In addition, Western countries such as Midi also resorted to this trick, such as cutting meat on Russia, so that the market could not fully reflect the laws of the economy.
Bai Nam has no intention of using his control of the world's oil to make excessive profits and meet political needs, and in his view, ensuring the stability of oil prices and keeping them floating within a reasonable range can promote the sustained and stable development of Datang and the world economy. Almost every sharp fluctuation in oil prices has caused immeasurable damage to the economy.
At the same time, in the future, when the world faces more severe environmental problems, Datang will be able to manipulate the price of oil and force the development of new energy to alleviate the increasingly severe trend of global warming. Many people may not have enough understanding of the issue of climate change, because it is a typical process of boiling frogs in warm water. When you look at the problem cumulatively, you will find that the situation is extremely serious. The environmental contradictions left to future generations are acute, and may even endanger the reproduction and survival of human beings themselves.
Environmental protection and development are originally a matter of mythology, and for country C on the other side, failure to develop may cause chaos and be humiliated by other countries, but uncontrolled and unplanned development may also lead to national disaster. While all people enjoy the dividends of development and live in a moderately prosperous society or even above the middle class, they also suffer the side effects of development such as smog and water and soil pollution. Striking a balance is extremely difficult, but it has to be done.
The horror of climate change is not only reflected in the long-term accumulation of warm water in the process of boiling frogs, El Niño and La Niña are both severe symptoms caused by climate change. When floods sweep through dozens of provinces and affect tens of millions of people, people often do not directly relate to climate change, but the cause and effect only need a little understanding to understand.
It seems that this large list of problems is far-reaching and remote, but Bai Nan is such a person with extensive thinking ability. On the other hand, humanity has done little to no longer solve the climate problem. Because their respective interests are not unified, the developed countries have accumulated history and are living well enough, while the developing countries have to feed the poor and gain the respect of others. It is naturally impossible for developed countries to do nothing but ask developing countries to sacrifice the living standards of their own citizens to protect the environment. Let the developed countries support the developing countries in a big way, and the voters will obviously overturn the government of that country, because why should the money they pay taxes be spent not on welfare for their own people, but on relief for other countries.
Paik Nam had never considered these issues before he crossed over, and now he has come up with a solution, which is to establish a single leadership, and build a true Earth Federation with the goal of benefiting all mankind, so as to achieve a unity of interests. Within a country, there is no complaint about the general transfer of finance, and the rich regions helping the poor areas, but it is difficult to achieve it internationally. Therefore, breaking down the barriers of the state and creating a new world order is what Paiknam is pursuing.
In fact, this is also the core connotation of internationalism.
Great undertakings have to start small, and Bai Nam knows very well that an unprecedentedly powerful country, with a unique inclusive cultural spirit and absorption, is the foundation for achieving everything. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty must be strong, must expand, must lead more nationalities, and achieve assimilation and mutual integration.
However, in the short term, Datang will not engage in selective integration. For example, in the Arabian Peninsula, most NSC bigwigs tend to expel a small number of Arabs and let Chinese immigrants completely dominate the region. There has even been a suggestion that Arabs from the Middle East be transferred directly to North Africa or elsewhere in bulk. Some people also felt that it seemed to be a good choice to give it to the British and let the British colonies ******** India further. (To be continued.) )