Chapter 373 Blow the gold into a fart
readx; In the conference room, there was a faint smoke, and the faces of the Big Nine were a little solemn. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
On the issue of the Congolese civil war, the Big Nine were very divided.
Known as the "hope of Africa", the Republic of the Congo is located in the heart of Africa and is extremely rich in resources, the world's largest gold deposit, as well as extremely rich diamonds and other rare metal mines.
However, what these abundant resources have brought to the Congolese people is not a prosperous and stable life, but blood and tears, and suffering, which are endless.
On August 2 last year, Banyamulenge soldiers, supported by Ugandan and Rwandan forces, launched an armed rebellion. Subsequently, countries such as Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia sent troops to help at the request of the Republic of Congo (KMC) to ignite regional conflicts.
This conflict opened the gates of hell, and then a civil war broke out in the whole country, the worst civil war in the entire history of mankind.
The Congolese civil war and the Kosovo issue occurred at about the same time, and Kosovo was exaggerated by the West, and the number of deaths did not exceed 10,000, but in the Congo, the number of people killed by force and slaughter was not uncommon, but not less than 1,000 or even more than 10,000 people in a day.
Kosovo, the brutality of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia hits people's eyes every day, but the Congo, which is a thousand times bloodier than Kosovo, is completely forgotten by the angelic Western world.
The giants are divided on two points.
Now they are negotiating with the West to join the United Nations or something, and the giants don't care too much, and it is better to enter and not to enter, but joining the WTO will be of extremely important interest to China.
What is going on with the civil war in the Congo, others do not know, but the giants know that it was simply provoked by large Western companies.
Although the 21st century is about to begin, the cruelty and greed of the Western colonizers have not changed in the slightest.
History has proven time and again that the most effective way for the West to plunder its colonies is genocide.
The practice of Western colonizers in North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Africa, adopted a policy of outright genocide against the indigenous peoples, and then large-scale migration, so that it is logical to occupy local resources, such as the United States, which has a population of more than 300 million, and its Indians, including those mixed with the blood of other ethnic groups, plus the Eskimos of Alaska, according to the statistics of 1998, the figure is 2.1 million.
In 1998 it was 2.1 million, and more than 200 years ago, when holy whites first set foot on the land, the number was 80 million!
Now, after all, mankind has advanced a little bit, and it is no longer possible for the West to hunt blacks and Indians as animals as they pleased, as their ancestors did, but all roads lead to Rome, and in spite of some troubles, they can still achieve the same goal to some extent.
The civilized road to Rome was to kill people with knives, and let the "animals" kill the "animals", so they easily provoked the curtain of killing.
The largest massacre in human history was carried out by inciting hatred among the different peoples in the region, with the tribes themselves providing warriors, eight nearby African political axes participating, and European countries providing arms.
In this way, uninhabited areas have been created in most resource-rich areas, which can be exploited by large Western companies without being criticized by environmentalists and human rights activists.
The purpose of the West, the Big Nine see it very clearly, so to intervene in the Congolese civil war is to confront the West, but is it appropriate to confront the West at this time?
In addition, if you intervene, to what extent?
At this point, the Big Nine are even more divided.
If the intervention is shallow, if it does not solve the problem, it will be meaningless, but if the intervention is deep, how many resources will be invested, and what will be the final result?
No one can give a clear answer to these questions now.
Running the African continent has been a national policy for a long time, but this national policy has been too long, even now, it is the Big Nine, and it is the mainstream that you can't see that far.
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At 9 a.m. on May 7, 1999, the British Treasury held a meeting in an extremely ornate small conference room in the Bank of England, attended by three important officials of the Bank of England and some of Britain's top gold traders.
At the meeting, officials of the Ministry of Finance announced a major decision that they intend to sell off more than half of the country's gold reserves.
All the traders present were puzzled by the decision, and executives of at least two large investment banks questioned the Treasury Department's decision on the spot.
In 1999, gold had already experienced a decade of depression, and the international gold price reached its lowest point in 20 years.
Experts believe that under normal circumstances, the price of gold rises and falls in a ten-year cycle, and now that the gold price is in an upward channel, it is clearly not the right time to sell gold.
"This is really a disaster-stricken decision, and we can't trust the Treasury to make such a decision, and we have listed a number of possible problems to Treasury officials."
At that time, the head of the precious metals trading department of the British HSBC bank, Peter ? "But they don't care. ”
Allegedly, the Bank of England officials did not say much to the experts present, but only told some of the dissenting experts that the central bank does not have enough say in the decision made by the Treasury, that this is the decision of Treasury Minister Brown, and that we are only implementing it according to the Treasury's wishes.
As soon as this decision of the Ministry of Finance was announced, it immediately caused an uproar.
British Treasury, Deputy Minister Patricia? In Hewitt's office, the Under-Minister Patricia? Hewitt sat behind his desk, looking at a document on his desk with a hint of mockery and disdain in his eyes.
The document was a written question from Labour backbencher Macriet about the Treasury's announcement to sell half of its gold reserves.
Patricia? The mockery and disdain in Hewitt's eyes was directed at the Labour backbencher.
It is not surprising that those professional financial traders do not understand the decision of the Ministry of Finance, but as a parliamentarian, it would be foolish not to understand.
From ancient times to the present, the best way to safeguard the interests of Britain is to put the European continent in trouble, and there must be no strong and united European continent.
This is the most typical geopolitics.
As the British Isles, which are isolated from the European continent, if the European continent is strong, Britain will be weak, and if Britain is strong, the European continent will fall into strife.
This is history that has never changed.
At the beginning, Britain had enough opportunity and strength to destroy France, but it never did. Why? And not for the sake of counterbalancing the great powers of the European continent against each other.
Today, the Treasury sells gold unconventionally with one purpose: to bomb the euro.
The bombing of the US military against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a bombing of the euro, and the high-profile sale of gold by Britain was another bombing of the euro.
It's double bombing.
From the day the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1991, the United States began to suppress the price of gold, and the United States suppressed the price of gold in order to suppress the euro.
The parliamentarian's question must be answered, but to answer such a stupid question, Patricia? Hewitt felt that his life was really meaningless.
Patricia? Hewitt shook his head, picked up his pen, and wrote, "Dear Mr. Senator,...... In order to better balance the structure of national reserves, we will increase the proportion of currencies in reserves. In 1999 and 2000, the Treasury plans to sell 125 tonnes of gold, equivalent to 3 per cent of the entire reserves, in five auctions held by the Bank of England on behalf of the British government. The auction will be held every other month starting in July 1999......"
Central banks sell gold, the usual practice is to sell gold in a low-key international gold market, and then reveal the details to the public, so, in the gold market, every day there will be a country quietly buying and selling gold, no one will notice, only the British axe chose to let everyone know, and it is in advance.
Why is the UK selling gold at this time? Others don't understand it, but those politicians and big bankers in Europe know it very well.
The United States and the United Kingdom, the world's most perfect big brother and little brother duo, are also the world's largest teachers, and they are working together to teach the world.
The theme of this class is: gold is a fart, and the dollar is the only treasure.
Gold has always been a haven for war and turmoil, but now, the Bank of England's air raid on gold has provided the latest "teaching materials": the Kosovo War broke out, the price of gold fell sharply, and it once again used "facts" to educate investors and spread an eternal "truth": when the dollar ruled the world, gold has become a useless "waste", it not only does not have the value of maintaining and appreciating, but also does not even have the qualification to be speculated!
Gold isn't even a fart, so what about the euro backed by gold?
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In this war between the dollar and the euro, it is not the United States and the United Kingdom, let alone the European Union, that really smiles on their faces, but China.
The confidence of the euro is gold, which is 12,000 tons of gold in the reserves of the central banks of the European Union, and the United States and Britain have made gold into a fart, and European and American countries naturally can't laugh.
The United States and Britain, even if they laugh, are temporary, because it is impossible to make gold a fart and delusional.
China is smiling because the gold market has been artificially distorted by the United States and the United Kingdom, and they are shorting gold, which is naturally a good time to quietly buy large sums of money.
In fact, when the price of gold fell to $350 an ounce, China bought gold from various sources, especially when the United States painstakingly smashed gold into waste paper.
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After Han Lihong left, some changes began to appear quietly.
"Individual surnames" began to be respected in society, and when there was a market for "individual surnames", the spirit of "collective" and "dedication" began to be ridiculed between the lines.
It is not a problem that "surnames" are revered, but that the "collective" and "dedicated" spirits are ridiculed, which are not originally antagonistic, but have been made antagonistic.
Soon, some voices appeared, the common people have the right to live a good life, have the right to live in a good house and drive a good car, but the political axe is artificially suppressed, as for why it was suppressed, it cannot be said.
The West is good, the West is a small political axe and a big society, and everything is decided by the common people...... That's the ideal social model!
Looking at the United States, Western Europe and Ben, the standard of living is seven or eight times that of us, why?
Why is this happening? The reason is very simple, because we are a big political axe small society, because we are not a real free market economy, if we do what the West does, with the diligence and intelligence of the Chinese people, and the vast land, our living standards will soon catch up with the West, or even surpass!
Media magazines such as "The Reader" have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they have given full play to the ingenuity of policies and countermeasures. This time, the people who wrote the articles were all pseudonyms, and they were all devotees who did not need to pay for manuscripts; Moreover, most of the core personnel of such magazines are only one.
Then, other voices began to be louder, such as why should the fruits of our labor be used to subsidize others? The standard of living in the north is already lower than that in the south, but the political axe still has to use a lot of resources to fund the south and take care of the poor for the south, which is too unfair!
Also, for poor provinces, such as Guizhou, it's okay to take care of some, but Guizhou's standard of living is better than that of Hebei and Shandong, which is too much, right?
True and false, nine points true and one point false, nine points false and one point true...... Seemingly overnight, the amount of information received by Chinese has increased dramatically.
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Unconsciously, the public opinion of the whole society is quietly changing......
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In the White House, CIA Director Tenet is reporting to the big guys.
The CIA was once notorious, and I don't know how many coups and presidents of many countries were overthrown, but it was also notorious for it.
Later, the situation in the world changed, and the CIA kept pace with the times, and instead of directly participating in the coups of other countries, it turned to hide behind the scenes, supporting some specific non-political non-governmental organizations and engaging in color revolutions.
Tenet was a little excited, and finally, he concluded: "Mr. President, there is a powerful force in China, and they have a strong urge to become a privileged class, and to become a privileged class it is necessary to destroy the system of the past, or at least destroy the basis of this system, that is, to change its face." ”
Speaking of this, Tenet smiled smugly and said, "Mr. President, China has a saying about this. ”
After listening to Tenet's introduction, the Clinton brothers were in a good mood and asked, "Tenet, what are you talking about?" ”
Tenet said: "This sentence is selling dog meat on the head of a sheep." ”
Chinese is difficult to understand, but this sentence is not difficult to understand, and after a little pondering, the big shots will laugh heartily.
Then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright asked, "Mr. Tenet, what's next?" ”
Tenet laughed again, he smiled proudly, and said, "The Chinese are very strange, especially some literati, who have a kind of Stockholm syndrome-like performance. Some Chinese who came to study in the West, they washed dishes with us, and suffered a lot of contempt and discrimination, but when they returned to China, they admired us very much, and they were very contemptuous of their compatriots. ”
After a pause, Tenet continued: "Also, there are a considerable number of Chinese who transcend the limits of race and culture, and they believe that everything about us, whether it is culture or social system, is the ultimate destination of their country. ”
"We do our best to support these people through civil society organizations, and it is because of their efforts, Mr. President, that China has changed so quickly and so much."
After thinking about it, Clinton asked, "Tenet, what do you think?" ”
Tenet's main target of work was China, so he quickly became a China expert, he said: "Mr. President, the Chinese have a saying that is very true, that is, the ruling class is rotten. ”
Everyone laughed, their decay is "legal", and the decay of the Chinese is illegal. It is said that the Chinese are smart, but from this point of view, the Chinese are really not smart enough.
Tenet continued: "All along, the power of decay in China has been suppressed by Han Lihong, and there is no chance of decay at all, but this force is extremely powerful. ”
With a slight frown, Secretary of State Albright said, "Mr. Tenet, even if those Chinese aspire to decay, can they be the same as those compradors?" ”
Shaking his head slightly, Tenet said: "Although they aspire to be a privileged class, China is very strong now, and it is difficult to ask them to become our compradors." However, when these people become mainstream, they will not advocate fighting us. ”
Secretary of Defense William Cohen was a little puzzled, and he asked, "Mr. Tenet, why?" ”
Tenet said, "Your Excellency, these people have a natural affection for us, and, for some reason, they seem to be afraid of us. After a pause, he said: "Maybe they are not afraid of us, they are just afraid of war, and they are afraid that the war will ruin their good life." ”
At this point, Tenet's report today has hit the brake valve on the urge to "play with fire".
The time is too short, China's hardliners have an absolute advantage, if this time provokes China, China will inevitably fight back, and if you follow Tenet's path, the future seems to be very bright.
At this point, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said, "Mr. President, it's time to make up your mind in negotiations with China." ”
Clinton nodded.
In the negotiations with China, there are no other problems, mainly because of China's accession to the World Trade Organization.
Within the American political axe, the voices for and against are almost equal, on a par.
Those in favor argue that China is too strong to contain it, and that if it continues, sooner or later, China will pose a challenge to the entire Western system.
If China is included, it will certainly benefit China, but after China benefits, it will not challenge the cornerstone of the system they have established, and at most it will be adjusted, and everything will be discussed.
What's more, China threw out so many fragrant big meat and bones, and if they didn't grab it, Germany, France, and even Britain would pounce on it.
The opposing side believes that China is too big and too strong, and that including China will greatly harm the interests of the West, and they are firmly opposed.
Now, with the addition of Tenet's point, the scales are finally starting to tilt.
(To be continued)