Chapter 387 Australia that is so depressed that it vomits blood
readx; In today's world, China, the United States, Russia and the European Union are competing for supremacy, but there are priorities among them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In this Romance of the Four Kingdoms, only China and the United States are the protagonists, and Russia and the European Union are really just side dishes.
The reason for this is that only China and the United States are sound giants, while Russia and the European Union are also giants, but these two are not sound, they both lack a leg, they are both one-legged giants.
Russia is missing the left leg, the EU is missing the right leg. The left leg that Russia lacks is the economy, and the right leg that the EU lacks is the military.
Obviously, if Russia were united with the EU, it would become a whole giant. Moreover, they are united and not only economically and militarily complementary.
Germany and France are the core of the EU, but their role in the EU is limited.
In this regard, Germany and France run the EU and China run Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, and most other countries take advantage of the cheap, hide when they are not cheap, or even become troublemakers.
However, if the EU and Russia are united, then the core of the EU will become Germany, France and Russia, and in this way, the core of the EU will be similar to China's position in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia.
Once this core bloc is formed, then, with the status of France and Russia as permanent members of the Joint Security Council, the nuclear forces of the two countries, Germany's scientific and technological and industrial capabilities, France's cultural and trendy influence, and a series of key industries such as Airbus, which is cooperated by Germany and France, plus Russia's stable energy supply, as well as the 140 million people who have joined Russia, and the GDP of 1.3 trillion US dollars, the German, French, and Russian core bloc will have a population of 280 million, close to 300 million of the United States, and an economic aggregate of nearly 8.5 trillion yuan. Compared with the 13.8 trillion yuan of the United States, as long as the euro rises by 50 percent against the dollar, it will be on an equal footing with the US economy.
Moreover, after the formation of the core bloc of Germany, France and Russia, within the EU, the power will be overwhelming, and the mischievous ability of the troublemakers will be indefinitely compressed, and some of the problems that have plagued the EU before will also be successfully resolved, such as the Kosovo issue.
With such a beautiful prospect, Germany, France and Russia cannot be blind and turn a blind eye to it, but it is useless for them to think about it, because the United States is in the way, and the United States will not let it.
If the European axis of Germany, France, and Russia is formed, then there will be nothing to do with the United States on the European continent, and if the United States has nothing to do on the European continent, then on other continents, the United States will also have little to do.
Therefore, the United States will do everything to block the German-French-Russian alliance.
The best way for the United States to block the German-French-Russian alliance is to separate Russia from Germany and France, that is, to control Poland.
Poland was sandwiched between Germany and Russia.
At a time when Germany and Russia are fighting each other and pinching each other, a Poland is of course a good buffer zone, but at a time when the two countries want to be closely united and work together with the outside world, a disobedient Poland is a big stake, causing great trouble between Russia and the German-French alliance.
If it had been before, when Hitler and Stalin were in power, seeing that this Poland was so troublesome, it must have been a heavy plan, and Poland would have been divided by a flank attack on both sides, but today the situation is very different, Poland has the support of the United States behind it, Germany also has the United States heavily stationed, coupled with the decline of Russia's strength, the Poles pulled the United States, a strong man, and can sleep peacefully between the two unreliable powers.
The basic consideration of the United States in building an anti-missile system in Poland is to provoke a new military Cold War confrontation with Russia in order to counter Russia's posture of neutrality after Putin took office and in the face of high world oil prices.
After provoking a confrontation with Russia, the United States can use bilateral agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic to ensure its national security, and it can also use its control over NATO and the agitation of Britain and a group of new European minions to drag the German-French alliance into the water.
This set of methods used by the United States has worked very well, and if there is no nod from the United States, it will be absolutely useless for Germany and France to want to integrate with Russia.
Tie Guan Li squeezed his eyes, you fool me, I fool you, intrigue between major powers, deceit, is simply the norm, especially the United States, if you say it, forget it, there is not the slightest credibility at all, so if you want to win the trust of Germany, France and Russia, it is impossible to do without blood.
This blood is Poland, that is, to let Germany and France integrate with Russia, that is, to give up all the strategic interests of the United States on the European continent.
It's a difficult decision to make, it's too costly, but it has to be made.
If we do not make a complete decision, if we spit out the strategic interests of Germany, France, and Russia little by little, it will inevitably give China an opportunity to take advantage of it and make the US-European alliance break the deadlock.
The big guys are not easy to make up their minds, and there is another concern, that is, after the integration of Germany, France and Russia is completed and they are driven out of the European continent, will they put down the dispute of civilizations and turn around to give the United States a Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
It's quite possible.
Alas, if it's not good, you have to get it, and now you can get a lot of things from the EU and Russia, and if you have to retreat, then you won't be able to leave anything.
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On June 27, 2009, the U.S. military advisory group stationed in Georgia quietly withdrew.
On July 11, Ukraine's beautiful Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested, and pro-Russian forces took full power.
On 22 July, the United States and Europe simultaneously announced the lifting of sanctions against Belarus.
On 29 July, the United States and Europe simultaneously declared that the Chechen [***] organization was a terrorist organization.
At this moment, the organization of the Chechen [***] organization in Europe and the United States has become a mourning dog in the blink of an eye.
For example, most of the non-political axe organizations in the United States that specialize in carrying out color revolutions in Central Asian countries have quietly withdrawn.
On 13 August, the Maleka oil field lost power due to a failure of the Pirimos power station, which supplies power to the Maleka oil field.
The Maleka oil field was one of seven state-owned oil fields that PetroChina and CNOOC bought at the time of Russia's bankruptcy.
On 27 August, problems of one kind or another have arisen in the seven oil fields invested by China in Russia, and production and operation have not been able to proceed normally.
On 17 September, China's political axe launched a satellite announcing the discovery of a super-large oil field in the center of the Songliao Plain.
This extra-large oil field is composed of 48 oil and gas fields of various scales, including Saltu, Xingshugang, Lamadian and Chaoyanggou, covering an area of about 6,000 square kilometers.
The oilfield is a large anticline reservoir, with high points such as Lamadian, Saltu and Xingshugang from north to south.
The oil layer is Mesozoic terrestrial Baiyan sandstone, with a depth of 900 meters ~ 1,200 meters and medium permeability.
Crude oil is paraffin-based, with high wax content, high freezing point, high viscosity, low sulfur content, specific gravity of 0.83~0.86, is a standard high-quality crude oil.
After preliminary exploration, the oilfield has at least 5 billion tons of crude oil reserves and 100 million cubic meters of natural gas reserves.
As soon as the news came out, in an instant, I don't know how many people turned pale, breathed quickly, or even simply fell headlong and died.
At this time, it was the time when the price of oil was soaring upwards on a rocket, and it had already broken through $130 per barrel and was heading straight for $140.
On the same day, the price of oil fell back by 7 percent.
While the Russian envoy was still on the plane to Yanjing, China's Ministry of Commerce issued another message that in view of the current high oil prices, it would use national reserves to replace imports, and the specific level of substitution would depend on international oil prices.
The price of crude oil turned into a free-falling piece of iron and fell in a straight line.
China is the world's largest oil importer, which is fatal to international oil prices.
The price of oil is completely speculated, and the price of oil can be speculated by Western capital, which is of course composed of American capital and European capital.
Western capital speculated on the price of oil, which was previously invincible, and in order to speculate on the price of oil, they could start wars at will and provoke wars in the Middle East, and in this regard, it is naturally best to use Israel and Palestine, as well as Lebanon.
This time, it is the most hyped ever, and the more hyped it is, the greater the benefits, and similarly, the risks will increase.
At this time, it was the moment when he saw the goods, but he was cut off by China, and the uncomfortable strength was mentioned.
The Chinese are so hateful!
China's stab has made Western capital hemorrhage, and it has also made Russia's heart bleed.
Originally, as an oil-producing country, the real interest was to maintain the stability of oil prices, and both too high and too low oil prices would harm the interests of oil-producing countries.
Not to mention low oil prices, if oil prices are high, it will force oil-consuming countries to make a painful decision to reduce oil consumption on the one hand, and increase their efforts to study alternative energy sources on the other.
In the United States, for example, 60 percent of the oil in the United States is consumed by the wheels of automobiles, and if the United States only changes its way of life and builds a more convenient and developed public transportation system, the price of oil will have to plummet.
However, because of the obstruction of vested interests such as the powerful oil industry and the automobile industry, the United States has always done nothing in this regard, making oil a cancer for the United States.
However, there is a limit to everything, and once this limit is crossed, transformation is inevitable. Moreover, in this regard, the efforts of emerging countries such as China will, in turn, force the United States to change.
Other oil-producing countries have a deep understanding of this aspect and have a consensus, but Russia is different, and now Russia is a hungry wolf, with blue eyes and meat.
The Chinese are crazy.
At the end of 2009, China stopped buying oil from the international market.
Stopping buying oil from the international market does not mean that China will stop importing oil from abroad.
When China imports oil, it only buys part of the imported oil from the international market, and some of it is brought home directly from the oil fields without going through the international market.
But even so, in just two months, the price of oil has been cut in half from a high of nearly $140 to less than $70.
Western capital has suffered miserably, and a huge amount of money has been trapped in the crude oil futures market.
More banks in the United States have failed, with 1,700 American banks and financial institutions failing in less than two months after China announced the discovery of a major oil field.
No one knows whether these 1,700 failed banks and financial institutions have anything to do with the oil futures market, and if so, to what extent.
When Western capital loses miserably, Chinese capital will naturally make a profit, which is not only a win or loss in the oil futures market, but a shocking gamble in many related fields.
Internationally, accusations against China are overwhelming, but China, at least the Chinese political axe, has turned a deaf ear.
In today's China, there is basically no market for public intellectuals and consciences, because if public intellectuals and consciences want to have a market, it is absolutely impossible for them to have no one, or no money, to support them, but these people and these people and these money are frightened and dare not come forward.
In the wave of bank failures triggered by the iron ore wars, there are not a few who have contributed money and efforts to public intellectuals and consciences behind the scenes.
Therefore, in China, it is very calm.
Originally, the European and American economies were holding on, hoping to draw some money from the oil futures market to hang their lives, but they never thought that the Chinese were too ruthless and vicious.
The world economy is miserable, and the prices of commodities such as oil and iron ore continue to fall.
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What do the Chinese want to do?
This is a question that many big people are pondering, and among them, the most bitter ones are the big names in Washington and Wall Street.
Increasingly, these big figures seem to feel that the Chinese seem to be forcing them to make a choice: China, or the European Union and Russia?
Choosing China means that the world will be governed by China and the United States, which is the choice with the brightest prospects, and objectively speaking, it is also the choice that maximizes the national interests of the United States, because of this choice, the United States can steadily occupy half of the world.
And if Europe and Russia are chosen, then a complete return to the Americas by the United States is a point of no return. Because, once the European continent is integrated into a whole, it will never be something that the United States can contend with.
However, choosing to cooperate with China is not in the interests of American capital, because the interests of American capital are to exploit the world and make money as much as possible, but in China, Chinese capital does not count, and this is something that American capital absolutely cannot tolerate.
This is an insurmountable gap, not to mention the huge gap between American capital and Chinese capital and civilization.
So, the Chinese are well aware of the American choice, and now the question is why is China forcing them to make this choice?
If the United States does this, what good will it do to China? Could it be that after the integration of Europe, China has the confidence to have a Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
The bigwigs hesitated, but they didn't have time to hesitate, and now to save their lives, they must open up the green paper, but the green paper must be printed, and the consent of the European Union must be obtained.
In order to obtain the consent of the EU and print enough green paper, it is necessary to hand over the corresponding benefits, and this benefit is most suitable to be packaged in the integration of Germany, France and Russia.
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In fact, the green paper has been quietly printed once, and the result has made the EU boss unhappy, and the EU has followed suit and printed its own "green paper".
The United States printing green paper endangers the world, and the European Union printing "green paper" also endangers the world, and the world cannot bear the continued harm in this way, so the capacity of the "green paper" that endangers the world is limited.
If only the United States prints its own green paper, and the world's total bearing capacity is ten, then the EU will follow suit by printing the "green paper," and the world's total bearing capacity will be greatly reduced, and it would be good to have half of it.
Therefore, if you still want to print "green paper", the acquiescence of the EU is necessary.
On January 27, 2010, the US Federal Reserve announced the implementation of the second wave of quantitative easing, with a total amount of US$1.5 trillion.
As soon as the news came out, the price of everything in the world went up, and the price of oil also rose. However, not everything has risen, and there is one thing that has not risen, and that is iron ore.
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Australia is depressed, depressed to death.
Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are no longer the original Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, because many major shareholders have been replaced.
In fact, the major shareholders have changed hands, and Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are just representatives, which is a common phenomenon in major international iron ore companies.
In a word, it was miserable by the Chinese.
Major shareholders have changed, and many rich people have gone bankrupt, but the problem has not been solved.
Who else can iron ore be sold to besides China?
However, now that the price is so low, the more iron ore is sold to China, the more China will be able to drive down the price of iron ore.
Therefore, if you succumb to the pressure of the Chinese, then this is a bottomless black hole.
In addition to this reason, there is also the meaning of the American political axe, which does not want Australia to continue to sell iron ore to China.
At first, these bosses could hold on for a while, and let the mine raise mosquitoes somewhere, but it didn't take long for them to endure it.
First of all, it is the Australian political axe that cannot be carried by it.
Iron ore production is the most important pillar industry in Australia, and if it does not start, not only will the tax revenue of the political axe be sharply reduced, but also the unemployment problem will be more serious.
In the world, no political axe is willing to face the problem of unemployment, especially in the country of Ming Cook, because this is directly related to the right of a group of people to eat in the political axe canteen.
So, after stiffening for a while, I finally couldn't bear it. What's more, now the American political axe is crossing the river with mud bodhisattvas.
Start work, sell.
Fortunately, although the price is low, the profit is still good as much as China wants and how much it produces.
At first, the bosses felt quite unsatisfactory, but when there were more and more green papers in the world, and the prices were rising, the bosses couldn't sit still.
The price of all the things has risen, which means that the cost of production has risen, but the cost of production has risen, but the price of iron ore has not moved.
The bosses sent people to China to negotiate, it was useless; The Australian political axe, the president has come forward, but it is still useless.
The Chinese have said that at this price, love to sell or not.
Vomiting blood!
(To be continued)