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A few days after the conclusion of the international conference on the Congolese civil war, on 3 October 1999, the port of Guangzhou, with colorful flags fluttering and whistles blaring, slowly left the port with a large mixed fleet and an even larger commercial fleet.

Around the port, there are crowds of people; In front of the TV, there are countless pairs of eyes.

For a long time, in terms of military strength, the country has always been very low-key, whether it is a military exercise or a real military operation, it is all devils entering the village, shooting in the place, and it is not very public, but this time, it is as high-profile as it can be.

Intervention in the Congolese civil war, domestic opinions, there are opponents, there are those who are in favor.

Except for those with ulterior motives, such as public intellectuals, whether they are against or in favor, everyone is worried about it.

It can be said that this is China's debut in international affairs.

Much to look forward to.

Today, at this moment, all Chinese, the sons and daughters of China, are all enthusiastic.

An army, what is copper poured iron, today, just the faces and eyes of these ordinary soldiers in China perfectly interpret the answer.

They are loyal defenders of the Republic!

Stability and steadfastness are the most intuitive feelings in every Chinese's heart at this moment.

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China, although it is still far behind them economically, is militarily strong, at least they dare not provoke, let alone grab meat like before the establishment of the republic.

This is the most basic judgment in the hearts of those big people in the United States and the European Union.

Today, it is not only the Chinese who are watching the departure of the Chinese [***] team, but also the big figures from all over the world, and of course, there will be no less big figures from the United States and Europe.

Africa is Europe's traditional sphere of influence, and now the continent is all autonomous, but in reality, many countries in Africa are still largely European colonies.

After World War II, due to factors such as the needs of the United States and competition with the Soviet Union, the reading movement in the colonies of the Great Powers was very smooth, but it was very incomplete, and the Great Powers not only retained their economic interests intact in many colonies, but also retained their political and military power to a large extent.

Among them, the situation is most serious in Africa.

One of the most important reasons why Africa's national reading power is so incomplete is that Africa does not have a large country with sufficient weight.

Like Asia, because of China, after a few decades, Europe's influence has basically been eliminated; Another example is the Americas, because of the existence of the United States, Europe's influence has also been weakened to a very low level.

Only Africa, and Europe still occupy an absolute advantage.

Europe has not only great economic interests in Africa, but also geopolitical needs, and is the only remaining symbol of Europe's past glory.

Therefore, this time, China's high-profile intervention in the Congolese civil war stabbed the hearts of Europeans at once, which is called a heart-wrenching heart.

Europe is so angry that it wants to tear the Chinese apart, but Europe basically has nothing to do with China.

Europe's policy toward China basically follows that of the United States, and when China's north and south are divided, there are many restrictions on the north, even in the south, and that is why the development of the south lags far behind that of the south, or even inferior to that of South Korea.

Although the North had some trade with England and France for historical reasons, it did not have any fundamental impact on either side in terms of quantity.

Moreover, after the reunification of China's north and south, the United States and Europe became wary of China, and the volume of trade between the two sides not only did not increase, but on the contrary, decreased in various fields.

So, economically, Europe has little capacity to restrain China.

As for the military, Europe is a waste of material and is simply vulnerable. To put it mildly, if you start a war with a big country like China, you will run out of ammunition in less than three days.

Militarily, Europe has been emasculated by the United States with both soft and hard hands, and the typical example is Germany.

In this regard, the United States is really powerful.

The United States has emasculated the book politically, but it has given it a big deal off militarily, which is exactly the opposite of what it did to Germany.

This is the reality in Europe.

Economically and militarily powerless, and politically there is no need to talk about it, so no matter how angry Europe is, it will be in vain, ruined, and useless.

The reality of Europe is that of economic giants, political dwarfs, and military dwarves. For Europe to exert global influence, it must cooperate with a major power.

There are only three such powers, namely the United States, China and Russia. At the moment, the only thing Europe can count on in this matter is the United States.

In fact, as soon as China proposed to hold an international conference on the Congolese civil war, Europe was in a hurry, and the bigwigs began to run to Washington in a hurry.

However, the Americans are too cunning and typical of their work.

This time, although China has made the United States extremely unhappy, it is not all bad for the United States, and the good thing for the United States is that it has deepened the contradictions between China and Europe.

Although the United States is the world's leading power, the Americas are not the center of the world, never have been, the center of the world has always been Eurasia.

The relationship between the United States and Eurasia is an amplified version of the relationship between Britain and the European continent, and if the European continent is strong, Britain will inevitably decline, and in the same way, if the Eurasian continent is strong, the United States will inevitably decline.

This is a typical zero-sum game, and it is also the reason why the United States did not hesitate to tear its face and go into battle shirtless to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as soon as the euro was introduced in Europe.

The United States is meddling and burying nails everywhere in the world, although it is for practical interests, but the most fundamental thing is for the sake of such geopolitical strategic interests of life and death.

This time, there is another important reason why the United States is not able to do its job, and that is that it is afraid of China.

The Chinese will repay their eyes without scruples, and there is no binding force on China at all for any universal values, while the US front is too long and has too many soft underbelly, and China wants to retaliate, which is impossible to prevent, so we cannot be afraid and dare not be afraid.

Seeing China's majestic military might, the Europeans were even more in dire straits.

Europe at this time is like the old and young left behind when the Qing Dynasty just fell, although the scenery is no longer there, but it is still living in the scenery of the ancestors and cannot extricate themselves.

This moment is purgatory for Europe, undergoing a painful transformation.

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After more than a month of sailing, on 11 November, the mixed fleet arrived in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In Africa, there are two countries with the name "Congo", and in order to distinguish them, the first character of the name of their respective capital is added after "Congo".

The capital of the Republic of Congo is Kinshasa, so the Republic of Congo is simply called the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In this operation, the total number of troops expected to be stationed in the Congo was 18,000, and this group of 8,000 troops came, all of whom were stationed in Kinshasa.

Kinshasa warmly welcomed the arrival of the Chinese from top to bottom, of course, everyone wanted to end the war, and the Chinese painted a pie that was too round and fragrant.

The DRC is extremely rich in resources, and its original economic situation was okay, but when the war broke down, there was nothing.

For a long time, due to the abundance of resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the mining industry has occupied an absolute dominant position in the national economy, while other industries such as processing industry and agriculture are extremely backward.

In terms of processing industries, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, like other resource-rich countries in Africa, has been restricted by the West for various reasons, and this time, the Chinese promised to help them develop their processing industries in their plans.

Moreover, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has vast and fertile land, but it cannot even be self-sufficient in food, and the Chinese have also promised to vigorously develop agriculture and achieve food self-sufficiency within five years.

If nothing else, on these two points, the vast majority of Congolese citizens are desperately eager for the arrival of Chinese.

Now, the Chinese have finally arrived.

Compared with the general public, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laurent? Desire? Kabila was even more delighted by the arrival of the Chinese.

Kabila is no ordinary warlord, he is a real tried and tested old revolutionary.

Born in Sabah in 1938, Kabila is of the Baluba ethnic group and studied in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa, as well as economics at the University of Nancy, France.

In 1960, on the eve of the liberation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgian colonial rule, he returned to China.

As a patriotic and enthusiastic youth, Kabila actively participated in the anti-Belgian patriotic movement led by Lumumba, and was sent to the Soviet Union by the Lumumba National Movement Party.

In January 1964, after Lumumba was killed by the Belgian-sponsored Chongbo group, a patriotic armed struggle broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kabila went to the eastern province of Kivu in April to mobilize the masses and served as the vice-chairman of the Eastern Committee of the National Liberation Council.

Due to the intervention of the United States and other Western countries, and the erroneous political, organizational, and military line pursued by the main leaders of the armed organizations, the armed struggles in various localities failed one after another from the second half of 1965, and Kabila was forced to lead several hundred remnants of the Eastern Front to withdraw to the mountainous areas on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania and Burundi, and to persist in guerrilla warfare.

Summing up the experience of this armed struggle, Kabila believed that the reason for the defeat was the absence of a party, so in 1967 he founded the Marxist-Leninist "Congolese People's Revolutionary Party" in the Fiji region at the eastern tip of Kivu province, and established liberated areas in Kivu and Sabah provinces.

Since then, Kabila has led the struggle against Mobutu until 7 May 1997, when he stormed the capital Kinshasa, and on 29 May he was sworn in as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa.

A person like Kabila, who has experienced decades of brutal armed struggle, is naturally a calm politician and does not have the slightest naivety.

Kabila's welcome to the Chinese is inevitable and necessary, but the "warm" welcome of the Chinese is the result of careful consideration.

First of all, there is no doubt that the Chinese speak their minds.

"China's credibility" is an extremely huge wealth for China, and compared with this wealth, China's interests in the DRC are far from being comparable to the interests of "China's credibility", so there is no need to doubt the commitment of the Chinese.

Second, there is China's private commitment to Kabila.

China has pledged that as long as Kabila cooperates in all aspects, China's partner in the DRC will be Kabila.

Under these circumstances, there is nothing unacceptable about letting China take charge of the DRC for eleven years.

In this intervention in the Congolese civil war, the military is naturally the top priority, but in the context of maintaining stability, the economic aspect is the top priority.

On both the military and political sides, China has taken a parallel approach, both military and economic, so that the super-large commercial fleet, which comes with a mixed fleet, has a total tonnage of 500,000 tons.

Zhang Tongjun was the top leader of the operation, and Major General Liu Mingzhou was the military commander.

After negotiating with Kabila, Zhang Tongjun and Kabila held a joint press conference, in which they announced that they would not blame the past and invited all parties to gather in Kinshasa to negotiate a solution.

China will provide security guarantees to all opposition forces.

At the same time, they also announced that, from tomorrow onwards, those who kill may die; Those who are strong may die. November 30 is the end of the war, and after that, the murderer, die! Die, Destroyer!

Three days after the joint press conference, Zhang Tongjun and Liu Mingzhou accompanied Kabila and several other high-level Congolese officials to the Chinese garrison base.

Six or seven miles southwest of Kinshasa, there is a wasteland with an area of two to three hundred square kilometers, which the Chinese political axe bought in its entirety and used it as a garrison base.

China is really buying, and the price is at least 30 percent higher than the market price.

Kabila was puzzled at first, and then, after Zhang Tongjun's explanation, he was excited and unbelievable.

Zhang Tongjun told Kabila that the purchase of wasteland was purely an investment, and that the Chinese government wanted to build it into a factory area and move all the factories in Kinshasa here.

Kabila is not a bun, he knows that other metropolises in the world, not to mention the capitals of various countries, are some of the more developed cities, and there are few factories in the urban area.

In doing so, the Chinese undoubtedly want to build Kinshasa into a modern metropolis, which means that as long as China's plan is realized, the benefits are undoubtedly astronomical.

As for whether China will realize this plan, to be honest, Kabila is not so confident in his heart.

China certainly wants to preserve its credibility, but the problem is that it doesn't necessarily realize the difficulties.

Entering the garrison base, Kabila and the others were a little dumbfounded.

The garrison base has become a huge construction site as far as the eye can see, with bulldozers, road rollers, excavators and other construction machinery shuttling back and forth, and workers in blue uniforms and yellow hard hats are nervously busy like ants.

Zhang Tongjun and Liu Mingzhou accompanied Kirby into a huge board room, which was the headquarters headquarters.

Upon entering, Kabila was dumbfounded again.

There are more than just a few huge electronic screens, and when you enter here, it seems to be a scene from a science fiction movie.

Kabila's confidence was greatly boosted.

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Bunia is a city full of sorrows.

A few months ago, 350,000 Bunias lived in the city, but now the city is in ruins, countless people have been slaughtered, many more have been displaced, and no one dares to stay in this place.

This is the curse of gold.

Bunia is rich in gold.

The reason why the West can easily provoke a massacre of this magnitude is because of gold.

Countless armed factions, large and small, have been involved in brutal killings in order to compete for gold resources and trade routes.

Bunia is just a microcosm of the tragic Congolese.

Violence, only violence can stop it.

Half a month after the Chinese [***] team was stationed in Kinshasa, the killing began.

Specifically, assassinations, which targeted the leaders of the abusive factions and the gold dealers.

In just one week, twenty-seven leaders of armed factions were assassinated, and two hundred and forty-three gold dealers were assassinated.

These assassinations are silent, but those who should know will know about them.

The assassination continued.

Soon, both the leaders of armed factions and gold dealers were all soldiers, because no matter where they hid, they could not escape the sniping of the Chinese.

At this time, many people had already realized that the Chinese had already begun to act, and they must have known the situation in the rebel areas well.

With the mastery of intelligence, coupled with modern weapons such as helicopters, as long as a small detachment of several dozen people suddenly launches an attack, it is not something that any armed faction can withstand.

This hand has a great deterrent effect, but assassination alone cannot solve the problem at all.

Deterrence can only serve as a temporary deterrent.

The root of the Congolese civil war is still the words of the Clinton brothers who honor the elder Bush: stupid, everything is in the economy.

In the gold-rich north-east of the DRC, there is no infrastructure such as water, electricity, roads, railways, hospitals, banks, and almost no other livelihoods other than gold-related livelihoods, not even agriculture.

To survive, the vast majority of people have to go into the pits to mine gold.

Of the four million gold miners, one million are child laborers under the age of 14.

Therefore, the only way to truly stabilize the DRC is to develop its economy.

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The world is watching China's actions in the DRC.

The Americans, in the Persian Gulf and in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, have shown the world what high-tech warfare is.

China is mysterious, no one knows how far China's military technology has developed, and many people want to get a glimpse of China's actions in the DRC.

In this regard, the world was disappointed, but at the same time as disappointed, China also shocked the world once again.

This time, what shocked the world in China was the speed of construction.

In the eyes of almost everyone, the Chinese can do magic, and the long railway line seems to have been conjured up by the Chinese overnight.

There is not one, but eight railway lines.

When the railway line had not yet penetrated into the northeast of the rebellion, many people were afraid, really afraid, because it would really cut off their financial routes.

The Chinese engaged in assassination, which is of course scary, but there is still a way to deal with it, but as soon as the railway is built, then few people will follow them.

As a result, people from all walks of life began to try to prevent the Chinese from building railways, but the Chinese are so powerful that as long as they dare to take the lead, the Chinese will chase them all the way into their lair, and they will definitely give a spoonful of stew.

Force, ruthlessness, and the incredible speed of construction have turned the situation in the DRC upside down.

(To be continued)