Chapter 509 509 Establishment of the SCO
It seems that the Americans also know that at the moment when Chinese forces are taking over Russia in an all-round way, the best they can do is to put up a line with Putin, and if they want to have more influence in Russia than China, unless real money is smashed. The Americans did exactly that, and after China announced its aid plan for Russia's recovery and reconstruction, the Americans began to provide Russia with about $4 billion in aid loans, taking advantage of their almost dominance of the World Bank and the IMF.
At the same time, the Americans' envoys frequently go to Moscow (Putin has come to Moscow to prepare for the presidential election at the end of the year) to meet with Putin, hoping to get more out of his mouth, but Putin himself is not stupid, and getting too close to the Americans may make the Chinese suspicious, and in the end even the position of president is gone.
The interim president casually created by Qi Yiming signed a declaration recognizing Siberia and the Far East, and from then on Russia was officially divided into three. Before you know it, a large number of Chinese have entered these two countries, and perhaps in ten years, the Russian population here will be diluted to become a non-core ethnic group.
After a war and chaos, the Russian population has suffered a lot of losses, and the population of more than 4 million square kilometers in Western Russia is only about 100 million at this time. Due to economic development and immigration, the population of the Far Eastern Republic at this time had just exceeded 10 million. The population of the Republic of Siberia after the annexation of the Ural region was about 32 million people.
Qi Yiming predicts that if the economic situation in Russia does not change soon, some people in Russia will immigrate to Siberia or the Far East.
The Far Eastern Republic is the target country for Qi Yiming's main immigration, because it is close to the Northwest Pacific Ocean and borders the Northeast region, so it is relatively easy to develop business. After the policy is liberalized, there is no need for compulsory immigration, and many Chinese people will see this opportunity to make a fortune and go to the Far East. They may not live in the Far East permanently, but at least they will buy land and property, and it cannot be ruled out that the evil little bosses will engage in bigamy or something in the Far East.
Qi Yiming also prepared about one million base-owned militia to enter the Far East as civilians, mainly developing the Heilongjiang River basin south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, the Chinese part south of the Heilongjiang River has been developed to the extreme, with large areas of fertile land, while the area of the Far East to the north is still relatively wild. This area could be used to provide the daily needs of at least 50 million people in the Far East.
In fact, the topography of the Far Eastern Republic is not as good as that of Siberia, which is crisscrossed by mountains, but these mountainous areas contain a large number of natural resources such as gold, industrial diamonds, coal and iron, which can be exploited and utilized. Considering the high difficulty of development, Qi Yiming mainly uses drill-mining vehicles to mine the resources here.
In the case of relatively high latitudes in the Far East, there are not many areas where the heat and sunlight are not very sufficient, and there are not many areas that can develop agriculture, and the plains of the Heilongjiang River basin and the Ussuri River basin are the only areas in the Far East where you can farm and feed people. However, like the Northeast, the soil is fertile, the water and soil are abundant, and it is a production area of high-quality agricultural products.
With few immigration restrictions in the Far East, the population may exceed 50 million within 20 years, and ethnic Russians will probably become a national minority entirely. The situation in Siberia was similar, with Qi Yiming's migration directed mainly in the southern regions of the West Siberian Plain, where agriculture could be developed.
Compared with development and reclamation, the Russians are not as good as the Chinese, Maozi is probably good at plundering, and in development, he can only give full play to the nature of a fighting nation and use nuclear bombs to build roads and open reservoirs. Qi Yiming lamented that the world's second largest plain, the Eastern European Plain with good conditions, is occupied by Da Mao and Er Mao, and this black soil plain of more than 4 million square kilometers, if Chinese are allowed to develop, it may not be a problem to feed 1 billion people.
Pulling Putin up, Qi Yiming's affairs in Russia are basically over, and his subordinates will naturally do follow-up work, such as economic construction and political infiltration. His eyes returned to China's periphery, and while the momentum of the 12-nation coalition had not yet passed, Qi Yiming wanted to erect the prototype of the SCO.
In July 1992, Chinese leaders invited the heads of state of 12 countries, including the Far East, Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Nanyang, to hold a summit meeting in Shanghai. Except for the heads of state of China and Nanyang, the remaining ten people attending the meeting were all Red Alert spies of Qi Yiming. Such a meeting may seem grand, but in fact it is not a meeting at all, because China's unilateral proposal is tantamount to an order. However, in order to avoid ugliness, many issues will be raised by the leaders of several other countries, and it will not appear that China is acting arbitrarily.
After two weeks of talks, the 12 countries announced the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an organization of regional states that will carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in the economic, political, security, cultural and other fields, at a time when the rest of the world did not expect it at all. Although at this meeting, the substantive agreement was not passed, some media in Europe, the United States and Western countries are already exclaiming: "The Asian alliance has appeared!" ”
At a time when the European Union is making great progress on the course of integration and is preparing to play an important role on the future world stage, the emergence of an organization of countries that is not an Asian alliance, but more like an Asian alliance, has stunned the world's attention. And unlike the EU, this new regional organization of states is more like an economic and political NATO than an EU.
The reason for this is that China clearly has an absolute advantage in the SCO, both economically and militarily, which is completely different from the dozens of EU countries that are about the same size, about the same in terms of population, and not much different in national strength. Although it is not yet known what direction the SCO will take in the future, there are already foresightful people who can see that with the help of the SCO, China can integrate the resources of several other countries, and it is undoubtedly the country that will benefit the most.
This is not to say that the remaining eleven countries will not benefit, they can also achieve significant development in the process of unity, but what they get is insignificant compared to what China gets.
On the second day of the SCO's founding, the spokesman of the US State Council congratulated the SCO on its establishment and expressed the hope that the SCO would contribute to the development and stability of the region. Although it doesn't sound bad, a feeling of shock and even fear can already be reflected.
The United States is not particularly worried about one China, but when China pulls in a group of junior brothers and its power spans almost half of Asia, there is no reason why the United States should not worry that its hegemony will be challenged by this new national organization.
Many people felt that China, the five Central Asian countries, and the two countries in North Asia were all moving closer to each other, but they did not expect that a joint regional organization would be established so soon, and that it would involve almost all economic, political, and military aspects. Some conservative commentators in the West believe that this may be a prelude to China's determination to build a new Soviet Union, and that people in the free world must remain vigilant.
In August, the SCO signed its first agreement, which attracted all the attention of the world. In fact, there is nothing special about this agreement, which is the reduction and exemption of tariff procedures and other additional benefits for multilateral trade. The treaty provides for the SCO member states to provide the most preferential tariff policies for the rest of the SCO member states, forming a minimum customs union within the SCO. The deal will inevitably lead to the already horrific competitiveness of Chinese goods sweeping all SCO markets at lower prices, but China has done something even better.
For the products of the other countries' advantageous export status, China will give them full tariff exemption, and China will provide assistance programs for industrial upgrading or transformation of the domestic industries and industries of the member countries that are affected by Chinese products.
It seems that this is China's way to help other member countries in a way that hurts its own interests, but in fact, China's consumption power in this large market of one billion people is terrifying, such as Afghanistan can eat as much wool as China can eat, Kazakhstan and Siberia export as much oil China receives, tariff exemption is not only beneficial to these countries, in fact, it is also a cost reduction for Chinese manufacturers.
This kind of thing similar to the principle of free trade has been regarded as a treasure by the Chinese after the 21st century, because with its own huge economic system, what small countries provide can be freely digested, and in the end, it is actually a benefit for both sides, and even more for China.
As for assisting the member states in upgrading or transforming their weak industries, this is a super conspiracy, and by taking advantage of this opportunity, China can tie the remaining countries firmly to its own economic carriage and make them an integral part of the chain of its own economic system.
At the same time, the SCO provides a certain level of protection for vulnerable countries, taking into account the different levels of economic development of the member states. Afghanistan, for example, has a policy of protection for its own agricultural products in order to prevent the collapse of its already fragile domestic agriculture by large quantities of cheap agricultural products from other countries.
In this round of economic integration of the SCO, Qi Yiming's key consideration is to give full play to the economic location advantages of different countries, such as Kazakhstan can produce advantages in oil production and chemical industry, and this part will be mainly done. Afghanistan has its own characteristic agriculture, and it has worked high-grade wool textiles. As a result, we will avoid the reuse of resources, eliminate unsuitable and vulnerable sectors, provide the best quality and cheap products with economies of scale, and communicate commerce and trade throughout the SCO economies with more flexible and free logistics.
Economic experts from all over the world are not stupid, and everyone understands the doorway. If China completes this round of SCO economic integration, its economic power will expand by more than three or five times, and the already poor Central Asian countries may skyrocketing to prosperity. How can this give peace of mind to the traditionally developed countries of Europe and the United States?