Bulgaria has not been the focus of Qi Yiming's attention since the peaceful evolution of the late 80s and early 90s, and this country is not among the three fulcrums of Eastern Europe chosen by Qi Yiming. She still followed the trajectory of another plane, carried out "democratic reforms", and became a universal country. However, this transformation has not brought much good change to Bulgaria, although Bulgaria's economy has made some progress, but compared to several neighboring countries that have not changed, it is really different.

This has also led some leftists of the Bulgarian CP forces to constantly claim that Bulgaria's evolution is unconstructive and wrong, and that Bulgaria should learn from the experience of other countries and take a path more in line with its own national conditions. After all, the main political forces in Bulgaria evolved from the CP, and many people are still nostalgic for the past, and they also have a greater urge to restore the Bulgarian red system.

Bulgaria is sandwiched between Romania, Yugoslavia and Turkey, and it is still quite difficult to maintain neutrality, especially in recent years, the pressure from China and the United States to demand its statement has also increased, and Bulgaria will either choose to join NATO or choose to join the SCO, if neither side chooses, because of its unfortunate geographical location, if any war breaks out, it will inevitably be a role to be bullied by both sides.

Now that the pattern of the new Cold War in the world has become more and more obvious, China and the United States are no longer in the close alliance relationship of the past, nor are they in the pretended friendly state that they maintained in the mid-to-early 90s. And although China is not as fierce and reckless as the Soviet Union, China has not taken any advantage of it, which makes the United States very unhappy.

After Yugoslavia was pulled out by NATO and almost hanged and beaten, the Bulgarians did not believe how long their policy of neutrality could be maintained in the Balkans. So it's a difficult choice for them, and whatever the consequences of that choice, at least they can be reassured for now.

In addition, China's support for the two allies of Yugoslavia and Romania, especially the economic aid, has made the economic situation of two countries that was not much different from Bulgaria before the 90s fall behind Bulgaria after the 90s. In recent years, the United States and Europe have paid more attention to how to maintain their economic advantages in the face of China's shock, and they do not care much about these potential partners. Therefore, the practical value of joining the SCO is even higher.

After the Bulgarian side made some contacts with China in a common sense manner, China welcomed Bulgaria's accession to the SCO and promised Bulgaria to give more support to Bulgaria in all aspects after its accession. Of course, Bulgaria, like other SCO countries, will henceforth shoulder the responsibility of collective defense within the SCO.

Moreover, China also made a very surprising offer to Bulgaria, and China will provide Bulgaria with a military aid of tens of billions of yuan. At this time, the renminbi has risen all the way compared with more than ten years ago, and the exchange rate with the US dollar has risen to 4:1, but even so, the competitiveness of China's economy still makes European and American countries very frightened.

This military aid of tens of billions of yuan includes a large amount of main battle equipment, including more than 200 VT-4 main battle tanks, more than 400 MIFV multifunctional infantry vehicles with different weapon stations, dozens of helicopters with different functions, and even 1 set of Hongqi-9 air defense system. These weapons and equipment were enough to arm most of the Bulgarian army, and they were considered pie by the Bulgarians.

These equipment are naturally products produced by Qi Yiming's Red Police Base, and in fact, they do not occupy the national budget. The reason why Qi Yiming is willing to spend so much money is, firstly, if Bulgaria participates in the SCO, it will not be too weak in the future war to drag the SCO back, and secondly, such a large amount of military aid has also made the eyes of other countries in the world hot, telling them that the benefits of joining the SCO are great.

At present, countries such as Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other countries are still more inclined to join the SCO, but this issue is also quite controversial in their countries, and Qi Yiming added a weight to the scale, which can be regarded as promoting the continuous strengthening of the SCO, and in the future, when facing NATO, to gain a certain advantage.

Qi Yiming is bent on expanding the SCO, and the Americans are also focusing on expanding NATO's power. At that time, NATO and the Warsaw Pact competed for supremacy, and its main battlefield was in Europe, but now NATO is competing with the SCO, but the battlefield has begun to expand to more regions, especially in Asia, obviously NATO does not have any systematic military cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, although Australia, the Philippines, Japan, and so on are all allies of the United States, but there is no big alliance like NATO that can work together collectively, so there is still a distance from NATO countries in terms of coordinated operations.

Therefore, since 1996, the United States has been keen to promote the accession of non-North Atlantic countries to NATO, of which the Asia-Pacific region is a major focus, and the United States is eagerly negotiating with Japan, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, and other countries to join NATO. However, in addition to Japan, other Asia-Pacific countries are still hesitant to face China, the largest country in the region, even if Japan is in a hurry to help the United States godfather as a watchdog, but the previous Shinrikyo rebellion has made Japan have a deep understanding and hatred of the war, and if Japan wants to join NATO, it must revise the constitution, and the Japanese people are quite disgusted and rejected by this, if a political party shouts to strengthen Japan-US cooperation and join NATO, it is absolutely impossible to be elected. This is because the mainstream public opinion in Japan is already in a corner of peace, and there is no dispute with the world.

As a result, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government now intends to maintain the moderation and ascend to the throne first, and then immediately change its face and launch a sudden political incident to change the constitution, of course, this will require the affirmation of two-thirds of the members of the Japanese Diet, so it is not a particularly easy task.

Australia in the South Pacific is also hesitant to join NATO, even though it turned its back on Britain and joined the United States after World War II, and is a traditional ally of the United States. However, Australia is also soberly aware that the United States is too far away from Australia, and several SCO member states are too close to Australia. In addition, China is also Australia's largest economic and trade partner, Australia's main export object of iron ore is China, joining NATO will inevitably lead to the deterioration of Sino-Australian relations, some Australians who value economic interests are very opposed to this, so it is difficult for Australia to make up its mind for a while.

New Zealand is in a similar situation, in short, it is not willing to get on the American pirate ship so easily. As for the Philippines, although it is not too friendly with China, it is not enough to offend such a big country at the doorstep of the United States, so it is more hypocritical and indifferent to the United States, and does not dare to go all the way to the black with the United States.

South Korea, which was still the younger brother of the United States, has become the current Korean Federation, and although it will not completely fall to China, its exchanges with the United States have long been less eager. Since South Korea forcibly expelled the US troops stationed in South Korea, the relationship between the United States and the DPRK has been deeply rifted, and the DPRK Federal Army has also fully adopted the form of Chinese weapons in the subsequent military restructuring, which shows that the DPRK has broken with the United States. The United States wants to pull the DPRK into NATO, which is simply a fool's dream.

The United States has run into walls everywhere in the Asia-Pacific region to pull allies, and it is also angry, but the more it plays big cards and loses its temper with these countries, the more it may push them away, and the United States has to accompany the smiling face, which is both a threat and an inducement, hoping to establish a small Asia-Pacific NATO.

In other regions, the United States has not stopped its activities in pulling Latin American allies, and some emerging countries are also the main targets of the United States, such as South Africa and Morocco in Africa, and Brazil and Chile in Latin America, and the United States is trying its best to win them into the NATO system and form a strategic global suppression of China.

Even the United States has made a big deal of wooing Russia, which has made some progress in recent years. Russia was dismembered by Qi Yiming, and even robbed to the bottom, and Putin used a set of neoliberalism and small government regulation to make Russia's economy return to the level before the collapse of the Soviet Union in almost ten years, and even slightly victorious. Although it is a small government, Putin's nationalism at home and his charismatic propaganda have made him very powerful in Russia.

From an ideological point of view, the several countries that were divided after the collapse of the Soviet Union were actually the best in the universalization of Russia, and even the three Baltic states and Belarus were no better than Russia under Putin's rule. The United States believes that Russia is ideologically close to the West, and Putin himself has expressed his dissatisfaction with China's robbery on different occasions, so Russia has also become a focus of NATO's efforts.

The Russian army was rebuilt with only about 150,000 soldiers, and as Russia's economic situation improves, Putin, who has a different kind of paranoia about force, is spending money to build a larger and stronger force. Even if Qi Yiming has done a lot of damage to Russia's defense industry, after all, the foundation is still there, and after all these years of renovation and investment, Russia has restored 80 percent of its military equipment construction capacity. It's just that a few high-tech weapons are still a little worse.

In 1997, Russia funded the purchase of 6 J-16 fighters from the Far Eastern Republics, because the prototype of the J-16 was the Su-27, and now Russia needs to buy a modification of the Su-27 from the Far East, which really makes many Russian patriots sad. However, the Russian aviation people reverse-engineered the 6 J-16s, although they could not be completely imitated, but they also got a lot of help, and soon Russia launched its own new fighter, the Su-30.

Something like this is going on in Russia, which represents Putin's restless heart.