Chapter 578 578 Unified Currency Plan

China took control of the Diaoyu Islands, and in order to make a stand in Japan, it refused China's continued "help", and no one knows whether China will also help the Ryukyus if it continues to help. Japanese Prime Minister Hosokawa also issued a statement demanding that China withdraw from the Senkaku Islands and reaffirming its sovereignty over them. However, China has strongly replied that the Diaoyu Islands are China's inalienable territory, and that it is reasonable and legal for China to build military facilities on its own territory, and that other countries will not be allowed to point fingers.

And Japan has no time to continue to protest with China, because Aum Shinrikyo has planned several poison gas attacks again, and the most frightening thing for the Japanese government is that an attack occurred no more than a kilometer away from the imperial palace, and the Japanese imperial family urgently evacuated, and had to pass through an area with a high incidence of virus infection, which made the imperial family seriously frightened, and Emperor Heisei himself even had a fever the next day, which caused a lot of nervousness among medical staff.

Although the emperor and the imperial family are already mascots in Japan, after all, this is also the face of Japan, even the emperor was almost injured by sarin gas, and he contracted a slight illness because of it, which made Japanese politicians who did not have any loyalty to the monarch, but were still more traditional, very angry.

The more right-wing political groups even shouted brain-dead slogans such as "even if you are infected with the virus and die, you will also kill the Shinrikyo cult to repay the emperor's kindness" to put pressure on the Hosokawa government to intensify the encirclement and suppression of Shinrikyo and the Pravitra army. However, the Japanese government is also unable to express its bitterness, although it has the official organs of the government, but because of the virus epidemic and the destruction of Shinrikyo, the power of the Japanese government is far less than before, especially the attacks of the Truth Army are still very purposeful. Some civilian power generation facilities and telecommunications facilities have also been destroyed, and the Japanese government has made a mess that needs to be dealt with, and it is impossible to crack down on them with all its might.

In fact, the situation of Shinrikyo is not very good, and the main reason why they can make frequent attacks is because they are in the shadows, and they do not have as much of a mess as the Japanese government to take care of. After following Aoki Moto's urban guerrilla warfare strategy, although the Self-Defense Forces suffered a heavy blow, the damage to the church organizations that had been established by Shinrikyo was not small, and some Shinrikyo followers who could not be evacuated were disconnected from the organization, and some of the more stubborn ones were controlled by special government organs to carry out centralized detached brainwashing education.

The Japanese authorities are not stupid, knowing that as long as there are no believers, Shinrikyo will be rootless and will eventually be wiped out. Originally, many people wanted to join Shinrikyo because it might have a way to save the Ebola virus, but as Shinrikyo became an anti-government organization, and constantly encouraged its followers to confront the government, and also launched inhumane chemical weapons attacks, many people felt that they would still die if they joined it, but they would die from the virus or die in a different form from the war. In addition, because it has become an illegal organization, it has become impossible to proselytize openly in some places, and all this has seriously affected the missionary activities of Shinrikyo, and although its prestige is rising, its power is constantly declining.

On the other hand, Qi Yiming's support for Shinrikyo is also weakening, the Far Eastern Republic is no longer receiving more arms assistance, and the weapons that can be obtained from the Self-Defense Forces are also a drop in the bucket, and the conditions for the Truth Army to fight are becoming more and more difficult.

Qi Yiming also plans to claim that China has successfully developed a vaccine for the Ebola virus in another six months, so as to quell the chaos. Without Ebola as an assist, the Pratra Army will not last long, even if it can bounce for a few more days.

After all, Qi Yiming didn't want to see such a high-risk virus poison and harm, and something happened that he might not be able to control and the Red Police base, so he would really dig a pit and bury himself at that time.

China's response to the recapture of the Diaoyu Islands has not been reported in the country, and the reaction of the people has been relatively muted, except for some people who are very concerned about it, and many people are even unclear whether the Diaoyu Islands are in the South China Sea or the East China Sea. Relatively speaking, something more important for the Chinese people is happening at this time - the plan to unify the currencies of the SCO member states.

Compared to the ongoing virus crisis and civil unrest in Japan, the world is paying close attention to the progress of this matter. At the summit of the SCO member states held in Pontianak in South China in early 1994, several of the participating countries proposed a unified currency and improved economic communication and exchanges within the SCO and increased competitiveness of the SCO member states in economic globalization.

Not only the Far East, Siberia, the five Central Asian countries, and the Nanyang Republic will follow suit to abolish their national currencies and start using this newly formulated currency, but even Afghanistan and Myanmar have announced one after another that they are ready to enter this "new renminbi economic circle." In addition, the Hong Kong dollar and pataca (the Taiwan dollar has been abolished) in the internal administrative region of China will also be discontinued in this plan and converted into new currency.

Because there are many countries and many nationalities, only five languages are selected as the currency characters on the new renminbi, but people know Arabic numerals, so there is no difficulty in using them.

In order to issue a unified currency, a unified central bank is naturally needed, after all, no one can allow a member country to issue currency indiscriminately without the control of other countries, which will eventually lead to the depreciation of the new yuan, and everyone will suffer. The new renminbi will be issued by central banks of the SCO Central Bank, which is a committee of the SCO, and the issuance will be carried out under the supervision of the member states.

In terms of currency value, it is naturally accommodating the value of the Chinese yuan, the largest economy in the SCO, and the new yuan will be exchanged one-to-one with the old one-to-one renminbi, and other countries will exchange according to the results of the negotiations of the SCO central bank. And the Nanyang RMB is not troublesome, because the Nanyang RMB has long been pegged to the Chinese RMB and exchanged one-to-one, so in essence they are just changing the style of a set of currencies.

Although the SCO's economy is not as large as Europe's, and Europe has the same plan to issue euros, no country in the EU is definitely much stronger than the other, and the SCO is similar to the Soviet Union, and the other member states basically revolve around China. Given the size and centripetal force of China's economy, the issuance of the new renminbi will inevitably lead other member states to be more closely connected to China's core, and thus lose more and more autonomy, no different from China's special administrative regions in the future.

Naturally, this situation worries many national strategists, especially the fact that the Americans are so quick to manipulate the SCO member states in carrying out this bold and radical plan for currency unification.

After the issuance of the new renminbi, goods produced in China were shipped to the Far East or the South Seas without tariffs, and the locals bought them in yuan, which was no different from trading in the country. Through the two magic weapons of free trade agreement and currency unification, China has basically occupied the other SCO member states economically. In the future, the SCO will look less and less like an international organization and more like a truly sovereign state.

Qi Yiming even imagined that in the future, Afghan consumers would find a product on the Internet, and after taking a photo, SF Express would directly fly it to Kandahar, and Afghan consumers would directly use Alipay to transfer RMB to the seller. Without the intermediate foreign exchange and tariff links, the circulation within the entire economy has become unusually smooth, and the circulation of more large and frequent currencies will naturally revitalize the entire economy, thereby promoting GDP growth and the improvement of people's living standards.

In all fairness, the benefits of the new currency issuance to China are far greater than those of other countries, because China's economy has economies of scale, and has advantages in technology, materials, labor, and other aspects, when the large market activated by zero tariffs and a unified currency is launched, some enterprises that are not doing well within the member countries will be automatically eliminated by the laws of the market, which will inevitably have a certain impact.

Of course, because China's economy is also too big, it is fully capable of reintegrating the companies of these countries and making them part of the economic chain. For example, the Gagarin Plant in Komsomolsk of Far East Amur is mainly used by COMAC, Shenfei, Shenghua and other aviation manufacturing enterprises to produce spare parts, and the benefits are very considerable.

Opening up the meridians will inevitably be painful, but the redistribution and integration of additional resources will be very helpful in improving the economic level of these countries in the future. Moreover, countries such as Siberia, the Far East, and the five Central Asian countries themselves have a process of economic reform and reconstruction, and their participation in the "new renminbi economic circle" will certainly be able to speed up this process.

As for the matter of economic independence, in fact, it is still relatively viewed, if the pure populist or ultra-nationalist views, whether it is zero tariffs or a unified currency, are sacrifices to the country's economic sovereignty, it is not an exaggeration to shout a traitorous slogan. But on the other hand, these countries can indeed rely on China's healthy and fast-growing economy in this way, and improve their own level and capabilities.

Even if you simply consider the currency value, the strong renminbi in your hands is not a big problem, and it will still appreciate, with the expansion of China's economic scale, the money in your hands is RMB, in fact, for these foreigners, it is equivalent to investment appreciation. Not to mention the fact that the renminbi has strong purchasing power and can greatly enrich the material life of the people of the other SCO member states.

So, when the SCO announced that it would take years to create a single currency, the world reacted not only with envy, but with panic. The speed of the Chinese dragon is so fast that it is difficult for them to keep up.