Chapter 111: A Year of Change
How many unknown collusions are hidden behind the prosperous era, and for ordinary people, this may be a mystery that can never be solved. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
We will never know for the rest of our lives whether the path of our lives is being manipulated by someone else - if we also encounter a catastrophe.
After returning to China, after more than a month of preparation and silence, the leaders finally began their first steps on November 1.
Countries first took action against the worsening dollar crisis, and with the collective promise and strength of the major powers, the dollar bottomed out, and the American people and investors in the financial community were like a roller coaster, and they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
With the directional flow and fermentation of funds, the US dollar market has gradually returned to stability.
What is surprising is that Russia, which has always been at odds with the United States, has not only failed to fall into the trap in this crisis, but has also extended a helping hand to the United States, promising the outside world the status of the dollar as a settlement currency.
Its move pointed out a direction for the bewildering trend of the dollar.
On the other hand, while stabilizing the dollar market, Sino-US relations, which have not improved after Stanley's visit to China, have also begun to change.
The interaction between the two sides has increased significantly, and China and the United States have gradually reached a number of consensus on space cooperation, which makes the outside world intuitively feel that the glaciers between the two countries are melting little by little.
What everyone didn't expect was that just a week later, on November 8, a big event happened in the whole world! This event profoundly affected the trajectory of the planet in the following decades.
On that day, the United Nations convened a special meeting, and the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, and other countries jointly submitted to the General Assembly for voting on the establishment of a scientific committee of an international cooperation nature and a committee for the investigation and prosecution of economic crimes.
What's going on? Forming a Scientific Committee and an Economic Crime Investigation Commission directly under the United Nations?
It doesn't seem like a particularly big deal either, two ordinary international coalition organizations?
The reason for this is that it is precisely because of the lack of a strict spirit of international cooperation that transnational economic crimes remain high, and scientific cooperation is a prison that makes effective use of the resources available to mankind.
The reason seems to be high-sounding and convincing, since several major powers have agreed, submitting to the General Assembly for a vote is actually just a formality.
It was only when the United Nations announced its specific programme that people were surprised to find that the two international organizations did not seem to be as simple as they had imagined.
Strictly speaking, these two departments, although nominally subordinate to the United Nations, have considerable autonomy in practice.
Among them, the scientific committee is located in a city in Chinese mainland, and the economic crime investigation committee is located in a Pacific island country, and both departments have independent accounting systems, and each country only sends observers to supervise, in fact, only the above six countries have the right to send observers.
According to the adopted plan, the two institutions will be operational on New Year's Day 2018.
The turbulent and rapidly changing international situation has confused the vast majority of observers who think they have the pulse of the world. They suddenly find themselves on another earth, and all the situation no longer follows their theories of international relations?
On January 10, 2018, the six countries announced cooperation in the field of star development, establishing a space planning agency under the Scientific Committee to coordinate the space development programs of the six countries, and the rest of the countries can participate on a voluntary basis.
On January 15, at the initiative of the Scientific Committee, China announced that it would establish Huaxia University to recruit young scholars for further study.
The university is divided into the juvenile department and the youth department, of which the juvenile department absorbs the majority of children and adolescents to enroll, specializes in teaching junior high school, high school and university knowledge, belongs to full-time educational institutions, and takes into account the social support obligation, the quota will be appropriately tilted towards orphans; The Youth Department is a place dedicated to the refresher training of young scholars.
After the completion of Huaxia University, it is expected to accommodate 150,000 people to work and study.
Three days later, the United States also announced that it would establish the American University, which will be able to accommodate 120,000 people to work and study, and the policy should be the same as that of Huaxia University.
The next day, the Commonwealth University, the École Université de France, the Deutsches University, and the United University of East Slavia were established one after another, accommodating a total of 360,000 people to work and study.
As soon as the news was announced, media reporters rushed to report on it, and six huge universities were formed at once, and both academics and ordinary people were shocked.
What are these big countries going to do, the pace is too consistent, as if it had been discussed in advance.
Well, the International Scientific Committee plays a big role in this.
On 5 February 2018, the International Economic Crime Investigation Commission announced the establishment of the International Anti-Corruption Operations Unit (ICA), which was a good start for the first batch of 230 criminals who had been internationally pursued and repatriated to the countries concerned.
When the fugitive embezzlers heard the news, they were all frightened.
At the same time, the alarm for another battle was sounded, and with the support of the Anti-Corruption Operations Division, countries launched a drastic overhaul of their internal ranks, and a steady stream of crime leads from the investigation committee every day, leaving domestic prosecutors exhausted.
At one point, there were even adverse events in which entire departments and institutions collapsed in several countries.
On 15 February, the International Economic Crime Investigation and Prosecution Committee once again announced the establishment of two departments, the "International Anti-Economic and Financial Fraud Action Division" and the "International Anti-Multinational Corporation Economic Crime Action Division," under which the first batch of six fraud gangs and three large multinational corporations were targeted.
The three multinational companies were fined a total of more than $45 billion.
On March 1, 2018, the International Scientific Committee announced the establishment of two subordinate units, the "International Culture Collection" and the "International Animal and Plant Gene Bank".
On March 5, it was announced that it would set up a reserve center for human emergency disaster materials, and that there was a plan to carry out research on how to preserve food crops for a long time.
Three days later, China, the United States, Russia and other relevant countries announced the establishment of their own emergency supplies reserve centers to deal with catastrophic disasters.
Seeing this, other countries have followed suit.
On April 1, China, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany made another big move, and several countries announced that they would try out a credit system with a unique identity in their own countries, which will calculate a person's credit score according to different weights, promote good virtues, do good deeds and have extra points, crime, cheating, and even cheating in exams, traffic violations, etc., all have a certain degree of deduction points.
These points will be directly linked to social welfare policies, recruitment, and civil servants, and will deeply affect everyone's clothing, food, housing, transportation and role division in society.
As soon as this policy was implemented, it immediately aroused a strong backlash, and the people of various countries were certainly unwilling to accept such constraints.
What about freedom, but why such a draconian policy that looks a bit like a plan? As a result, various voices of protest and protest acts were constantly staged.
According to past experience, children who can be called have milk to eat, and the government will more or less compromise on this matter.
But this time, the development of the script exceeded the expectations of protesters and international observers, and the governments of various countries seemed to be determined in their attitudes towards the matter, and even if the popular support rate fell, they did not show any intention to reverse the policy, and for a time the government and public opinion formed a sharp opposition.
In the end, Zhou Chen saw that he could not continue such a stalemate, so he suggested that countries link the credit system with tax cuts, education and other benefits, and finally reluctantly implemented it.
After this incident, although the matter was resolved, it also made Zhou Chen understand the seriousness of human self-interest.
It's as if everyone knows that nuclear energy is a good thing, and they all support it, but the premise is that it can't be built near my house, and this kind of self-interest and exclusion effect can't be said to be everyone's fault, just human nature.
Overall, 2018 was a year of great brilliance, the first year of human innovation, and at the same time a year full of chaos and contradictions.
This year, in the name of the two major international committees, the six major powers carried out large-scale reforms, and it was a year full of freshness and change for the people.
This year, with extensive and in-depth cooperation, the global economic risk has been magically suppressed.
People don't really ask for much, it's enough to have a decent job to live a good life, but to a certain extent, this is a very luxurious requirement.
The hard-working entrepreneurs breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't expect that it was like opening Pandora's box and unleashing even more terrifying monsters, and a game of innovation that was more severe than the economic crisis was coming.
This year, because of the harmony of the six countries, regional contradictions have shown a cooling trend, small countries make trouble, big countries intervene, or a group of big countries intervene together, these small countries seem to have no courage to make trouble again, and the strategy of wandering between big countries in the past to reap risk dividends has not worked.
"God, the big countries are united, how can our small country survive?" A certain Northeast Asian country is bitter in its heart.
Of course, if you want to say which country is in the worst mood this year, the island nation of Neon can definitely be ranked.
The international situation has changed too much this year, but I found that I was like an outsider, and the dignified economic power was actually ignored.
I used to ask my big brother the United States, but the United States told him, "Go back and wait with peace of mind, your big brother will not forget you." ”
In fact, Stanley knew very well in his heart that the number of places to evacuate was limited, and if he wanted to bring a populous country like Neon, which country would the quota be divided from?
If one billion people can be evacuated in the end, it doesn't hurt to share it with him, but if only 300 million people can be evacuated, according to the fragmented evacuation method, it will be difficult to coordinate even within the six countries, let alone a neon?