Chapter 283: Heavenly Road
The joining of Canada and Australia into the Pacific Community is a foregone conclusion, and the strength of the United States, coupled with the visible crisis of aliens, leaves them with no choice but to hold together. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The United States has united them, will it be able to defeat its opponents in fifty years? The two countries cannot guess the outcome, but it is certain that things will be as the Americans say: if they don't resist, they will lose.
With the accession of these two countries, the Pacific Community will become operational, and there will be a council, a military commission, a bank and an auditor's court, a parliament, a court and so on.
It has truly realized the integration of the military, political, and economic aspects, with the United States as the leading force, and its military closeness is greater than that of NATO, and its economic and political ties are closer than those of the European Union.
Although the community is still represented by the state, the various committees are represented by people, such as the 20-seat council, and the representatives will be elected from each country.
In the future, its representatives will gradually transition to free elections, but before the Federation of Humans is reached, the United States will still need to be the absolute dominant power, and the concept of the state will be slowly diluted.
It is estimated that it will take many years to achieve this step of the transition, and even whether it can continue to operate, some people and Western countries continue to express their disoptimism and doubts about the model of the Pacific Community.
For example, European countries have developed a very strong opinion, believing that after the United States concludes hegemony, military, political, and economic integration, the member countries will become vassals of the United States and will lose their freedom.
"The TPC demands too much unity, and the treaty is aggressive. If it is only a single cooperation, such as the military aspect of NATO, there will certainly not be many voices of opposition. But now it gives people the feeling that the United States is holding countries hostage, and all countries are handing over their rights and obeying the orders of the United States. It will turn the proud Europeans off. ”
An Yang didn't even have to think: "The thorn is a few countries in Western Europe, right?" ”
Hasna nodded: "There are three Britain, France and Germany, Britain and France are nuclear permanent members, Germany's economy and industry are particularly strong, and they don't want to take the United States as the leader." ”
Her answer was expected, and An Yang understood: "Before turning over the hole cards, it may seem condescending to let them join the Pacific Community like Canada and Australia." ”
This is the view of Hasna: "In the European psyche, the invitation of the United States is, in a way, to make them surrender their identity. ”
At the end of the 20th century, when the United States was at its strongest, none of them fully followed in the footsteps of the United States, let alone now! Join the Pacific Community, an organization that has simply submitted to the United States in its entirety?
There are still many obstacles to the accession of Britain, France, and Germany, and there are many differences between these countries on the issue of European unity, and NATO's relations are limited to military affairs, and if they want to expand to politics and economics, some people will definitely be unhappy.
So Anyan decided to knock Europe: "Let the United States lower its enthusiasm for Europe, snub NATO militarily, leave Europe aside politically, and let those conglomerates educate them economically!" ”
An Yang's usual method - disobedient and beaten.
But the foreign ministers who participated in the meeting had some doubts: "Politically and militarily leaving Europe aside, it will seriously weaken the influence of the United States in Europe and will allow them to warm up relations with Russia." ”
An Yang said firmly: "Europe will not be able to support it first, as long as we are serious." If we don't show our muscles, some people will think that we are old, weak, sick and disabled. ”
Hasna reminded the foreign minister: "Don't underestimate our combined offensive. ”
Officials look at each other, and the president's style is tougher than advertised: You either give in or you suffer the wrath of the leaders of the free world.
Canada and Australia have succumbed to kinky. Majesty, Western Europe is not convinced? The United States will directly put away its friendliness and take the opportunity to knock a few more times to let them see the situation clearly!
This kind of style is cool, but it is also easy to go to extremes.
The officials present all think this way, but the president has sworn it, what should they say?
Anyan knew what they were worried about: "Your mindset also needs to change, our future lies in the fight against aliens, in the development of space. When we can get to this point, when the PADC becomes a behemoth, do you think I'll still care if Europe goes to Russia? ”
Their domineering words to the president were silenced, and An Yang leaned back in his chair: "Shift the center of gravity to the military construction of the Pacific Community, to the construction of space." ”
"Sooner or later, Europe that knows the truth and sees the strength of the Pacific Community will wag its tail and beg to join," Hasna said to the foreign minister. ”
Now you ignore me, and I will make you unattainable in the future.
With this tsundere thought, An Yang ended his visit to Australia, and Air Force One, accompanied by transport planes and tankers, headed for Hawaii.
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Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii is an important military hub for U.S. domination in the Pacific, and its role is growing in the space age and in crises in the field.
One of the most important aspects of Anyan's visit to Hawaii as president was to pay attention to the progress of the space elevator project, which will be resupplied and assembled by a number of American companies in conjunction with the United States and then transported to the equatorial sea.
The essence of a space elevator is to build a permanent "cable" structure that connects the ground to a point in Earth's orbit and allows transports to travel along this cable. Figuratively speaking, it is the tens of thousands of kilometers of kites that are flown on the earth.
The reason why the equator was chosen to build is to ensure that the space elevator does not drift relative to the ground, and can only be built on the equator at one end, and connect the geosynchronous orbit satellite at the other end, and the Pacific Ocean 2,600 kilometers away from Hawaii is the selected base point of the elevator.
It is surrounded by oceans, and the U.S. military is able to provide rapid support from Hawaii, from Australia, from the mainland. It maintains a distance of at least 700 kilometers from any air route or ship route, and the defenders of the space elevator will have enough warning time no matter where the enemy strikes from.
The requirement for offshore base points is to be mobile because of the need to have the ability to avoid space junk. The elevator's cable will be anchored to a moving platform equipped with thrusters that can change position back and forth to move the space elevator away from incoming space debris or meteorites.
If you want to implement all this, there must be difficulties.
But now in 2081, the Earth has fully entered the era of secondary civilization, and the landmark scene of this era is the large-scale exploration of space.
The space elevator is an important part of this step, and it is difficult to realize the desire to go to space on too large a scale with rockets, space shuttles or space planes.
Ann's Industrial Group, which shoulders this important task, has set up an industrial base in Hawaii, using local aviation and navigation routes to continuously supply supplies and use local military ports to quickly build a foundation.
With the capabilities of humanity in 2081, even without the participation of Anonymous, it is enough to build a space elevator independently. Now that there is the intervention of higher and more super-technology, the slogan of one year built by An Yang seems arrogant but reasonable.
Now its base has welcomed the visit of the president.
The president personally came to inspect it, and he also brought the country's senior officials and the head of the local army to put on a posture of study, which can be said to be an extreme importance.
The senior management and employees of the base are also looking forward to it early in the morning. The presence of big men is equally valued in any country, not to mention the president who is in full swing.
"This is the most important material for space elevators, carbon nanotubes." The technician introduced the "rope" of the space elevator to the president and his entourage.
The tensile strength of carbon nanotubes is more than 100 times that of steel, but the density is only one-sixth, it has good toughness, and can still recover its original state after withstanding the pressure of 10,000 meters of water, and it is still the highest melting point among known materials.
An Yang looks at the finished carbon nanotubes, which are currently the only ones that can overcome the harsh environment of Earth and space and keep the space elevator running.
The chief engineer explained to the president: "Thanks to the new preparation method, the cost of carbon nanotubes has been controlled to one-tenth of the technology of other countries, which greatly reduces the cost of space elevators." ”
Speaking of this, the engineer is proud: "Someone once said that if the space elevator is built in 2050, it will exhaust the financial resources of a large country, but now, even if only the United States participates in the construction, it can be completed on schedule." ”
"The charm of technological progress." An Yang let go of this light and strong material, the United States in this time and space, the scientific and technological progress has been guided by the alien civilization, and it is much stronger than that of normal time and space.
The chief engineer is a member of the Anonymous Party, and his words represent their pride: "We are fully confident that this 'heavenly road' will be successfully built and lead the great space age." (To be continued.) )