The security of East Africa in the geopolitical environment is indeed good, and in the geopolitical environment of East Africa, it is mainly the north and west that can pose threats to East Africa in the future, that is, North Africa and West Africa.

However, this is very difficult to do, as long as the two regions are not integrated, it is impossible to have the strength to confront East Africa, and West Africa is now full of colonial countries planting flags, and I am afraid that in the future, a bunch of countries with different cultures will be formed.

"East Africa is not interested in international affairs, but we are still interested in economic cooperation with other countries, which is also the common expectation of the people of the two countries." Ernst shifted his words.

Of course, there is no problem with cooperation, but now East Africa mainly takes economic development as the main strategic direction, and occasionally buries a nail in the South Sea and the Pacific Ocean to prepare for the future, which is also the direction of East Africa's national policy.

Of course, the main thing is that there is nothing left to expand elsewhere, and at this point, East Africa and Germany are actually in a similar situation, and the whole world has basically no room for expansion except for some leftovers in the Pacific, and the main areas are in the hands of Britain and France.

Of course, East Africa is a little stronger than Germany, and there are many colonies in the Pacific region, which is mainly due to the fact that East Africa has an advantage over Germany geographically, after all, Germany colonized many Asian and Pacific colonies in its previous life, and finally spit it out, bypassing too many sea areas.

In fact, East Africa is similar, although there have been gains in the Asia-Pacific region, but as long as the Strait of Malacca is in British hands, those colonies in East Africa are not safe.

However, unlike Germany, East Africa's desire to colonize is not too strong, after all, East Africa's own development is enough for East Africa to digest for dozens or hundreds of years.

Moreover, most of it is not the kind of cold zone land that is difficult to develop in Tsarist Russia, and if more than 13 million square kilometers are developed, the potential presented is amazing.

Kaplivi lamented that East Africa had no intention of forming an alliance with Germany, but economic cooperation was sufficient.

After all, Germany's primary purpose is to open up markets and raw material production areas for its own industry and commerce, so as to further boost its national strength, which is also an important policy of Kaplivi's "new line".

"Well, there are not many German countries in the world, except for Germany and East Africa, the others are some small countries that are dispensable, so the cooperation between our two countries is an inevitable choice." Captivy said.

He reluctantly counted East Africa, a country where Chinese immigrants account for a large part, as part of Germany, after all, the culture of East Africa is fully reversed to German cultural identity, and the royal family is also a traditional German prince.

Of course, the main thing is that pure German immigrants in East Africa account for about one-third, and non-German immigrants have undergone a relatively thorough Germanization, so some minor problems can be completely ignored.

Here we have to mention the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is not a German state, only Austria is part of Germany, Bohemia, that is, Czechoslovakia, can barely be counted, after all, Germany traces its roots to the Holy Roman Empire, and Bohemia is also part of the empire.

Even so, the Bohemians can only be regarded as a semi-German region, and now Hungary is on an equal footing with Austria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so the Austro-Hungarian Empire does not belong to the category of German states, and if it was the Austrian Empire, it would be barely improvised.

But it was impossible for Prussia to admit it at that time, after all, Hungary and other regions were counted in the German state, which would threaten his right to speak in the German region.

And now the weakened Austro-Hungarian Empire is actually what Prussia wants to see, but now the Prussians are happy to see it, I am afraid that when the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a powerful empire with no appearance, will not be able to laugh when the last fig leaf is lifted, if Austria-Hungary is a little stronger in the previous life, Germany will most likely not lose the war, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which has not experienced the whole as a whole, will not even be able to exert one-third of its strength, and will be humiliated by a Serbia that has just become independent.

Of course, the Germans cannot be blamed for short-sightedness, and I am afraid that even the Habsburgs could not have imagined that their "powerful" country would be so vulnerable.

However, under Ernst's strengthening, the situation of Austria-Hungary is now more than a little better than that of the same period in history, but even if Austria-Hungary gets Venice, Ernst is not optimistic about the future of this country.

The reason why East Africa supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire was naturally to better take over the political assets of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the world, mainly in Europe, in the future.

After all, East Africa has no say in the Mediterranean, and the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to East Africa is actually second only to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and above the Atlantic.

The most important means for East Africa to gain influence and maintain economic interests in the region is to support the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which now has only one influence in the Mediterranean under Britain and France, and only one of Britain in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Ernst was not interested in Caplivi's compliments, but it was better to talk about some more tangible interests.

"East Africa and Germany are both major economies in the world, and if our two countries can join forces in the economic field, it will be a great joy for all and it will also promote Germany's influence around the world."

"In my opinion, Germany is a real economic powerhouse, and East Africa is an economic power that is completely dependent on the size of the country and the size of the population, and we in East Africa need German talent, technology and financial support, and East Africa can provide Germany with a market and abundant raw materials, and both sides can benefit from this."

What Ernst said is also the real purpose of Caplivi's visit to East Africa, the territory of East Africa is too large, and according to the approximate import and export data of East Africa analyzed by Germany in recent years, the benefits are not lost to any European country at all.

Perhaps the East African government wants to continue to "act as a little transparency to the international community", but the busy commercial fleets off the coast of East Africa and the well-developed urban economies along the Indian Ocean coast cannot fool anyone.

Take the city of Dar es Salaam, for example, although it is only a quarter of the size of Berlin's built-up area, and it may be even worse economically, after all, Berlin is the capital of Germany, and the country's economic and political resources are concentrated in Berlin, but there are not many cities in the world that can reach a quarter of Berlin's size.

Especially in Africa, Dar es Salaam is already the most prosperous city, surpassing Cairo in Egypt and has become the economic center of the African region.

There is more than one such city in East Africa, and Mombasa is actually very small behind Dar es Salaam, with Dar es Salaam City only narrowly ahead of Mombasa.

In addition, the Port of New Hamburg, Mogadishu, Kismayo, Mtwara and other areas that were developed earlier or the coastal cities that were built in East Africa are developing well.

And this is only the coast of East Africa, according to the intelligence of the embassy staff and the analysis of East Africa, there are also Nairobi, Mbeya, Harare and other inland cities with more developed economies.

Therefore, the interests of East Africa have exceeded the expectations of most countries, and the German government naturally does not believe that it wants to build such a group of economically developed cities, saying that the interior of East Africa has not been effectively developed.

After all, Germany itself has a colony in Africa, that is, Cameroon, and it is unceremoniously said that Cameroon's economic situation is quite poor, and the German government has been adding money to it, and it may be far from recovering the cost.

With Cameroon as a comparison, Germany naturally knows that East Africa is good, after all, sub-Saharan Africa is actually similar in various regions, Cameroon can be seen as a smaller version of East Africa.

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