Chapter 183: Divide the cake
1. October 2018. Moscow Kremlin. The luxurious dinner shows the host's hospitality and generousness everywhere. Under the leadership of the blonde beauty, heads of state and entourages from all over the world came one after another. Don't underestimate those beautiful and graceful blonde beauties. They are all senior agents whose predecessor was the famous Bi.
The dinner is safely held in accordance with Russian traditions. The guests are together and the guests are with each other.
After taking his seat, Wang Yuanqing looked at Brandino opposite him.
The Russian President also took his heart because the guest seat was a long table. Therefore, according to the etiquette of the Republic, the Russian President sat on the head of the head, Wang Yuanqing and Branmanno sat on the guest seat on the left and right respectively, and French President Novos, who represented the EU to attend the summit, sat on the last seat of the lower head. In this way, Wang Yuanqing and Brandino happened to face each other. Of course, according to the etiquette of the Russian President, there was no difference between the visiting and the last seat. Such an arrangement was also another wish of the Russian President.
The banquet officially began, and the Russian President first delivered a speech, hoping that the four-way summit meeting will be successful. Next, Wang Yuanqing, Branmanuo and Ruvance delivered speeches respectively. Hope that the four-way summit meeting will be successful. Bashan, Qingchang, and Jiangxinxia Xiaochenduo
The 4-digit speech already indicates that the meeting between the four leaders will not be too easy.
To be honest, Wang Yuanqing was not very interested in the flavor of Rulus, and even faced with a large plate of authentic caviar, he couldn't get enough appetite. It was not that Wang Yuanqing had a bad appetite. It was because such a sumptuous dinner reminded him of three years ago; that is, his second time when he was elected as the head of state of the Republic, he visited Russia.
At the end of Tian Nian, Wang Yuanqing officially visited Russia for the second time. Logically speaking, as the head of state of great power, Wang Yuanqing should have received the highest level of reception in Russia, but was turned away. The reason is that Wang Kou Nian, Wang Yuanqing was elected as the Republic's State Yuan for the first time, and went to Russia for the first time and brought a large-scale trade group. He signed a trade contract worth tens of billions of dollars with Russia.
Tian Nian and Wang Yuanqing first visited Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia and North Korea. He went to Russia only for the second round of visits, and he visited by the way, without taking a trade group.
I have to admit that Russia is a very "snobbish nation". This book comes to tears. Bindian. Members collect hairpin.
Although Russia's economy did not collapse during the Great Depression that swept the world, it was closely related to the Republic's import of hundreds of billions of dollars of raw materials from Russia every year, providing millions of jobs to Russia. It can even be said that if it were not for the huge purchases of the Republic, Russia would be the first strong country to fall in the Great Depression. Year of the year, the most difficult period of the Great Depression has passed, and the Republic's economy is strong.
The recovery brought tens of billions of dollars in orders to Russia. The Russian President received Wang Yuanqing with super high standards. In the year of the trunk, Wang Yuanqing went to Moscow empty-handedly. He did not intend to purchase raw materials from Russia, but asked Russia to open up the domestic market and narrow the trade surplus to purchase more goods from the Republic, and effectively protect the interests of Republican enterprises and merchants. As a result, the Russian President not only did not entertain Wang Yuanqing with a state banquet, but also received Wang Yuanqing at the level of the head of government.
A meal is a trivial matter, but Wang Yuanqing is not alone. He represents the entire republic in foreign affairs activities. Reading the morning new Gu Jie, he chose Ba Ren Ba Shan, and Misty Seqing Qinzhu
Everyone knows that the relationship between the Republic and Russia is on a downward verge and irreversible.
2 He was in the early years of the Gou era, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, which inherited the Soviet legacy, was struggling. Yeltsin's pro-Western policy almost pushed Russia to the brink of collapse. Domestic conflicts arose, people lived in poverty, and some large-scale enterprises that were famous during the Soviet era were on the verge of bankruptcy. At this time, the honeymoon between the Republic and the Western world ended, and was once again blocked by the Western world led by the United States. Driven by national interests, the Republic and Russia quickly approached. Comprehensive cooperation was carried out in all aspects, mainly military industry and resources. The good times did not last long. At the end of the first decade of the century, the relations between Russia and the Republic began to break the road due to many factors. Although the Iran war broke out in 2007 made the two countries realize the threat from the United States, thus improving relations between the two countries, but did not eliminate the conflicts, but only delayed the time when the conflict broke out.
On the surface, the contradiction between the Republic and Russia is mainly concentrated on trade thirst.
With its vast territory and abundant natural resources, Russia has always been the world's largest resource exporter. Although the oil it exports is no longer the main energy source, it is still the most important chemical raw material, an important chemical raw material for coal, and natural gas are mainly used in the chemical field and daily life, wood, iron ore, copper ore, and rare metals and other important resources account for more than the total global trade volume.
It has to be admitted that the Republic needs Russian resources.
Although the Republic is also the most resource-rich country in the world, since the year of prison, most of the resources required for the Republic's domestic production and consumption have been imported. The reasons for the Republic's large amount of imports of resources are very complicated. For example, the severe damage caused by the random mining and excessive mining that lasted for half a century, the adjustment of the industrial structure has led to a sharp increase in the production costs of domestic resource industries. Strict environmental protection policies restrict the resource mining industry, balanced trade policies stimulating the import effect, etc. In four years, the Republic surpassed the United States and became the world's largest resource importer. By the year of the Hong Dynasty, the resources imported by the Republic were already the old Confucian scholars of the United States.
To a large extent, the Republic imports resources
The reason is that the United States has always been a major resource importer. Within decades, it has controlled the world's major resource production areas and formed a resource import and production system controlled by Wall Street financial capitalists. Not to mention, among the few resource exporters that can be found in the United States, Australia, Canada and Mexico are closely linked to the United States, while Argentina is the largest resource exporter with close ties to the Republic, such as Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, the KMT, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and other resource exporters. They all adopt a good attitude and gain benefits in the competition between the Republic and the United States.
From the perspective of competing for resources alone, the Great Depression in the global world will be beneficial to the Republic.
During the Great Depression, when the global market demand for resources shrank sharply, the Republic not only surpassed the United States to become the world's largest resource import target with the help of the development momentum of industrial structure adjustment, but also used the "buyer pricing power" to gain an advantage in resource pricing negotiations. Especially when Wang Yuanqing became the deputy head of state and comprehensively adjusted the government's structure and prepared for political reform, as the government's intervention in economic development declined, national entrepreneurs and national financial capitalists grew rapidly, and the influence of various industries and industry federations was substantially enhanced. National enterprises in the Republic adopted a consistent caliber in foreign negotiations, forcing Western financial capitalists who controlled a large number of resources to surrender.
For example, at the end of the year, that is, when the global economy bottomed out, most of the steel companies in the Republic have actually transferred their production bases to Vietnam, North Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other neighboring countries unanimously demanded the cancellation of the Vale of Brazil, the Vale of the three major mining groups, and Australia's BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. In fact, it will expire in 2 years, and the iron ore supply price will be determined by signing one sign per year. It is also required that the price of the four iron ore supply is reduced from each ton of the year.
Ton of imprisonment USD, the profit and loss point of iron ore is USD per ton. Compared with the iron ore negotiations in previous years, this time lasted less than two months. Rio Tinto was the first to sign a contract with the Republic Steel Industry Association, and then Vale and BHP also signed a contract. There is no doubt that in the economic downturn, iron ore suppliers have no other choice. If the contract is not signed, the three iron ore suppliers will definitely go bankrupt at the end of the year. More importantly, steel companies in the Republic do not have to buy iron ore from three iron ore suppliers. As early as the beginning of the year, they signed a long-term agreement with Sanjian Group to purchase iron ore at the price of june per ton of june.
Like the case with iron ore, local resource exporters are also eyeing the Republic's enterprises.
For example, in terms of oil, since the Republic proposed the "national procurement plan", only Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria signed relevant agreements with the Republic. In the year of office, the chemical companies in the Republic proposed a "joint procurement plan for production and sales" based on the "national procurement plan". The Chemical Industry Association signed a procurement agreement with the oil producers. Within the framework of the association, the chemical companies in the Republic obtained an ultra-low oil price of living US dollars per barrel. The average international oil futures price per barrel was a barrel of multi-US dollars per barrel, and made huge profits.
It can be said that when only the Republic’s resource demand is large enough, the resource producers do not have much room for negotiation.
More importantly, the Great Depression promoted the restructuring of the international resource industry.
Four, Sanjian Group has become the global thug. The thug. The trolley resource production group was replaced by Vale in 199, becoming the world's largest resource developer. It has thousands of resource development projects in dozens of countries around the world. According to statistics from a Western financial journal at that time, Sanjian Group owns global iron ore, gill oil fields, "locked natural gas fields, copper ore in the courtyard and rare metal mines with poor surfaces. The total assets of the group exceed 8 trillion euros. The group's market value is nearly 1 trillion euros. Lin Yanbo, who holds about gill shares, has 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Although the success of Sanjian Group is unique, it can also be regarded as a microcosm of the Republic's resource enterprises.
When the Great Depression gradually drifted away and the global economy began to recover, the statistical results obtained by the Republic Resource Industry Guild were that the largest resource enterprises in Feijia led by Jian Group were private enterprises that had controlled all the iron ore, oil fields, and natural gas fields. The Republic surpassed the United States and became the world's largest resource control country. At the end of the year, the Republic controlled approximately the world's resources, while the United States controlled only the resources.
It can be seen from this that the Great Depression is a major reshuffle of the alternation of new and old.
Having mastered resources and having the largest resource demand market in the world, the Republic has long surpassed the United States in international resource pricing.
The problem is that this has also led to a sharp conflict between the Republic and many resource exporters.
Not to mention Russia, even resource exporters such as Brazil and Indonesia are very dissatisfied with the Republic's control of global resources and monopolizing resource pricing rights.
It is undeniable. The essence of capital is to pursue profits. The sweet-speaking industry will definitely not take it as a matter of ignorance to promote the development of other countries.
It is precisely this. The relationship between the Republic and Russia has undergone irreversible changes. It can be seen from this that the contradiction between the Republic and Russia is not as simple as trade frictions and trade conflicts, but the struggle between the two countries for resource pricing power, and the struggle between the two countries for interests.
According to an investigation report submitted by the Russian State Duma at the beginning of the year, because of the hegemony of the Republic's enterprises in resource pricing power, Russia lost USD trade income every year, said Xiaohui.
Regardless of whether this investigation report is based or not, it can explain the seriousness of the problem.
Affected by this, Russia has been seeking to check and balance the power of the Republic. Because the United States is also a "resource hegemon." Taking refuge with the United States is equivalent to falling from the tiger's mouth to the wolf's mouth. There is no difference, so Russia has never placed its hope on the United States, but has played the EU card. The reason is very simple. The EU is the third largest resource consumption area after the Republic and the United States. If calculated based on population, the EU is likely to surpass the United States within the year and become the second largest resource consumption area in the world. More importantly, the population of the Republic has been decreasing. If it cannot be curbed, after the outbreak of the Year, the EU is likely to surpass the Republic and become the world's largest resource consumption area. It can be said that the EU's "development potential" is limitless.
Compared with the Republic and the United States, the EU controls very few resources.
One needs to use a lot of export resources and the other needs to use a lot of import resources. Russia and the EU hit it off.
Although the Republic is still Russia's largest resource importer, according to the current development trend, the EU will replace the Republic before Wangyo-year and become the main buyer of Russian resources.
After getting closer to Europe, Russia has become much more confident.
There is no doubt that there are more and more trade conflicts between Russia and the Republic.
In the view of most economists, if the republic cannot make concessions in resource pricing power, Russia is likely to "turn against" the republic before Tiannian. Although the possibility of a military conflict between Russia and the republic is almost zero, it is definitely not a good thing for the two major powers to confront each other.
At the banquet, you can imagine Wang Yuanqing's mood.
Although the Republic's biggest opponent is the United States, in the eyes of almost everyone, Russia will not be able to challenge the Republic's hegemony in the next few decades, and will rely on the Republic's help to pacify the United States and gain more benefits in cooperation with the EU, in Wang Yuanqing's view, Russia will sooner or later part ways with the Republic. No matter who the conflict arises, the final result will not be much better.
Russia's active participation in the four-party summit is nothing more than using this to put pressure on the Republic.
In fact, it can be seen from Russia's performance in the four-party meeting that as the world's largest resource exporter, Russia will never willingly hand over the resource pricing power to others, whether it is the Republic, the United States, or the European Union. Russia has only one solution. That is to open up more export markets and change the relatively single disadvantage of resource export destinations. Make full use of market competition. There is no doubt that with the beginning of post-war reconstruction, India will become the fourth largest resource demanding country in the world. If India's economy can recover to the pre-war level, it may even surpass the EU and become the third largest resource demanding country in the world. If it continues to develop at this rate, at the end of this century, India is likely to surpass the United States and become the second largest resource demanding country in the world. Whether it can enter the Indian market and obtain the right to live in is related to Russia's national destiny.
Of course, the problem is not that simple.
What India needs most after the war reconstruction is not resources, but funds. In other words, with funds, the resources required for reconstruction can be purchased on a large scale. Russia is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and there is no reason to provide India with reconstruction resources for free. Only the Republican enterprises can provide reconstruction funds for India. That is to say, as the Republic enters India's enterprises, the Republic will ultimately decide the price of resources in the Indian market.
Even if you look farther, the situation is similar. The fundamental driving force for India's development is still funds. Only when the funds are sufficient can India quickly make up for the trauma of war. If the republic companies have occupied the Indian market when India was rebuilt, then the funds from the Republic will still be dominated by the Republic during the period of India's development. In this way, the pricing power of the Indian resource market will still be in the hands of the Republic in the next few decades.
At this point, the problem returns to the origin.
“How to divide Indian cake?
It can be said that this is the problem that the leaders of the four sides focused on discussing and must solve.
Not only the United States, the European Union and Russia are staring at this cake, but also all other countries that hope to obtain economic growth points through India's reconstruction. Of course, except for a few "neutral countries", other countries have close ties with the Republic, the United States, the European Union or Russia.
It can be seen from this that the meeting between the four leaders is not only a matter of the four countries and regions, but a matter of the whole world.
Thinking of this, it is strange that Wang Yuanqing has an appetite.
The whole world is staring at the Republic, or Wang Yuanqing. There is no doubt that Wang Yuanqing must make concessions during the meeting between the four leaders and propose specific "distribution plans." For those who are concerned about the meeting between the four leaders, there is only one question that is how much concessions Wang Yuanqing will make.
Chapter completed!