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Chapter 377: Silence(1/2)

Japan is obviously also a member of the United States alliance, and everyone knows this.

Regarding the issue of naval restrictions raised by Britain, the Zhongdou Empire gave a clear reply and there was no possibility. The reason was that the Zhongdou Empire's navy was still in its infancy and had not undergone any actual combat test. The Zhongdou Empire must maintain a numerical advantage in the navy to ensure national maritime defense security.

This excuse made Britain and the United States sneer. After all, the Chinese Imperial Air Force is strong, and the navies of other countries cannot get close to the Chinese Sea at all.

Once it approaches the Chinese Sea, its fate may be as destruction as the original Japanese joint fleet.

Faced with China's rising military technology, Britain is very afraid of it. The so-called lack of experience is just a shameless reason.

Who doesn't know that the Central Dove Empire had already absorbed a large number of German naval soldiers and officers after the European War.

Although the Treaty of Versailles stipulates that Germany cannot send military personnel to other countries, the problem is that these military personnel go to China by themselves.

The treaty does not clearly stipulate that German naval personnel are not allowed to go abroad.

The Zhongdu Empire had a tough attitude towards the naval aspect. At this time, the naval combat tonnage of the Zhongdu Empire had reached nearly 130,000 tons.

If it is restricted, wouldn’t we still have to bring the newly built warships back to the scrapyard?

Moreover, the Zhongdou Empire clearly stated that the Zhongdou Empire's merchant ship tonnage is already the world's largest, and there must be a strong enough navy to provide escort for merchant ships.

This is a naked challenge to Britain's maritime hegemony.

However, Britain has no initiative. This time, the three countries negotiated the world situation and the initiative was actually in the hands of the Zhonglong Empire.

The Zhonglong Empire has repeatedly suggested that if Britain and the United States can offer sufficient temptation conditions, the Zhonglong Empire agreed to give the Soviet Union a ceasefire.

What the Zhonglong Empire is unwilling to accept is that Britain and the United States have no right to impose on the Zhonglong Empire.

The three-party issue began to return to trade tariffs. The US delegation said that the Zhonghua Empire has never been a commodity importer, and it is unfair to require the United States to impose low tariffs. In order to create a fair competition environment, the United States can and the United Kingdom fully open the markets of various international colonies to the Zhonghua Empire and formally recognize China's status as a world power.

"Tariffs are fair. Although we in the Zhonghua Empire rarely import goods, the main reason is that your American goods are too low-level." Zhu Xiaocheng said at the meeting.

"You established national tariff barriers." The US delegation accused.

With the awakening of nationalism in the Zhonglong Empire, supporting domestic products has become the most common principle of purchasing goods in the daily lives of the people.

Even those old rural farmers who have never seen the world know that when buying things, they need to look at the trademarks. They cannot buy things that are not made in China.

In terms of luxury goods, Chinese big capital merchants choose domestic products. If any merchant buys foreign luxury goods, they will be boycotted by these big capital merchants.

Therefore, the Zhonghu Empire at this time basically did not import any goods except for a large amount of raw materials, unless it was something that the Zhonghu Empire could not produce, but very few.

"The world needs free trade, and any act that blocks trade freedom is an unjust way of competition." Zhu Xiaocheng continued, "The Zhonghua Empire has always been a country that respects trade freedom, and exporting goods to other countries has never been through unequal tariffs."

The Chinese Empire made the United States feel that there was nowhere to start, and its trade was better than China. Under the same tariff background, American goods could not be sold in the Zhonglong Empire.

However, American capital cannot enter within China. Although it can enter a small part, there are many restrictions. There are basically no valuable industries that American capital can involve, especially American banks cannot enter within China. Since the founding of the Zhonghua Empire, banks in other countries have been liquidated by the Zhonghua Empire.

All the banknotes were collected and a certain fine was imposed on the grounds that they were privately issued banknotes in the Zhonglong Empire and how much Chinese money was stored in the bank was all undeniable.

At the same time, these banks were ordered to withdraw from China, and the Zhonghua Empire did not allow other countries to open banks internally.

Banks are actually the main way the United States plunders other countries. For example, after the war, Germany, which means that American banks lend Germany to restore its economy.

When Germany's economy recovers and the United States will be in a recession, the wealth created by the Germans will be plundered by American bank capitalists.

For countries like China, American bank capital cannot be entered, so no matter how depressed the United States is, it is impossible to affect China on a large scale.

In particular, China has its own monetary system, and China can print more money at any time. However, American bank capitalists can see from various signs that China is actually very cautious about the bubble economy.

So this also created an illusion for American bank capitalists, that is, the Zhonghua Empire did not know the benefits of playing with the bubble economy, and China was afraid of economic pain.

China and the United States have a quarrel over the tariff issue, and both sides have different opinions.

But the Zhonglong Empire has a more dominant position in this regard.

After discussing for more than half a month, the two sides did not reach a clear result.

Just a tariff issue is stuck.

There are still many problems behind the tariffs.

The US government is now facing an embarrassing problem, that is, if the US tariffs are opened, the current U.S. overdraft consumption market will greatly increase the export volume of the China Dova Empire, especially the export to the US market.

The US government wants to tighten tariffs and then compete with China in the international trade market. Even if the United States and China compete in the same national trading market, it has nothing to do with it.

The Zhongwu Empire obviously wanted not only the world trade market, but also the United States opened its trade market.

As for the capital market, the Zhonghua Empire is currently only actively developing in some small countries, and basically no longer investing in large domestic development capital.

Those great powers may have war with the Central Dohua Empire in the future, and investment will definitely be lost.

Those small countries have no problem. Even if the world war begins, those small countries dare not clearly stand on the side of the enemy of the Zhonglong Empire. Unless the situation is very obvious, those small countries will stand up and take advantage of the situation, and then appear as victorious countries when the war ends.

The most active part of the Zhongdou Empire is the opening of the trade market. The United States advocates freedom of capital, and the Zhongdou Empire advocates freedom of trade.

Due to the tight time, the Zhonglong Empire had an attitude of not having to worry about this negotiation at any time, but the United States could not wait. If it waited until the beginning of spring next year, then the Soviet Union would definitely be in danger.

Therefore, after a month of negotiations, the United States decided to make some concessions on the tariff issue, and the main concessions were the light industry.

The United States learned its lesson this time and knew that in those emerging industries, the United States did not necessarily have a competitive advantage in facing China, so it decided to make concessions on light industrial tariffs.

Although light industry has nothing to do with the improvement of war potential, there is a problem that light industry can drive a large number of employment.

However, the United States is determined to develop heavy industries and many emerging industries related to the war, but has made some concessions in tariffs, so it has decided to reduce import tariffs on light industry o

However, even if the light industry tariffs are reduced, they are still relatively high to a certain extent, generally at 5%. For such light industry tariffs, if freight costs are included, there will be no competitive advantage when we arrive in the United States. Although the light industry of the Zhonghua Empire was very developed, then some light industry commodities can enter the US market.

Most of those emerging fields are related to the potential of war. The United States still maintains high tariffs. Facts have proved that China is very competitive in these emerging fields, and the United States is no match for the time being.

The Zhonghua Empire requires the United States to reduce tariffs on goods in emerging fields, especially in electrical appliances, automobiles and other industries, and the current development level of the emerging fields of the Zhonghua Empire is far higher than that of the United States.

At this time, the United States produced only more than one million vehicles in a year, while the Zhonghu Empire had exceeded five million vehicles in 1921. In the electrical manufacturing industry, the Zhonghu Empire basically monopolized the global market.

The manufacturing industry of the Zhongdu Empire has begun to develop into high-end emerging fields. Although the light industry is also developing, it is already secondary.

As the labor costs of the Zhongwu Empire increased, these light industries faced a problem, that is, if coastal workers were used, the cost would be higher. Therefore, some light industries have also begun to transfer to the inland. After all, the Zhongwu Empire now has a population of 500 million, and the internal market has gradually flourished. Under such circumstances, it is possible to transfer light industries to the inland, but it is not conducive to exports.

If the exported part of light industrial production continues to be placed in coastal areas, the labor cost will lead to an increase in the price of light industrial products, which is not conducive to export.

Therefore, the light industry exported by the Zhongdu Empire began to be transferred to those senior member states of the Third World Alliance to those countries to find OEM.

Looking for OEM this year is indeed very advanced.

Because the proportion of light industrial exports to output value is not too high, transferring to those alliance member states will not have much impact on the economy.

For example, Jiaozhi and North Korea, although these two countries are currently senior member states, the relevant tax exists.

Therefore, these OEM products are not easy to impact the Chinese market and cannot overcome the national barriers of the Zhongyuan Empire.

At the same time, these light industries can develop a certain economy for member states, and the economy of member states of the development alliance is necessary. If the economy of this alliance country with the largest Chinese Empire cannot develop, then who will join this alliance?

The Central Dogwa Empire must set several examples of development to attract more countries to join this alliance.

The light industry in the China-Duhua Empire was produced and sold internally. Jiaozhi, North Korea, and Siam could be used for modern industrial use. It is indeed a good choice for them to develop light industry.

As for the economy of the Zhonglong Empire, it will develop towards high-end fields in the future. After all, as the Zhonglong Empire gains the world hegemony in the future, the labor costs of the people will continue to rise. Therefore, it is necessary to develop industries with high added value and high technical content. Then, through these industries, exploit other countries.

It may be that a machine tool can enslave an effect for several years.

At the same time, by playing capital means, the economies of other countries can also be plundered.

The demands of the Chinese Empire in the negotiations to restart the agreement have made it difficult for the United States to accept.

The United States is playing with a bubble economy at this time, and its main development goal is to rush to the footsteps of the Central Dovo Empire in these emerging fields, thereby expanding its war potential.

The negotiations between the two sides were once again at a deadlock.

This made the United States realize a problem, that is, to protect the Soviet Union, we must make real efforts.

But this kind of effort is obviously unacceptable to a certain extent to the United States.

At this moment, the Zhongdou Empire raised the issue of Soviet reform. As long as the Soviet Union could no longer promote hatred of the new Russian world, and allowed Russian TV stations to broadcast in the Soviet Union, etc., the Zhongdou Empire could consider accepting the current tariffs proposed by the United States.

The tariffs of the United States and Britain at this time actually made the Central Dowager Empire laugh secretly. According to the plan proposed by the United States, it is probably that China and the United States each implement tariff protection policies and export goods to other countries at the same time. The tariffs of other countries are the same as those of the United States.

At the same time, the United States has made some concessions on import tariffs on light industry.

At present, the Zhonghua Empire has been very frank about export issues. The fundamental purpose of export is not to obtain more gold. Now the Zhonghua Empire is no longer short of gold.

The purpose of exports is only to suppress the economies of other countries and enhance their own war potential in the production scale of related industries, that's all.

As for imports, the Zhonglong Empire did not need to import anything at this time.

As long as it can be made by the United States, the Zhongbo Empire can be created at this time. At this time, the Zhongbo Empire focused on grabbing the jobs of the Germans. The Germans had great advantages in the machinery manufacturing industry, which is also the area that the Zhongbo Empire would seize in the future.

The Zhonglong Empire had so many people that it could not move towards a national division of labor model like the Westerners.

In later Western countries, except for the United States, other countries had their own specialties, and the United States also relied on these countries' specialties to a certain extent, which was equivalent to division of labor.

In addition to distributing light industry to other alliance member states, the Zhonglong Empire had to hold all other high-end manufacturing industries. After all, the Zhonglong Empire had a large population.

The division of labor in later Western countries is to put it bluntly the layout of international capital. For international capital, capital has no borders.

For Chinese capital, capital has national boundaries.

Of course, exports are also profitable at this time, at least they can increase national employment and increase national income.

Export is not the main purpose of this negotiation. The main purpose of this negotiation is to pave the way for the next attack on the Soviet Union.

The problem that the attack on the Soviet Union was the problem of guerrillas. First of all, we must improve the image of the new Russia in the eyes of the Soviet people.

The image changed, and after the attack on the Soviet Union, the Soviet people would not resist strongly.
To be continued...
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