The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

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Liu Tao attended a cocktail party.

This is a welcome reception specially held for the visiting American delegation.

This time the U.S. delegation is very large, consisting of representatives from various fields such as politics, economy, culture, education, etc. The two sides are strengthening exchanges.

In fact, exchanges in this area are carried out every year between the two parties.

After all, our economic and trade exchanges are very close, and both sides are cooperating in many aspects.

The United States can benefit a lot from trade with China every year. Unlike the trade between the United States and Japan, Japan purely makes money and earns a lot of money from the United States every year. The United States does so because of a large deficit, but Japan is still there The United States is very high-profile and purchases various high-quality American assets.

Agriculture, mining, second-hand production lines, education, passenger aircraft, etc. are the main sources of the United States' surplus with China.

In recent years, China's economy has developed rapidly. Behind the continuous increase in exports is the sharp increase in demand for raw materials, and it is frantically importing oil, iron ore, copper ore, bananas, etc. from all over the world.

As the economy develops and people's income increases, their lives will also improve. For material needs to increase significantly, China alone is not enough. Therefore, large amounts of grain, soybeans, fruits, etc., crops and beef are imported from overseas. Most of them come from the United States.

Imports of crops and meat from the United States and South America account for 70% of China's imports.

Not to mention, China orders passenger planes every year, and a passenger plane costs a lot of money.

The economic and trade exchanges between the two sides are becoming increasingly close.

As for military exchanges, both sides will hold a military exchange and high-level military dialogue for learning and exchange.

Cultural exchanges in this regard can be known from the fact that the United States is China's number one place to study abroad. In addition to a large number of students from China going to the United States to study every year, the United States also sends a group of students to study in China every year.

Huaxia often has expert teams go to the United States to participate in academic forums, and more and more American scholars are participating in academic forums held by universities in China. There are even American scholars who have accepted appointments from Huaxia University. It is important for the two universities to establish friendly relations. More and more.

Liu Tao's participation in this reception was naturally related to the purpose of the American delegation.

The United States has suffered a lot and now wants to reach some tacit understanding.

That is, for some countries, the export of advanced weapons to them is prohibited.

First it was Libya, and this time it was Iraq. It can be said that both the U.S. Navy and Air Force suffered heavy losses.

Liu Tao attended this cocktail party, and Liu Tao did not object to this kind of cocktail party.

After all, relationships between people are established through interactions. When everyone establishes friendship, many things will be easier to talk about.

Rather than once something goes wrong, no one on both sides can talk.

Liu Tao has always believed that it is normal to have differences. It does not matter if there are differences. If there are differences, they can be solved through communication and negotiation.

Putting aside disputes and pursuing win-win cooperation is the right path.

There will be differences and conflicts between people, let alone between countries!

Liu Tao doesn't even object to the idea of ​​being a monitor in the United States, as long as it doesn't hinder China's making money.

As long as both parties cooperate and achieve win-win results, Lao and the United States can be the monitors if they want.

On this point, Liu Tao is very open-minded.

"Liu, you have gone too far in this matter and caused us a lot of losses. Now many of us in the United States are strongly demanding that we trace the source of Iraq's weapons and compensate them for our losses." Cheney held a wine glass in his hand. , with a look of complaint.

Cheney is now the Secretary of Defense of the United States. To be able to sit in this position, it is conceivable that he is Bush's confidant.

Moreover, this man is quite capable. He has received bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University of Wyoming, and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. He has received an elite education in the United States. At the age of only 38, he successfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and served as a member of the House of Representatives for 10 years. He is also an important member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee and is known as an "expert on intelligence affairs."

In 1989, he became the U.S. Secretary of Defense. He planned the U.S. military operation to arrest General Noriega in Panama. He was also the planner of the "Desert Storm" operation in the Gulf War.

Liu Tao held the wine glass and touched it lightly with him, "Cheney, my friend, you know, since you started to attack Iraq, we have never taken orders from Iraq again. You know how many times we have missed because of this." With an order worth tens of billions of dollars, Saddam hates us."

"For the benefit of you, the United States, our Panshan Group has lost a major customer. This loss is huge," Liu Tao complained.

Who can’t complain!

If you want to reach a tacit understanding, you have to exchange interests.

The trick of white wolf with empty gloves will not work here with Liu Tao.

He is the kind of person who doesn't let go of the hawk until he sees the rabbit!

Cheney smiled bitterly in his heart, knowing that this errand would not be that easy.

However, this aspect needs to be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise the US military may still suffer in the future.

The U.S. military launched a large-scale bombing of Iraq, and the bombings were so exciting on TV that many people in the United States were very excited, thinking that the U.S. military was already invincible.

Some people even clamored to teach the Soviets a lesson.

But they all know that the scale of this Gulf War must be controlled. It is a local war and should be stopped as soon as possible.

It can both appease domestic military enterprises and expand influence in the Middle East.

As for expanding the scale of the war, they have not thought about it.

Because the current economic situation of the United States cannot withstand such a toss, not to mention that the Soviet Union is still there. Who knows whether the Soviet Union will immediately send troops to Europe after seeing that the United States is deeply involved in the war.

So in terms of the Gulf War, the United States has always had a scale in mind and seems very rational.

Even in order to reduce casualties and avoid the already small military morale being hit, bombing is still going on so far, but it has shifted from large-scale strategic bombing to seizing air superiority.

Cheney did not refute Liu Tao because what Liu Tao said was not wrong.

The weapons exported by Panshan Group to Iraq were all in the past, and the orders were all placed by Iraq before, and Panshan Group delivered them before Iraq invaded Kuwait.

After Iraq invaded Kuwait, Panshan Group never received an order from Iraq again.

According to intelligence from the US Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq has approached Liu Tao more than once, wanting to buy another batch of weapons, equipment and ammunition, but it has not been achieved.

Therefore, it is unreasonable to blame Liu Tao for this.

Liu Tao might be angered and give Iraq a batch of weapons, equipment and ammunition in anger, which would be more trouble than gain.