Chapter 891 World Situation
South Africa, after destroying its nuclear weapons and nuclear facilities, officially returned to normal.
This is the first nuclear-armed country to "actively" abandon nuclear weapons after World War II.
Since 1978, South Africa has formulated a nuclear deterrence development strategy, and successfully conducted a nuclear test the following year, announcing its nuclear capability. Then in 1982, South Africa produced its first nuclear bomb, and by 1989, South Africa had produced a total of 6 nuclear bombs.
South Africa paid a huge price for its nuclear possession, and its economy declined sharply, degenerating from a developed country to a developing country.
Facts have proved that nuclear possession is not so fun!
Only by withstanding huge pressure can you be qualified to possess nuclear weapons.
Now, there are only five permanent members of the UN in the world who possess nuclear weapons.
Israel and South Africa have successively abandoned nuclear weapons, and India's nuclear weapons development process has been interrupted.
India does not have nuclear weapons, so Pakistan will naturally not have nuclear weapons.
Nuclear balance is in a delicate balance.
In recent years, Panshan Group has transported a total of 80,000 tons of natural uranium from overseas for nuclear power, a large proportion of which comes from Africa.
Currently, five countries in Africa are in a state of war, and four countries have shown signs of losing control.
This gave Liu Tao a headache.
Why fight a war when you can make a little money?
Unlike other places, the best-selling weapons in Africa are not advanced weapons, but the best-selling weapons in the past.
Even the weapons from World War I are very popular.
Especially the weapons that are large in quantity and full in quantity are the most popular.
Those tribes and warlords don’t have much money, but they can exchange mines, oil, gold, etc. for weapons and ammunition.
There, in fact, many people don’t have the concept of a country, but the tribe is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The only good news for Liu Tao is that Tanzania, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Congo (Brazzaville), and Senegal are currently relatively stable. These are all places where Panshan Group has a lot of interests overseas.
Africa, which spans the north and south of the equator, covers an area of 30.2 million square kilometers, accounting for 20.4% of the world’s total land area. It is the second largest continent in the world and also the second most populous continent. The mines here are rich in resources, with many types of mineral resources and large reserves. There are abundant reserves of oil and natural gas, and the reserves of iron, manganese, chromium, cobalt, nickel, vanadium, copper, lead, zinc, tin, phosphate, etc. are large. Gold and diamonds are well-known, and uranium veins are constantly being discovered, attracting world attention.
In terms of oil, Africa's reserves account for nearly 12% of the world, of which Sahara oil accounts for 12% of the world.
However, resources have brought only disasters to Africa.
Wars have never stopped in Africa.
There are wars here and there.
Europeans and Americans are not really willing to help develop Africa. Africans learn from Europe and the United States and adopt democratic systems, but in the end there are still wars.
In Africa, no country has succeeded according to the European and American versions.
Panshan Group adopts a win-win strategy, taking the economy as the core link, and slowly helping Africa develop. In recent years, railways and roads have been built one after another. In some friendly African countries, the slogan of "build roads first if you want to get rich" can be seen everywhere, and it has become the consensus of these friendly countries. The hospitals and schools built with aid have subtly helped these friendly countries, and the study abroad quotas given to these friendly countries every year have also helped these friendly countries.
Hydropower stations and thermal power stations have given these friendly countries more opportunities to use electricity.
Panshan Group is very friendly to these friendly African countries, and Panshan Group can obtain various mineral resources, oil and gas, and markets.
From Africa to North America, the focus is on Mexico.
The Mexican financial crisis is getting worse. Just a few days ago, the Mexican IPC index fell again by 11%.
This really scared all parties.
No one expected that the Mexican financial crisis would break out so suddenly, so fiercely, and so shockingly. The entire Mexican financial market was in chaos. The current exchange rate of the peso to the US dollar is 12 pesos to 1 US dollar, compared with the initial 3.47 pesos to 1 US dollar, a month of plummeting 245.82%.
The entire IPC index has fallen by 80% in total, and the stock market is chattering, with no end in sight.
In order to stabilize the Mexican financial market, the Mexican government, after consultations with many parties, launched an emergency economic rescue plan: to reduce the current account deficit to a level that can be paid normally as soon as possible, to quickly restore normal economic activities and employment, to reduce inflation to the smallest possible extent, and to apply for emergency loan assistance from international financial institutions.
In order to help the Mexican government tide over the difficulties and reduce the losses of foreign investors, the US government and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund decided to provide huge loans to support the Mexican economic rescue plan to stabilize the exchange rate, stock market and investor confidence.
The United States is also very troubled by the Mexican economic crisis. It is obvious that the implementation of the North American Free Trade Area is good for Mexico, but as a result, Mexico exploded. If the Mexican financial market is not saved, the Mexican financial market will be finished. At that time, let alone the North American Free Trade Area, it will become a burden to the United States.
Just thinking about millions of Mexicans pouring into the United States makes the United States feel overwhelmed and terrified.
Now the United States is saving Mexico, which is equivalent to saving itself.
As early as a few days ago, the United States kept spreading rumors that it would help Mexico stabilize the financial market.
However, the loan amount and loan conditions have not been negotiated.
Let's look at South America. The entire South American financial market is in a mess. The best performing stock market index fell by at least 10%, and the worst performing stock market fell by 30%.
This carnival of international hot money has plundered countless wealth.
Hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth evaporated worldwide.
The academic community is also studying the Mexican financial crisis. As the first major crisis after the emergence of the "emerging market era", the Mexican financial crisis has left people with profound lessons. According to the current academic research, some consensus has been reached. In addition to maintaining the stability of the country's political situation, it is also necessary to correctly grasp the speed of achieving financial liberalization and to be cautious about the current account deficit.
China also attaches great importance to it because it is very enlightening.
China implements a managed floating exchange rate system. China also belongs to an emerging market. How to maintain the healthy development of the financial market and how to build a financial system defense line have become a hot topic of discussion now.
After all, the Mexican financial crisis also scared China.
Many people who were optimistic about financial market reform before did not dare to speak out this time.
Because the facts about Mexico are in front of us, no one can ignore them.
Financial security has to be taken seriously. At this time, many people realize that financial security is also part of national security. The destructive power caused by a financial crisis is no less than that of a war.