Chapter 922: World Changes
While Hua Xia was busy taking exams, a lot of things were happening outside.
First, Bangladesh announced its break with India. In the past few years, the relationship between Bangladesh and India has deteriorated day by day, getting worse year by year. Now, the relationship between the two parties has finally broken down.
The Bengal region has established an independent country several times, and its territory once included states such as West Bengal and Bihar. By the 16th century, Bengal had developed into the most densely populated, economically developed and culturally prosperous region on the subcontinent. In the mid-18th century, it became the center of British colonial rule in India. In the latter half of the 19th century, it became a province of British India.
After the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Bangladesh was assigned to Pakistan and became an enclave of Pakistan, also known as East Pakistan.
It is conceivable how many mines the British laid in the partition of India and Pakistan, which caused the subcontinent to suffer a lot.
In March 1971, due to Pakistan's heavy losses in the India-Pakistan war, East Pakistan declared independence and Bangladesh was formally established the following year.
Bangladesh is one of the least developed countries with a low level of economic development and its national economy mainly relies on agriculture.
Bangladesh, also known as the ‘Land of Swamps’ and ‘Land of Rivers and Ponds’, is one of the countries with the most rivers in the world. There are more than 230 large and small rivers in the country, the total length of inland waterways is about 6,000 kilometers, and there are about 500,000 to 600,000 ponds in the country, with about 4 ponds per square kilometer.
In the past, when India was arrogant, Bangladesh could only hold its nose and admit it.
However, India has not been what it used to be in recent years, and the relationship between the two sides has also become worse than it used to be. India wants Bangladesh to strengthen itself so that it can eliminate the rebels and achieve its original territory, or even an even better territory.
Although those dozen states have established independent countries, India has always been reluctant.
India always wants to restore its prosperity. If this is not achieved, India can only be a big country in South Asia and cannot become a big country in the world.
Moreover, these dozen countries have bad relations with India and are hostile to each other.
India wants Bangladesh but Bangladesh does not want it.
There are no eternal enemies between countries, only eternal interests.
India's current situation is that its economic development ranks last in the South Asian subcontinent. Its economic development rate is not as fast as that of landlocked countries such as Nepal and Sikkim. It has even experienced negative economic growth.
Moreover, India maintains an army of 1.5 million people all year round, and its military expenditures remain high every year, leaving no room for economic construction.
There is only Hinduism left in the whole of India. There are not as many religious conflicts as in the past, but India's internal conflicts have not diminished at all.
No one can break the social system that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Waterlogging will kill you, and drought will kill you.
Superior people will always be superior people, and inferior people will always be inferior people.
Moreover, there are many major parties within the country, and no one can dominate it, resulting in a state of disunity inside.
In this case, Bangladesh chose to part ways with India, make good friends with neighboring countries, and jointly resist India.
In addition to matters in the South Asian subcontinent, it is Argentina. Menem has become the leader of Argentina and will be in charge for the next four years. This is not his first term, but his second term.
Since the Falklands War, Argentina has not been peaceful, with ups and downs. People say Argentina should not cry, but in fact Argentina is crying.
The failure of the Falklands War disheartened Argentina.
Panshan Group's business in Argentina focuses on agricultural products, copper ore, gold and silver ore, oil and natural gas, automobiles, motorcycles, computers, mobile phones, and telephones.
The annual turnover is around US$5 billion, and the start of Menem's second term will have little impact on Panshan Group.
No matter what Argentina is, it is tens of thousands of kilometers away from China.
Starting from China, the cargo ship has to sail for more than a month to reach Argentina.
Moreover, Panshan Group sells cars, motorcycles, computers, mobile phones, phones, walkmans, MP3s and other products in Argentina, but the money cannot be converted into U.S. dollars or RMB because Argentina has no RMB and insufficient U.S. dollars, so Panshan Group You can only use the money you earn in Argentina to buy agricultural products, beef, mutton, wool, copper, gold and silver, etc. and ship them back to China.
Or buy farms and pastures in Argentina, and organize people to farm and herd in Argentina. In recent years, no less than 300,000 Chinese people have come to Argentina to farm and herd.
Farming in Argentina is much more comfortable than farming in China. Except for a few places with vast land and sparsely populated areas such as the Northeast, in most areas in China one person can only get a few acres of land. But here in Argentina, one person can start with 100 acres, still use mechanized farming.
Not to mention ranching, Argentina has large tracts of ranching, which require a lot of manpower.
In addition, important things are happening in the Middle East. Saddam was re-elected as the leader of the party, which fully shows that Saddam's status in Iraq is unshakable, and others cannot shake Saddam's status at all.
As the post-war reconstruction work proceeds and advances, Iraq is like a construction site, undergoing large-scale construction. Large sums of money have been borrowed from Panshan Group and Arab countries, making Iraq's post-war reconstruction much smoother than Persia.
Because Iraq did not wreak havoc on Kuwait and did not ignite Kuwait's oil fields. In addition, it had a brilliant performance against the European and American coalition forces. Saddam is still a hero in the hearts of many people in the Middle East. Other Arab countries do not hate Saddam deeply. Willing to lend money to Saddam.
Now, Iraq can export 1 million barrels of oil per day.
Although the sanctions imposed by European and American countries on Iraq have not been relaxed, it does not affect Iraq's oil exports.
If you cannot export oil to Europe and the United States, then export it to the East.
With Panshan Group, oil transportation is not a problem.
Saddam resents European and American countries and refuses to hand over post-war reconstruction projects to European and American companies. He is even increasing the proportion of RMB in oil trade settlement. In order to disgust Americans, Saddam even turns a blind eye to the protests of Americans.
Anyway, now Iraq can buy everything it needs using RMB.
Saddam's re-election means that Iraq's strategy and policies will remain stable, and European and American countries will continue to have headaches about this.
The biggest headache is undoubtedly Türkiye.
Saddam frequently criticized Turkey in public, and even mobilized 50,000 people to station at the border. These 50,000 people were elite troops. They did not suffer heavy losses in the Gulf War, forcing Turkey to station troops at the border. 150,000 troops, because there are not only 50,000 elite Iraqi troops on the border, but also 20,000 Arab coalition troops stationed on the border.
Türkiye doesn't dare to gamble. After all, everyone knows that Saddam is a madman and can do anything.