Chapter 928: Nanyang Layout
Then, they conducted an in-depth discussion on the future cooperation.
Liu Tao found that he still underestimated these Chinese businessmen.
These Chinese businessmen already own a large number of islands. These ten super-rich people own more than a thousand islands.
It's just that these islands used to grow oil palm, food, etc., and there were not many people. The people on the islands were almost their own workers.
With so many islands, it is too easy to train soldiers.
They will hire mercenaries and gradually build up armed forces.
At 9 o'clock the next morning, the opening ceremony of the China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Joint Committee was held at the Grand Hotel.
Liu Tao came here not mainly for the meeting, but to meet good friends.
The whole meeting lasted seven days, mainly to discuss economic and trade cooperation.
China is almost the largest trading partner of all ASEAN countries. Except for the relatively small trade volume with Annan, the trade volume with other countries is large, and the growth rate is also very fast.
The two sides are very closely connected in economic and trade, and have a lot of common interests.
In this regard, the two sides have a lot of consensus.
The first consensus is to maintain the stability of ASEAN and avoid war as much as possible. After all, war will inevitably destroy economic construction. Construction is difficult and destruction is easy. Everyone has a unified consensus in this regard.
China has always emphasized that everyone should coexist peacefully, emphasize win-win cooperation, and emphasize shelving disputes for joint development.
China's contribution to world peace is also obvious to all, and this is unquestionable.
Everyone knows that China is an important force for world peace. The pursuit of peace is the characteristic of the Chinese nation. The Chinese nation does not like to fight. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has been a peace-loving nation.
The second consensus is development. Everyone is pursuing development. The rapid economic development of China and ASEAN is obvious to all. The two sides support each other, promote each other, and achieve each other.
As the fastest-growing economy in the world today, China has made remarkable achievements in the past ten years of reform and opening up. Its economic strength has been greatly improved, and its comprehensive national strength has also been greatly improved. China needs a large amount of raw materials, food, and fruits, which brings huge development opportunities to ASEAN countries.
When Europeans and Americans came to Southeast Asia, they brought war, colonization, aggression, and plunder to the people of Southeast Asian countries. They never really considered building and developing Southeast Asia.
But China is different. China is willing to build Southeast Asia and develop with Southeast Asia.
Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand are examples. China built roads and railways, dredged waterways, built reservoirs and hydropower stations in these four countries, and imported raw materials, food, fruits, and wood from these four countries, bringing them a lot of income, so that these countries have maintained a high growth rate for more than ten years.
The cooperation between the two sides will not only consolidate the friendly and cooperative relations between each other, but will also further promote the economic development of China and ASEAN countries, expand the scale of bilateral trade and cooperation, and improve the overall competitiveness of the region.
China and ASEAN countries have their own comparative advantages. The differences in natural resources, industrial structure and production capacity between the two sides have formed complementary trade characteristics between and within industries. China and the vast majority of ASEAN countries have their own strengths in natural resources, forming a structural complementarity of export commodities.
Natural resources are the main reason for the complementarity between industries. The relatively underdeveloped countries in ASEAN, such as Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Malaysia, tend to export natural resources, while China's natural resources are gradually decreasing. Some resources are not China's strengths due to geographical reasons, so they can be imported to ease resource pressure.
Huaxia once again emphasized at the meeting that peace and development are the themes of the times. Everyone should work together to promote development, solve their own internal problems through development, and become an important promoter of world peace.
Leaders and experts and scholars held meetings and forums, while Liu Tao met with old friends one by one.
Many Chinese businessmen from ASEAN countries came to this meeting. This kind of meeting is a rare stage for them. Everyone gathers together to find opportunities for cooperation.
Many Chinese businessmen hope to enter the mainland and speed up their pace of entering the mainland, because it is a huge market, and the size of the market is so large that no businessman can ignore it.
Liu Tao met with friends one by one and negotiated the next cooperation.
The focus here is the old friend with the Philippines.
The Philippines is also a place with a large number of Chinese and overseas Chinese. There are about 5 million Chinese and overseas Chinese in the Philippines, accounting for about 7% of the total population of the Philippines.
Liu Tao also persuaded these old friends to strengthen the construction of armed forces this time.
Like Indonesia, the Philippines also has a large number of islands, with a total of more than 7,000 islands of various sizes. Among them, 11 major islands such as Luzon Island, Mindanao Island, and Samar Island account for 96% of the country's total area. The coastline is about 18,533 kilometers long and the total area is 299,700 square kilometers.
Unlike Indonesia, the Philippines is deeply influenced by the United States.
After the end of World War II in 1947, the United States and the Philippines signed the "Military Base Agreement", which stipulates that the Philippines will lease 23 military bases to the United States for a period of 99 years. In September 1966, the agreement was revised and the term was shortened to 25 years. The agreement expired in 1991. The following year, the United States withdrew all military personnel and facilities in the Philippines and handed over the bases to the Philippines.
Now the United States and the Philippines are seeking to sign an important military agreement, the Visiting Forces Agreement, and Liu Tao is undermining this agreement.
And Liu Tao also hopes that the overseas Chinese in the Philippines have armed forces capable of self-protection, rather than pinning their hopes on the Philippine government's compliance with international law.
In this regard, the overseas Chinese have suffered too much.
Having a lot of wealth, but no armed forces to protect the wealth, will eventually be robbed.
This is a vicious cycle, and the kindness of the overseas Chinese is always regarded as weakness.
And now, it is time to break this vicious cycle.
As long as the jackals dare to attack, there will be earth-shaking changes.
Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, Liu Tao is making arrangements in this regard.
Don't have the intention to harm others, but be on guard against others!
It is always good to make more preparations.
In case it really happens, it will be difficult to deal with.
After meeting Liu Tao, these Chinese businessmen could not help but feel a sense of crisis. After all, having a lot of wealth but not enough armed forces is just like a child making trouble with a golden bowl. It is impossible not to be targeted.
Moreover, if you look up the information, there are many such cases in Nanyang, and they are all bloody examples.
Many wealthy Chinese businessmen have lost their property or even died and their families have been destroyed because of such things.
They have to learn from this and have no choice but to feel a sense of crisis.
With armed forces, they will have the power to resist when something happens, and at least they can leave with protection instead of becoming lambs to be slaughtered.