Chapter 1141 Huge military trade (asking for monthly votes)
In the conference room, China and Germany are negotiating.
China attaches great importance to Germany's visit to China and welcomes the German delegation with the highest etiquette.
The German delegation arrived in Beijing on a special plane last night. Today, the two sides held dialogues and negotiations in the fields of politics, economy, culture, science and technology, and military.
Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University of China and other universities in Beijing held special exchange meetings, which included academic exchanges and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
In terms of economy, entrepreneurs from China and Germany are also communicating and looking for opportunities for cooperation.
The European Union, as the world's third largest market, has always been a market that China has worked hard to open up. The two sides have always been cooperating and competing in the economic field. How to promote cooperation in the economic field between the two sides is also what the two sides have been discussing.
Germany, as the leader in the EU's economic field, economic cooperation with Germany is conducive to trade with the EU.
In terms of politics, Chinese scholars highly appreciated the friendship between the two sides in the past, and highly affirmed Germany's reflection and pursuit of peace after World War II. Germany has won high international recognition in its reflection on World War II, and praised Germany's efforts in national normalization. Germany's peaceful reunification model provides a model for the world to learn from.
Many Chinese scholars have been engaged in research on Germany.
After all, Germany's ability to launch World War I and World War II itself represents Germany's strength. After World War II, Germany quickly rebuilt its homeland in ruins, and in the early 1950s, the Federal Republic of Germany entered a period of rapid development, creating a "huge economic miracle". In the late 1950s, it became the second largest economic power after the United States. In the 1980s, the Federal Republic of Germany became the "economic giant" of the Western world. Among the capitalist countries, its economic strength was second only to the United States and Japan, and it was the largest economic power in Western Europe.
And you have to know that in the first half of the 20th century, Germany launched two world wars, which not only brought great pain to the people of Europe and the world, but also caused the German people to suffer heavy disasters of war. After the end of World War II, Germany's situation was worse than after World War I. World War II killed nearly 6 million Germans, the economy was completely destroyed, and many cities were razed to the ground.
After the war, Germany was devastated and became a fragmented country, and it had to pay huge war reparations to the victorious countries. In particular, after the war, a previously unified Germany was divided, and two countries with completely different social systems appeared on German soil.
In addition to the main Nazi leaders of the war being responsible for the crimes, the division of Germany was also closely related to the international relations pattern that emerged after the war and the struggle between the East and the West.
With the continuous changes in the pattern of international relations, the issue of the division of Germany has become complicated and has lasted for nearly half a century. For a considerable period of time, the two divided Germanys were under the control and manipulation of foreign forces, and the German people had no right to decide their own destiny, which once again left a humiliating mark on the soul of the German nation.
Germany was able to rise rapidly after World War II and achieve peaceful reunification. Even now, if China is included, Germany is the world's true third largest economic power. Germany is indeed very remarkable for being able to achieve this step.
In China, Germany's reputation far exceeds that of Japan!
There is no other reason, just because of the huge gap between Germany and Japan in their reflection on World War II!
Germany is seriously reflecting on World War II and admitting its mistakes, while Japan ignores historical facts, refuses to admit the crimes committed in World War II, and also revises textbooks, spreads false statements, and visits the Yasukuni Shrine every few days.
At this time, in terms of military exchanges and negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement to hold peaceful exchanges and reached cooperation in military trade.
Germany purchased 100 J-10E fighters and 100 J-11E fighters, all of which are top-end versions, and purchased corresponding weapons. In addition to technical training and technical services, the total value of aircraft purchases is 10 billion euros.
Germany purchased 20 Type 022 missile boats, 10 Type 022A torpedo boats, 4 Type 83 minesweepers, 4 Type 84 minesweepers, 4 Type 817 electronic reconnaissance ships, 2 Type 816 electronic reconnaissance ships, 10 Type 054 frigates, 5 Type 052 destroyers, 1 Type 002 medium-sized aircraft carrier and corresponding carrier-based aircraft, as well as corresponding missiles, ammunition procurement, and technical services, with a total order of 23 billion euros.
In addition, Germany purchased 20 sets of "Aegis-0" air defense missile systems, 80 sets of "Aegis-1" air defense missile systems for a total of 10 battalions, plus the purchased missiles and corresponding technical services, with a total order of 7 billion euros.
It can be said that Germany brought a big order this time!
In terms of military procurement alone, the total order reached 40 billion euros.
After Liu Tao signed the procurement contract document, he shook hands with Merkel with a smile on his face.
In the past, the two sides did not have no cooperation in military procurement, but Germany only purchased advanced training aircraft for training pilots.
This time, it is the largest military procurement contract Germany has ever given to the outside world.
All of these contracts fell into the hands of Panshan Group.
After all, these weapons and equipment are only produced and exported by Panshan Group.
40 billion euros, this is a huge order even for Panshan Group.
And with this large order from Germany, there will definitely be other orders in the future, such as missiles, precision-guided bombs, etc. This is a long-term business.
This is just the cooperation between the two sides in weapons and equipment. For Panshan Group, the two sides will cooperate in energy.
Germany is a country lacking energy. The largest energy supply currently comes from Russia, which is also a major reason for Germany to show goodwill to Russia and win over Russia.
However, Germany cannot only import oil and natural gas from Russia, which would hand over its lifeline to Russia. Germany, which has been dealing with Russia for hundreds of years, naturally knows Russia's greed.
Diversification of energy imports is not only done by China, but also by Germany.
At present, OPEC has imposed an oil embargo on Europe and the United States, so Panshan Group can only ship oil from the Middle East, which is naturally what Germany needs.
Oil is the lifeblood of industry, and modern society cannot do without oil.
After the outbreak of the Iraq War, until now, because of the OPEC oil embargo on Europe and the United States, the international crude oil price has risen to $80 per barrel.
With oil prices so high, countries around the world are naturally facing huge pressure from high inflation.
The United States has tried every means to increase oil production, transporting oil from Latin America, and buying oil from the middleman Panshan Group, but there is no doubt that the price of oil the United States has obtained is much higher than before. Even if the United States releases strategic reserve oil, it has not been able to suppress oil prices.
In terms of natural gas, the United States is already a major exporter of natural gas, but it is more profitable. (End of this chapter)