African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1189 Invitation

Since the South African War, East Africa can no longer keep a low profile in the military field, but the military can only represent the external appearance of the East African country.

After all, as long as they are willing to spend money, the military strength of many countries can appear bright and shiny, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the past, or the Beiyang Fleet of the Far East Empire and the Russian Navy before the Russo-Japanese War. They seem powerful, but when they encounter actual combat, they are exposed.

Without a strong economy and industrial strength to back it up, this kind of military equipment obtained through "made in all countries" is nothing but a showpiece. Even if it uses advanced Western weapons, they are nothing but disposable consumables.

East Africa is certainly not among them. After all, East Africa started to develop its independent defense industry as early as the last century. However, military alone cannot solve all problems.

Especially for some independent countries, blindly threatening with force will only push them to potential enemies in East Africa, such as the United States, Japan, or powerful countries such as Britain, France, and Russia.

Russia is a typical example. Russia's military strength is undoubtedly strong, but its poor diplomatic policy has made most of its neighboring countries or marginal areas hate it.

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Along with the preparations for the East African Expo, the East African government has also begun sending invitations to all parts of the world.

Far Eastern Empire.

"Why is there another country hosting a World Expo?" Looking at the invitation letter submitted by the East African Embassy, ​​the current President of the Far East Empire asked, "Is America still hosting the Panama Expo? They invited us to participate before."

In response to the president's question, Yang Du said, "There is such a Panama Expo, but it seems to have started in February this year. At that time, the US government strongly invited the Chinese government to participate in this expo. Although it is called the Panama Expo, the actual venue is San Francisco on the west coast of the United States."

The President said: "If that's the case, why is East Africa joining in the fun? Could it be that this World Expo is just a game? It's simply child's play!"

It is true that the timing of East Africa's hosting of the World Expo is a bit delicate. The World Expo in the United States has not yet ended, and East Africa has also come to join in the fun. This reminds the President of the idiom "Dong Shi Xiou Pin".

Yang Du said: "It is actually very easy to understand. Western countries have always liked to showcase their economic and industrial strength through expositions, especially exhibitions like the World Expo, which carry huge economic benefits."

"Through product display, it can be beneficial to the export of domestic products, which is what countries around the world are pursuing now. The international market is very important, especially in the Western world, which places more emphasis on profit than morality."

The president said, "That's true, but the United States and East African governments have successively held world expositions. There must be something fishy about it. What do you think, Tiger?"

After thinking for a while, Yang Du said, "From the perspective of conspiracy, the United States and East Africa do have motives to achieve some goals through the expo. After all, the world situation is in a very delicate environment now."

"European countries are deeply mired in war, which has caused major powers such as Britain, France, Russia and Germany to withdraw their influence to Europe, and a large number of power vacuums have appeared in the world."

"The only powerful countries that are not involved in the war are the United States, East Africa and Japan. However, Japan is too small to compete with the United States and East Africa."

"So East Africa holding the World Expo during this period seems to be a challenge to America."

The president agreed and said, "I think so too. East Africa cannot be unaware of the Panama World Exposition in the United States, and the economic competition between the United States and East Africa is indeed very fierce this year."

"I remember Western newspapers saying that America and East Africa were like two jackals, taking advantage of the quarrels between lions to steal the leftovers on the plate, and ended up biting each other first."

I don't know where Yuan got the news. The competition between East Africa and the United States is indeed fierce, but it is definitely not this intense. After all, the confrontation between the two countries is mainly reflected in the economic field.

Whoever expands production capacity faster will be able to eat more. There is no doubt that East Africa, which has been well prepared, has the first-mover advantage. As for the United States, it is completely inferior in technology. After all, the market demand is so strong now. If your own production capacity is not expanded in time, the problem cannot be blamed entirely on East Africa. Moreover, East Africa and the United States have both competition and cooperation. Many American trading companies choose to cooperate directly with East Africa because of insufficient local production capacity, that is, order from East Africa and then sell in Europe. Therefore, not all American companies hate East Africa. Of course, the attitude of the entire American society towards East Africa is definitely not very good, that is inevitable.

However, it is highly likely that a newspaper with European capital background would ridicule the United States and East Africa in such a sarcastic way.

Yang Du said: "To put it bluntly, the World Expo is a large-scale commodity sales fair. For example, the United States invited my country, which is obviously because it covets our huge population market. The East African government must have also considered this aspect."

"But as long as the two countries do not interfere in our politics, we will naturally actively participate in such activities."

The president nodded and said, "In that case, let's organize another group of people to go to East Africa to participate in this event! It just so happens that some people have been ignorant of the current situation recently, so we'll use this excuse to let them go to East Africa to take a look. After all, East Africa is also an imperial country, and now that East Africa is so powerful, it obviously proves that we are right."

The President eventually followed the path of his past life and wanted to go one step further, but even if Ernst knew, he couldn't say anything.

After all, he had chosen the monarchy, and the monarchy in East Africa is not yet a constitutional monarchy. Ernst is a pure feudal monarch.

As for the achievements in East Africa, it obviously had little to do with the monarchy. It was entirely due to Ernst's foresight.

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The East African government's sending of the invitation letter to the Far Eastern Empire was actually just a matter of convenience, and was not the focus of East Africa's invitation to this round of World Expo.

The key invited countries are Oceania and South America, which basically overlaps with the concept of East Africa's southern hemisphere economic system.

Even the British colony of Australia is within the scope of East Africa's invitation. Although Australia is only a colony, it is important enough, so East Africa will certainly not ignore Australia.

Of course, at this stage, East Africa will definitely not take any practical action against Australia. As long as British hegemony does not disintegrate, Australia will only be Britain's loyal dog. This can be seen from the current European war. Australia has directly sent troops to help Britain increase its momentum.

The countries that the East African World Expo values ​​the most are actually the South American countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, etc.

Over the past decade, East Africa's exchanges with South American countries have achieved great results. Now, through the East African World Expo, their "trust" in East Africa can be further strengthened.

These countries are what East Africa has been planning for a long time. Now South America is the "front line" for the competition between East Africa and the United States for regional discourse power.

The United States has greatly increased its influence in South America through the Panama Expo, and East Africa also plans to use the World Expo to let South American countries see that East Africa is a top power that is not inferior to the United States in all aspects.

This is actually a process of "flexing muscles", and then the American countries will pay homage to the new port based on the strength of the two countries and their own political needs.

As for the original docks, they were naturally from Britain and France. Now Britain and France are unable to get away from Europe, while the United States and East Africa have begun to poach from Britain, France and Germany.

Therefore, during this period of time, East Africa must fully demonstrate its "advancedness" in industry, economy, culture, etc. Only in this way can countries that intend to move to East Africa be willing to do so.

The negative example is still Tsarist Russia. Why are so many of Russia's "little brothers" disloyal? It is because Russia's economy is poor and its politics is corrupt. If you become Russia's "little brother", it is very likely that you will not have a good life.

(End of this chapter)