The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

In the conference room, China and Germany are negotiating.

China attached great importance to Germany's visit and welcomed the German delegation with the highest etiquette.

Last night the German delegation arrived in Beijing on a special plane. Today the two sides held dialogues and negotiations in the fields of politics, economy, culture, science and technology, and military.

Tsinghua University, Peking University, China Renmin University and other universities in Beijing held special exchange meetings, which included both 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 been working hard to develop. The two sides have always coexisted in cooperation and competition in the economic field. How to promote cooperation in the economic field between the two sides has also been an ongoing discussion between the two sides.

As Germany is the leader in the EU's economic field, economic cooperation with Germany is conducive to developing 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 after World War II and its pursuit of peace. Germany has won high international recognition for its reflection on World War II, and praised Germany's efforts in national normalization. Germany's peaceful reunification model provides a model for learning for the whole world.

Many Chinese scholars have been engaged in research on Germany.

After all, Germany was able to launch World War I and World War II, which in itself represents Germany's strength. After World War II, Germany quickly rebuilt its homeland in ruins, and in the early 20s, the Federal Republic of Germany entered a period of rapid development, creating a "huge economic miracle", and became the second largest economic power after the United States in the late 50s. In the 50s, 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.

It should be noted that in the first half of the 20th century, Germany launched two world wars, which not only brought great suffering 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 even worse than after World War I. World War II killed nearly 600 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 had to pay huge war reparations to the victorious countries. Especially after the war, the once unified Germany was divided, and two countries with completely different social systems emerged on German soil.

The division of Germany, in addition to the fact that the main Nazi leaders were responsible for the war, was also closely related to the international relations pattern and the struggle between the East and the West that emerged after the war.

As the international relations landscape continued to change, the issue of German division became more complicated and lasted for nearly half a century. For a long time, the two divided Germanys were under the control and manipulation of foreign forces, and the German people did not have the right to decide their own destiny, which once again left a mark of humiliation in the hearts of the German nation.

Germany was able to rise rapidly after World War II and achieve peaceful reunification. Even now, including China, Germany is the world's third largest economic power. To be able to achieve this point, Germany is indeed very remarkable.

In China, Germany's reputation far exceeds that of Japan!

There is no other reason, it’s just because of the huge gap between Germany and Japan’s reflection on World War II!

Germany is seriously reflecting on World War II and admitting its mistakes, but Japan has ignored historical facts, refused to acknowledge the crimes it committed during World War II, revised textbooks, spread erroneous remarks, and visited 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 fighter jets and 100 J-11E fighter jets, all of which are top-of-the-line versions, and corresponding weapons. In addition to technical training and technical services, the total value of aircraft purchases is 100 billion euros.

德国采购20艘022型导弹艇、10艘022A型鱼雷艇、4艘83型扫雷艇、4艘84型扫雷艇、4艘817型电子侦查船、2艘816型电子侦查船、10艘054型护卫舰、5艘052型驱逐舰、1艘002型中型航母和相应舰载机以及相应导弹、弹药采购，技术服务，总订单230亿欧元。除此之外，德国采购20套‘神盾-0’防空导弹系统、80套‘神盾-1’共10个营防空导弹系统，再加上采购的导弹以及相应的技术服务，总订单70亿欧元。

It can be said that this time Germany brought a big order!
In terms of military purchases alone, total orders reached 400 billion euros.

After Liu Tao signed the procurement contract documents, he shook hands with Merkel with a smile on his face.

In the past, the two sides did cooperate in military procurement, but Germany only purchased advanced training aircraft for training pilots.

However, this time, it is the largest arms procurement contract Germany has given to the outside world.

All of these contracts are in the hands of Panshan Group.

After all, these weapons and equipment are only produced and exported by Panshan Group.

400 billion euros 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 parties in weapons and equipment. For Panshan Group, the two parties will cooperate in energy.

Germany is a country short of energy. Currently, its largest energy supply comes from Russia. This is also a major reason why Germany shows goodwill to Russia and tries to win over Russia.

But it is impossible for Germany to only import Russian oil and natural gas, as that would hand over its lifeline to Russia. As Germany has been dealing with Russia for hundreds of years, it is natural that it is aware of Russia's greed.

Diversification of energy imports is not only being pursued by China, but also by Germany.

At present, OPEC has imposed an oil embargo on Europe and the United States, so only Panshan Group can transport oil from the Middle East, which is naturally what Germany needs.

Oil is the lifeblood of industry, and modern society simply cannot do without oil.

Since the outbreak of the Iraq War, the international crude oil price has risen to US$80 per barrel due to the OPEC oil embargo on Europe and the United States.

With oil prices so high, naturally all countries in the world are facing tremendous pressure of high inflation.

The United States tried every means to increase oil production, shipping oil from Latin America and purchasing oil from the middleman Panshan Group. But there is no doubt that the price of oil the United States obtained was much higher than before. Even if the United States released strategic reserves of oil, it failed to suppress oil prices.

As for natural gas, the United States is already a major exporter of natural gas, so it is more profitable. (End of this chapter)