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Volume Fourteen, Smoke of Gunpowder, Chapter 22, My Way

Compared with this post's public opinion propaganda, diplomatic works seem dull. The diplomatic activities of Shao Ximudi are far less magnificent than the outside world imagined.

According to the itinerary that had been set long ago, after Pei Chengyi arrived in Paris, he first had an informal meeting with the French President and the Prime Minister's envoys of Germany and Italy, and attended a state banquet held by the French President at the Elysee Palace. He then rushed to Brussels to make an official visit to the EU headquarters.

During the three days in Brussels, Zhuang Chengyi participated in three major events. The most eye-catching one was not the speech delivered at the EU Council, but went to the European Collective Security Organization Conference to answer questions from various member states, focusing on the positive impact of China-EU friendly relations on European security.

You should know that this is not a speech, but a question raised by representatives of each member county.

Although all questions are prepared in advance, even the order of questions is prepared, facing endless problems and sometimes even deliberately makes things difficult, it still requires great courage and wisdom, and even smart minds and rich experience. What is attracted by Pei Chengyi proves with practical actions that he is not only an outstanding national leader, but also a fighter who can stand the test. In the nearly three hours of question-and-answer questioning, what impressed people most was not the questions raised by representatives of the member states of the "OSCE Group", but the style of a leader of a great power shown by Pei Chengyi. In the comments of AFP, in the face of Pei Chengyi's courage to point out the country, the doubts from European countries both seem slim and short-sighted.

It can be said that this "defense meeting pushed Pei Chengyi's trip to Europe to a climax.

Before leaving Brussels, Pei Chengyi held his first collective consultation with the heads of state or government heads of government of European countries such as the highest leader of the Republic as the French President, German Chancellor, Italian Prime Minister, Dutch Prime Minister, Denmark Prime Minister, Spanish Prime Minister and other European countries. At this time, Pei Chengyi proposed for the first time to expand and upgrade the "China-Europe Security Cooperation Relations". In addition to cooperating in non-traditional fields, he will also conduct exchanges and cooperation in the field of traditional military leadership, that is, military security. For this reason, Pei Chengyi also made a commitment in advance. As long as an agreement can be reached, the Republic authorities will actively promote the normalization of military exchanges between the two sides. To put it directly, that is, after establishing the foundation of military exchanges and cooperation, the Republic will sell advanced military technology to Europe.

Mo Yong doubted that this is definitely a big news.

You should know that the EU is capricious on the issue of collective security because countries such as France, Germany and Italy that actively advocate the establishment of collective security mechanisms cannot effectively ensure Europe's defense security, and the fundamental reason for not being able to do this is that countries such as France, Germany and Italy do not master advanced military technology. As mentioned earlier, France, Germany and Italy are making a fuss about security cooperation with the Republic. They hope to take this opportunity to allow the United States to provide advanced military technology. In order to stabilize European allies, the United States has to make comprehensive concessions in technical control and provide advanced military technology to potential competitors. With the Republic, it has to make comprehensive concessions in technical control and provide advanced military technology to potential competitors.

The United States promised to provide advanced military technology, and the United States' commitments and concessions became insignificant. This proposal not only made France, Germany and Italy and other countries excited, but also made the OSCE members who had previously reserved on security cooperation begin to move, as the Spanish Prime Minister mentioned at the meeting. If advanced military technology can be obtained from the Republic and can improve the security environment in Europe, it is not impossible to expand the scope of security cooperation with the Republic. You must know that Spain is a typical pro-American country. It has always believed that Europe's security foundation should be strengthened through comprehensive cooperation with the United States.

At this time, the United States is the one who can't sit still the most.

If the United States can still tolerate the Republic's efforts to win over the EU by taking advantage of the Russian issue, then the United States will definitely not be able to withstand the efforts of the Republic and the EU to form an alliance treaty.

On the afternoon of the day when Pei Chengyi made his statement at the collective meeting, just a few hours later, a White House spokesperson publicly stated that there is no security problem in the North Atlantic region, and those who try to change the situation in the region are real security issues. The United States has the responsibility and obligation to take action to maintain peace and stability in the North Atlantic region and eliminate security risks that pose a threat to the United States and its allies.

As usual, after the White House made a statement, the presidential envoy should set off for Mao in Europe.

However, the US authorities did not act as usual. The one who left the New World that night was not the special envoy representing US President Duchway, but the aircraft carrier battle group representing US military forces. After obtaining the president's approval, the USS Reagan aircraft carrier battle group stationed at the Norfolk Naval Base that night took cobalt and left port, heading to Potsmouth on the opposite side of the Atlantic to strengthen the US military presence in Europe. Of course, this is not a military threat. According to the news released by the Pentagon, the USS Reagan aircraft carrier battle group was invited by the Royal Navy to participate in the North Atlantic joint military exercise of the "Iceberg Day" and visited the United Kingdom and other European allies before and after the exercise.

Of course, it would be strange if this is not a military threat.

To use the comments of the Pallin Observer Network Communications Agency: Because the threat of an aircraft carrier battle group is very limited and not enough to have an impact on military security in the European region, the real intention of the United States is to tell European countries that the United States of America is on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean, and the world's most powerful fleet can reach Europe within 3 days. Kill any potential threats against the United States in the cradle.

Regardless of whether this comment is too extreme, this is indeed the case.

In the United States, OM and OUM will work with their country to expand the field of cooperation between Anjin... and there will be no further in-depth discussions.

In fact, this is also expected by the Republic authorities. Otherwise, Pei Chengyi would not have discussed this topic with European state leaders on the first day of leaving Brussels. From another perspective, this can even be seen as the Republican authorities testing the confidence of the United States. Even if the United States does not respond positively and takes decisive actions, it will be difficult for the Republic authorities to take a decisive step on security cooperation immediately, because whether the scope of security cooperation with the EU can be expanded, that is, whether advanced military technology can be sold to European countries is not the final word, and the vote of the general congress will be subject to the vote.

That's why Al Jazeera's actions are not to poach the United States' corners, but to express an attitude that the Republic attaches great importance to cooperative relations with Europe and hopes to strengthen and maintain such cooperative relations.

From this perspective, we can better understand the significance of Pei Chengyi's visit to Europe.

Of course, after leaving Brussels and heading to Paris again, Pei Chengyi's trip to Europe officially began.

On the 8th of this month, Pei Chengyi held a formal meeting with the French President at the Cathay Pacific Hotel in Paris.

Because it was a formal meeting between the supreme leaders of the two countries. Moreover, Pei Chengyi was "organized" so it was arranged as a closed-door meeting and was not open to reporters.

This is not difficult to understand. After all, Paris is not the new capital of the Republic, so it is reasonable to be more conservative.

But what is incomprehensible is that after the meeting, neither the Republic nor the French authorities issued an official announcement, and the officials of both sides who participated in the meeting were also kept a tight-lipped mouth and did not even disclose any news to the Anglo-side news media of the two countries. They just made the anxious reporter wait for the exact news on the grounds that the consultation matters had not been determined.

Of course, it is impossible for the Republic and the French authorities to mention nothing, after all, the head of state visit is not a joke.

That's exactly that. During Pei Chengyi's visit to Paris, the official news media of the two countries focused on some irrelevant things, such as the Republic's trade delegation that arrived in Paris with Pei Chengyi signed dozens of commercial contracts with French companies worth hundreds of billions of yuan, including a strategic cooperation agreement between Shanghai Aviation Equipment Manufacturing Company and Airbus, that is, the Airbus Corporation built the largest and third largest civil aviation passenger aircraft assembly factory in Europe in Nice, France in the form of technical investment, and used Airbus' European marketing network for sale.

Although it seems that this agreement is equivalent to opening the market to the Republic's aviation companies and allowing Shangfei to obtain European access permits, as a partner, Airbus, which has long been declining, relying on financial subsidies from European governments, can obtain the key technology to manufacture large civil aviation passenger aircraft, thus gaining hope of resurrection. Because the open market is relative, that is, the Republic's aviation market will also be open to Airbus, so Airbus can also enter the Republic with a price advantage, thus gaining a place in the world's largest aviation market, laying the foundation for a comprehensive revival.

It must be admitted that these commercial contracts are very shocking.

Take the agreement reached between Shangfei and Airbus. For European governments, which have always been responsible for protecting the domestic market and domestic manufacturing industry, being able to make such a major concession in the aviation manufacturing industry not only bears huge risks, but also withstands huge pressure. To the comments of the London Financial Times, the market-for-technology agreement signed by Airbus and Shangfei is a sign of the entry of the semi-colonial era of the continental economy, a sign of the loss of independence of "Continental Manufacturing" under strong external forces, and a sign of the decline of continental descent.

In this editorial, the Financial Times also boldly predicted that if continental countries cannot correct their wrong economic policies in a timely manner and resist economic invasions and effectively protect local enterprises, within ten years, the continent will become a global foundry and become a second-rate or even third-rate force. In response, the Federation of British Economists, who wrote the comment, publicly called on the British authorities to avoid making the same mistakes. It is their responsibility to protect local enterprises.

The problem is that these economic topics are simply not attractive compared to the security issues that were highly concerned at the time.

On the day of the month, Pei Chengyi ended his three-day trip to Paris and took the "Eurostar" ultra-high-speed floating train from the mainland rail transit company to Pailin, formally asked about Germany.

Because Pei Chengyi's trip to France was very "low-key" and the reporters failed to get much valuable news in Paris, before Pei Chengyi left Paris, most of the reporters rushed to Pailin in advance, preparing to do a big deal in the German capital. They took the lead in reporting the latest news.

The reality is that before arriving in Germany, Pei Chengyi's trip to film the Lin began.

Although the German government had long announced that the Prime Minister would welcome the visiting head of the Republic at Pailin Station and accompanied the head of the Republic to review the guard of honor of the German police force, the German Chancellor did not return to Pailin after participating in the activities of the European Council, but went to Paris. On the dynasty day, he secretly boarded the train transporting Pei Chengyi to Pailin as a receptionist of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Of course, the German authorities did not announce this matter to the public.

When the train arrived at Pailin Station, Pei Chengyi got off the train half an hour late, and the German Chancellor who arrived with him had recovered his original identity and appeared on the platform.

Affected by this, Pei Chengyi still did not make any amazing moves during his visit to Pailin.

The same body clams as the event in Paris, I read it well, and during the filming period, the Republic's trade delegation visited with Pei Chengyi and signed a business contract with Zhongshou Kekou Enterprise. The most eye-catching one is definitely the strategic cooperation agreement signed by Jixiang Automobile Company and Germany United Automobile Group. The German United Automobile Group was merged by several German automobile companies such as Messedes Daimler, Volkswagen, and Gou... and is an independent subsidiary of Ouyuan United Automobile Group. It is also the only automobile industry group in Germany. Needless to say, Jixiang Automobile Company surpassed Shanghai Automobile Company before Tiannian and became the number one automobile manufacturer in the Republic. The two companies did not look like Shangfei

Like Airbus, a joint venture factory is built in Europe. After all, the production capacity of European automobile factories has long exceeded sales and is in a serious surplus state. It is not very meaningful to build a new factory. According to the agreement reached by the two parties, Jixiang Automobile Company will obtain marketing channels under the German United Automobile Group by "technology exchange channels", while what Germany United Automobile Group obtains is the production technology of new composite batteries that will be put into use on a large scale. Because it involves the Republic's technology export control agreement, German companies can only obtain assembly technology, and the core old-grade composite batteries will be provided by Republic companies. Of course, what Germany United Automobile Group needs most is not automotive composite batteries, but magnetic levitation propulsion technology.

Because Germany is the base of the European automobile industry, France's Kowang Group, which owns Renault, Citroen and Logo, has already failed. Therefore, the move of Germany United Automobile Group is equivalent to opening the door to Republican companies to enter the European market.

The result is conceivable, the criticism of the news media in Britain and other countries will definitely not be late.

The problem is, what puzzles the European news media the most is that Pei Chengyi once again quietly ended his visit to Germany.

On the day of the month, under the arrangement of the Italian authorities, Pei Chengyi and several follow-up officials took a chede high-speed business plane designed and produced by the Italian Agusta Company and flew from Palin to Rome.

This time, the Italian Prime Minister did not hide his cover-up and went to film Lin to welcome Pei Chengyi by taking the name of attending the EU summit and returning to Rome. In order to avoid arousing disgust among the Chinese, the Italian authorities declared when they announced the news that this was to make the head of state of the Republic believe in the safety of Italian-made commercial aircraft.

Some people may ask, if Pei Chengyi doesn’t take a good head of state special plane, why should he sit on a business plane with low safety?

The reason is very simple. AVIC Group in the Republic has long become the largest shareholder of Agusta Company through subscription, and has entered the European business aircraft market to sell high-performance business aircraft to European companies and wealthy people. Tian is a high-performance business aircraft specially developed for the European market and is also the most expensive business aircraft sold in the European market. If it can be trusted by the head of the Republic, it will naturally be trusted by European wealthy people. In other words, Pei Chengyi is selling products for AVIC Group. Of course, the outside world does not know that the one that sent Pei Chengyi to Rome was specially produced by AVIC Group in its domestic factories, not in Italy. It can be said that in addition to appearance

, other places have no similarities with mass production models. The reason is very simple. Bitian has been simplified in the European market, and even the basic platform has adopted previous generation products instead of the latest developed ones. This is understandable. Selling backward products first and then promoting the latest products in the name of upgrades and replacements can make the most profits. In fact, before the New Year, European automobile companies, especially Volkswagen, which first entered the Republic, did not do this? In the words of the chairman of AVIC Group, if you blame it, you can only blame the rugged aviation manufacturing companies in Europe. If you can produce more advanced and better business aircraft than the European version, AVIC Group will not be able to use inferior products as a good one.

Of course, selling a few business planes is not a big deal.

It was not until this time that those reporters who tried every means to dig up some news realized that Pei Chengyi met with the leaders of the interviewed countries outside the official visit itinerary and reached a secret agreement, so there would be no valuable news between the official visit and the official meeting.

The problem is that there are only a few seats for business planes. And even if there are extra seats, it is not the turn of the news to record them.

It can be said that when Pei Chengyi went to Rome, the reporters who had been chasing him for several days felt like they were deceived.

Affected by this, on the day of the moonrise, many news media expressed indignation and dissatisfaction with some private actions of the Republic's authorities, and repeatedly stated in the reports that only open and upright exchanges can make the European people recognize and accept the Republic's influence in Europe. Any gray transaction will affect the image of the Republic and thus have an impact on the relationship between the Republic and Europe.

Because Pei Chengyi had a big talk with the Italian Prime Minister before arriving in Rome, only a small number of those who chased from Paris to Pailin were renting high-speed business planes. After chasing them all the way to Rome, more than half of the reporters canceled their trip to Rome and even refunded their booked flight tickets.
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