Chapter 1172 Determination
Recently, there have been many things going on…
Before Fan Wubing left, there were actually some extremely subtle changes in Sino-Russian economic and trade relations, and during the time when Fan Wubing went to Africa, Sino-Russian economic and trade relations deteriorated sharply. For a while, there were even rumors that Sino-Russian relations were about to undergo a major turning point, and the top leaders were also very uneasy about this change.
"Not long ago, China National Petroleum Corporation's bid for the Russian Slavneft auction was blocked, the long-planned Sino-Russian oil pipeline was delayed, and the purchase of the Sovremenny class destroyer and Su-3 aircraft was repeatedly postponed due to the struggle between Russian internal interest groups. A series of frictions and differences in the economic and trade fields have come one after another, causing many people to doubt the nature of the Sino-Russian strategic cooperative relationship. Some people in both countries are pessimistic about the prospects of Sino-Russian relations." Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing.
Fan Wubing nodded. At present, Sino-Russian economic and trade relations are undergoing an important structural transformation. Last year, China exported 5.3 billion US dollars to Russia and imported 8.9 billion US dollars from Russia. According to estimates, the bilateral trade volume between China and Russia this year will exceed 15 billion US dollars, a record high.
It is worth noting that the achievements of Sino-Russian economic and trade relations over the years were made when the bilateral commodity and personnel exchanges between China and Russia were once interrupted.
Although the two sides have been in constant dispute and friction, the trade volume has risen, which also shows that the outstanding feature of the current Sino-Russian economic and trade relations is growth in friction.
Friction is the friction of the transformation of trade structure and mode, and growth is the growth in the deepening of economic and trade cooperation.
Being able to clearly recognize the characteristics of the current Sino-Russian economic and trade relations is an important condition for ensuring the continuous deepening and healthy development of bilateral cooperation, especially when encountering friction, we should face it with a calm attitude, solve it with timely communication, and accelerate the transformation of Sino-Russian trade with a forward-looking vision. This is a rational choice to promote the deepening of Sino-Russian strategic cooperative relations.
It is precisely because Fan Wubing is very clear about this. So he did not care too much about these changes.
Summarizing the development of Sino-Russian economic and trade relations since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it can be clearly seen that the current Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation is undergoing an important structural transformation: the mode of cooperation has transitioned from simple trade to mutual investment and technical cooperation; the scale of cooperation has transformed from piecemeal to bulk trading; the subject of cooperation has upgraded from guerrillas to regular troops.
In this important qualitative change process, many unprecedented problems have arisen: the change in the mode of cooperation has made the simple barter or cash payment method used in the past "hand-to-hand trade" a thing of the past, and practices that conform to international trade practices are becoming the main mode of Sino-Russian economic and trade; the change in the subject of cooperation means that large companies and enterprises in China and Russia are becoming the main body of Sino-Russian economic and trade. The entry of these corporate giants is bound to cause greater waves in the Sino-Russian economic and trade lake, and it is impossible not to produce some problems that would not have occurred during the hand-to-hand trade.
The change in the scale of cooperation means that a cooperation project often involves important economic fields and strategic interests of China and Russia.
This makes it impossible for the two countries not to take a more rational, pragmatic and cautious attitude on some strategic projects.
Another very important issue is the two factors that deserve attention, namely, Russian interest groups and local forces.
At present and in the future, energy and military industry are the highlights of Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation. In these two fields. Any cooperation project is not just a simple commercial behavior. Russian interest groups with large enterprises as the core are increasingly becoming the main body of Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation. The impact on bilateral economic and trade exhibitions is gradually increasing.
The corporate behavior of Russian interest groups and national policies influence each other. The government decision-making cannot ignore the ideas of interest groups, and interest groups try to influence the country's foreign policy more.
The influence of interest groups on Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation is twofold: on the one hand, Russian interest groups actively participate in Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation due to huge business opportunities, which promotes the upgrading of bilateral economic and trade structures. Without their participation, many large-scale cooperation projects are difficult to put on the agenda; on the other hand, since the cooperation between interest groups and China is still in the running-in period, their complex mentality of cooperation with China and their mutual interest struggles often affect others, which to a certain extent restricts the advancement of certain Sino-Russian cooperation projects.
Since Putin came to power, he has attached great importance to the development of the Far East and East Siberia, and regarded it as an important part of maintaining Russia's territorial integrity and national security. The Russian Federation Security Council and the Government Work Conference have discussed the development of the Far East and East Siberia many times.
Under this background, the status of the Far East and East Siberia in the diplomatic decision-making mechanism has also risen accordingly, especially in the decision-making on China.
The attitude of the leaders of the Russian Far East towards Sino-Russian economic and trade relations is also complicated. On the one hand, they hope to increase economic and trade cooperation with China to promote regional economic cooperation; on the other hand, they often hope to use China as a bargaining chip to maximize their interests in bargaining with the Russian Federation Central Committee and in economic cooperation with other countries in Northeast Asia.
At present, the Far East and Siberia security forces mainly work directly with Putin and other senior Russian leaders to influence China's decision-making through the Security Council, the State Council and the Federation Council.
"Although China and Russia have experienced a series of differences and frictions in the field of economic and trade cooperation, the two sides have still made many important progress. From a deeper perspective, the differences and frictions are superficial and even exaggerated and hyped , but the progress is tangible.” Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing, “Take energy cooperation as an example. Despite repeated delays in relevant decisions, Russia has still made a commitment to increase oil exports to China through railways this year. During the regular meeting between the Chinese and Russian prime ministers, the two sides decided that the volume of oil transported by railway will reach about 5 million tons in the next three years, and the annual supply will gradually reach 15 million tons in the future. I personally think that for China, the important thing is not. The direction of the oil pipeline in Russia is to obtain oil in full and on schedule without increasing costs for China.
Boss Zhu’s meaning is very clear. As China-Russia economy and trade are facing important transformation and quality improvement, differences and frictions are inevitable. The key is how to resolve these frictions with rationality, wisdom, courage and patience to promote the success of China-Russia economy and trade. Transformation and continuous deepening. in this regard. As a leader at the top, there is obviously a lot to do.
Fan Wubing knew very well that it was unlikely that Boss Zhu would come to him just to say such a few words. There must be something I need to borrow from, so I simply said,
"We need you to go to Russia. Find out the secrets here through personal relationships. Then formulate corresponding countermeasures. According to our intelligence, Putin seems to have encountered some difficulties this time and is a little unable to suppress these objections. That’s why there will be so many economic and trade frictions in the near future,” Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing.
"Well, that's it." Fan Wubing frowned.
Fan Wubing has always attached great importance to Sino-Russian relations, otherwise he would not have been able to lend Putin so much money for Russia's domestic economic development. In fact, under the premise of the surge in American power. China's best foreign policy is to draw Russia closer to jointly resist the threat from the United States.
Putin is also aware of this, so he welcomes assistance from Western countries, but stays away from conditional assistance. This is also the reason why he borrowed money from Fan Wubing's private consortium. This time, it is obvious that some pro-Western forces in Russia are having trouble with him and are consciously trying to undermine the smooth economic and trade development between China and Russia. relations, in order to attack Putin’s economic power and pave the way for the next Russian presidential election.
Therefore, this time Boss Zhu entrusted Fan Wubing to go to Russia to meet Putin in a private capacity. In fact, he hoped to express China's support for Putin and reiterate the importance of the strategic partnership between the two countries, as well as some issues that Fan Wubing could use Provide economic assistance to Putin.
After Fan Wubing figured this out, he felt a little hesitant in his heart. If this time passed, it would be good to be able to help Putin. It was impossible for the other party not to repay the favor and give him some tangible benefits. In return, but the government does not get a dime, that is also wrong.
After all, he is just a businessman and has no obligation to bear this kind of burden, especially since it is impossible to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to settle the situation in Russia.
After Boss Zhu explained the drug situation, he kept paying attention to Fan Wubing's expression. It was found that Fan Wubing was a little hesitant and did not give a quick and affirmative answer for a while. This was a very strange thing.
Fan Wubing was really hesitating in his heart. The key issue is not how difficult this matter is, but because his affairs in Africa are not over yet. He can't just swallow his anger. After all, no one can trick him, Mr. Fan, and never will.
"What's the problem?" Boss Zhu asked Fan Wubing, "Is it because I'm about to step down and talking is useless?"
"That's nonsense." Fan Wubing laughed immediately, and then told Boss Zhu about his purchase of mines in Africa.
After listening to Fan Wubing's explanation, Boss Zhu realized that there was such a thing overseas that specifically targeted Chinese investors. He couldn't help but feel very emotional. In addition to saying that he wanted to meet the old overseas Chinese and express his gratitude to him. At the same time, he also told Fan Wubing that he asked the ambassador to the country to return to the country to report on his work.
"The embassy had no knowledge of such a thing, and important people in the country were gone. Their services were not up to par, and they didn't even provide any warning about the local security situation. This is outrageous." Boss Zhu's attitude towards this matter is relatively clear.
It can be expected that there will definitely be no good fruits after the ambassador comes back. After all, Boss Zhu is a well-known tough man, and he will take action from start to finish. That could be described as scolding his grandson. Fan Wubing couldn't help but observe three seconds of silence for the unlucky ambassador.
However, he very much agrees with Boss Zhu's decision. Even though we are still a weak country, you can't do anything else to seek political power in your position. All aspects of intelligence information must be collected in small quantities. Bar?
Could it be that the government sent you there just to let you live in villas overseas and see man-eating lions and elephants for free?
Of course, Fan Wubing knew very well that Boss Zhu's move was actually a sign of goodwill towards him. Didn't you say that you went to Africa and felt very angry? Then I will give you some relief and let you balance your mind.
From this perspective, Fan Wubing was quite grateful for Boss Zhu's decision, but he had another plan in mind. The situation over there could not be solved by criticizing the ambassador. He still needed to plan carefully before taking action and take down the other party's mine.
No matter what method or channel, this established goal must be achieved. In addition to giving himself a sigh of relief, the huge profit expectations of the mine were also the main motivation for attracting Fan Wubing to invest there.
After all, the titanium-iron mixed mine that was determined at the moment was worth tens of billions of dollars. In addition, there were many similar mines that could be mined. Fan Wubing was almost certain that the total value of the iron ore that was easy to mine there was at least hundreds of billions of dollars. This was a treasure land!
So, Jiang Wubing said to Boss Zhu. "I can go to Russia, and I can mediate on their behalf. However, I want to know how much influence we have on African countries?"
After hearing Fan Wubing's affirmative answer, Boss Zhu was very happy, but when he heard Fan Wubing ask about the influence on African countries, he seemed a little surprised. He immediately thought that Fan Wubing was very dissatisfied with the fraud he suffered in Africa and wanted to take follow-up actions to crack down on it.
After thinking about it, Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing, "Our influence on Africa is actually still very large, but you have to know one thing. In some small African countries, politics and economy are often out of touch."
"As long as we can deal with the government, there will be no problem." Fan Wubing said immediately after hearing this.
Fan Wubing has now made up his mind to get his face back in Africa. Especially the mines with huge profits, which must be fought for.
It can be imagined that if the African mineral plan is realized, the domestic shortage of mineral resources will be immediately reversed. It will even have a far-reaching impact on the international ore market, and thus cause huge changes in the world's resource allocation.
In any case, the African mines must be taken down.
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