Just as China was anxious about that sudden crisis, the world stage was full of excitement.

On New Year's Day this year, the ASEAN Free Trade Zone was officially launched. This concept proposed in 1992 was finally realized after a year of brewing. It covers the entire ten ASEAN countries with a total land area of ​​4.5 million square kilometers and a population of 530 million.

The launch of the ASEAN Free Trade Zone is a blessing for Hanyu Mimon Group. Within the ASEAN range, Hanyu Mimon Group has too many interests. With the reduction of tariffs between ASEAN countries, Hanyu Mimon Group's trade in ASEAN will be smoother.

The Iraq War is undoubtedly the first major event this year. On March 17, 2003, US President George Walker Bush issued an ultimatum, demanding Iraqi President Saddam and his son leave Iraq within 48 hours, otherwise they will be attacked by the United States. On March 20, a joint force dominated by the United States and Britain officially announced the war against Iraq without the authorization of the United Nations. The Iraq War broke out amid the anti-war sounds of people all over the world. On March 22, the United States began to carry out large-scale bombings on the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

People all over the world have once again seen what a powerful democracy is, and have once again learned the law of survival in this world and a country.

The United States, which holds a strong position in the world, and Iraq, which has suffered more than ten years of sanctions, fought against each other. The number of winners and losses is expected. On April 9, US military forces occupied Baghdad and the Saddam regime was overthrown. But the development of the situation was as expected by many people. It is easy for the United States to win military victory in Iraq, but it is difficult for society to recover. When the US military becomes an occupation force and bears the burden of social management, the reorganized resistance forces to some extent become increasingly active.

The differences in civilization and lack of morality make it difficult for the United States to win the hearts of the people in Iraq and find true supporters. High technology is useless in front of the original combat methods. It is difficult to measure how the situation in Iraq will develop in the future. For the United States, there are too many internal and external constraints in transforming Iraq according to the American model, which seems to be just the wishful thinking of the United States; using dismemberment to make Iraq "harmless", I am afraid that the Arab world will have a strong reaction, and Turkey will also intervene. The actual result may be "Warring Statesization", or the word "chaos". Going forward and retreating, leaving a dilemma will be somewhat the situation of the United States in the future.

The Iraq War triggered open conflict between the United States, Britain and France and Germany, which is also a major event this year. Some people say that the Atlantic Ocean has "widened" this year. The United States and some European countries have similar basic values, political and economic models, but there are also disputes between ideas and models. The two sides have common points in national interests and differences. The main differences between the United States and some European countries are that they have different ideas about current international affairs. The United States tends to have unilateralism, Europe tends to multilateralism, the United States hopes that the United States will be open to the world, and Europe advocates respecting the reality of multicultural civilizations. In addition, after the Cold War, the increase in Europe's awareness of autonomy was also a reason for the openness of the US-European contradiction this time.

Zeng Lingfeng did not have much view on the gradually emerging contradictions between Europe and the United States, and it was even of great help to his career.

In April 2003, SARS spread all over the world, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Toronto, Canada. However, this time the gospel of the people of the world came earlier. In early April, the Hanyu Virus and Disease Research Center, a subsidiary of Hanyu Mimon Group, announced the development of a vaccine to restrain the SARS virus and quickly invested funds for mass production. With the help of Hanyu Mimon Group, the world basically eliminated SARS before June. The Hanyu Virus and Disease Research Center showed its momentum in this incident that shocked the world.

Not long after, another scientific research institution under Hanyu Mimon Group shocked the world again. On May 18, the Hanyu Mimon Crust Movement Monitoring and Research Center warned the Algerian government that a strong earthquake would occur near the Algiers province of the country. Three days later, at 19:44 local time on May 21, local time, the earthquake did occur nearby.

Because of the early warning, the Algerian government took more effective measures, which made the casualties of this earthquake ideally controlled. The final death toll was only more than 900, and only more than 3,000 injured. This earthquake was several times less than the casualties in Zeng Lingfeng's memory.

After this accurate warning, the strength of this crustal motion monitoring and research center under Hanyu Mimeng Group was best verified. The prediction of a magnitude 8 earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan in September of this year even dispelled everyone's final doubts. In the following two years, the research center's ground monitoring network quickly spread across the country and region in major earthquake-prone and volcanic areas around the world.

The nuclear issues of North Korea and Iran are another hot topic in international affairs this year. The nuclear issue is related to the fate of all mankind and must be treated with caution, and an international consensus on the ultimate and complete elimination of nuclear weapons. At the same time, the nuclear issue involves security concerns of relevant countries and must be resolved reasonably in a coordinated manner. Although the contradictions in this regard are deep and the differences are difficult to resolve, people are still happy to see that all relevant parties hope to resolve the problem through political and diplomatic means and the negotiation channels will be reopened.

The nuclear crisis was triggered by North Korea's announcement of withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in January this year.

As early as early 2002, South Korean media and some international experts predicted that 2003 is the year when a crisis may occur on the Korean Peninsula, citing that the time for the North Korean missile launch to be suspended will end in 2003; according to the Geneva North Korea-US Nuclear Framework Agreement signed in 1994, the "Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization" led by the United States should complete the establishment of two light water reactor nuclear power plants in North Korea in 2003, but in fact it is impossible to complete it on time.

Finally, the crisis broke out on January 10 this year. Because the two light water reactor nuclear power plants could not be completed on time, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The announcement of North Korea's withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is undoubtedly a major event that has attracted much attention from the international community. At present, there are two major international treaties in the world that can restrict countries from developing nuclear weapons to a certain extent and prevent the unrestricted proliferation of nuclear weapons. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is the other one, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Although the signatories of these two treaties are free to come and go, this situation shows that there are major differences in the international issue of prohibiting and abolishing nuclear weapons. If handled improperly, mankind may face a serious threat of nuclear weapons.

In addition to accuse the United States of its attitude on the issue of nuclear weapons, North Korea did not directly explain the reason for its withdrawal, which somewhat shows that it should retain some ambiguity in its position. However, given that North Korea and the United States have been constantly quarrel on the development of nuclear weapons since recent times, it is not difficult to see that North Korea is coming for the United States.

To put it clearly, North Korea is advancing and retreating, and needs to gain some benefits from the United States and the international community. North Korea said that its withdrawal from the treaty is not to develop nuclear weapons, but to be committed to peaceful uses, such as power generation. If this is taken seriously, it just reflects North Korea's contradictory attitude, because only by staying in the treaty can North Korea's peaceful development cause be recognized and assisted internationally. Announcing withdrawal from the treaty has two intentions. One is that it really has no intention to develop nuclear weapons, but only as a threat to bargain; the other is that it must get rid of international supervision and carry out nuclear weapons equipment.

For North Korea, it is not the first time to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In 1993, it also said it would withdraw, which led to negotiations between the United States and North Korea and reached an agreement the following year. North Korea promised not to develop nuclear weapons, and the United States provided fuel to North Korea and made international commitments to assist North Korea in building a light water reactor. However, the two sides did not make it smooth in implementing the agreement. The United States accused North Korea of ​​secretly developing nuclear weapons and even claimed that North Korea already owned a nuclear bomb. On the other hand, the US Congress was unwilling to approve the agreement to supply fuel to North Korea, and North Korea accused the United States of breach of contract. Today, North Korea said it would withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which can also be said to be a continuation of the incident 10 years ago.

However, Zeng Lingfeng basically did not pay attention to this matter that attracted widespread attention. This is because he knew that North Korea did not challenge the strength of the United States at all, and this matter would not have any result in the end. Moreover, even if the international community sanctioned North Korea and Zeng Lingfeng's interests, it would not have much impact, because Zeng Lingfeng did not have much industry in North Korea.

In this year, Zeng Lingfeng's most concerned international affairs were nothing more than the WTO meeting held in Cancun, Mexico in September. However, this meeting ended in vain. However, on the other hand, the process of regional and bilateral economic and trade cooperation and trade liberalization negotiations has strengthened. The EU's integration process continues to develop, the North American Free Trade Zone is expanding, and Asian subregional economic cooperation has begun. For example, China and ASEAN have set a timetable for the construction of a free trade zone within ten years. Faced with the uprising of economic globalization, there may be a regional institutional construction process before the global trade system is fully built.

Another thing Zeng Lingfeng paid attention to this year is aerospace.

This year was a disaster for the USS Columbia space shuttle disintegrated over Texas before landing. All seven crew members were killed. This incident was a heavy blow to the USS Columbia.

For the Chinese, this was the first year of creation. On October 15, China successfully launched the manned spacecraft Shenzhou V for the first time, and the Chinese really began to enter space.

The reason why Zeng Lingfeng is very concerned about this aspect is that his ongoing plan will eventually shine in manned aerospace. The implementation of controlled nuclear fusion will bring about rapid progress in manned aerospace. However, the "Suiren Plan" is still in its initial stage. Even if Zeng Lingfeng has experience, it will not be able to achieve artificial control of nuclear fusion in a short time.
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