The African Union was the first to issue a statement saying that the African Union expressed concerns about Tanzania's efforts to unilaterally change regional military forces. The modernization process of the Tanzanian military has put heavy military pressure on neighboring countries and will trigger regional military competition. The African Union called on Tanzania to abandon this controversial action and make necessary contributions to African peace.

A spokesman for the US White House said toughly that any attempt by African countries to unilaterally change the balance of regional military power will be severely punished by the United States.

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For a time, countries with vital interests in Africa all attacked Tanzania's military modernization process.

"Let them make a fuss. Our people have been carrying the reputation of one of the least developed countries in the world for decades. When we are hungry, these people have never asked about our lives or death. Now, the Chinese have finally agreed to help us have enough food, and they all jumped up." Tanzanian President Benjamin Karum sneered and said to Chief Secretary Hassan Capari, "How is the reaction of the people in China?"

"Mr. President, from the current polls, most people are looking forward to it. They are waiting for the government to come up with specific measures to implement our ambitious multiplication plan," Capari replied respectfully. "The people are grateful for the help the Chinese are willing to provide, but a small number of so-called elites have different views on this. They are very worried about our transfer of resources to Chinese people for development, and are afraid that the country's mineral resources will be controlled by the Chinese in the future and will greatly harm national interests."

"What do they know," said President Karum. "The Chinese are willing to settle mineral resources at the average international market price. We can get 50% of the profit sharing without doing anything. Look at the agreements signed by other countries around us, whether they have such good conditions. They all want to take away everything. In comparison, the Chinese are simply generous, not to mention that they have agreed to establish a series of factories for primary smelting and ensure the treatment of pollution."

"These have been explained to the public through newspapers and TV stations and other media. After most people read the unequal agreements signed by neighbors around us, they have a very positive view of the agreements we signed." Capari said, "It's just that the people don't understand why our military wants to carry out such a large-scale modernization. This part of the military expenditure should be spent on the more urgently needed people's livelihood."

Capari held the tablet in his hand and reported the collected and sorted news to the president one by one.

"Ignorance, they don't look at the situation we are facing now. On the west is a confusing Congo, with a total of more than 200,000 warlords of all sizes and large totals. In the north, our neighbors Uganda and Burundi have received military aid from the US military. Now they have the combat power of the F-16 squadron. Even if our economy develops, what can we use to fight against each other if something happens. Alas, if it weren't for the limited national strength, I would have wished to transform all the troops into aircraft and infantry brigades according to the People's Liberation Army standards. Our land defense area is so large that there are only two aircraft and infantry brigades, but it is still not enough to use them," President Karum sighed.

"That's why you agree to the People's Liberation Army garrisoning on our territory?" Capari said carefully.

"Of course, there are other ways, who would want other countries' troops to be stationed on their own territory? Our national strength is insufficient now, and relying on the Chinese to develop now is equivalent to offending the Americans. Therefore, we can only use the People's Liberation Army to fight against the pressure put on us by the US military. Even if our army has completed modernization, our army is still vulnerable compared to the US military. In today's world, only the People's Liberation Army can compete with the US military. I have to give our country a peaceful development environment and time." Facing Capari's confidant, President Karum also rarely revealed some of his deep feelings today.

"If our per capita GDP can reach US$2,000, no, even US$1,500, our situation will be much better. At least there is no problem for our people to eat enough, and in that case we can choose much more routes. But what else can we say now? Every year we are worried about how to make people eat enough. For development, we have no choice."

As an aspiring president, Karum is never willing to be in his office. The entire country is still unchanged in poverty. Therefore, he vaguely saw the general trend of China's rise in the complex international situation, and resolutely chose to turn to China to obtain comprehensive assistance and support from China in terms of politics, economy and military, and lead the Tanzanian economy to complete the first round of takeoff.

The Chinese have the ability to make more than one billion people develop their own full stomachs under extremely unfavorable international conditions. This is very attractive to countries like Africa that are not full. Compared with the West that only deceives ideology, China's win-win construction plan is more realistic.

It seems that although this plan has had an adverse international impact and angered his neighbors and European and American powers, Karum believes that as long as his domestic people can support him, he will do his best to lead the country to continue according to the established route.

Cai Siqiang and Eric, who were waiting for the central government to send a clear signal, did not expect that the central government was so determined this time that it completely broke the imagination of observers. The 30 Foxconns may not be a big deal among Asian countries, but for most African countries, except for a few major countries with serious air forces, other countries still use a small number of second-generation aircraft as the main force of the air force. Only a very small number of countries such as the U.S. military's current control of the U.S. military has some F-16 fighter jets eliminated by the U.S. military.

Therefore, this Chinese action was unimaginable and tough in the past. This is only a part of it. For the internal high-level boss level, there were also rumors that the scale of the PLA's base in Tanzania will not be smaller than that of a brigade and a main air force regiment. In this way, with the two Tanzanian aircraft and infantry brigades supported by the PLA, the PLA will no longer be a symbolic existence in Africa, but will have considerable strength to defend China's core interests.

It can be seen from this that the central government has taken a multi-pronged approach to the plan for the development of African resources and has made extremely rare military preparations. This fully demonstrates that China is not just a verbal statement on the development of African resources, but rather a stance that it is determined to win.

Faced with such obvious signals from the official, Cai Siqiang and others accelerated their actions and prepared to increase their investment efforts. However, in the coordination with relevant departments, another major problem was quickly exposed, making this investment work very difficult.

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