Markins followed up on the arms sales and came to the office to convey the latest situation to the supreme authority, "They are quite satisfied with the performance of the fighter aircraft. After all, they have had actual combat experience in the hands of the Iraqi Air Force. However, in terms of price, I hope we can give
Definitely..."
"We can't give away even a penny in profit. This is not a passenger plane, it's a fighter jet, it's an arms sales contract."
Alan Wilson directly objected, "If you think you can bargain, then you can try to find the Soviet big brother. Of course, be polite and tactful when speaking, and don't be too direct."
"I think they can accept it. Isn't it reasonable that you get what you pay for?" What Markins added to Alan Wilson is a bit funny. This is also worth reminding?
"Ah? Although the rules of the free world are correct, their country is completely different from ours after all." Alan Wilson curled his lips and said, "It's always right to be careful, but don't suffer a disadvantage."
Markins is still too young. He always tries to use the commercial credit of the free world to other countries in the other half of the world. He must be extremely wary of countries with the Soviet system. Don’t mention anything else, but war.
After the Rolls-Royce engine incident, didn’t the Soviet Union also break the contract?
In Alan Wilson's original memory of history, North Korea ordered a thousand Volvos in the 1970s, but never paid the bills, built a national network that defrauded the Egyptian Telecom Company, and kidnapped various Japanese people.
The leader of Vietnam, which had just reunified, visited Singapore and hoped that Singapore would pay war reparations. The reason was that Singapore had made ill-gotten wealth as a base for the US military in the Vietnam War. This made Singapore look like a question mark, and they only asked whether the Vietnamese were sick.
Not to mention other countries, before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, dozens of countries owed the Soviet Union hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign debt, and the emperor even served as president for twenty years without asking for it back.
The Soviet Union itself did not recognize intellectual property rights. Countries that supported it also followed the same example, and they all learned the skills of reverse engineering from the Soviet Union. How could it be possible if it were not careful?
In the military field, other countries, not limited to the opposing camp, should be strictly guarded. If it is in the civilian field, this matter cannot be discussed.
Makins nodded sincerely, expressing his admiration for the supreme authority in safeguarding national interests, "I understand, according to our pricing, it cannot be even a penny cheaper."
"It should be like this." Alan Wilson replied expressionlessly. "It can almost be concluded that he is crying about poverty. When it comes to the currencies of other countries, they may not have much in their hands, but when it comes to pounds. I really don't think we don't remember it in Hong Kong.
Account?"
Originally there was a cooperation project on the Great Lakes Railway in Africa, but the UK did not offer prostitution for free, as it required payment.
Alan Wilson could not cooperate with civilians and had to give discounts on arms sales. Even the most loyal communist fighter would easily be hung up on the street if he did this.
As the British Cabinet Secretary-General, Alan Wilson can choose to cooperate, but he must not suffer unilaterally. This is also an offshore balance in a certain sense.
Strictly guarding against stubbornness in arms sales, the UK can make certain concessions on the Northern Line of the Rotan Railway, because this matter is essentially a matter of greater profits for the UK and hopes to find a stable external relationship for the Rhodesian Crown Territory.
Channel, but also to develop the Great Lakes area.
The construction difficulty of this railway is not low. In fact, the one that has been built before is not low either, because East Africa happens to be a migration area for wild animals. It is necessary to survey a route with the least impact, and it must also connect the Kingdom of Uganda and Kenya.
It may be more difficult than the previous railway line.
Therefore, Alan Wilson's attitude towards Sino-British cooperation in building the Great Lakes Region in Africa is completely different from arms sales. Anyway, the gap in labor costs between the two countries is huge, and they can agree to each other as long as the conditions are similar.
After work, Radwich drove over to pick up Alan Wilson, and the latter took this year's Korean history textbook and looked at it. There was no difference in text. At this time, South Korea had not yet carried out the de-Chinese characterization. The Korean history textbook he
You can still understand it. There are no various maps that open the territory. The passages about the Korean Empire in later generations belong to the field of history and civil sciences.
While Xia Meng was cooking, Alan Wilson was immersed in the ocean of knowledge and couldn't extricate himself, but sometimes he would laugh out loud suddenly.
"What are you looking at? You know how to giggle." Xia Meng cooked a meal, greeted her man, and laughed heartily when she met the supreme authority.
"It's nothing. There is something gained from reading the history of Koreans from their own perspective." Alan Wilson closed the book and followed Xia Meng to the dining table. "It's like reading a history book about the Irish."
"What's wrong with Korean history textbooks?" Xia Meng is not a man of the truth and doesn't know what pleasure men can get from boring history books.
"What's wrong? It should be said that it's different. Of the dynasties in your country, the one that received the greatest praise is the Yuan Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty also has a relatively good image." Alan Wilson ate his noodles and said vaguely.
, "This is roughly similar to the history textbooks in Europe. The most influential person is Genghis Khan, and it is the Qing Dynasty that started to understand each other."
"There are many heroes in our country." Xia Meng retorted in a low voice, "Tang Zong, Song Zu, Qin Huang and Han Wu."
"I know all the characters you mentioned, but others don't. Europeans know Genghis Khan, and if there is a second one, it's Batu." Alan Wilson explained truthfully, "A country basically doesn't have a population or a territory.
It is insignificant. Taking Turkey as an example, the name most people think of is Suleiman, and his reign was the peak of the Ottoman Empire. Who knows who the remaining Ottoman sultans are, even if they are also the caliphs?"
The same applies to South Korea. In modern society, South Korea is already an independent country, or it considers itself an independent country.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The perspective of Koreans looking at history has also changed. The North Korean king Li Jie who once knelt down and kowtowed to Huang Taiji three times and nine times is also considered by modern Koreans to be Gu Quan.
A model for the overall situation. As for Li Zhu's ministers who were pro-Ming Dynasty, they were considered to be the main culprits who brought disaster to the Joseon Dynasty.
"But Genghis Khan is not a Han." Xia Meng tilted his head and elaborated on the historical concept he accepted.
Alan Wilson blew a mouthful of noodle soup and took a sip before saying, "Do you think William II was talking about the Mongolian country with a population of one million when he spread the threat from the East? All countries are powerful, and Britain wants to
Wouldn't a powerful country that has conquered the whole world be respected? Respect for what? Respect Shakespeare?"
Nowadays, all countries in the world respect the United States and the Soviet Union. Even the United Kingdom respects the Soviet Union. Is it respecting the literature and art of the Soviet Union? Even if there is, the main respect is for the tens of thousands of Soviet nuclear bombs and the endless tank army that can be seen once it is spread out.
.Do you respect Russia, a country where even the Poles can capture the capital?
Or will he respect the infant America whose White House was burned down? Of course Alan Wilson knew that this general understanding was bad, but that's about the level of most people.
If the world were full of smart people, Oxford and Cambridge would already be a problem. My child is smart but doesn't study hard. It's just a lie to comfort myself.
After enjoying the delicious food, Alan Wilson revealed some good news to Xia Meng. Britain was interested in cooperating with Xia Meng's motherland to increase its influence in Africa.
This is good for both countries. Britain can consolidate its traditional influence on British Africa. A big country should not get much except political influence now, but it will definitely be useful in African affairs after forming a good relationship.
Negotiations are definitely not that easy. Whether it is arms sales or railway cooperation, it will take a long time to negotiate, and the conference on the partition of Southern Rhodesia was once again held in London.
The death of Myrdal, a widely respected Nobel Prize winner in economics, is absolutely valuable. After Myrdal's death, the UK went to great lengths to publicize that the hatred between whites and blacks is almost impossible to live safely in a country.
Governance is the reasonable way to protect each other's interests.
Otherwise, the future of Southern Rhodesia will be either whites purging blacks, or blacks purging whites. The hatred between the two sides can be passed over without a plan. Wouldn't Myrdal, who wanted to propose a plan, be buried in southern Africa?
In the second half of 1977, in terms of foreign affairs, the Eastern Strategy and the Southern Rhodesia issue became the top priority of the British diplomatic work. The former in particular attracted strong protests from the Soviet Union, which believed that the British
This move contained evil intentions and posed a threat to the Soviet Union.
The purpose was definitely what the Soviets had in mind, but of course the UK could not admit it. The weapons it said were sold were absolutely in line with the concept of defensive weapons, and the threat to the Soviet Union was clearly unfounded by Moscow.
"This is a world of reconciliation. We should seek common ground while reserving differences. Can I change the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to some new words?" Pamela Mountbatten teased her husband and said, "Is this useful to fool the Soviets?"
"We have to say whether it's useful or not. We can't stop saying it just because it's useless." Alan Wilson replied disapprovingly, "It doesn't matter what the Soviet Union thinks. What matters is what our customers think. Anyway, we are currently talking about both military and civilian cooperation.
It’s almost done, and I think there will be a good result.”
At the end of the year, a roundtable conference on the Southern Rhodesia issue was held again in London. When representatives from both sides met, the British came up with a partition plan and stated that British troops would soon withdraw from Southern Rhodesia.
In this plan, as the main ethnic group in Rhodesia, black people will receive 80% of the land, which is 300,000 square kilometers, including Harare, the capital, and white people will move to the north close to the royal territory of Rhodesia.
In this place, this plan divided the blacks into the north and the south, and the two ethnic groups were no longer at odds with each other.