The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1024 Nuclear Submarine Delivery

Time enters February.

Just as the outcome of the battle was decided in the United States, George Walker defeated his competitor and ushered in the highlight moment of his life. On the Chinese side, at the Yangcheng Shipyard, the delivery ceremony of the Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine was held simultaneously.

Compared with the grand and live-broadcast delivery ceremony of the Type 002 aircraft carrier, the delivery ceremonies of the Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine were low-key and were even held indoors.

The size of an aircraft carrier is so huge that it cannot be hidden from satellites in space, so the delivery ceremony can naturally be held with great fanfare to boost the morale of the military and the people and to build up national pride.

But nuclear submarines are different. The most important thing for nuclear submarines is confidentiality. The greatest degree of confidentiality is like an assassin. Not being discovered is the most threatening and can play a decisive role at the critical moment.

Liu Tao accompanied the leaders to attend the delivery ceremony.

As for when the Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine will be reported, it depends on the timing.

Perhaps in some future year, at a critical moment, reports on the Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine may be able to deter the enemy or even deal a fatal blow.

Of course, maybe ten years later, documentaries about the Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine will suddenly be reported, but it remains to be seen.

The Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine are wearing a big red flower on their heads, just like new recruits about to join the army.

The Navy Commander couldn't stop smiling as he looked at the Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine.

These are two sharp swords that can scare the enemy to death at critical moments.

Especially the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine, just one of them can probably destroy a medium-sized country.

After the ceremony, the Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine sank into the water and then left the Yangcheng Shipyard.

The Type 093 attack nuclear submarine and the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine have very good silent effects and are not easy to be discovered.

In recent years, in order to allow nuclear submarines to go out, the Yangcheng Shipyard spent a huge amount of money to dredge a deep-water channel, with the water depth reaching more than 50 meters at low tide.

At this time, there were no other surface ships passing through this deep-water channel, only these two nuclear submarines went out.

Even the nuclear submarine's home port is not in the open air, but inside a hollowed-out mountain by the sea, thus ensuring concealment and preventing detection.

"Comrade Liu Tao, what do you think about the situation in the United States?" The leader and Liu Tao walked side by side in the park of Yangcheng Shipyard. "According to intelligence, the US military's military spending may increase on a large scale. By then, I'm afraid there will be another bloody storm and turmoil in the world!"

Liu Tao paused for a moment and said, "A substantial increase in U.S. military spending is inevitable, and the more the U.S. military spending increases, the better. It would be best if the U.S. military spending exceeds $1 trillion a year."

Military spending exceeds $1 trillion?

The leader couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

It was the first time he saw Liu Tao so humorous.

Military spending is something that should be just right. There has to be a limit. Too little military spending is not conducive to national defense construction and will cause many problems in military construction. However, too much military spending is not good either, because it is militarism. A country's national strength is limited, and its annual fiscal revenue is limited. If military spending increases, other expenditures will inevitably be reduced.

Although the US economy has been developing well in recent years, with low oil prices, low inflation, over-printing of US dollars, and several times of sucking blood from foreign countries, the US GDP has now reached 10 trillion US dollars. If the military expenditure is 1 trillion US dollars, it is equivalent to military expenditure accounting for 10% of GDP.

Clinton tried every trick in the book and finally managed to suppress the US military spending to below 6 billion. When Clinton took over, the total size of the US national debt exceeded 4384.5 trillion US dollars, and the interest on the national debt was billion yuan. Clinton was forced to cut military spending, drastically reduce military spending, and then issue new bonds to repay old debts.

Now that Clinton is about to end his term, the US debt is only $3 trillion, and the interest on the national debt is only $1000 billion. This year, the US fiscal surplus is expected to be as high as $3000 billion.

If we give it a few more years, I'm afraid the U.S. national debt will be paid off.

Talking about the US debt crisis at this time would absolutely be a fantasy.

While becoming an economic powerhouse, the US military's military spending has been greatly cut and the US military has to live a hard life.

During these eight years, the only place the United States used military force was the Balkan Peninsula. Not only did the United States not spend any money, but because Europe paid, it gave the U.S. military industry a large order, and in the process sucked trillions of dollars from Europe.

The current good economic situation in the United States is undoubtedly not a good thing from some perspectives.

If the United States is developing so well, do others still have a chance?
No chance at all.

So far, China is still in the stage of keeping a low profile. Even according to the current real GDP, China's GDP has reached 26.3 trillion yuan, and according to the current exchange rate, it is 6.41 trillion US dollars. It has truly surpassed Japan and is truly the world's second largest economy. The total GDP is equivalent to 64.1% of the United States.

China is now the largest trading partner of the United States, and the United States is also the largest trading partner of China. The two sides have very close exchanges in politics, economy, culture, and technology.

Normally, they would have verbal fights from time to time, but they would usually make up soon.

Some scholars have proposed the "husband and wife theory" of the relationship between the two countries, which is not groundless.

"It would be best if the Americans launched one or two more wars, punching the Nanshan Nursing Home and kicking the Beihai Kindergarten, and each war lasted for 20 years." Liu Tao smiled faintly, "The United States is a country that values ​​martial arts. We always need to give them something to do to vent their endless energy."

Even Liu Tao knew that there were many people in the United States who wanted to go to war, some of them purely for martial arts, and some for money.

For other countries, war costs money and is a loss. But for the United States, war is also a loss for the United States. There will always be many industries and many people who make a lot of money in war.

Not only within the United States, but also outside the United States, there are some people who are very dissatisfied with the United States and have great hostility toward the United States.

As long as you are given the opportunity, you can do something earth-shattering.

The Taliban in Afghanistan now rules the entire Afghanistan, but they are extremely poor. As a force supported by the United States, the Taliban has thought about asking the United States for help and asking for a loan, but they were ruthlessly ignored by the United States, which made the Taliban very angry.

This naturally includes some Islamic jihadists who are also very dissatisfied with the United States. They believe that if the United States had not favored Israel, Israel would have been kicked out of the Middle East long ago.

Saddam of Iraq and Gaddafi of Libya have often cursed the United States and basically ignored the United States in international occasions.

In Latin America's Venezuela, a tough guy has taken a series of measures, announced that it will nationalize oil and natural gas, and is engaged in a war of words with the United States.

Besides, it is impossible for Europe to not feel resentful after what the United States did in the Balkans.

(End of this chapter)