The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1035 World Focus
1 month 20 day.

A new round of war between India and Pakistan has lasted for 20 days.

Both sides deployed more than one million troops and fought on the battlefield.

Both sides deployed a large number of advanced weapons on the battlefield, including third-generation fighter jets, main battle tanks, electronic warfare aircraft, early warning aircraft, bombers, etc.

If the troops in other directions are added, the number of troops involved will exceed 300 million.

The situation in South Asia as a whole is extremely chaotic, with thousands of people dying every day.

There were even shells landing in civilian areas, causing civilian casualties.

In just 20 days, millions of refugees left the war zone, just wanting to get away from the fighting.

However, the world's news focus is not on South Asia. After all, it is on the geopolitical fringe. Since the situation has changed, it will be difficult for the world to pay attention there unless a subversive pattern emerges again.

At this moment, the world's attention is all focused on the United States.

The most important relationship in this world is not anything else but the relationship between major powers, which determines the world pattern.

The current balance of power and interaction among major countries have had a complex impact on changes in the world's strategic landscape.

The ultimate goal of the United States in pursuing its global strategy is to establish a unipolar world order dominated by it. The government adjusts its national security strategy, seeks absolute security and absolute military superiority, launches a "preemptive strike" strategy, and emphasizes individualism. The fundamental starting point is to accelerate the realization of this goal.

Ever since the Soviet conservatives and reformers parted ways, the United States has become the world's only superpower, ranking first in the world in both comprehensive national strength and military power.

In a certain sense, the current world strategic structure has certain unipolar characteristics, and it is not an exaggeration to summarize it as "one superpower and many strong countries."

In terms of economic power, there are three centers in the world today, namely the United States, the European Union and East Asia. The United States is not the only center, and there is a three-legged tripod. The burning of the Balkan war has made the European Union spit blood and fattened the Americans, but the economic strength of the European Union cannot be underestimated. In East Asia, China is promoting the "ASEAN 10+1" strategy, integrating the regional economy, and is now working hard to promote "Northeast Asian Economic Integration". Once this strategy is realized, the economic strength of East Asia will even surpass the European Union and the North American Free Trade Area.

In terms of military power, it cannot be said that the United States has an absolute advantage in the world. The world's strategic power is still basically military. Russia is much worse than the Soviet era, but inheriting 70% of the Soviet legacy, Russia, a nuclear power, has roughly the same strategic nuclear power as the United States. The two sides are still evenly matched in strategic nuclear power. In addition, Russia exports a large amount of oil and natural gas to Europe and East Asia, and its economy is recovering rapidly.

China has announced to the outside world that it has initially achieved mechanized construction. China has the world's number one army, the world's number three navy, and the world's number three air force. As for the number of China's nuclear weapons, China has announced that they are sufficient.

The 'nuclear terror balance' is still maintained and has not been broken.

In terms of diplomacy, the United States' unilateralism and global strategic offensive have not been successful everywhere. They have encountered setbacks on many issues. The conflicts with the Arab world and the Islamic world in the Middle East are growing, and the proportion of the US dollar as an oil settlement currency is declining year by year.

Moreover, financial speculators led by the Quantum Fund of the United States launched a financial war against Thailand, which triggered the Southeast Asian financial crisis. International financial speculators made a lot of money, but the Southeast Asian financial crisis evolved into the Asian financial crisis, causing heavy losses to various countries. Wars broke out in Southeast Asian countries, tens of millions of civilians died in the wars, and tens of millions of refugees fled all over the world, making everyone very dissatisfied with the international trade system based on the US dollar. In South America, Venezuela and Colombia openly sang against the Americans, unwilling to be sucked blood and eaten flesh by the Americans again. Venezuela even toughly nationalized oil and natural gas, causing heavy losses to American companies. The two sides have been engaged in a war of words in the international arena for a long time.

Several major countries have repeatedly stressed that a "multipolar" world is in the interests of mankind, and they oppose a unipolar world and even more so unilateralism.

As the world's factory and the largest trading partner of more than 150 countries in the world, China has continuously emphasized economic globalization, demanded freedom of world trade, opposed war, and supported peace and development.

But there is no doubt that as the only superpower in the world today, the change of leadership in the United States always attracts much attention.

Since last August, the election campaign has captured the attention of the entire world. Countries around the world have been analyzing who will win the election. By November, when the dust has settled, everyone is speculating about what policies George Walker will introduce and what his governing philosophy will be.
And now, on January 1, George Walker officially entered the center of power and delivered his inaugural address.

As the former two-term president, Clinton seems a little bleak. If there hadn't been the "zipper gate", then perhaps he could have competed for the best American president in history.

But a "zipper gate" left him with a stain.

But he still has many supporters, because during his eight years in office, the US economy developed rapidly, the Internet and other industries developed extremely rapidly, he strongly cut military spending, issued new bonds to replace old bonds with high interest rates, and reduced the total US debt from 8 trillion US dollars when he took over, with interest of 6 billion US dollars, to only 4384.5 trillion US dollars and interest of 3 billion US dollars when he took office. In addition, the US fiscal surplus in the last year was as high as 1000 billion US dollars.

Even those who criticize him the most have to admit that he is a master at developing the US economy.

It was also during these eight years that American Hollywood films became extremely powerful and conquered markets all over the world.

Also during these eight years, faced with the EU's relentless pressure, the United States detonated in Africa, expelling the forces of France and other European countries from Africa over the course of several years. Then, through the Balkan Peninsula, the European powder keg, it pitted Europe, causing heavy bleeding and the euro to suffer great losses, thus stabilizing the US dollar.

When facing the East, he always remained cautious and did not rashly take a tough attitude. He spent eight years in a noisy manner and managed to get by.

But no matter what, he had to take his family away from the place where they had lived for eight years, because this place had welcomed its new owner.

In his farewell speech, he reviewed the eight years of hard work and achievements, and then generously gave his blessings and some advice to the next in office.

And now, George Walker, who looks silly, just like what the Chinese people say, a stupid child of a landlord, and who doesn't look smart, is going to move into the White House today.

Deep down, Clinton looked down on the father and son, looked down on the elder Bush who was defeated by him, and looked down on the younger Bush who looked silly.

But there was no way out, the rules were there and he could only leave.

And this day seemed to be a new page in world history, destined to leave a mark in world history.

(End of this chapter)