The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Lantern Festival.

Lantern festivals and fireworks displays are being held across China.

Maldives, where the parties involved in the South Asian war held their first round of peace talks.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council sent representatives to attend.

Maldives is suitable for travel all year round, with a very pleasant climate. It is also a world-famous holiday destination.

In February, the average daily maximum temperature in Maldives is 31℃, and the average daily minimum temperature is 26℃. The climate is very suitable for tourism and vacation.

This time, with the efforts of all parties, the warring parties in the South Asian war finally agreed to hold the first round of peace talks in the Maldives.

When peace talks are conducted in other places, everyone has different opinions, but in the Maldives, no one has any opinion.

Ever since the Maldives was re-established, this country consisting of an archipelago has focused on tourism and has been tourism-oriented, and has not been keen on international politics.

Although the Maldives is a small country with a small population, it has a maritime patrol team that cannot be underestimated and no one wants to provoke it.

Over the years, refugees caused by the civil war in Sri Lanka have thought about sailing to the Maldives, becoming Maldivian citizens, and enjoying the social welfare of the Maldives, but they have all failed.

Maldives is very close to the South Asian subcontinent, only about 26 to 1192 kilometers away. It consists of 9 groups of natural atolls and 200 coral islands distributed in 11.53 square kilometers of sea area, of which 298 islands are inhabited. The country has a land area of ​​100 square kilometers (including territorial waters), a land area of ​​98 square kilometers, and a population of 2 million, of which are from China and are from all over the world.

This is also one of the few countries in the world where the tourism economy is the main driver.

In the Maldives, tourism revenue is the dominant source of the economy.

Of course, this does not mean that the Maldives has no other industries.

Maldives also has agriculture, industry, fisheries and finance!

In terms of agriculture, Maldives has 6900 hectares of arable land and two to three thousand people specializing in agricultural production, providing the Maldives with a large amount of vegetables, coconuts, watermelons, bananas, tomatoes and other agricultural products.

Of course, a large part of agricultural products still have to rely on imports.

In terms of industry, Maldives mainly engages in ship repair and maintenance, as well as handicrafts such as marine fish, fruit processing, weaving, and clothing processing.

Fisheries, because the Maldives has rich fishery resources, rich in tuna, bonito, mackerel, lobster, sea cucumber, grouper, shark, sea turtle and hawksbill turtle, etc. In addition to meeting its own needs, the fish can also be exported to Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland.

As for the tourism industry, it accounts for more than 50% of GDP all year round. From China alone, more than 400 million tourists visit the Maldives every year.

This time, everyone chose to hold the first round of peace talks here because the climate here is pleasant and it is a holiday resort, so everyone can take a vacation here without getting too angry.

However, India's proposal to cease fire along the pre-war demarcation line was immediately opposed by all parties.

After all, the war was started by India, so how could it not pay a price?

Each party put forward its own conditions.

When the Indian representative heard this, his face turned green, and he said bluntly that India would never agree to these conditions.

As the saying goes, ask for a high price, but pay a low price. This was the case in the first round of negotiations. All parties asked for a high price, and the differences were huge.

However, the intensity of the war on the battlefield dropped sharply.

In fact, the countries in South Asia do not really want to go to war. Their economies are developing well and there are no major conflicts internally.

As a result, India went crazy and rashly started a war.

This forced everyone to declare war on India.

Now that there is a way out, everyone just accepts it.

Subsequently, the two camps held four consecutive rounds of negotiations, and finally in the fifth round of negotiations, the parties signed the "South Asian War Armistice Agreement."

The armistice agreement stipulates that the Thar Desert becomes a buffer zone, and neither India nor Pakistan may set up military facilities or establish garrisons in the Thar Desert; India will give up part of its cities and territories, and the two sides will use rivers and mountains as boundaries.

The reason why the agreement was signed so quickly is that everyone's focus at this time is on the North Korean nuclear issue and the Iranian nuclear issue.

The North Korean nuclear issue concerns the situation in Northeast Asia. All parties held a new round of six-party talks to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.

Similarly, Persia's resumption of nuclear fuel research activities aroused great concern from the international community, which immediately launched mediation.

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It is currently an international consensus that, except for the five permanent members of the Security Council, other countries are not allowed to possess nuclear weapons.

It is obviously unacceptable for everyone that North Korea and Persia want to develop nuclear weapons.

Of course, during this period, the world has also been paying attention to the development of aerospace.

The US space shuttle 'Zheng' brought back comet dust samples for the first time. After that, the European Space Agency's 'Venus Express' probe flew near Venus and successfully completed an elliptical orbit. The 'Intelligence 1' probe hit the moon to explore its mysteries. The US space shuttles 'Discovery' and 'Atlantis' were launched three times.

China once again carried out a manned space mission and began preparations for building a space station.

At the same time, China's "Chang'e" probe returned to Earth with lunar soil, representing the complete success of China's lunar exploration project.

Theoretically, since the Chang'e probe can bring lunar soil back to Earth, it can also bring astronauts back to Earth safely.

In addition, after the Tianwen-90 Mars probe and orbiter entered the orbit around Mars, they carried out earth observation, especially detailed survey of the pre-selected landing area. Now the Mars rover Zhurong has finally separated from the orbiter and landed on the surface of Mars using parachutes and retrorockets, and will carry out a patrol and exploration mission lasting Martian days.

The scientific exploration tasks that the "Zhurong" Mars rover has to complete include: exploration of the morphology and geological structure of the Mars patrol area, exploration of the soil structure (profile) and water ice in the Mars patrol area, exploration of surface elements, minerals and rock types in the Mars patrol area, and exploration of the atmospheric physical characteristics and surface environment in the Mars patrol area.

The Mars rover is equipped with six scientific payloads, including: a Mars surface composition detector, a multispectral camera, a navigation terrain camera, a Mars sub-surface detection radar, a Mars surface magnetic field detector, and a Mars meteorological meter.

This is China's first Mars probe and also the first time a Chinese probe has landed on Mars. This is of great significance for China to understand and conduct research on Mars.

Of course, in this process, the strength of China's aerospace industry is also demonstrated.

In addition, China also announced a more detailed space schedule, including a timetable for building a space station and a timetable for landing on the moon!
George Walton also officially announced that the United States would return to the moon in 2010, which means that the United States would once again launch a plan to land on the moon.

This seems to have once again set off a wave of enthusiasm for space exploration in the world. (End of this chapter)