The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

The ocean is a huge treasure trove.

The island is rich in natural resources.

In the past few years of resource exploration in the Lan Fang Republic, there has always been good news.

In recent years, the oil reserves discovered on land alone have reached 125 billion barrels, the natural gas reserves discovered have reached 3 trillion cubic meters, and the coal reserves have reached 200 billion tons.

As for gold, this is not the first time that gold mines have been discovered. The reserves of gold mines discovered in Indonesia in recent years have increased by 4500 tons!
As for the ocean, the recoverable reserves of offshore oil fields discovered by China National Petroleum Corporation in the entire area have reached 800 billion tons, and the recoverable reserves of natural gas are 16 trillion cubic meters.

Although there is no large-scale development of offshore oil and natural gas at present, it does not mean that China Petroleum Group will not develop them.

It is estimated that by 2010, China National Petroleum Corporation will produce 1.5 million tons of oil and 2000 billion cubic meters of natural gas in this sea area, which will be used to curb the rising trend of energy prices.

After all, as the world's largest importer of oil and natural gas, China needs to import too much oil and natural gas every year. Although some of it is supplied to Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Southeast Asia and South Asia, China itself consumes a lot.

As oil and natural gas prices rise, China is one of the biggest losers.

It's just that because China can make profits in transportation, refining and production, China's losses in this regard are not so obvious.

Liu Tao naturally knew about the fight against pirates and rebel forces in the Southeast Asian countries, because he had been doing this for many years.

According to the plan, by 2008, all pirates and rebel forces will be wiped out, the entire area will be completely calm, and any opportunities for foreign powers to take advantage of will be eliminated.

By 2010, the economic integration of Nanyang and China will remove many barriers.

At this point in 2010, the two sides issued a joint statement following the summit a few years ago.

As for South Asia, the time node is 2015~2020.

In countries such as the Republic of Lan Fang and the Republic of Luzon, the biggest task of the military is to wipe out all pirates and rebel forces.

As for the war of words between the Lan Fang Republic and Australia, Liu Tao didn't care at all. The initiative of the war was not in Australia's hands, because the Australian army was very small and the population was mainly concentrated in the southeast and western coastal areas. As for the north, there were basically no people.

What makes Liu Tao wary is that a large number of Japanese have immigrated to Australia in recent years.

According to incomplete statistics, the Japanese have purchased a large amount of land in Australia, and there are about 200 million Japanese people in Australia. These Japanese have established "Japanese communities" and "Japanese schools" in Australia through a large number of immigrants. These communities and schools are almost all closed and self-managed, and some Japanese communities are even guarded by Japanese security guards with guns.

In addition, Japan has also acquired a large amount of land and companies in Australia. By holding controlling stakes in these companies, it is gradually gaining control of Australia's social resources such as medical care, electricity, and media.

What exactly do the Japanese want to do?
It is foreseeable that if it is not controlled and continues to develop in this way for a long time, will Australia still be the real Australia?

Liu Tao naturally knew the Japanese's plan at a glance.

As early as when Japan became a great power, it had a plan to go south and seize Australia.

During World War II, the Japanese Navy proposed a plan to invade Australia. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Australian government, military, and people generally felt that a Japanese invasion was imminent. Japan had sufficient military strength to invade at the time, while Australia lacked sufficient defense capabilities.

At that time, Japan also launched some attacks on Australia, such as a large-scale air raid on Darwin Port in northern Australia. This was the first time in Australia's history that it was attacked by foreign troops. The air raid caused serious casualties and property losses.

In recent years, the Japanese have apparently changed their strategy, which is to continuously immigrate to Australia through immigration.

And this method works!
Now the whole of Australia has a population of just over 2000 million!
Japanese make up one-tenth of Australia’s population!
Unfortunately, the Australian army is very small and the population distribution is very uneven. If the Japanese were to arm Australia, they could do so without anyone noticing. Now Japan and Australia have a very good relationship and share the same stance on many issues.

It just so happens that the United States has been trying to appease Japan in recent years to prevent Japan from really fighting to the death.

This provides Japan with very favorable conditions.

Liu Tao always remains very vigilant towards Japan, not only because of historical hatred, but also because of the characteristics of this nation.

If you're not careful, he might bite you hard.

This is also why the Lan Fang Republic, the Luzon Republic and others are strengthening their armaments and improving their military strength in order to cope with the possible chaos that may come.

Burma, Siam, Malay, Lan Fang, and Luzon are the defense lines in the south. They are also equivalent to unsinkable aircraft carriers, ensuring the safety of the Malacca route.

As long as there are no problems with this line of defense, the war in the south will not affect the overall situation.

As for the east, there are only two countries, Japan and South Korea. How big can the war be? In fact, the ceiling is there.

This is also enough to ensure that China can remain invincible in times of chaos.

So far, China has reached the limit of its national strength.

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Even if there is a major chaos, South America and Africa will lose their interests, because both South America and Africa are too far away from China.

Even in the Middle East, we are adopting a win-win cooperation model to enhance the strength of Middle Eastern countries, and even actively promote Arab integration, building bridges between Persians and Arabs to ease the contradictions between the two.

The real core interests are just these few places, and they are all around China.

Liu Tao seemed to be thinking about something. It seemed that in order to complete the task of eliminating pirates and rebel forces in 2008, he had to increase investment.

Liu Tao went to Panshan Machinery Factory.

It only takes about ten minutes by helicopter from Panshan Group headquarters to Panshan Machinery Factory.

Soon, Liu Tao's helicopter was hovering over Panshan Mountain.

This is Liu Tao's helicopter. If any other helicopter intrudes into the sky above this area, it will probably be shot down by anti-aircraft missiles in the first place.

As the predecessor of Panshan Group and also its old nest, Panshan Machinery Factory has set up an entire air defense battalion.

But now, it is almost impossible to break through the front-line air defense and get here.

Before reaching the land, as soon as they enter the territorial waters, the Chinese Air Force will intercept, warn and drive away the enemy's aircraft. It is impossible to allow the enemy's aircraft to fly into this area.

The only reconnaissance the other side can conduct is through space satellite reconnaissance.

Therefore, if the enemy wants to attack here, it is impossible to do so through bombers, but only through missiles.

However, a laser cannon base has been built here, which can shoot down satellites flying through the space above and incoming missiles when necessary. (End of this chapter)