The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

What can the United States offer in exchange?
South Korea is a pawn of the United States and the first line of defense.

Japan, the largest vassal state of the United States and its largest economic colony, is the second line of defense.

Guam is the largest naval and air force base of the United States in the Western Pacific. Various military facilities occupy about one-third of the island's area, including the Apra Nuclear Submarine Base, Agana Naval Air Station and Anderson Strategic Air Force Base.

During the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Guam, as an important naval and air strategic base, played a vital role in assembling troops, transporting ammunition and supplies, and supporting long-range bombing.

To this day, Guam still has a vital strategic position, and its strategic position is becoming more and more prominent.

The United States can restore the Ryukyu Kingdom and lose its Okinawa military base because of the relationship between the islands and Japan.

Guam is an extra-large, unsinkable aircraft carrier.

The U.S. military bases in Japan, Guam, Hawaii and other U.S. military bases in the Pacific are all super-large, unsinkable aircraft carriers, allowing the United States to firmly control the Pacific.

As a maritime power, the United States attaches great importance to its maritime interests.

The United States will not back down unless it has to.

Not to mention, Australia, New Zealand and the islands in Oceania are equivalent to an aircraft carrier in the eyes of Americans, used to control the Pacific Ocean.

Americans no longer mention the first island chain, the second island chain, and the third island chain.

It had already been shattered.

Once upon a time, Americans intended to build the first island chain, the second island chain, and the third island chain to firmly lock and control the entire Pacific Ocean, thereby firmly controlling the initiative in the strategic game.

The first island chain refers to the chain of islands stretching from the Japanese Islands, Ryukyu Islands, and Treasure Island in the north to the Philippines and the Greater Sunda Islands in the south. Sometimes South Korea, located south of the Korean Peninsula, is also considered part of the first island chain.

Now, only the Japanese archipelago and South Korea remain in this island chain, so naturally they have been smashed to pieces.

The second island chain is centered on Guam and consists of Japan's Ogasawara Islands, Iwo Jima Islands and the United States' Mariana Islands. Its rear support is the group of bases in Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

But now there is a huge hole here and it can no longer be locked.

The only part that is still relatively intact is the third island chain.

The so-called third island chain is relative to the first and second island chains. It is a defense line centered on Hawaii in the United States, starting from the Aleutian Islands in the north and extending to some islands in Oceania in the south.

But the integrity of the third island chain doesn’t actually mean much.

Because nuclear submarines roam the oceans and become ghosts in the deep sea, there is no need to attack the military bases in the third island chain, but they can directly attack the mainland.

Therefore, in recent years, the mentions of the first island chain, the second island chain, and the third island chain have become less and less common.

What price can the United States pay?
The United States is reluctant to pay any price in the Pacific now.

Because moving one hair affects the whole body, the impact is significant.

Liu Tao attended a meeting on climate.

Global warming is a growing problem, causing more and more disasters. Alleviating global warming is a global consensus.

Especially some island countries with relatively low altitudes in the Pacific Ocean, because as the sea level rises, some island countries will be submerged by sea water and completely disappear.

In order to stop the trend of global warming, the United Nations specially formulated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. In recent years, Europe has intended to propose carbon dioxide emission targets to fix the annual carbon dioxide emission targets of various countries in order to stop global warming.

If someone wants to emit more carbon dioxide, they can buy indicators from countries that have excess.

This approach is actually restricting the development of developing countries. After all, Europe has developed to a similar level and does not have any low-end manufacturing industries, so the carbon dioxide produced will naturally be less. Moreover, with European countries' advantages in public opinion, they can often be allocated more indicators.

This means that developing countries have to pay Europe to buy carbon dioxide emission quotas.

Europeans have been trying to promote this approach and even intend to occupy the moral high ground in public opinion.

However, this practice of Europeans has been met with collective resistance from developing countries.

In this context, China proposed carbon neutrality and various countries set carbon neutrality timetables.

The so-called carbon neutrality is to achieve the goal of "zero" carbon emissions by calculating the greenhouse gas emissions of the target object and then offsetting it through methods such as planting trees.

To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, it can usually be achieved by promoting the use of renewable energy and afforestation.
Developing new energy vehicles and new energy motorcycles, reducing fuel vehicles and fuel motorcycles, and carrying out large-scale afforestation, this is China's effort.

At the same time, China is also building more hydropower stations, solar power generation, wind power, and tidal power, and no longer building large-scale thermal power stations. This is also the direction in which China is striving towards carbon neutrality.

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Liu Tao attended this meeting to communicate with the Americans in order to push both sides to achieve the goal of preventing global warming on the line of "carbon neutrality".

As for the huge business opportunities contained therein, who can seize the opportunities and who can get a bigger piece of the cake naturally depends on their own abilities.

The United States itself is not very interested in what the Europeans have proposed.

Because the United States is a major oil-producing country in the world and is also one of the few countries in the world that likes to drive high-emission cars, the amount of carbon dioxide produced each year is naturally incalculable. Americans are unwilling to do what Europe has proposed.

However, Americans can barely accept the concept of "carbon neutrality" because it is highly operational and involves huge benefits.

People say that Americans don’t know how to adapt?
In fact, Americans are very good at adapting. The key is interests. As long as there are interests, Americans will know how to adapt.

Liu Tao's participation in this exchange meeting and dialogue was also based on the interests of both parties.

Alleviating climate warming is a global consensus.

Global problems must be solved by all countries in the world working together.

Otherwise, it will be useless if you work hard to solve the problem but others don’t.

Just like China, which has made every effort to control desertification, the Three North Shelterbelt Project has been implemented for so many years.

However, the sandstorms in Outer Mongolia made China complain bitterly.

The same principle applies to global warming.

Only by uniting and working together can we effectively solve this problem.

Otherwise, this problem has no solution.

Of course, all countries have expressed positive attitudes in this regard, because it concerns the image of the country, and the right attitude must be taken, but there is a lot of controversy about how to do it and what method to adopt. (End of this chapter)