The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Since the threat from Bharat has been greatly reduced, the environment in Pakistan has improved greatly and it has developed quite rapidly in recent years.

As the political center of Pakistan, the city of Islamabad has developed extremely rapidly.

The entire Islamabad has a population of 230 million!

As the security environment has greatly improved, Pakistan has more energy and resources to invest in national economic development and dealing with internal conflicts, which has led to continuous improvement in Pakistan's situation in recent years.

Although the world is experiencing an economic crisis, Pakistan has not felt much of the chill.

After all, Pakistan is not an export-oriented country, and Pakistan’s largest trading partner is China. In addition to China, Pakistan’s closest economic exchanges are with South Asian countries.

Pakistan's currency is also mainly pegged to the RMB.

When Liu Tao goes to South Asia, in addition to Pakistan, he will also go to Khalistan, Nepal, and then enter Sikkim, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

In these countries, Liu Tao has absolute security guarantees.

After staying abroad for more than a month, Liu Tao ended his overseas trip and returned to China.

At this time, a major event broke out. Germany announced that it would ship back the 1900 tons of gold stored in the United States, but was rejected by the United States. The two sides engaged in a war of words, which caused an uproar in the world.

There is a Chinese saying: Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times.

Gold is a very rare metal and a symbol of wealth. From high-ranking officials to ordinary people, everyone attaches great importance to the value of gold. It is also recognized as a hard currency internationally. It was discovered and favored by humans more than 3000 years ago.

The Federal Reserve Bank in New York, USA, is the world's largest gold depository, storing gold from at least 60 countries and international organizations.

Due to the influence of World War II, as the only country in the world that was not destroyed by war, the United States naturally became a well-deserved economic and financial leader, and established an international indirect settlement method based on gold, linking gold to the US dollar - the Bretton Woods system.

Ideals are beautiful, and reality is very skinny.

The United States over-issued currency time and time again, and no one knew how much dollars it had over-issued, which led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system.

Later, Americans found a new anchor for the dollar - oil!
This established the petrodollar system.

However, because the United States is the world's largest economy and the leader of the international trade system, countries will continue to store their gold in the United States under the US trade system.

Germany, once the world's second largest gold reserve country with 3373 tons of gold reserves, also shipped 1900 tons of gold to the United States for safekeeping in order to reduce risks.

However, with the increased risks in the global market and the uncertainties brought about by various actions of the United States this year, many countries want to ship back their gold.

However, it is easy to transport gold to the United States, but it is not so easy to transport gold out of the United States.

As early as the establishment of the Franco-German alliance and the break with the United States, Germany wanted to ship back these 1900 tons of gold.

Later, in order to regain sovereignty and become an independent sovereign country, one of the conditions set by the Americans was that Germany should not mention the return of gold within five years.

Now, five years have passed and we are in the midst of a global economic crisis. Everyone is worried that the world situation will see a repeat of the Great Depression of 5.

Germany is no exception.

Therefore, Germany proposed to ship back the 1900 tons of gold.

However, after communicating with the Americans, the United States rejected Germany's proposal.

This undoubtedly angered Germany, and the two sides started a war of words, which shocked the world.

This has inevitably led countries around the world to suspect that the Americans have something to hide and have touched other countries' gold reserves in the United States.

If true, this would be a huge scandal for the United States, a world economic power. Once exposed, it would severely damage the foundation of the US economy.

Countries are worried that if the United States touches their gold reserves, they will lose, what can they do? So countries have begun to take action to ship back the gold stored in the United States.

When the Chinese people saw the news, they were all worried.

The central bank had to come out and dispel the rumors, explaining to everyone that the 600 tons of gold that China originally stored in the United States had all been shipped back to the country, and that China did not store any gold in the United States.

Liu Tao shook his head slightly. No one knew whether the Americans had touched the gold reserves of various countries.

Maybe, maybe not!
But now all countries have to ship back their gold reserves in the United States, which will undoubtedly be a very troublesome thing for the United States.

If the Americans don't move, then all they can do is let other countries ship them back.

But if the Americans are too greedy and touch the gold reserves of various countries and even sell a lot of it, then the United States will be in trouble.

Taking advantage of the opportunity that year, Liu Tao advocated shipping gold back from the United States to ensure China's economic security.

After all, China's assets did not come out of thin air, but were earned by generations of people day and night at the expense of a large amount of natural environment and resources.

In recent years, China has been working hard to internationalize the RMB. In addition to using RMB in bilateral trade, a very important strategy is to continuously increase gold reserves.

Although China's foreign exchange reserves in US dollars are not large, its current gold reserves are second only to the United States.

And this is real gold reserves. As for the US gold reserves, no one knows how much of a discount they will get.

Of course, now all we have to do is watch the show.

However, some things have to be prepared in advance.

After all, given the current situation, it is not impossible for World War III to break out.

Liu Tao came to the Wenchang Launch Center, where the 'Experiment-8' satellite will be launched today.

This satellite is much larger than normal satellites.

This satellite, although called a satellite, is actually a laser defense weapon specifically designed to intercept missiles.

It has the capability to intercept any missile that enters the atmosphere.

Of course, if it is within the range of the laser, it can even be destroyed when the missile is just about to be launched and in the ascending phase.

That’s why this satellite is so heavy and large.

Before this, eight satellites of this type had been launched.

And all of this is to build a national strategic defense system.

The entire national strategic defense system, in addition to land-based, air-based, and sea-based, also includes space, thus forming a complete defense system that can intercept as many strategic missiles and aircraft as possible.

It is expected that by 2025, the entire national strategic defense system will be completed, thereby reducing external security factors to a minimum.

When the time comes, the huge heavy rocket ignites, emits a terrible thrust, and then rises, and continues to rise.

This heavy-duty rocket has achieved a 100% launch success rate so far, and is considered an advanced and mature rocket.

It even has the ability to carry out manned lunar landing.

This will also be the carrier rocket that China will use to carry people to the moon in the future. (End of this chapter)