The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 916 Amphibious landing ship?
In the end, Türkiye did not choose to confront the Arab League head-on, and the Turkish army chose to fight a battle with the Arab coalition forces.

After a war of words between the two sides, Turkey announced that its troops would withdraw to Turkey after completing the task of clearing out the Kurdistan Workers' Party guerrillas in northern Iraq.

This time, Türkiye has completely lost face.

The U.S. was blocked at the port by warships of the Afghan coalition forces, affecting its import and export trade. Then, due to the emergency withdrawal, it was ambushed by the Kurds, resulting in the loss of thousands of people and a large number of weapons, equipment and supplies.

It can be said that Türkiye has become a laughing stock of the world.

This also makes Türkiye very dissatisfied with NATO.

We agreed on joint defense, but what happened?
Türkiye was so angry that it cursed NATO as being "brain dead" and had to consider the option of withdrawing from NATO.

The international crude oil futures market has returned to stability.

In this wave, I don’t know how many people made a fortune, and how many people suffered heavy losses.

There are many people who want to fight in all-in, and these people are the biggest losers.

Another major event happened in the Middle East. The negotiations between the United States and Persia broke down again. The two sides parted ways unhappily again. The United States announced that it would once again take economic and trade sanctions against Persia: severing all investment and trade relations between the United States and Persia, and strictly prohibiting American oil companies from conducting any oil transactions with Persia.

Liu Tao smiled when he saw the news that the negotiations between the two sides had broken down again.

The Americans began to loosen their control over Persia in the middle and late stages of the Iran-Iraq War, not wanting Persia to lose to Iraq and lead to Iraq gaining hegemony over the Persian Gulf.

At that time, the Americans provided several interest-free loans. By 1991, the relationship between the two sides had been almost repaired. However, with the coming to power of the new US government, the wind direction began to change. Persia hoped to obtain a large loan for post-war reconstruction, and the Americans were naturally not philanthropists. They could accept the loan, but the country had to accept the American conditions.

The Persians could not accept the Americans' conditions at all.

The gap between the conditions of both parties is too big, and no matter how we talk, there will be no success.

Now that the Americans have announced this measure, it is undoubtedly forcing the Persians to surrender.

But Liu Tao knew that this would only backfire.

Persians have their own stubbornness. The more you try to force them, the tougher they will be.

Anyway, the Persians are in a bad situation now, but how bad can it be?
Under such circumstances, the Persians will definitely attach more importance to cooperation with Panshan Group.

American oil companies are not allowed to trade oil with the Persians, but China National Petroleum Corporation can.

It does not matter whether the transaction is made in US dollars or RMB, even barter is acceptable.

The Persian market is not small.

A huge market of more than 30 million people!
Moreover, Persia has abundant oil and natural gas. As long as they can be developed, there is no need to worry about lack of money.

China's development is too fast, which leads to the need to import large amounts of oil and natural gas.

Eggs cannot be put in one basket, and the same goes for oil imports. Oil must be imported from different countries. Only a diversified strategy can prevent people from being tied down and greatly affected.

China National Petroleum Corporation not only supplies China's oil and natural gas, but also refines crude oil into refined oil products and exports the refined oil and petrochemical products to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Not to mention that Singapore's petrochemical strategy was greatly affected and almost declared a failure, even the scale of Japan and South Korea's original refineries has decreased instead of increased. However, Liu Tao has to admire the US government, because the US government has been profitable, the scale of US debt has decreased instead of increased, and the "two lows and one high" have been achieved, that is, low unemployment, low inflation and high economic growth.

In terms of economic development, the other party is indeed excellent, much better than his two predecessors.

No matter what kind of provocation it faces, the United States has demonstrated amazing strategic determination and will not use force, and has been cutting military spending every year.

Although this approach caused great dissatisfaction among the vested interests, it also made the general public very satisfied with him, and his public support rate continued to reach new highs.

this day.

Liu Tao attended a meeting, which was a navy meeting on the new generation of amphibious landing ships.

As the navy upgrades its weapons, strategic adjustments are inevitable.

From near-shore defense to near-sea defense, and then to the current far-sea defense, this is a huge strategic adjustment and an important change in naval thinking.

The importance of sea power becomes more and more prominent.

The so-called sea power is a kind of capability with the nature of comprehensive national strength that takes national interests as its core, grand strategy as its starting point, war, law, negotiation or cooperation as its means, maritime strength as its foundation, and control of the ocean as its goal.

The gain or loss of this capability directly affects the rise and fall of a country, especially a major power.

As China develops, it is constantly absorbing new ideas about sea power and its understanding of ocean issues is constantly deepening.

China's vast overseas interests need to be maintained, and the navy is an important means of maintaining overseas interests.

At present, for China, the growth of the navy is not enough, but far from enough.

在有了022型导弹艇、022A型鱼雷艇、054型护卫舰、052型驱逐舰、039型新型常规潜艇、新型扫雷船、新型侦查船以及即将拥有001型轻型航母、093核潜艇和094核潜艇等海军舰艇之后，对于两栖登陆舰的需求更加迫切了。

Amphibious landing ships, also known as landing ships, are ships specially used for marine landing operations. There are many types, including landing ships, landing craft, transport ships, amphibious assault ships, amphibious command ships, amphibious cargo ships, etc.

Its function is to transport landing troops, landing tools, combat vehicles and other weapons and equipment. Landing ships and landing craft have direct landing capabilities and are the main types of ships used for small-scale landing operations. Transport ships, amphibious cargo ships, etc. do not have direct landing capabilities and are used for long-range, large-scale landing operations. Amphibious assault ships are used to transport landing troops for landing.

An amphibious command ship is used to command the entire landing formation during landing operations.

If we were to ask which landing operation in history is the most famous, it would probably be the famous Normandy Landing during World War II.

In modern warfare, landing ships play a huge role in maritime landing operations.

However, the Chinese Navy has great weaknesses in the development of amphibious landing ships. This is mainly because under the previous strategic thinking of "nearshore defense" and "near-sea defense", the demand for amphibious landing ships was not so urgent.

This means that the main amphibious landing ships in the Chinese Navy are currently 7 Type 072 Yukang-class tank landing ships and several Yuting-class ships, which are also small and medium-sized landing ships with mediocre performance and naturally cannot meet the needs of the navy.

Even the navy looks down on its own amphibious landing ship and despises it no matter how it looks at it.

The Navy now needs a large amphibious landing ship with advanced performance.

(End of this chapter)