Chapter 1082 Industrial Axis
This round of the East African National Canal Plan still follows the previous idea and indirectly achieves the purpose of river-sea intermodal transportation by building a number of artificial rivers to connect the national water network.
Including the previous canal projects built in East Africa, when the East African National Canal Plan is realized, the total length of East Africa’s artificial canals will reach an astonishing 5,000 kilometers. You must know that the length of the Congo River is only more than 4,000 kilometers. If Connecting these artificial canals is no less than digging a Yellow River.
Of course, there are no examples of such horrific projects in East Africa. The construction of canals by the Soviet Union and the Far Eastern Empire in the past can be described as "crazy", which is incomprehensible to most Western countries. .
The Karakum Canal built by the Soviet Union in Central Asia alone is more than 1,400 kilometers long. Secondly, the Soviet Union also built artificial canal projects such as the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal, Volga-Don River Canal and so on. , the Far Eastern Empire is even more of a "crazy" for canal construction, and has never stopped similar projects from ancient times to the present.
Of course, the East African National Canal plan is mainly focused on shipping, and Ernst's more purpose is to reduce the cost of transportation in the country.
With the rise of East Africa's domestic industry and transportation industry, East Africa is also facing severe problems in energy issues. Therefore, diversification of public transportation modes is an important guarantee for the economic and transportation strategic security of East African countries.
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One wave after another, the East African Navy's trip to South America still attracted the attention of the British. Since East Africa started trouble in the Persian Gulf last year, the British They are dissatisfied with East Africa, and East Africa's diplomatic activities in South America can be said to have once again stirred the nerves of the British.
Since the 19th century, Britain has been trying to expand its influence in South America. For example, the British invaded Rio de Janeiro in the early 19th century. Although it ultimately failed, Britain's penetration of South America never stopped. Later, the Guano War, Paraguay The war is inseparable from the shadow of Britain.
By the end of the 19th century, Britain had de facto controlled the South American economy. Britain had become the largest investor in South America, and Britain's economic colonization of South America was more aggressive than ever before in history.
The main reason for this result is the rise of East Africa. You must know that in the previous life, the British Empire finally took shape, and Africa, especially East Africa, now accounts for a large part of the territory. Uganda, Rhodesia, Kenya, South Africa and so on are all the "crown jewels" in Britain's mouth.
The emergence of East Africa can be said to have cut off most of Britain's interests in Africa. Although Britain's colonies in West Africa were retained, it faced fierce competition with a number of European and American countries.
As a result, Britain can only turn its attention to other parts of the world, and South America is undoubtedly a piece of fat. Although most of the countries in South America are Spain or Portugal, the decline of the two countries is severe now. Portugal Being crippled by East Africa, Spain was also left half-dead by the United States, which also provided more favorable conditions for British penetration into South America.
The British penetration into South American countries has made Britain the country with the largest interest in South America. The activities in East Africa will obviously not make the British happy.
Current British Prime Minister Asquith: "In the past two years, East Africa has been very active around the world. Now the unrest in the Persian Gulf region is obviously supported by East Africans. Now East Africa has extended its hands into South America. Both regions happen to be empires. The interests lie. "
There is no way around this. As the world's largest colonial power, Britain's influence extends throughout the world. It can be said that changes in most countries or regions will involve the interests of the British.
Take East Africa as an example. East Africa is surrounded by British colonies or economic colonies in four directions: Egypt in the north, Persian Gulf and India in the northeast, British West Africa in the northwest, Australia in the east, and Australia in the south. South Africa, the western part of South America, was also a British economic colony.
No matter where East Africa expands or expands its influence, it will have an impact on the United Kingdom. This is inevitable.
Finance Minister George said: "The country of East Africa has been evil since its birth. At least the government's incompetence has led to East Africa's expansion on the African continent. In recent years, East Africa's industry has developed rapidly, even causing damage to our country's market. It’s certainly an impact, and you can see many cars produced in East Africa on the streets of London.”
"This also means that East Africa's industrial capabilities have developed to a certain extent. From a global perspective, Germany, the United States and East Africa have formed an axis of new industrial power, and the empire is surrounded by these three emerging industrial powers. "In fact, East Africa, the United States and Germany are currently the three major centers of the second industrial revolution. However, East Africa's industrial background is far less than that of the United States and Germany, so the full development of East Africa as a center began after the 20th century.
Speaking of this, Asquith also frowned: "The Empire has successfully fought many challengers in the past, but new forces have always risen, forming new challenges to the Empire's hegemony. challenges, and Germany, the United States and East Africa are representatives of this new type of force, and their threats even More than France, Austria-Hungary and Russia.”
France, Austria-Hungary and Russia can be said to be Britain’s competitors in the past. France has been greatly weakened by the Franco-Prussian War, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire is even more helpless. Going up the wall no longer poses a threat. As for Russia, because of its failure in the Russo-Japanese War, it can only lick its wounds now.
The last time Britain took action was to support Japan, which dealt a huge blow to Russia, causing this powerful competitor for British hegemony to collapse.
But when the gourd is pressed, the ladle rises. No matter how superb Britain's diplomatic and military capabilities are, it seems somewhat powerless once it is caught in this endless competition.
“Germany and other countries on the European continent can check and balance, but the United States and East Africa are the real big troubles. They are outside the control of the empire. We do not have good countermeasures to deal with these two countries. There are checks and balances,” Asquith said.
The United Kingdom is actually well aware of the threat it poses to the United States. After all, the United States has made no less troubles around the world than East Africa in recent years.
The Spanish-American War was the beginning of the outward expansion of American power, and then the United States penetrated into Central and South America and the Far East respectively.
East Africa and the United States are like two sickles, wildly harvesting political influence in areas outside Europe, one in the south, one in the north, one in the east and one in the west, and the first to bear the brunt is the United Kingdom, the leader of the current world order.
George said from the side: "The United States can no longer be completely suppressed. As for East Africa, we may still be able to find a way. After all, its development time is short and it has not yet reached the strength and status of the United States."
A Squith sighed and said: "This is a bit taken for granted. In fact, the United States is easier to deal with than East Africa, because we can at least have an influence on the U.S. economy and politics, while East Africa is like an iron wall that is difficult to penetrate."
“East Africa can be said to be the largest closed country in the world. If East Africa were like Russia, maybe we wouldn’t have so many troubles.”
Russia’s economy is controlled by foreign countries, which is Russia’s fatal flaw , other countries can use economic sanctions and other means to make Russia more honest, but this is obviously not the case in East Africa. It is not that the United Kingdom has never done this, but observing the development of East Africa in the past ten years, it obviously has not had much effect.
After the South African War, the war was no longer within the scope of the British consideration. The British essentially hoped to restrict the industrial development of East Africa through economic sanctions, but it backfired and East Africa became increasingly powerful.
Among them, the most impressive thing for the British was the emergence of the East African Dreadnought. At that time, the first British Dreadnought had just been launched, and East Africa followed closely behind, becoming the second country in the world to have a Dreadnought. It was difficult for East Africa to without attracting British attention.
The United Kingdom is naturally well aware of the difficulty of manufacturing such a large-scale weapon. Without a strong shipbuilding industry foundation, it is almost impossible to achieve it. And East Africa has dreadnoughts almost at the same time as the United Kingdom. Does that mean that in a certain sense, East Africa The shipbuilding industry is not inferior to that of the United Kingdom!
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