Chapter 1110 China-Africa Economic Cooperation Organization
However, to build economic cooperation in Central Africa, it is obviously not feasible to rely on East Africa and South Germany alone, because South Germany itself is a landlocked country, and Central Africa controls the sea outlet In East Africa, Belgian and German hands.
Although East Africa has its own sea outlet, it is still a bit far away from the northwest region of East Africa, so the best way is to open the sea channel between Belgium and Germany.
Morris said: "Belgium and Germany are both very strong economically, but the two countries cannot effectively radiate their colonies in Central Africa, so building the Central African economy requires cooperation between us."
“The first step is to build land transportation interconnection, including building railways, highways and other infrastructure, and cooperatively developing mineral resources in the region, thereby bringing economic benefits to all countries.”
"The second step is to open markets in the region, unify tariffs, and build a Central African Economic Union to realize the realization of resources and interoperability in trade."
"There is no doubt that this Central Africa Once the economic alliance is completed, we in East Africa can expand our influence in the region and strengthen cooperation with member countries. Economic exchanges between countries, and you can also accelerate the development of colonies and enhance the value of your respective colonies or territories through this regional economic alliance.”
The conditions offered by East Africa are quite sincere, after all, according to the current international society. According to the logic, East Africa’s approach does not conform to the style of ordinary imperialist countries.
For example, the United States wants to expel all other colonial forces in the Americas, and then the United States will become the only country in the Americas.
East Africa is the most powerful country in Africa. Generally speaking, if East Africa wants to create an East African version of the "Monroe Doctrine", it is by no means impossible. If East Africa participates in competition on the African continent, it will basically There is no such thing as the European countries.
The Central African Economic Alliance proposed by East Africa now represents East Africa's willingness to cooperate with Germany and Belgium on an equal footing. In a certain sense, this represents East Africa's recognition of the interests of Germany and Belgium in Central Africa.
To put it bluntly, Central Africa as a whole is to East Africa what Mexico is to the United States. The United States can drive Spain and France away from Mexico through various means. East Africa wants to control Central Africa through force. It's even easier.
After all, although Mexico performs poorly, it is still considered a regional power in the world, and the colonies of Belgium and Germany in Central Africa are not comparable to Mexico at all.
Xavier: "We appreciate East Africa's good intentions, but I still have to discuss this matter with the country first. I personally believe that Germany and East Africa will reach a consensus to provide stable support for the development of the Central African economy. Environment."
Governor Klein of the Belgian Congo colony was much more straightforward. He said to Morris: "We in Belgium are very interested in the East African plan."
Morris nodded with satisfaction and said: "The communications in Bangui City are very developed. You can use the telegraph here to communicate with your respective countries. If you are willing to accept our goodwill in East Africa, we will finalize the agreement in Bangui City. ”
It is not easy for the German and Belgian delegations to come to Bangui, because the transportation within their colonies is really difficult, so letting them do everything directly in Bangui can save a lot of trouble.
In the following days, the German and Belgian delegations reported their respective situations back to the country via telegrams from Bangui. The results were self-evident. The Organization for China-Africa Economic Cooperation, led by East Africa, was also established in due course.
In fact, the German government had long wanted to use the power of East Africa to develop the colony of Cameroon. However, East Africa was focused on its own construction at that time and was not interested in the German government's request.
Times have changed, and now the industrial strength of East Africa has greatly increased, and domestic transportation construction has been quite improved, so it is natural to expand its economic frontiers outwards.
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Looking at the email sent back by Morris, the officials of the East African government were very satisfied.
Ernst said: "If you take care of Germany, you will basically take care of Central Africa. Central Africa is the land and sea throat connecting my country and West Africa. Therefore, when building local transportation construction, East Africa should be used as the standard, so as to Locally build an economic radiation zone with East Africa as the core”
China-Africa economic cooperation led by East Africa. Organization, many relevant standards must of course be based on East African domestic standards, such as railway and highway construction. East Africa is responsible for the construction of railways in Central Africa. In fact, it is to make up for the problem of sea access in northwest East Africa. If the Belgian Congo and German Cameroon can be realized If the railway standards are consistent with those in East Africa, many intermediate links can be reduced and rail-sea combined transportation in northwest East Africa can be achieved.
As for Germany and Belgium, they actually have the ability to build railways, but if they want to build colonies, the price they have to pay is too high, so they can only accept the solution provided by East Africa.
East Africa is not a philanthropist. The so-called Central African Economic Alliance proposal is essentially to bring this area with similar culture, language, and ethnicity to East Africa into its own sphere of influence.
There is no need to talk about South Germany and Germany. Belgium itself is a semi-German country with a large number of German-speaking people in the country. This is even more obvious in the Belgian Congo, because the main trade of the Belgian Congo is The target is East Africa, so the proportion of German in the Belgian Congo is even higher than that in the mainland.
So from an East African perspective, the entire Central African region is naturally suitable as a subordinate force of East Africa. The only obstacle to East Africa's desire to assimilate the local area is Germany. But when the European war breaks out, Germany may not have the intention to come. Taking into account the Cameroon colony thousands of miles away.
Sweite said: "The China-Africa Economic Cooperation Organization is an important link for us to further expand and deepen our country's influence in Africa, binding here to East Africa through infrastructure construction and trade exchanges. , in the future, if we further expand to West Africa, North Africa, and even South Africa, our fundamentals will become more solid.”
Nowadays, the South African colony, under the control of the British, is an eyesore, but East Africa doesn't have much thought about South Africa for the time being.
Because South Africa is not similar to East Africa in culture and language like Central Africa, and there are many Boers in South Africa. Many of these Boers were expelled from East Africa, so they are similar to East Africa. There is a blood feud, so East Africa is not keen on interfering in South African affairs.
As for the Cape of Good Hope, although its strategic position is very important, it is not as attractive to East Africa as imagined. After all, East Africa's own railways can play a certain substitute role.
Of course, the British hegemony is still stable today, which also makes East Africa avoid the rat. If it were another country, East Africa would not be able to let South Africa escape from East Africa's control.
For example, the East Indies controlled by the Dutch is what Ernst wants to dismantle next. The entire East Indies is too large, and the Dutch included these large and small islands. Unifying colonial government management was actually the integration of local political forces.
Ernst did not hope that there would be a powerful political power in the East Indies in the future like Indonesia in the previous life, which would not be conducive to East Africa's future management of the Southeast Asia.
Although the Netherlands is not as declining as Portugal and Spain, it does not have much strength in the international community today, but it occupies such a large colony. For a big country like East Africa, It falls into the category of carrying a jade.
Of course, now is not a favorable time to cause trouble in the East Indies. After all, the Netherlands is backed by the United Kingdom. There is actually a certain cooperative relationship between the two countries. Otherwise, the United Kingdom would not be able to let the Netherlands occupy it. So much land in the East Indies.
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