Chapter 1197 God gives you food
For example, 52% of the coal in Dar es Salaam comes from New Hamburg, 31% comes from India, and the remaining part comes from The Middle East, or other parts of East Africa, but in the past two years, Russia's imported coal has grown rapidly in Dar es Salaam, mainly from Russia's eastern Ukraine.
The source of iron ore is even more exaggerated. Forty-seven percent of the iron ore in Dar es Salaam comes from India and 13% from the Middle East. The two combined exceed that of East Africa. supply.
This can also show the huge maritime advantage of Dar es Salaam, and it can also show the prosperity of trade between India and Dar es Salaam.
Most cities on the eastern coast of East Africa attach great importance to trade relations with India. After all, it is a huge market with a population of nearly 300 million, coupled with India’s rich mineral resources. Even if there is a middleman like the British colonial government to make a profit, it will not matter to India. The appeal of East African businesses is also huge.
India's conditions are absolutely unique. In the agricultural era, India was originally the world's agricultural and handicraft center after the Far Eastern Empire.
In ancient times, being able to become the world's handicraft center was naturally inseparable from India's rich natural resources, such as coal, iron ore and other basic industrial minerals. India has very considerable reserves. In its previous life, India had the largest population in the world. The fact that our country still maintains huge exports of iron ore illustrates the problem.
Moreover, East Africa and India have very significant maritime advantages. With the triple advantages of transportation, resources, and market, it is impossible for trade between East Africa and India not to prosper.
After 1914, the trade between East Africa and India further reached a record high, and there was even a grand occasion of Indian businessmen and bureaucrats ordering large quantities of East African industrial products and selling them to the British mainland.
Today’s Indian bureaucrats are naturally British colonial government bureaucrats. As the richest British colony, India is also a place where British bureaucrats make a fortune.
And this kind of moth is obviously one of the most abstract groups in the UK. Even after the South African War and the period when the UK imposed the most severe sanctions on East Africa, the British bureaucrats in India still went their own way, so at this World Expo, East Africa also invited India.
Of course, the main targets of trade with East Africa are the princes and nobles of India. Although Britain is the suzerain state of India, these princes and nobles are the foundation of the British rule in India.
The British actually collaborated with these princes and nobles, and naturally enjoyed full benefits. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were few internal affairs reforms in the Indian princely states. Corruption among princes was a common phenomenon, and the princely state system became an integral part of the Indian constitution. Big cancer.
But this is obviously also beneficial to East Africa. Most of the trade between East Africa and India is done directly with these princes and nobles.
If possible, Ernst would like India to maintain this institutional model of rampant princes. After all, there is no need for another world power to appear on the coast of the Indian Ocean, thereby threatening East Africa's interests in the region. So Ernst and the East African governments definitely did not want to see a unified India.
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"Vietnam?" Howard immediately thought of this country. After all, Vietnam should be regarded as the essence of France's colonies in Southeast Asia.
Pasteur nodded and said: "It should be! I don't know much about it, and I don't do this business."
Howard said: "When I return to Australia, I think Maybe we can bridge the gap. I remember that bauxite also exists in Australia. "
From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, other important mineral resources were discovered in Australia, such as coal, iron ore, and copper. , aluminum, zinc, etc., so after recognizing the strong demand in East Africa, an emerging industrial market, Howard now feels that he has a great opportunity to get a share of the trade between East Africa and Australia.
After all, he is the president of the Western Australia and East Africa Business Association, so he has the advantage of being close to the water.
In fact, in the past few years, Western Australia’s economy has seen a very dazzling growth rate in exports of mineral resources to East Africa. The natural conditions in Western Australia are obviously not even a little bit worse than those in eastern Australia, but they are Western Australia is rich in mineral resources. Moreover, the transportation in Western Australia and even the entire Australia and East Africa can be said to be the most convenient. The location of Australia can be said to be quite remote, and it can be said to be the worst except Antarctica.
Asia, South America and Africa are slightly closer to Australia, but today the level of industrial development in Asia and South America is quite low.
Only on the African continent has East Africa, a super-large industrial country, emerged. Therefore, it would be best if Australia's rich mineral resources could catch the East African economic express train.
Take Canada, for example. As British colonies, Canada and Australia have many things in common.
Canada and Australia are both large countries with vast areas. They are also rich in mineral resources and sparsely populated. However, their fates are very different.
By the beginning of the 20th century, Canada had completed preliminary industrialization and occupied a very prominent position among the British colonies. As early as 1867 of the last century, Canada had signed the "British North America Act" with the United Kingdom. Obtaining the status of an autonomous territory is actually equivalent to de facto independence.
Australia did not obtain the status of an autonomous territory until 1901 at the beginning of this century, and because of its economic and military weakness, Australia had to follow Britain in all aspects.
This is obviously not because the Australian government is too loyal, but because its economic strength and military capabilities do not allow it.
The main reason for the different fates of Canada and Australia is that Canada is located next to the United States. Canada can be said to be the only American country to enjoy the economic dividends of the United States. Its mineral resource advantages can be quickly realized with the help of American industry. This was also the case in the 19th century. The main reason for Canada's rapid economic development from the mid-to-late 20th century to the early 20th century.
Australia has a resource advantage that is not inferior to that of Canada. Now it is in urgent need of a big money like the United States. Obviously, East Africa has the ability to play such a role.
So after seeing the strong industrial capabilities of East Africa, Howard believed that Australia should strengthen economic cooperation with East Africa as the next step.
Of course, because of the old feud between East Africa and the United Kingdom, the Australian government may not be able to save face, thus hindering the development of trade between the two countries.
But Western Australia obviously does not need to be consistent with the Australian government in the east. The connection between Western Australia and the east is not close to begin with, especially the long-term neglect of Western Australia by the Australian government, which has caused many problems in Western Australia. People lack a sense of identity.
Howard is one of them. The Western Australia and East Africa Business Association he leads rarely interacts with the east. So now that it is known that cooperation with East Africa can bring huge benefits to himself and the association, it is natural to further strengthen cooperation with the East Africa. Trade relations between East Africa.
Howard further said to Pasteur: "Western Australia has rich mineral resources, while East Africa has the world's most powerful industry. The two countries can complement each other's advantages, so next I will urge the association to directly cooperate with East Africa The government has reached some agreements and consensus. "
For a country like Australia, selling minerals is like selling mud in front of one's own house. It is not worth worrying about. The oil sellers in the Gulf countries in the past life were still possible. We are worried about energy depletion, but Australia does not need to take this into consideration at all. Let alone its huge resource reserves, even if it is really exhausted, it will just change another mine and sell it. This is the real reward from God.
The same was true in East Africa in the past, but now East Africa’s population has grown too much and its industry has developed too fast, so that East Africa must be prepared for danger in times of peace, unless the Rhine royal family just wants to stay in Africa and become an African chief. In that case, East Africa simply cannot East Africa can live comfortably without the current population of tens of millions.
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