Chapter 1728: Ordinary, Blue Star Third (Second Update, please subscribe)
"Babbit has returned from Moscow!"
After Kader planned this week's security and defense report, he looked at his assistant Simon and said:
"We need to figure out what agreement he reached with the Russians in Moscow."
"Babbitt" is the code name given to Li Yi'an by the US representative office. It originated from the novel "Babbitt", and its protagonist is a businessman.
"Yes, head."
Simon nodded and said:
"I will handle this as soon as possible."
Then they chatted for a while, and then Kader sent his assistant Simon back to his office to prepare the materials. Simon locked himself in the office and began to organize various charts that were ready to be cast on the screen with a reflective slider.
"Oh, it's really not easy!"
At this time, Ned said in a jam:
"What?"
Pointing at the chart placed by the projector, Simon said in a surprised tone:
"Look, $219.3 billion!"
Ned glanced at the chart and said:
"Oh, it was their GDP last year!"
From the PPT that is cast on the screen, you can clearly see the GDP of sEA last year, and the structural composition of its national production organization in the rose chart.
Of course, this is not some confidential information, but data just released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry a month ago.
Ned seemed very calm and said lightly:
"It seems that Germany has been left far behind!"
Simon glanced at the materials on the table and said:
"They surpassed Germany a few years ago, with Germany's GDP last year at $150.527 billion. The gap between them is close to 50%!"
"What about us?"
"We were $879.62 billion last year! From the data point of view, their total national production value is almost 25% of ours!"
Simon pressed the remote control in his hand, and the slide projector automatically played the next picture. Then he looked at the PPT and said:
"Look, this is a comparison between countries."
“USA: $879.62 billion”
“SEA: $219.345 billion”
“Germany: US$150.527 billion”
"France: US$118.751 billion"
“UK: $117.117 billion”
“Italy: US$84.402 billion”
"Tongda: US$72.881 billion..."
Looking at the data on the chart, Ned brows raised lightly, and his expression became a little serious. There was no other reason. On the side of these data, there were data from last year.
"Their growth rate is very high!"
Nodding, Simon said:
"Yes, their growth rate is the world's number one!"
Simon looked at the numbers on the chart, lit a cigarette, and said:
"And in the next few years, their growth rate will be higher, and maybe, soon, they will surpass the Soviet Union, because now they are more and more young people, and children born between 46 and 50 years old are already adults, and their consumption potential is very great,"
As a thirty-year-old young man, Simon naturally knew the consumption capacity of young man. He took a sip of cigarettes and looked at the patterns on the screen. He said:
"In two years, they will get married and have children, and then new baby booms will emerge here. When our economic growth is single, they will continue to maintain double-digit growth. At such a growth rate, perhaps ten years later, their GDP will surpass us, or be close to us!"
"Is this... possible?"
Ned said with some confusion:
"It's unlikely... they only have 100 million people, and their territory is so small."
"Twenty-three years ago, they had only more than one million people!"
One sentence made Ned stunned. He opened his mouth and didn't say anything for a long time. Simon played the next PPT with the slide projector remote control, and then said:
"Their oil production is not worth mentioning. Until now, their production is barely only 10 million tons! 10.12 million tons."
"That's because their overseas oil fields are very high."
Ned said:
"Their oil companies have already produced more than 600 million tons of oil fields in the Gulf of the Middle East, Iraq, Kuwait and Iran, while their sole proprietorship of Libya's oil fields exceeds 100 million tons!
They directly mastered more than 400 million tons of oil. With this overseas oil, they naturally don’t need to exploit much oil on their local land. After all, oil in the Middle East is cheaper and has better quality. "Ned walked to the screen, pointed to the data above and said:
"Look at steel, last year, their steel production exceeded 80 million tons."
"80.75 million tons! The third largest in the world, the United States' steel production is 115.4 million tons, and the Soviet Union's steel production is 102.224 million tons. They..."
Simon, smoking a cigarette, frowned and said in a sarcastic tone:
"They now have many industrial indicators, but they are just a little behind the Soviet Union, but they are still crying and poor!"
"Yes, crying poor! This is the biggest feature of SEA. I remember a few years ago, their diplomatic representatives claimed in Washington that SEA is an extremely backward economy, their population structure is unreasonable and they have too many children. In order to provide lunch to these children to ensure their nutrition, they need to spend a lot of money, and for the people, raising children is also a great burden, so their economy is very difficult."
The reason why Ned remembers this is because after graduating from college, he had been an intern on the Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, so he witnessed how SEA diplomats cried poorly. However, they were not begging for food, but they stood there and told the United States - stop taking on the task of a free world. Our economy is really not easy.
Those on Capitol Hill repeatedly persuaded SEA to assume the responsibility of "a member of the free world" - to increase military expenditures and strengthen defense. In the end, SEA's diplomats even had a dispute with senior officials in Washington because the interests of the two sides were too large.
"You have oceans, we have oceans. In Asia, no one can attack us across the ocean!"
"The threat from the Soviet Union is realistic!"
"Their navy cannot threaten us..."
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The core of the two sides' struggle is that the SEA is unwilling to expand its arms, and Washington hopes that they will expand their arms, and even the "Borneo" aircraft carrier, they built it at the strong request of Washington.
"That's why they say that every time an aircraft carrier is built, the economy will be in a downturn for three years!"
Simon thought for a moment and said in a sarcastic tone:
"There are many difficulties, the third in the world..."
He pointed to the numbers on the chart and smiled:
"A world that is very good at crying and poor."
“Last year we produced 10 million cars and they produced 3.7 million…”
When Ned mentioned the car, Simon looked at the chart and said:
"They will soon surpass us to become the world's number one automobile power, in about five years."
"So fast?"
"Yes, because of the demand, millions of adults will be born in the next few years. They need cars. Last year they only exported 1.9 million cars, while local sales of 2.3 million cars, but two years ago..."
Simon picked up a report on the table and said:
"Two years ago, they exported 2 million vehicles, and their export volume was declining because local sales were increasing and they were very fast."
"Because of the generation born after the war, are they?"
"Yes, if it weren't for their school being very close to the community and there were school buses, local sales would have definitely increased a few years ago. Now it's just delayed by one or two years. After all, those who have to go to college after the age of 18 will naturally need a car when they go to college."
"So, their automobile companies need to expand their production capacity, after all, both domestic and foreign markets need to meet it."
After hearing Simon say this, Ned thought for a while and said:
"We should tell Detroit this information, they need to seize the opportunity."
"Yes, they need to seize the opportunity. At least in the next ten years, at least several million cars will be needed here every year. With the adulthood of 70 to 80 million people, they need at least 60 million cars..."
Just hearing this number, Ned couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest.
"O my God!"
This number is really amazing. It sells six or seven million cars every year, which is definitely the largest market in the world except the United States.
In fact, SEA is indeed the world's largest automobile market outside the United States. Although SEA's automobile companies export nearly 2 million cars to foreign countries every year, their local sales are also very large. Since two years ago, domestic sales have exceeded export volume.
"If our car company can seize the opportunity, maybe this will be the biggest opportunity ever."
As Ned was thinking about this future and thinking about whether to buy stocks in a car company, he suddenly seemed to think of something and looked at the chart and said:
"My God, that is, in the next five years, the SEA will definitely surpass the Soviet Union and become the second in the world."
Nodding, Simon said seriously:
"This is inevitable. Although the Soviet Union did not conduct GDP statistics, our intelligence personnel analyzed based on their industrial index and other data. Their GDP should be around 350 billion US dollars. Of course, some people believe that it may be 500 billion US dollars. After all, their economic model is different from us, and the calculation method will be biased. However, at this development speed, at most four years, it will surpass the Soviet Union to become the world's second largest economic power."
When saying this, Simon deliberately aggravated the second tone, as if reminding Ned that they would become second in the world in four years!
Faced with such a reminder, Ned thought for a moment and said:
"Fortunately they are not Russians!"
A seemingly light sentence made Simon fall into silence. After a while, he said:
"Yes, the only thing we can be glad that they are on our side, not on the Russian side."
(This chapter ends)