America's Road to Fame

Chapter 549

In March 2013, it was reported that when the Australian government visited Papua New Guinea, it mentioned that it hoped to cooperate with it to rebuild the Raubom Naval Port on Malus Island, so that this naval base will allow the Australian Navy to station in the future. , and the future will be jointly developed by both parties.

After this news was exposed, it was protested by the locals, including the governor of the Malus Province. They believed that the reactivation of the Raubom Naval Base in Malus and allowing the Australian Navy to be stationed here would be very serious. It will greatly damage the local interests of Malus Island and affect the economic development of Malus Island, which has become the fastest-growing province in Papua New Guinea.

However, although this matter was resisted by the locals, a few days later, Papua New Guinea and Australia jointly announced that the two parties formally signed a memorandum to jointly develop the Raubom Naval Base with Australia. After completion, Australia will be allowed to The navy moves in.

During the Second World War, the Raubom Naval Base was once one of the frontier bases for the United States to fight against Japanese fascism. The American military built a pier, a runway of about 3 kilometers and residences for tens of thousands of soldiers on the island. After the war, it was also the place where Japanese war criminals were tried.

But after that, the United States withdrew from this military base, and it was gradually abandoned.

Later, Papua New Guinea once slightly renovated this place and used it as an offshore processing center for illegal immigrants trying to enter Australia by sea, so as to obtain funding from Australia.

However, when the Atlanta earthquake occurred, because of the resulting tsunami, a large number of illegal immigrants were killed in the temporary detention center for illegal immigrants with poor facilities at that time. This policy was strongly condemned by international human rights organizations and the Australian opposition party. Therefore, was repealed.

Now Papua New Guinea has reached a memorandum of understanding with Australia in spite of the local opposition of Malones, which immediately triggered a wave of protests in Malones.

In an interview, the governor of the province of Malus said angrily:

"The construction of the Raubom Naval Base did not seek the local opinions of the Malus, which will greatly damage the interests of the Malus. If the PNG government insists on going its own way, we will use our own methods to resist."

"Manus is the fastest-growing province in Papua New Guinea in recent years and has created huge wealth for the country. However, we are disappointed to see that Papua New Guinea has not paid attention to our investment. Instead, it has been sucking blood, and now it is even preparing to Selling the Malus to the Australians, the Malus is the homeland of the Malus, will not be the Okinawa of Papua New Guinea."

Next, the Maraus launched the "Occupy Raupom" operation. Thousands of people entered the already empty Raubom Naval Base at this time because the offshore processing center for illegal immigrants in Australia was cancelled, and set up roadblocks. And protest slogans, preventing the entry of the Papua New Guinea and Australian inspection teams.

All of a sudden, the relationship between Malus and the Papua New Guinea government began to sharpen.

Freezing three feet does not happen in a day. In fact, the disagreement between Malus and the Papua New Guinea government does not just appear recently, but has a long history. All the reasons are nothing but interests.

At the beginning, when Malones Island received extra money for hosting illegal immigrants from Australia, the governor of Malones Province at that time had tricks in bidding for the construction of an offshore processing center for illegal immigrants, and was awarded hundreds of millions by a small Australian company. Dissatisfied with construction projects in Australian dollars.

It's just that the status of the Malus province at that time had always been at the end of Papua New Guinea, so their voices did not have that much influence.

If Malus has been like this, he may not take too drastic actions even if he is dissatisfied with the PNG government.

However, as Atlanta began to increase investment in Malus Island, the development of the Atlanta Economic Zone has been changing with each passing day, which has also driven the local economy of Malus.

You must know that Papua New Guinea itself is one of the underdeveloped countries, and the domestic economic aggregate is not high. Against this background, the changes in Malus Province are particularly prominent.

The tax revenue contributed by Malus Province to the central government has jumped from the bottom position to the forefront within more than two years.But what made the Malusi locals rush to anger was that in their view, the Papua New Guinea government just blindly sucked blood, and did not care about the local construction. For so long, it has hardly invested any money in Malusi Provincial infrastructure.

Especially when there is a contrast, the feelings of the residents of Malus are even stronger.

At the beginning, most of the 2 or so residents of Malus Island lived in the west of the island. At that time, the west of Loren, the provincial capital of Malus Province, was the most prosperous place, and Malus Island The eastern part of the island is almost uninhabited.

But now, because of the existence of the Atlanta Economic Zone, the eastern part of Malus Island has far surpassed the western part in terms of population and construction, causing many locals to start migrating to the east.

As for the west of Malus Island, there has been little change over the years. After their taxes were taken away by the Papua New Guinea government, they did not strengthen local construction. This is also the place that makes locals feel angry the most.

Therefore, this incident of Australia-Pakistan cooperation in the construction of the Raubom Naval Base only brought this conflict to the surface and ignited the suppressed anger of the Marus people.

In response to the intensified protests on Malus Island, a week later, Erica, the chief member of the Atlanta Management Committee, stated that she hoped that the PNG side would re-examine their decision to restart the Raubom Naval Base. This decision by the Atlanta side affects the current good momentum of development of the Amazon economic circle. The Amazon economic circle should maintain an atmosphere of peace and free development. Examining the investment in the Malus Economic Zone, the possibility of transferring it to a more suitable area cannot be ruled out.

In this regard, the Papua New Guinea government's response was a bit tough. They said that Malus is Papua New Guinea's territory, and the decision made there will be an internal matter of the Papua New Guinea government, and Atlanta has no interference power.

Obviously, this time Papua New Guinea is determined to confront Atlanta.

The reasons for this are not complicated.

This starts with the economy of Papua New Guinea. In terms of territorial area, Papua New Guinea is actually a big country in Oceania. However, due to historical reasons and the fact that the country is mountainous, the economic development is relatively low compared with Australia and New Zealand. behind.

Even compared with neighboring Indonesia, there is a big gap.

Therefore, the pillar industry of Papua New Guinea has always been the domestic copper mine and the export of agricultural products, and it is one of the less developed countries.

And their mining industry has been mainly controlled by Australian and British capital before. The whole country is relatively dependent on Australia and often receives assistance from Australia.

The current President of Papua New Guinea came to power mainly relying on the support of Australian capital, and this year is the last year of his term, and Papua New Guinea is about to usher in a general election.

It can be said that in this underdeveloped country, the position of the president is just more convenient for their family to reap benefits. Originally, the other party would not be able to be re-elected this time, so they chose to reach such a joint development agreement with Australia at the last moment. It is not known whether there is anything tricky behind the agreement of the Bohme Naval Base.

(End of this chapter)