America's Road to Fame

Chapter 555 The deal is reached
The fact is that after consideration, the PNG president tends to agree to this proposal and continue negotiations to strive for more benefits.

But in any case, it is an entire province of Papua New Guinea, although the area is not too large...

However, the other party still had some scruples about the public's reaction. After the discussion, they finally decided to simply make Atlanta's conditions public and conduct a parliamentary vote on the matter. It might even be possible to rule out a referendum. You don't have to bear the responsibility yourself.

Next, Erica led the team to visit Australia.

The Australian side is very concerned about Atlanta's plan to purchase Malus Island. After all, although the cooperation with the Raubom Naval Base has been blocked in Papua New Guinea, they understand the influence of Atlanta behind this.

The five-day visit resulted in the cooperation between Atlanta and Australia on mining investment and energy, especially electricity.

Atlanta Mining will cooperate with local companies in Australia to develop iron ore mining and smelting projects.

sp Power will build fast charging piles in Australia, and license related technologies to Australian companies, expanding the number of members of the fast charging standard alliance.

And Atlanta promised to keep an open attitude on the Malus issue. In the future, the Raubom Naval Base on Malus Island will allow the Australian Navy as a friendly country to resupply here. Of course, it will be paid.

After all, Australia is a "close ally" of the United States, and naturally understands the nature of the United States. The so-called good words are exhausted, and bad things are never done. The United States reached a tacit agreement, and they also achieved their own goals in a certain sense. Therefore, on the issue of Malus, in terms of interests, they also sided with Atlanta.

At a time when Papua New Guinea is having heated discussions on Atlanta's request to purchase Malus Province for US$200 billion, this news has also become the most popular international event.

At present, it seems that the overwhelming majority of voices in Papua New Guinea are in favor, which is not surprising, Papua New Guinea can be said to be a relatively "young" country.

As early as 1511, the Portuguese discovered the island of New Guinea; in the second half of the 18th century, colonists from the Netherlands, Britain, and Germany followed suit.

In 1906, British New Guinea was handed over to Australia for management and renamed the Australian Papua Territory; German New Guinea was occupied by the Australian Army in World War I, entrusted to Australia by the League of Nations on December 1920, 12, and occupied by Japan in 17. In 1942, the United Nations returned it to Australia for trusteeship.

In 1949, Australia merged the original British and German parts into one administrative unit, called "Papua New Guinea Territory".

It was not until 1975 that Papua New Guinea achieved independence, so it did not have a long history of national and national consciousness. Correspondingly, their citizens, and even the government, did not pay too much attention to the territory.

This is why they were initially willing to sell the Hermi Islands to Atlanta for $3 million.

Now, in the face of a huge amount of 200 billion US dollars, it is no wonder that they are so tempted.

What is the concept of 200 billion US dollars?It is almost 1.33 times their national GDP of the previous year. Papua New Guinea has a population of 800 million, and each person can get 2500 US dollars, which is equivalent to their per capita national income last year...

During the heated discussion in Papua New Guinea, the governor of Malus Province said that with the help of Atlanta, the economy of Malus has begun to develop rapidly, so if they can have closer ties with each other, Malus The Nurs people will look forward to it very much, hoping that things will have a perfect result.

Obviously, at this time, they have already shown a strong desire to join Atlanta. Some reporters interviewed ordinary people in Malus Province, which also confirmed this, and the speeches of those people were even more explicit. , Some people have even painted the Atlanta blue and white cross star logo on their faces to show their hearts.

In the end, the Papua New Guinea government decided to hold a referendum facing all citizens on November 11st to decide whether to sell the land of Malus Province to Atlanta. The referendum will last for 1 days, covering the current national If the final consent vote exceeds 3% of the total votes, the resolution will take effect, and Papua New Guinea will start negotiations with Atlanta on the sale of Malus Province.

It can be clearly seen that Papua New Guinea still tends to agree to sell the Malus Province to Atlanta, because on the one hand, this referendum also includes the Malus Province. Obviously, the Malus Province Residents of Sri Lanka province voted in favor of a very high percentage.

In addition, the condition for the resolution to take effect is that the consent votes account for 66.7% of the voters. This effective ratio is lower than the effective ratio of more than 70% for many other referendum conditions.

After the announcement of the upcoming referendum was announced by the Papua New Guinea side, the forces in Atlanta began to act, including many media in Papua New Guinea, and began to carry out various publicity to the public, detailing the Atlanta In terms of purchase conditions, the public has been satisfied, especially in addition to the 200 billion US dollars for land purchases, Atlantis will also invest more than 300 billion US dollars in the entire Papua New Guinea in the next five years.

With such a huge amount of money, once the land sale contract is reached, the income of the people of Papua New Guinea will greatly increase in the next few years; The economic exchanges between New Zealand will definitely cool down. Not only will the tax be reduced due to the withdrawal of its investment in Malus, but the current investment in PNG may also be lost. The result will be that the income of the people of PNG will soon be sharpened. If it is reduced, Papua New Guinea may even usher in a fiscal deficit.

I am afraid that since Papua New Guinea's independence, there has been no policy that has been propagated to all citizens through various channels like the conditions for purchasing land in Atlanta this time. It can also be seen that under the power of capital , How powerful the public opinion will be when the propaganda machine is activated.

The result did not disappoint Atlanta. After the referendum in Papua New Guinea ended on November 11, after 3 days of counting, finally on November 5, the President of Papua New Guinea announced that the result of the referendum was in Among the more than 11 million people who participated in the voting, more than 8% of the people voted in favor of the sale of land in Malus province to Atlanta by Papua New Guinea, which means that the resolution is in line with the process and the result is valid , Papua New Guinea will start negotiations with Atlanta on the sale of land in Malus Province.

To put it bluntly, this kind of negotiation is basically just a process. At most, the two parties will negotiate on the details of the handover of the Malus province, as well as the payment of funds and the way of investment.

Now that it has decided to sell, Papua New Guinea naturally wants a better price, but Atlanta is not stupid. Since the new century, there are no land sales cases that can be used as a reference. The only reference is Asia. Acquisition in which Tran participated.

And this time Atlanta's bid was actually sincere enough, otherwise Papua New Guinea would not be so tempted, so the final price reached still maintained Atlanta's original bid.

(End of this chapter)