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After a quick minimalist lunch, the two changed their original tour plan and went to Belgrade's largest market to conduct a price survey. After spending half a day, they finally confirmed the information they got from the waiter.

Food prices in Srbija are really rising.

This price increase actually started only three days ago, but in just these three days, the price of major grains on the market has tripled.

This is very scary. The rate of increase is so fast that even the local media and official agencies have not reacted. Judging from the local news, most people believe that this is due to the heavy rains in the past few days that prevented food from being transported into the city. of.

But as a bystander, La Zirou made a judgment on this situation almost based on intuition, and this judgment was proven to be extremely accurate in subsequent communications with relevant agencies.

In a conference room within the Chinese Embassy in Srbija, a meeting gathering all Chinese official personnel in Srbija is underway, and the theme of this meeting is only one, that is, how to deal with the next possible riots caused by rising food prices.

In the conference room, a man stood in front of the screen and was giving a briefing to everyone.

"Everyone is basically aware of the situation. According to the results we have just confirmed with Serbian officials, the recent increase in food prices in Belgrade is indeed related to the operations of certain food suppliers."

"These suppliers have purchased large quantities of grains in stock in the market in recent days without actually putting them into food production. Instead, they sold the grains to brewers, who immediately started large-scale wine production. Such production will consume all the food currently stored in a very short period of time in the future."

"This kind of operation has almost no profit for them. They are not even hoarding to make profits, but simply want to increase food prices and cause food shortages."

"Their motives could not be more obvious, but there is nothing we can do about it - we cannot directly interfere with Serbia's strategy."

"As far as we know, Serbian officials will introduce a series of measures to deal with rising food prices in the future, but we can only be skeptical about the effectiveness of these strategies."

"So, what we have to do next is to prepare ourselves and prepare to face the first wave of impact."

"After the first wave of shocks is over, my country's technical assistance to Serbia, especially in price control, will basically be able to play its role."

After listening to his words, everyone in the conference room nodded in unison, and then someone asked:

"So what exactly do we need to do? Should we first stabilize and stand by, or should we proactively cooperate with the Serbian side?"

The man paused for a moment and replied:

"This is also the topic we are going to discuss today. I want to ask everyone, which option do you prefer?"

"Stabilizing standby is the safest option. If we choose this direction, we will organize relevant personnel to shrink defenses in the future, avoid going out, and resume normal life and work after this wave of impact has passed."

"If you take the initiative to cooperate, then from now on, we will assign tasks to your departments, and each department will be responsible for corresponding professional work to help the Serbian side cope with this impact to the greatest extent."

"Objectively speaking, this is an international responsibility that we should bear. However, apart from us, I am afraid that no other country will make this choice - they will watch the fire from the other side."

"This route is more dangerous and difficult, because once we intervene in the conflict, it is very likely that the well-known bad guy will turn his finger on us, and once this change occurs."

The man did not continue, but everyone understood what he meant.

More than 20 years ago, Yugoslavia was also facing serious difficulties at that time, and China chose to stand firmly on their side. Everyone knew the final result.

Although from an objective reality perspective, China's overall strength is no longer the same, China still faces the same opponent, and this opponent has also continued their crazy and shameless style of doing things.

This is not China's territory. Who can guarantee that they will not repeat what happened back then?

What's more, they don't even need to make too obvious actions. They just need to instruct their allies to create some accidents in a covert way. Then in this country whose military power is completely unable to compete with surrounding powers, everyone's life safety will be at stake. will be seriously threatened.

This is not a question that can be made easily, because no one will play with their own lives.

Everyone in the conference room fell into a brief silence. After a while, someone spoke:

"I tend to be fully involved and cooperative."

It was La Zirou who spoke. She stood up and walked to the screen, took the microphone from the man's hand, and continued:

"First of all, we have to clarify a question, that is, does the Serbian side need our help and whether we can provide them with help? If they do not need our assistance, there is no basis for what we are discussing now. .”

"However, I believe everyone knows the answer to this question."

"Srbija, although this country was once powerful, after divisions, wars, and disasters time and time again, their national strength and governance level began to decline significantly. In this incident, the official control of the grain market The slow response is proof of that.”

“They are far behind other countries at the same level in terms of organizational capabilities, public opinion propaganda capabilities, economic regulation capabilities, and industrial production capabilities. When faced with a crisis, I even doubt that they are unable to organize effective response measures. "

"As for us, although we don't have many institutions and a small staff, we just have the capabilities they need."

"The professional experience we have accumulated in related fields over decades can completely make up for their current deficiencies."

“So, my answer to the question ‘is it necessary and can it be done’ is clear.”

After saying this, La Zirou looked around and made sure that everyone agreed with her point of view before continuing:

"Now that the basic issue is solved, we can move on to the next issue, which is the question of 'should we do it or not?'"

"I have two arguments for this."

"First, from the perspective of our cooperative relationship with Serbia, I think we should help them."

"I won't go into details about the reasons, but I can give you a few examples."

“In 2009, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia strongly condemned violent acts, opposed separatism, and supported the Chinese official’s efforts to maintain stability. This statement is the first international support our country has received after the incident, and it will take even longer. Long before Xiong Da showed his support to us.”

"In 2014, the Serbian official once again publicly supported our country at an extremely sensitive stage of the international situation. After that, Srbija immediately received the most severe sanctions and suppression in history from hundreds of countries."

“In 2019, Serbia announced that it would fully cooperate with our Belt and Road policy, and at the same time rejected the EU’s conditions for joining, becoming the only island in the region that has neither joined the EU nor 100 countries.”

"Srbija has always stood on the front line of the battlefield against Baiyue. They have never forgotten their hatred with Chou Country and Baiyue. This kind of choice at the national level is extremely rare nowadays."

"It can be said that, even based on this alone, we should treat them as our closest allies and lend a helping hand when they need it."

After pausing for a moment and taking a sip of water, La Zirou continued:

"What I said above is a judgment based on history, and what I am going to say next is a judgment based on reality."

"Although this food crisis in Srbija appears to be the West's encirclement and suppression of Srbija, in fact, if we continue to explore this issue in depth, we can find that the other party's intentions are definitely not as simple as Srbija's."

"As a small country, even if they finally compromise and surrender to the Western system, how much benefit can it bring to the West? Why do they need to go to war over this?"

"This is a major doubt, and there is a simple logic to explain it."

"That is, Srbija is just a springboard."

"Their ultimate goal is to threaten us through Srbija."

"So whether we chose to intervene or not, actually from the moment they started targeting Srbija, their eyes were already on us."

"We have no choice and cannot be weak. The battle has begun and we can only fight."