The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Lantern Festival.

Lantern festivals and fireworks festivals are being held all over China.

In the Maldives, the parties involved in the South Asian war held the first round of peace talks here.

Five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council sent representatives to participate.

The Maldives is suitable for tourism all year round, with a very pleasant climate. It is also a world-famous resort.

In February, the average daily maximum temperature in the Maldives was 31℃, and the average daily minimum temperature was 26℃. The climate is very suitable for tourism and vacation.

This time, with the efforts of all parties, the warring parties in the South Asian war finally agreed to hold the first round of peace talks in the Maldives.

In other places, everyone has different opinions on peace talks, but in the Maldives, everyone has no opinions.

Since the Maldives was re-established, this country composed of archipelagos has focused on tourism and is tourism-oriented, and is not keen on international politics.

Although the Maldives is small and has a small population, it has a maritime patrol team that cannot be underestimated, and no one wants to provoke it.

Over the years, the refugees caused by the civil war in Sri Lanka have thought about sailing to the Maldives, becoming citizens of the Maldives, and enjoying the social welfare of the Maldives, but they have all failed.

The Maldives is very close to the South Asian subcontinent, only about 600 to 700 kilometers away. It consists of 26 groups of natural atolls and 1,192 coral islands distributed in 90,000 square kilometers of sea area, of which 200 islands are inhabited. The land area is 115,300 square kilometers (including territorial waters), the land area is 298 square kilometers, and the population is 1 million, of which 980,000 are from China, and 20,000 are from all over the world.

This is also a rare country in the world that is dominated by the tourism economy.

In the Maldives, tourism income occupies a dominant position in the economy.

Of course, this does not mean that the Maldives has no other industries.

The Maldives also has agriculture, industry, fisheries, and finance!

In terms of agriculture, the Maldives has 6,900 hectares of arable land, and there are two to three thousand people who specialize in agricultural production, providing the Maldives with a large amount of vegetables, coconuts, watermelons, bananas, tomatoes and other agricultural products.

Of course, a large part of agricultural products have to rely on imports.

In terms of industry, the Maldives mainly engages in some ship repair and maintenance, as well as handicrafts such as marine fish, fruit processing, weaving, and clothing processing.

As for fisheries, the Maldives has rich fishery resources, rich in tuna, bonito, mackerel, lobster, sea cucumber, grouper, shark, turtle and hawksbill turtle, etc. In addition to meeting its own needs, it can also be exported to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the mainland.

As for tourism, it accounts for more than 50% of GDP all year round. China alone has more than 4 million tourists visiting the Maldives every year.

This time, everyone chose to hold the first round of peace talks here because the climate here is pleasant and it is a resort. Everyone can take a vacation by the way, and they will not be too angry.

However, India's proposal to cease fire on the pre-war demarcation line was immediately opposed by all parties.

After all, the war was provoked by India, so how could it not pay a price?

All parties put forward their own conditions.

The Indian representative's face turned green when he heard it, and he said bluntly that India would never agree to these conditions.

As the saying goes, asking for a high price, but paying a low price.

The first round of negotiations was like this. All parties asked for a high price, and there were huge differences.

However, the intensity of the war on the battlefield dropped sharply.

In fact, the South Asian countries did not want to fight. Everyone's economy was developing well, and there were no major contradictions within.

As a result, India went crazy and rashly provoked a war.

It forced everyone to declare war on India.

Now there is a step down, and everyone acquiesced.

Subsequently, the two camps held four consecutive rounds of negotiations. Finally, in the fifth round of negotiations, all parties signed the "South Asian War Armistice Agreement".

The armistice agreement stipulates that the Thar Desert becomes a buffer zone, and India and Pakistan are not allowed to set up military facilities or garrisons in the Thar Desert; India will give up some cities and territories, and the two sides will use rivers and mountains as boundaries.

The reason why the agreement was signed so quickly is that everyone's focus at this time is on the North Korean nuclear issue and the Iranian nuclear issue.

The North Korean nuclear issue is related to the situation in Northeast Asia. All parties held a new round of six-party talks to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.

Similarly, Persia's resumption of nuclear fuel research activities has attracted great attention from the international community, and mediation has been launched immediately.

Except for the five permanent members of the Security Council, other countries are not allowed to possess nuclear weapons. This is currently an international consensus.

North Korea and Persia want to develop nuclear weapons, which is obviously unacceptable to everyone.

Of course, during this period, the world is also paying attention to the development of aerospace.

The US "Star" probe brought back comet dust samples for the first time. After that, the European Space Agency's "Venus Express" probe flew near Venus and successfully carried out an elliptical orbit, and the "Smart 1" probe hit the moon to explore the mystery. The US space shuttles Discovery and Atlantis were launched three times.

China once again carried out a manned space mission and began to prepare for the construction of a space station.

At the same time, China's Chang'e probe returned to Earth with lunar soil, representing the complete success of China's lunar exploration project.

In theory, since the Chang'e probe can bring lunar soil back to Earth, it can also bring astronauts back to Earth safely.

In addition, after the orbiter of the Tianwen-1 Mars probe entered the orbit around Mars, it carried out ground observation, especially detailed survey of the pre-selected landing area. Now the Mars rover Zhurong, which is finally carried, has separated from the orbiter, landed on the surface of Mars using a parachute and a reverse rocket, and carried out a patrol and exploration mission lasting 90 Martian days.

The scientific exploration tasks to be completed by the Zhurong Mars rover include: morphology and geological structure detection of the Mars patrol area, soil structure (profile) detection and water ice exploration of the Mars patrol area, exploration of surface elements, minerals and rock types of the Mars patrol area, and atmospheric physical characteristics and surface environment detection of the Mars patrol area.

The Mars rover is equipped with 6 scientific payloads, including: Mars surface composition detector, multi-spectral camera, navigation terrain camera, Mars rover sub-surface detection radar, Mars surface magnetic field detector, and Mars meteorological meter.

This is China's first Mars probe, and it is also China's first probe to land on Mars. This is of great significance for China to understand Mars and conduct research on Mars.

Of course, in this process, the strength of China's aerospace industry is also demonstrated.

In addition, China also announced a more detailed space exploration schedule, including a timetable for the establishment of a space station and a timetable for landing on the moon!

And George Walton also officially announced that the United States would return to the moon in 2010, which means that the United States would once again launch a plan to land on the moon.

This seemed to have once again set off a wave of enthusiasm for space exploration in the world. (End of this chapter)