Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

The answer did not meet Tan Zhenhua's expectations.

He Jing invited him to Xingjiapo in her personal capacity as a "senior sister" for the purpose of the Pakistani Gwadar port.

As readers know, in order to sabotage Tan Zhenhua’s smoothly winning the Gwadar Port development project, the Americans specially formed a bidding consortium. One party of this consortium is "U.S. California United Petroleum Corporation" and the other is " Xingjiapo Port Group".

The "Xingjiapo Port Group" is actually a subsidiary of Temasek.

Temasek was established in 1974, nominally a holding company registered in a private name, but in fact it is supervised by the Singapore Ministry of Finance. It operates the Singapore Development Bank, Singapore Airlines, DBS Bank, Singapore Metro, The equity of 44 so-called "National Union Enterprises", including Ocean Emperor Shipping, Singapore Electric Power, Singjiapo Port Group, Singjiapo Petroleum, Singjiapo Chemical Group, etc., these 44 core "National Union Enterprises" control more than 2,000 affiliates enterprise.

The so-called "National League Enterprises" are actually "enterprises connected with the country" and can be understood as "state-owned enterprises with Xingjiapo characteristics."

In Xingjiapo, the companies associated with Temasek are also called "Danlian". According to statistics, the entire "Danlian" contributes 13% of Singapore's national GDP and 47% of the stock market value. The contribution and impact of the **** economy.

From the companies controlled by Temasek, it can be seen that they basically cover the most basic industries of people’s livelihood, finance, transportation, and energy supply in the national economy of Singapore, and they are the most indispensable and core companies in the operation of the country’s economy.

However, since Temasek is still a "private company" in name, it must have formed a board of directors by private shareholders. In fact, Temasek has never disclosed its financial statements and shareholder structure. These are strictly confidential, except that people know The company's annual operating profit needs to be turned over to the Xingjiapo Finance Bureau for half of the profits of Xingjiapo's investment in the form of the state, and has no knowledge of other operating conditions of this company.

But at least one thing is well known to everyone-the "father of the country" Lee Kwong Yew family must occupy an important position on Temasek's board of directors.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why people generally call the country Xingjiapo "Lijiapo".

So although Ho Jing is only a middle-level and senior leader of the "Sing Kapo Technology Company" under Temasek's holding company, on the surface it seems that it has nothing to do with "Sing Kapo Port Group", but based on her multiple identities, It is the best person to communicate and negotiate with Tan Zhenhua.

But to be honest, after a seemingly indifferent conversation with China’s “Longmen Array” style, Tan Zhenhua still admires this “senior sister” in her heart, from her inadvertent conversation. From the analysis and understanding of the international political and economic environment, this Stanford Master of Electronic Engineering not only has a broad vision, but also has a rigorous and solid logical ability. He is a rare female middle school hero when he sees the problem sharply, and it is no wonder she To be the helm of Temasek in the future, nepotism is just the handrail on which she can step onto the top.

Admire to admire, the question of principle Tan Zhenhua will not let one step.

Xingjiapo Port Group and PSA, this time joined the bidding consortium for the Pakistani Gwadar project. On the one hand, it is naturally out of the consideration of expanding its own operations. After all, port operation was originally its main business and the world’s good port resources It is limited. Gwadar, a port with good geographical advantages and good prospects, will of course become the target of PSA; and the forward-looking and crisis-conscious PSA leadership has been arguing that a certain occurrence is unlikely, but once Preventive measures are prepared for incidents that will cause a major blow to PSA and even the entire Xingjiapo economy.

This small probability event that may occur is the so-called "Malacca Strait Dividend Depletion".

When Xingjiapo was just founded, the relationship with Malay in the north and Indonesia in the south was not harmonious. In addition, because of its small population and small place, it is indeed not easy to develop.

Fortunately, although the country is small, its location is very good. It tightly chokes the Strait of Malacca, the traffic throat from the Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific.

With this unique location advantage, Xingjiapo vigorously develops the port and shipping, just as the high-quality "service area" business on a busy highway must be good, and ships coming and going are willing to choose this "service area" with the best service. "Standing here, replenishment, refueling, maintenance, and transshipment of goods, coupled with catching up with the good times of the economic boom in East Asia and Southeast Asia-first the Japanese country, then the four Asian dragons including Xingjiapo himself, and then After China opened, the Strait of Malacca suddenly became one of the busiest straits in the world.

The increasingly busy Strait of Malacca and Xingjiapo Port have brought countless wealth to the country, but under this prosperous area, hidden worries have gradually emerged.

Because Xingjiapo's economy is too dependent on this strait.

However, the jurisdiction of this 800-kilometer-long strait is not unique to Xingjiapo. Indonesia and Malaysia are also co-managers along the strait, and these two countries are both populous countries. The attitude of the Strait is very different from that of Xingjiapo-Xingjiapo's land area is too small and lacks strategic depth. Faced with the oppression of these two surrounding powers, he chose to seek refuge in the United States and make Changi Naval Base in fact Handed over to the management of the U.S. Navy, there is an aircraft carrier strike group stationed here all year round. However, India and Malaysia have always insisted that the affairs of the Malacca Strait can only be managed by the coastal countries and resolutely oppose the interference of external forces, just because the U.S. The military strength of the country is so strong that the two countries barely swallowed their breath—in other words, if the U.S. guys overturned the car one day, then India and Malaysia would not mind that they would work together to oppress Xingjiapo to give up a big chunk. The benefits come.

In addition to India and Malaysia, there is another country that has been eyeing the interests of the Strait of Malacca-Dai.

Looking at the map of Southeast Asia, you will know that there is a narrow strip of land in Chumphon and Ranong provinces of the Dai Kingdom. It is the narrowest place in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula. It is only 56 kilometers wide. It is connected to the Indochina Peninsula in the north and the Malay Islands in the south. This area is called "Kara Isthmus".

About 400 kilometers south of the Kela Isthmus (between 7 degrees and 10 degrees north latitude) are all Dai territory, the highest point is only 75 meters above sea level, so the Dai people said, if a canal can be built here, then ships From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, there is no need to detour through Malay and Xingjiapo, and no need to cross the Strait of Malacca. The voyage is shortened by at least about 1,200 kilometers!

In fact, the Dai people have been actively looking for investors in the canal internationally. They have even carried out the operations on the map. The proposed Kela Canal, which traverses the Kela Isthmus in southern Dai, is 102 kilometers long, 400 meters wide, and has a water depth of 25. Meters, two-way waterway, the initial construction budget is 20 billion U.S. dollars (the evaluation basis is the purchasing power of U.S. dollars in the 1980s).

It is conceivable that once this canal is completed, it will have a significant impact on the commercial trade of China, Japan, South Korea and other countries. After all, shorter transportation distance means higher freight efficiency and lower cost. There is no doubt that this will push Xingjiapo's economy into the abyss!

These two hidden worries are enough to cause headaches for the Xingjiapo people. Now a Gwadar Port project has suddenly emerged. How can we not make the Li family anxious to get angry?