Chapter 1205 Industrial Dependence
However, as time goes by, especially after the implementation of the New Economic Policy in East Africa, the East African beverage market in recent years can be said to have truly ushered in a glorious era of "a hundred schools of thought contending and a hundred flowers blooming".
As a typical light industry, there are no technical difficulties in the production and research and development of the beverage industry. This has resulted in at least tens of thousands of beverage brands appearing on the East African market in just a few years after the New Economic Policy, without requiring too much investment. , any small beverage family workshop, as long as the taste is passable, is enough to gain a foothold in society.
Of course, this can also easily cause many problems, such as lack of supervision, and there will definitely be problems with the quality of products from many small workshops and factories, but this is obviously difficult for the East African government to deal with today.
Under the New Economic Policy, so many new things suddenly appeared on the market, and now it is impossible for the East African government to check them one by one.
Of course, the problems behind the boom in the East African beverage market are dwarfed by those in European and American countries, so the East African government is not in a hurry to make large-scale rectifications.
Back to the East African World Expo, many tea varieties from the Far Eastern Empire were well received by the East African people. Many people placed orders on the spot, and the favored tea merchants had their faces frozen with laughter.
Many tea merchants from the Far East have come to East Africa for the first time, so they do not understand the emerging tea market in East Africa, which is large in scale and has strong consumption power.
The East Africa World Expo provides them with such a channel, allowing them to better understand the national conditions of East Africa, and through the feedback of the East African people, it also makes them realize that the East African tea market has great potential.
Tea is only one of the representative products of the Far Eastern Empire. Others such as porcelain, silk, handicrafts, etc. are also attracting attention from tourists and businessmen from all over the world.
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The East African government has been paying close attention to the situation of the East Africa World Expo, and the news coming from Dar es Salaam, First Town and Bagamoyo City also makes the East African government feel very satisfied.
Sweet said: "Judging from the current feedback, the World Expo has been quite successful. Nowadays, my country's products, industrial strength, urban development status and many other information are rapidly disseminated to southern countries and regions through the World Expo platform."
"If it goes well, this will greatly promote our progress in grabbing markets in southern countries and regions, such as electrical appliances, automobiles, textiles, etc., to gain more stable overseas markets."
The most important reason for East Africa to host this World Expo is to establish East Africa's influence in southern countries and regions.
In this way, these countries and regions can see the true development level and strong comprehensive national strength of East Africa, thereby establishing the authority of East Africa in southern countries and regions.
This is actually digging into the foundations of traditional European powers such as Britain and France. East Africa and the United States are each wielding hoes to dig into the corners of European countries. It can be predicted how aggrieved the European victors will be after the European war is over. Even if it is bad, its influence and voice in the world are not as good as before.
Ernst said: "The scale and impact of this World Expo are huge, and we will continue to pay attention to it in the next six months."
"This is different from our attitude towards Europe. Today, the European market only has temporary vacancies due to the war. When the war is over, these vacancies will be filled."
"And if we take advantage of this period to build strong industrial production capabilities, it will be very dangerous if we do not digest them in time and find a stable overseas base."
"So the southern countries and regions are our new positions for digesting the wealth gained in the war, and integrating these countries and regions into our East African commodity market and raw material supply system." "In this way, after the war, our country's industry This will prevent our country from shrinking rapidly due to overproduction, thus allowing our country to survive the difficult economic period.”
In fact, after the war in the previous life, the world economy still ushered in new prosperity. After all, the entire Europe was severely damaged by the war, and it took time for European countries to restore normal social production.
During the war, a large number of farmland, houses, roads, and factories were destroyed, which also led to strong demand in Europe after the war.
When the European economy completely recovered, which was almost the same as the German economy in the previous life, the entire world ushered in an economic crisis of unprecedented scale, and this crisis also laid the foundation for World War II.
This is easy to understand. In the previous life, the United States expanded its production capacity rapidly during World War I. After the end of World War I, this expansion of production capacity was continued due to the post-war depression in European society. However, after countries such as Britain, France, and Germany resumed production, the Overcapacity is bound to come.
Therefore, from an economic perspective, the outbreak of World War II is inseparable from the United States. After all, the culprit of the Great Depression before World War II was the disorderly expansion of crazy capital in the United States.
This involves two aspects. One is the serious overcapacity in the United States, and the U.S. government turns a blind eye to risky choices. On the other hand, the United States invests in Germany in order to rearm Germany, which has led to the rapid recovery of German industry, and the industries of other countries. Recovery and development, market capacity simply cannot support this kind of economic prosperity in the short term.
The fundamental reason why the United States and Germany are singled out is that before World War II, the United States and Germany were the two most powerful industrial countries in the world, which gave them a huge impact on the world economy.
In this time and space, there is a heavyweight player like East Africa. Ernst can foresee that if an economic crisis occurs after the war in the future, it will only come earlier than in the previous life, and will be larger in scale and more powerful. .
Therefore, when Ernst already knew that such a far-reaching global economic crisis was bound to break out, the dispatch of this big ship in East Africa became even more important.
There is no doubt that the most effective way to deal with economic crises is to transfer conflicts to the colonies. This is also an important reason why Britain and France were able to easily survive economic crises in the past. This also reflects the reason why Germany is more bellicose than Britain and France. .
Except for the Juncker aristocratic system, even if Germany does not provoke a war and does not have colonies as a reservoir, its ability to deal with economic crises is much smaller than that of Britain and France. At this time, unless Germany is willing to carry out social reforms to benefit the people, Expand the capacity of the domestic market, but even if it does so, it may not be effective, and it may backfire on itself.
In comparison, the risks of gambling such as war are much smaller than taking the initiative to reform, so it is better to compete with Britain and France. The reform may destroy itself, and even if it succeeds, it will only allow Germany to temporarily survive. through a dangerous economic cycle.
Although war also carries the risk of national subjugation, its visible benefits are also huge. After all, the winner can have hegemony over the entire Europe, so if Ernst was the ruler of Germany, he could only choose to go to war.
In the final analysis, society's resources are limited within a certain period of time. If East Africa wants to survive the economic crisis stably, it must obtain more overseas markets and colonies, and it must be stable overseas markets and colonies.
For example, Germany's pre-war colonies seemed to be quite large, but their strength basically did not play a role. Instead, Germany's investment was wasted. If it were not for the support of East Africa, Germany would not even see any oil.
Therefore, the regional economic hegemony and colonies that East Africa is plotting must keep in mind the lessons of Germany. They cannot wait for the end of the European war and the original framers of the world order, Britain and France, reach out and run away.
If you want to develop economic colonies, there are only two points, one is the threat of force, and the other is inducement. The East Africa World Expo belongs to the second point. By connecting with the markets of southern countries and regions, they will become dependent on East African industries.
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