Chapter 476: Win-win

Gwadar Port is a transliteration of Urdu, the official language of Pakistan Railways, and its original meaning is a very poetic word: "The Gate of Wind".
This port is located in the south of Gwadel City in the southwestern part of Balochistan Province. It is an excellent deep-water port. Its coordinates are located at 25.2 degrees north latitude and 62.19 degrees east longitude, covering an area of ​​approximately 14,600 square kilometers.
It is a pity that this excellent deep-water port is currently only a small fishing village.
Open the blue star world map and you will find that the strategic location of Gwadar Port is really great!
It is only about 120 kilometers away from the Pakistan Railway-Ipersia border, south of the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean, and only about 400 kilometers away from the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, the main global oil transportation channel. Passing through the Red Sea, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf to the throat of several important maritime routes in East Asia and the Pacific.
In fact, the Pakistan Railway has already seen the strategic value of this port. In fact, as early as 1964, they decided to build Gwadar into a port. It is a pity that the funds to be used for this project are really beyond the ability of the poor Pakistani railway government to bear independently, and the next few wars have greatly affected the power of the Pakistani railway. Therefore, the planning for this port has so far been It can only exist in the minds of certain strategic-minded people in the government.
Tan Zhenhua knows even more that this port is a key for China to break through the US blockade in the future!
Before his rebirth, after 40 years of reopening and construction, Huaxia finally grew into the second largest economy of Bluestar. Of course, huge energy, mineral imports and commodity export demands followed, and, The various blockades in the United States that wake up.
If you carefully observe the geographic location of China, you will know that this ancient country located in the east of the world is surrounded by a circle of large and small islands, and these islands constitute an island chain, which has also become the US used to contain China’s rise. Natural base.
Among these island chains, the one that has the greatest impact on China is the "Strait of Malacca" at the end of the "first island chain."
The Strait of Malacca, located between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has a total length of about 1,080 kilometers. The widest point in the northwest is 370 kilometers, and the narrowest point of the Singapore Strait is only 37 kilometers. It connects the Pacific and Indian Oceans. International waterways are under the jurisdiction of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
This strait is the economic lifeline of the entire East Asia region. Oil extracted from Central Asia must pass through this waterway to continuously flow into the three major industrial powers in East Asia: the Japanese, South Korea, and China. These three industries Most of the commodities produced by powerful countries are also sent to the world through this waterway. It can be said that the control of this waterway also controls the economic lifeline of the entire East Asia region.
During the peak period, 80% of China's annual oil consumption needs to be imported, and 85% of imported oil needs to be transported through this waterway, which shows its strategic position.
However, in this waterway, in its narrowest place, there is a strategic opponent-Singapore.
This country, which is basically composed of Chinese, is a loyal "ally" of the United States. It not only relies on this golden waterway to make a fortune, but also often makes some small actions to hinder the development of China, such as engaging in wind and rain on the South China Sea issue. So much so that Tan Zhenhua gave this country a nickname "Yellow Skin White Heart" on the Internet in his previous life.
Take the "Gwadar Port" that Tan Zhenhua now uses to bet against Mahmoud. In Tan Zhenhua's previous life, in 2007, in order to block China's development and utilization of this port, Singapore did not hesitate to buy some key figures in the Pakistan Railway. , And spent a lot of money to bid for Gwadar’s 40-year management right, and then deliberately put it in waste... If it weren’t for the Pakistan Railway finally awakened and took back its management right after 5 years, it was then granted to Huaxia Enterprise Development. The port does not yet know how many years it will be idle.
More importantly, Singapore signed a military agreement with the United States in 2000 and provided the Changi naval base for use by the United States.
Changi Naval Base is a deep-water harbor that can accommodate large fleets of ships, including aircraft carriers and cruisers, and is equipped with advanced automatic storage warehouses and automatic surveillance systems.
This is the first aircraft carrier berthing base obtained by the U.S. navy in Southeast Asia since the U.S. has withdrawn from Subic Bay. Due to its important geographical location, the U.S. Seventh Fleet stationed here can cross the Strait of Malacca within 24 hours. , Enter the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and reach the Gulf region; and to the east, you can directly enter the South China Sea.
And the existence of this US military base undoubtedly puts the Chinese bones in the throat, because it can cut off the main traffic route of the Malacca Strait at any time!
However, if China takes control of Gwadar Port, then the situation will change drastically. A lot of arrangements and investments made by the United States around the Strait of Malacca will lose most of its role, and StarPlus, which relies on tolls to make a fortune Poe, then let's stay where it is cool.
This is like making him work hard to build a toll station, but we built a shortcut in front of this toll station that can be easily bypassed...
Surely Singapore will be extremely desperate, right?
Of course, it is not enough to rely on a port alone. It is also necessary to build a heavy-duty freight railway from Gwadar Port through Pakistan Railway to China Kashgar and a basically parallel oil pipeline. This short-circuit of material circulation can be considered as a complete connection.
These are huge plans that Tan Zhenhua wants to gradually complete, and the amount of funds needed is also huge. It is by no means what his small body can afford now, but the so-called "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", there is only this first step. It is possible to reach the goal after stepping out. What's more, Xiao Tan Tan is not stupid. He will never do these big things alone, and if this matter is really put on the agenda, it will take several years. By that time, there must be more. People, are you on your own thief ship?
Second Young Master Tan thought beautifully, complimenting him for actually coming up with such a bet.
Regardless of the result of the final bet, whether Chen Yijian's "Flying Leopard" fighter can be recognized by the Colonel Mahmoud in front of him, his Xiao Tan Tan is a winner.
So, this is the so-called "win-win" right? For a win-win situation, I should win twice, right?
So he smiled and nodded at Mahmoud: "Of course it is true, Mr. Colonel, in your memory, have I ever deceived you?"
After thinking about it for a while, Mahmoud nodded and said, "Tan, of course I believe in your character, so, shall we be determined?"
"A word is settled!"