Chapter 1265 Nanyang Treasure House

The ocean is a huge treasure trove.

The islands are rich in natural resources.

The Lan Fang Republic has always had good news in its resource exploration in recent years.

In recent years, the oil reserves discovered on land alone have reached 12.5 billion barrels, the natural gas reserves discovered have reached 3 trillion cubic meters, and the coal reserves have reached 20 billion tons.

As for gold, this is not the first time that gold mines have been discovered. In recent years, the gold mines discovered in Indonesia have increased their reserves by 4,500 tons!

As for the ocean, the offshore oil fields discovered by China Petroleum Group in the entire range have a recoverable oil reserve of 80 billion tons and natural gas of 16 trillion cubic meters.

Although there is no large-scale development of offshore oil and natural gas now, it does not mean that China Petroleum Group will not develop them.

It is estimated that by 2010, China Petroleum Group will produce 150 million tons of oil and 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas in this sea area to curb the rising trend of energy prices.

After all, as the world's largest importer of oil and natural gas, China needs to import too much oil and natural gas every year. Although some of it is supplied to Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, China itself consumes more.

China is also one of the biggest victims of rising oil and natural gas prices.

It's just that China can make profits in transportation, refining, and oil production, so China's losses in this regard are not so obvious.

Liu Tao naturally knows about the crackdown on pirates and rebel forces in Southeast Asian countries, because he has been doing this for many years.

According to the plan, it is expected that by 2008, all pirates and rebel forces will be cleared, so that the entire area will be completely restored to peace, and any opportunities for foreign powers will be taken.

By 2010, it will be the regional economic integration of Southeast Asia + China, which will remove many barriers.

At the time of 2010, the two sides issued a joint statement from the summit a few years ago.

As for South Asia, the time node is 2015~2020.

The biggest task of the military in the Lan Fang Republic, Luzon Republic and other countries is to eliminate all pirates and rebel forces.

As for the war of words between the Lan Fang Republic and Australia, Liu Tao doesn't care at all. The initiative of the war is not in the hands of Australia, because the Australian army is small, and the population is mainly concentrated in the southeast and western coastal areas, and there are no people in the north.

What Liu Tao should be vigilant about is that a large number of Japanese have immigrated to Australia in recent years.

According to incomplete statistics, the Japanese have purchased a lot of land in Australia, and there are about 2 million people in Australia. These Japanese have established "Japanese communities" and "Japanese schools" in Australia through a large number of immigrants. These communities and schools are almost closed and self-managed, and even some Japanese communities are guarded by Japanese security guards with guns.

In addition, Japan has also acquired a large amount of land and companies in Australia. By holding these companies, it is gradually mastering Australia's medical, electricity, media and other social resources.

What exactly do the Japanese want to do?

It is foreseeable that if it is not controlled and continues to develop in this way for a long time, will Australia still be the real Australia?

Liu Tao naturally knows the Japanese calculations at a glance.

As early as when Japan became a great power, there was a plan to go south to seize Australia.

During World War II, the Japanese Navy proposed a plan to invade Australia. Singapore fell after the Battle of Singapore in February 1942, and the Australian government, army and people generally felt that the invasion of Japan was imminent. Japan had sufficient military invasion strength at the time, while Australia lacked sufficient defense capabilities.

At that time, Japan also carried out some attacks on Australia, such as Japan's large-scale air raid on Darwin Port in northern Australia. This was also the first time in Australia's history that it was attacked by foreign troops. The air raid caused serious casualties and property losses.

In recent years, the Japanese have obviously changed to another strategy, that is, to continue to immigrate to Australia through immigration.

And this method works!

Now the whole of Australia has a population of more than 20 million!

The Japanese occupy one-tenth of Australia's population!

Unfortunately, the Australian army is very small and the population distribution is very uneven. If the Japanese engage in some armed forces in Australia, they can do it without anyone noticing.

Now Japan and Australia have a very good relationship, and they are on the same side in many things.

It just so happens that the United States has been appeasing Japan in recent years to prevent Japan from really fighting to the death.

This provides Japan with very favorable conditions.

Liu Tao has always maintained a strong vigilance against Japan, not only because of historical hatred, but also because of the characteristics of this nation.

If he is not careful, he may bite hard.

This is why the Republic of Lan Fang and the Republic of Luzon are strengthening their armaments and improving their military strength in order to cope with the possible chaos.

Burma, Siam, Malay, Lan Fang, and Luzon are the defense lines in the south, and they are also equivalent to unsinkable aircraft carriers, ensuring the safety of the Malacca route.

As long as there is no problem with this line of defense, the war in the south will not affect the overall situation.

As for the east, there are only two countries, one Japan and one South Korea. How big can the war be? In fact, the ceiling is there.

This is enough to ensure that China can remain invincible in times of chaos.

So far, China has reached the limit of its national strength.

Even if there is a chaos, South America and Africa will lose their interests, because both South America and Africa are too far away from China.

Even in the Middle East, China is also taking a win-win cooperation model with the Middle East to enhance the strength of Middle Eastern countries, and even actively promoting Arab integration, building bridges between Persians and Arabs, so that the contradictions between the two can be eased.

The real core interests are nothing more than these places, and they are all around China.

Liu Tao thought, it seems that in order to complete the elimination of pirates and rebel forces in 2008, it seems that more investment must be made.

Liu Tao went to Panshan Machinery Factory.

It only takes about ten minutes for a helicopter to get from the Panshan Group headquarters to Panshan Machinery Factory.

Soon, Liu Tao's helicopter was hovering over Panshan.

This is Liu Tao's helicopter. If other helicopters break into the sky, they will probably be shot down by anti-aircraft missiles at the first time.

As the predecessor of Panshan Group and also its old nest, Panshan Machinery Factory has deployed an anti-aircraft battalion.

But now, it is almost impossible to break through the air defense of the front line and come here.

Before reaching the land, as soon as entering the territorial waters, the Chinese Air Force will intercept, warn, and drive away. It is impossible to let the opponent's aircraft fly to this area.

The only way for the opponent to conduct reconnaissance is space satellite reconnaissance.

Therefore, once the opponent wants to attack here, it is impossible to use bombers, but only missiles.

However, a laser cannon base has been built here, which will shoot down satellites flying over the space above and incoming missiles when necessary. (End of this chapter)