Chapter 1273: Getting Something for Nothing

What can the United States offer as a trade?

South Korea is a chess piece of the United States and the first line of defense.

Japan is the largest vassal state of the United States and the largest economic colony. This is the second line of defense.

Guam is the largest naval and air force base of the United States in the Western Pacific. Various military facilities account for about 1/3 of the island's area, mainly including the Apra Nuclear Submarine Base, Agana Naval Air Station and Anderson Strategic Air Force Base.

During the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Guam, as an important naval and air strategic base, played an important role in assembling troops, transporting ammunition and supplies, and supporting long-range bombing.

To this day, Guam still has a vital strategic position, and its strategic position is becoming more and more prominent.

The United States can restore the Ryukyu Kingdom and lose the Okinawa military base because of Guam and Japan.

Guam is a super-large, unsinkable aircraft carrier.

The US military bases in Japan, Guam, Hawaii and the US military bases in the Pacific are all super-large, unsinkable aircraft carriers, allowing the United States to firmly control the Pacific.

As a maritime power, the United States attaches great importance to its maritime interests.

Unless it has to, the United States will not retreat.

Not to mention Australia, New Zealand and islands in Oceania, which are equivalent to an aircraft carrier in the eyes of Americans and are used to control the Pacific Ocean.

The first island chain, the second island chain, and the third island chain are no longer mentioned by Americans.

They have long been shattered.

Once upon a time, Americans intended to build the first island chain, the second island chain, and the third island chain, firmly locking and controlling the entire Pacific Ocean, thereby firmly controlling the initiative in strategic games.

The first island chain refers to the chain of islands from the Japanese Islands, Ryukyu Islands, and Treasure Island in the north to the Philippines and the Greater Sunda Islands in the south. Sometimes South Korea, located south of the Korean Peninsula, is also regarded as part of the first island chain.

Now this island chain only has the Japanese Islands and South Korea, which are naturally smashed to pieces.

The second island chain is centered on Guam, consisting of Japan's Ogasawara Islands, Iwo Jima Islands and the United States' Mariana Islands. Its rear support is the base group in Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

But now a huge hole has been opened here, and it can no longer be locked.

The only thing that is still intact is the third island chain.

The so-called third island chain is relative to the first and second island chains. It is a line of defense centered on Hawaii, the United States, from the Aleutian Islands in the north to some islands in Oceania in the south.

But the integrity of the third island chain is actually not of much significance.

Because nuclear submarines gallop across the ocean and become ghosts in the deep ocean, there is no need to attack the military bases of the third island chain, and they can directly attack the mainland.

So in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer references to the first, second and third island chains.

What price can the United States pay?

Now any price paid in the Pacific Ocean is something the United States is reluctant to pay.

Because a move will affect the whole body, and the impact is significant.

Liu Tao attended a meeting on climate.

Global warming is becoming more and more serious, and the disasters it causes are increasing. Alleviating global warming is a global consensus.

Especially some island countries with relatively low altitudes in the Pacific, because as the sea level rises, some island countries will be submerged by sea water and completely disappear.

In order to stop the trend of global warming, the United Nations specially formulated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

In recent years, Europe intends to propose carbon dioxide emission indicators to fix the annual carbon dioxide emission indicators of various countries, thereby preventing global warming.

If someone wants to emit more carbon dioxide, they can buy indicators from countries with excess carbon dioxide.

This approach is actually restricting the development of developing countries. After all, Europe has developed almost as well, and there is no low-end manufacturing industry. The carbon dioxide produced will naturally be less, and with the advantage of European countries in public opinion, they can often get more indicators.

This means that developing countries have to spend money to buy carbon dioxide emission indicators from Europe.

Europeans have been trying to promote this set, and even intend to occupy the moral high ground in public opinion.

However, this approach of Europeans has been collectively resisted by developing countries.

In this case, China proposed carbon neutrality, and each country formulated a carbon neutrality timetable.

The so-called carbon neutrality is to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of the target, and then offset them through tree planting and other methods, so as to achieve the goal of "zero" carbon emissions.

To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, it can usually be achieved by promoting the use of renewable energy and afforestation.

Developing new energy vehicles and new energy motorcycles, reducing fuel vehicles and fuel motorcycles, and carrying out a large number of afforestation, this is China's efforts.

At the same time, China is also building more hydropower stations, solar power generation, wind power, tidal power, and no longer building large-scale thermal power stations, which is also the direction of China's efforts towards carbon neutrality.

Liu Tao participated in this meeting to communicate with the Americans to promote the two sides to achieve the goal of preventing global warming on the line of "carbon neutrality".

As for the huge business opportunities contained in it, who can seize the business opportunities and who can eat a bigger piece of the cake naturally depends on their own abilities.

The United States itself is not very interested in the set proposed by the Europeans.

Because the United States is a major oil producer in the world and one of the few countries in the world that likes cars with large emissions, the amount of carbon dioxide produced each year is naturally incalculable. Americans are unwilling to do what Europe has proposed.

However, the concept of "carbon neutrality" is barely acceptable to Americans because it is both highly operational and has huge benefits.

People say that Americans don't know how to adapt?

In fact, Americans are very good at adapting. The key is benefits. As long as there are benefits, Americans know how to adapt.

Liu Tao participated in this exchange meeting and dialogue for the purpose of both parties.

Alleviating climate warming is a global consensus.

Global problems must be solved by all countries in the world.

Otherwise, if you work hard to solve it and others don't work hard to solve it, it will be useless.

Just like China, it has used all its strength to control desertification, and the Three North Shelterbelt has been implemented for so many years.

But the sandstorms in Outer Mongolia have directly made China complain.

The same principle applies to global climate warming.

Only when everyone unites and works together can this problem be effectively solved.

Otherwise, this problem is unsolvable.

Of course, all countries have expressed positive attitudes in this regard, because it concerns the image of the country, and the right attitude must be taken, but there is a lot of controversy about how to do it and what method to adopt. (End of this chapter)