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China helps Tanzania to repair the port, and the conditions and contracts have been agreed. , because of Japan and Britain's deception, gave up their Chinese friends.
Two years later, they knew they were fooled and wanted to hold on to China's thighs again. What is the connection between this country and China?
Speaking of Tanzania, many people must be very familiar with it. Although this country is located in Africa,
, many Chinese netizens know this East Africa old iron, and the main reason is that the army of this country was once called East Africa PLA .
But in fact, more exchanges between China and Tanzania are still at the economic level.
Although Tanzania is a small country, its mineral resources are quite rich. Unlike some African countries who are lying down and waiting to die, the Tanzanian government still has some ambitions to develop.
In the era of colonial rule, due to the plunder and development of the colonists, it was once very barren. After independence, Tanzania had a total of 945,000 square kilometers.
After European colonists left Africa one after another, many African countries fell into secession and civil war. At that time, China and the Soviet Union often provided international assistance.
African countries that have just gained independence are naturally the main targets of aid. At that time, many countries were happy to find the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union was stronger than China.
However, this kind of surrender to the Soviet Union often offends the United States inadvertently, so some countries have also favored China. Tanzania is one of them.
After the founding of the country in the 1960s, the first president, Nyrell, chose China after considering the international situation. At that time, there were not many African countries who came to China for international assistance, but most of them were very short-sighted.
either directly ask for money or food to be found in China, and there is no awareness of independent development at all. When Tanzanians came to China, the request made by them surprised China, that is, they wanted China to help build a road.
Because Tanzania is a poor country, although its products are very rich, due to the congestion of transportation, the goods cannot be transported out.
is like a mountain of gold placed in front of you, but it cannot be realized. So in order to continue to develop, the President of Tanzania asked China to help build this road.
At that time, some Western countries saw that this road was huge profits and thought that there should be a lot of money to make, and they followed the trend and proposed plans, but almost all the prices were sought out, or political blackmail.
When the Tanzanians came to China with the try-test, they asked for road construction and had no hope in their hearts.
But who knew that after hearing Tanzania's request, China quickly agreed.
promised so readily, which made Nyrel feel a little uncomfortable, fearing that China would also speak loudly. But what he could not imagine was that the conditions given by China were really tempting.
Nerel, who visited China to discuss specific matters, was cordially received by Premier Zhou Enlai.
During the talks, China not only proposed multiple plans to repair this road, but China was very pleased when talking about project funds.
said that China can send construction workers directly to Tanzania. The design and construction of the road will allow most of the Chinese construction team to take action directly.
, and Tanzania only needs to give some construction payments below the market price and help with some labor. With the help of China, the road was quickly successfully built.
Tanzania's various ores have been continuously moving from this railway to the international market. After Has the money to sell mines, Tanzania's economy began to make rapid progress, and the friendship between China and Tanzania has also continued to develop.
At the same time, China, a major agricultural country, has also helped Tanzania improve agricultural technology, allowing Tanzanian farmers to bid farewell to the days when they rely on the weather to make a living.
Although this past has passed for a long time, the relationship between China and Tanzania is still very strong now.
On some infrastructure issues, Tanzania still thinks of China, and there is a port construction. Who knew that it was this port, but there was almost a big problem with the relationship between China and Tanzania.
From the establishment of diplomatic relations to 2017, China has helped Tanzania to carry out more than 700 projects.
You should know that before the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Tanzania maintained high growth in GDP for several consecutive years. This is a very rare phenomenon in Africa.
As China embarked on the Belt and Road Initiative, Tanzania's sufficient natural resource advantages should play a greater role in the process of globalization.
So with the advancement of the "Belt and Road", the Bagamoyo port project was put on the agenda.
Bagamoyo is a seaport city in Tanzania. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean, close to the Zanzibar Strait, and the estuary of the Ruf River. It can be regarded as the eastern gate of Africa.
was the center of ruling the German colonists in the past. When colonialism was prevalent, the trafficking of black slaves was very popular.
In addition to the Black Triangle trade in West Africa region, the slave trade in East Africa is also very strong, and Bagamoyo is the center of East Africa slave trade.
The blacks who were captured in the heart of Africa were forced to come to the city by colonists, and then sent these poor black slaves to all parts of the world according to the needs of the slave buyers in the port.
Over time, Bagamoyo became a large port city in East Africa. In the local language system, Bagamoyo means throwing the heart here.
Because this is the last stop for black slaves to board the ship, after leaving here, these poor people have almost no chance of returning to their hometown.
After the colonists left, the port failed to play its due role for a long time. With the economic development of Tanzania and the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative.
In 2013, this port development issue was put into plan.
This year, President Xi Jinping visited Tanzania. After negotiations between the two heads of state, the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Integrated Development Project of Bagamoyo Ports.
Since China has an example of Shenzhen Special Zone , Tanzania at that time also wanted to build an African Shenzhen with the help of China. You should know that the location of Bagamoyo is much better than the Shenzhen Certificate.
Since both parties have their own needs, let’s just make plans without further ado. After verified by experts from multiple parties and negotiations between neighboring countries, China, Oman and Tanzania decided to work together.
Soon, in 2015, the foundation of the Bagamoyo port project was laid. This is not like the small-scale fights in the past, with the initial estimate of investment of up to US$10 billion.
If China hadn’t improved its national strength, this aid would have been unable to continue. Of course, China cannot directly lose 10 billion, and it cannot get any benefits for itself. This kind of sucker is naturally undesirable.
So in order to recover the high construction costs, China discussed with the Tanzanian government for a long time and reached an agreement.
That is to say, after the port is completed, the 99-year lease rights of Bagamoyo port will belong to China. Although 1999 sounds long, the benefits it can bring can at most make a profit for China.
And China's more interests are to open up the Belt and Road Initiative and realize political and diplomatic value. Shortly after the
port was officially laid in 2015, a small thing happened to the Tanzanian government. Although Tanzania is already a very normal country in Africa.
However, when there is a change in their country's regime, it will also lead to many changes in political policies. In 2015, when the port began to make some substantial progress, Tanzania replaced a new president.
This president is not simple. He started to engage in anti-corruption as soon as he took office. It doesn’t matter, but he stopped the sure-fire Bagamoyo port project. What’s going on?
Although Tanzania has been in contact with China for decades, it does not mean that it has been smooth sailing. There are still some small fights between old couples.
. In 2015, there was a big problem between the two countries due to the troubles between the United Kingdom and Japan.
Time went back to 2015, when the Tanzanian government changed its term, and the new president Magufuli came to power. Although the foundation of the port had been laid at that time, according to the initial expectations, it could be completed in 2020 and put into use by 2021 at the latest.
But this has just been reorganized. Magufuli is known as the Iron Fist President and is well-known in the anti-corruption field.
So just as soon as he took office, the new president began to thoroughly investigate all the projects left by the former president, including the port project in Zhongtan.
At the beginning, the new president also made some superficial articles. He also pretended to appease China in a false way, and Magufuli also expressed his over-zeal and importance.
But in fact, with the new government's project review, the actual construction of this port has basically stagnated. But as he checked, Magufuli was unhappy.
, who has never seen the world, firmly believes that just building a port, how can it cost tens of billions of dollars?
He began to doubt whether China was lying to others. Out of distrust of the previous government, Magufuli preconceived that there was serious corruption in this port project.
Although this port project has long-term development interests. However, Magufuli insists that as an extraterritorial country, China's income is much greater than that of Tanzania, especially China has a 99-year lease right.
Maguful may have a good anti-corruption campaign, but he is really not good at accounting. China invests in so much funds and so much manpower. Can you give Tanzania a wedding dress?
doesn't know that free things are the most expensive. It is obvious that Magufuli doesn't understand such a simple and easy-to-understand truth. After
sowed the seeds of doubt, the cooperation business became increasingly difficult, but at this time, two more countries began to come out to make trouble.
One is from the UK, and the other is Japan, where you live a good life.
China's Belt and Road Initiative not only strengthens cooperation among various countries, but also enhances the international status of some small countries.
Those traditional imperialist countries have fewer opportunities to harvest leeks. So they tried their best to do anything to do bad things along the Belt and Road Initiative.
just happened to be the first time. When Magufuli began to doubt China, Britain and Japan came here as they smelled it. They knew what Magufuli was thinking, so they said that this port could make a lot of money, and they could not ask for 10 billion, saying that China was cheating them.
Under the repeated deceptions of these countries, Magufuli, the naughty young man, really got into trouble.
He directly suppressed the price with China and wanted to change the 199-year port leasing rights to 33 years. When China saw it, wouldn’t you tease me?
I was so tired that I couldn't get any money back in 1999. I might as well give me a 30% discount. This is not bullying honest people.
Since you don’t want to repair it, and the UK and Japan give you such a good price, then you can find another price. Fortunately, China was too lazy to take care of it, so it just rolled the bed and left.
Anyway, the entire East Africa coastline is so long, there is always a place to build a port. Even if it is not as good as Bagamoyo, just build a few more. So the project was completely suspended in 2019.
The Chinese left, and Magufuli went to find Britain and Japan. At this time, he was still a little resentful towards China. But after finding Britain and Japan, not only did they have no plans, they were even reluctant to take over.
, domestic industries such as old imperialist countries have long been unable to do so, so how can they help them with such a big project?
dragged and the new crown epidemic broke out. Originally, the port was about to be completed in 2020, but under the troubles of Tanzania, the port is nothing.
At this time, Magufuli came back and realized who was really good to him. So we started to send friendly signals again.
But we had such a good relationship before, and you all abandoned China. This time we will definitely be more cautious. Seeing that China had no movement, Tanzania increased its efforts and kept calling on China to be their best true friend. It also said that all domestic railway and other infrastructure projects should be changed to Chinese standards. China-Tanstan relations have also begun to gradually recover.
In March last year, Magufuli seemed to have passed away due to pneumonia, and the new president Hassan is the first female president in Africa.
She knew how her ex turned over, so she just took office and directly promoted the cooperation.
signed the China-Tanstan Economic Cooperation Agreement with China in just over a month and quickly restarted the Bagamoyo port project.
Under the current context of the new crown epidemic, such a port that should have been put into use last year is now unknown when it will be completed.
And who can I blame this? Should I blame Ying and Japanese for their deception or their own distrust of their true friends?
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