Of course, by easing relations with Brazil in this way, East Africa can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. After all, East Africa itself is already a major coffee producer globally, and East African coffee is quite renowned worldwide. Especially coffee from the Kenya region, which, after years of marketing, has gained widespread recognition and beco a best-seller in Europe.
Therefore, even if East Africa makes concessions to Brazil, they are very limited. In contrast, East Africa gains more benefits from Brazil, making Brazil essentially an important overseas raw material supplier for East Africa.
This highlights the gap between industrial and agricultural countries. Although East Africa can only be considered a semi-industrial nation, Brazil’s industrial level is even lower in comparison.
Moreover, Brazil’s geographic location is disadvantageous; South Arica is too far from other markets, with the nearest being the United States and East Africa, both of which currently have higher industrial levels than Brazil.
Take the coffee trade, for instance. Coffee grown in Brazil can only be sold to other countries because its dostic processing capabilities are not high, and it lacks independent sales channels.
The sa goes for Argentina. However, Argentina has the advantage of vast plains suitable for developnt, and its population is relatively smaller compared to Brazil, along with other reasons, leading to completely different economic developnts for the two countries at this stage.
Leikamon: "In summary, the purpose of this ’friendly’ exchange is to demonstrate East Africa’s strong military power, so that Brazil and other South Arican countries have fewer distractions when trading with us."
To put it bluntly, East Africa wants to use "gunboat diplomacy" to intimidate South Arican countries to ensure its interests in South Arica. However, the primary focus is still deterrence.
While Chel and Leikamon were talking, Brazil also had mixed feelings about the arrival of the East Africans, especially the two world’s most advanced dreadnoughts, which further elevated the Brazilian governnt’s evaluation of East Africa.
Brazilian President Nilo Pessania said: "In front of East Africa’s battleships, we can clearly recognize the gap between the two countries. We have underestimated East Africa’s strength."
Although the South African war made East Africa stand out on the global stage, the impression at that ti was more of a strong military power, especially in terms of land forces.
Later, when the dreadnoughts appeared, and East Africa beca the second country in the world to possess dreadnoughts, entirely manufactured by East Africa itself, it made people realize that East Africa also had notable industrial capabilities.
In Rio de Janeiro, under the witness of the East African fleet, Ambassador Leikamon and Brazilian President Nilo Pessania engaged in friendly exchanges.
Apart from military deterrence, East Africa was not unkind, as it also brought many cooperation proposals.
These included building undersea cables between East Africa and South Arica, enhancing information exchanges between Brazil and East Africa, establishing more efficient diplomatic chanisms, strengthening economic field cooperation between the two countries, and jointly addressing the developnt of erging tropical plantation areas in Southeast Asia, etc.
Although Brazil and East Africa are competitors in agriculture, they still have common topics when facing competitors from Southeast Asia, India, and Caribbean coastal countries.
"President Pessania, thank you for your acknowledgnt. I believe the relationship between East Africa and Brazil will beco increasingly close." After signing a large number of cooperation agreents, Ambassador Leikamon said satisfactorily.
President Pessania’s face was amiable, though what he thought internally was unknown. However, in front of the East African fleet, he had few negative thoughts.
This brings us to ntion Pessania himself, who is a Republican from Rio de Janeiro, so when the East African fleet docked at Rio de Janeiro’s port, naturally he held more "respect" for East Africa.
Subsequently, under the escort of the East African Navy, Ambassador Leikamon departed from Brazil, heading towards the next stop in Uruguay.
This ti, the East African Navy will visit four countries separately: Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina.
As for Chile, although East Africa has thoughts, the East African Navy also fears the wind and waves of the Drake Passage. If they were to capsize there, it would be a huge loss for the East African Navy.
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East Africa is active in both the Far East and South Arica regions mainly to open up markets. Regardless of the ans used, as long as the effect can be achieved, it doesn’t matter to East Africa.
While East Africa is frequently engaging in diplomatic activities, internally it continues to evaluate the current developnt situation within East Africa.
There’s no need to specifically discuss the specifics of the two Five-Year Plans, as so of East Africa’s policies began well before the Five-Year Plans, such as construction in the field of water resources in East Africa.
Minister of Water Resources Yards reported: "As of now, our country has constructed 247 large reservoirs, 1,937 dium-sized reservoirs, and over 63,000 small reservoirs, with a total storage capacity nearing 400 billion cubic ters."
In comparison, the Three Gorges Dam of the Far East Empire in a previous life had a storage capacity of 39.3 billion cubic ters, or nearly 40 billion cubic ters. It ans that from the colonial period to half a century later, East Africa has constructed the equivalent of ten Three Gorges Dams.
In reality, East Africa indeed has a need for building a large number of reservoirs, but one cannot overlook the role of the many natural lakes East Africa possesses. For instance, Lake Malawi, the smallest of East Africa’s three major freshwater lakes, has a water storage capacity of about 8 trillion cubic ters.
What is the concept of 8 trillion cubic ters? It equates to so seas. For example, Bohai’s water volu is approximately 2 trillion cubic ters, making Lake Malawi about four tis that of Bohai.
Of course, apart from these gigantic lakes that belong to the world’s class, there are many large lakes naturally ford in East Africa, especially on the East African Plateau and central East Africa. They can all serve the function of reservoirs.
Thus, even though the results of East Africa’s efforts over the past half-century are very impressive, for Mother Nature, the work done by the East Africans doesn’t even count as a fraction.
Yards continued: "Over the past thirty years, the total length of artificial canals built in our nation exceeds three million kiloters, with one million sets of chanized wells constructed, and the total length of various dikes constructed exceeds 200,000 kiloters. At the sa ti, we have also completed governance of most dostic river basins, overall signifying that our achievents in water resource construction in the past are outstanding. They have made significant contributions to the supply of water resources for our country’s industry, agriculture, and cities, while greatly enhancing our inland water transportation conditions."
"Especially between the 1990s and the Twenty-Five Plan, we completed the full-line project of the East African Grand Canal, significantly improving our nation’s sea-river transportation capacity."
Indeed, the East African Grand Canal is primarily completed by connecting the Zambezi River and Congo River systems. Therefore, even if intending to navigate through, it requires a complex set of transfer procedures. And due to geographical constraints, there are many compromises; currently allowing only vessels under 300 tons to fully navigate.
"The canal construction greatly enhances our inland water transportation capacity, reducing our logistics costs. It is an important complent to the existing transportation network. As our economic construction accelerates, and because of territorial reasons, the demands on transportation logistics are also increasing."
East Africa’s territory is vast, yet its population is relatively sparse, thereby undoubtedly increasing logistics costs for East Africa. Therefore, the East African governnt, or Ernst himself, has always placed great emphasis on dostic transportation construction.
Although East Africa’s railway and road network have significantly improved East Africa’s transport situation, water transport has always been sothing Ernst has been persistently concerned about.
Developing water transport is also a major challenge for East Africa. For this, at least over two million Black workers sacrificed their lives to enable the construction of the East African Grand Canal.
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