After the end of the Second World War, the world seemed to be calm, but in fact there was an undercurrent, and the capitalist camp led by the United States and the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union officially entered a period of wrestling between the wrists.
Although the two superpowers were evenly matched in military power, the Soviet Union had a huge gap with the United States in terms of economic power, and the United States became the world's largest economy in the 50s of the last century, and began to make the dollar the world's currency.
If you want to increase the influence of the dollar, then economic expansion is imperative, and at this time, the countries of Western Europe that have been included in the United States must become the first "consumers" of the dollar, and the United States has also established the Bretton Woods system.
The Bretton Woods system affirmed the status of the dollar as the first currency in circulation, and at the same time deeply affected the interests of other countries in the American camp, which put the capitalist countries, which were already suffering from the international financial turmoil, at risk of losing everything if they were not careful.
Before 1971, the anchor of the dollar has always been **, but due to the outbreak of the dollar crisis many times, the United States has a huge fiscal deficit, so in 1971, Nixon, who was the first in the United States at the time, announced that the dollar would be decoupled from ** in order to stabilize the US economy, and oil, as the largest resource in the world's energy account, has become a new anchor aimed at by the United States.
The Middle East, as the region with the richest oil resources in the world, has naturally become a fat meat in the eyes of the United States, you must know that after the dollar and oil are pegged, the stability of the oil market is closely related to the dollar and even the economy of the United States, at this time Israel and Saudi Arabia are included in the United States as allies.
However, the relationship between the two is not good, and the United States takes advantage of the fact that the Middle Eastern countries have different religious beliefs and constant conflicts, so that the Middle Eastern countries can check and balance each other in order to maintain absolute control in the Middle East region.
With the help of the United States, Israel has grown from a weak player who was often besieged in the past to a powerful power in the Middle East, which also makes Arab countries, which are also allies, very dissatisfied.
"Crying children have milk to eat" has made Israel taste the treatment of its own son in the deployment of the United States in the Middle East, but it has gradually and indirectly pushed Saudi Arabia to our country, prompted the two countries to establish diplomatic relations, and also reached a military ** order with our country that has not been able to break through so far, what is going on?
After the end of World War II, the smoke of war gradually dissipated, and people were trying to heal the wounds caused by the war, but the end of the war was not drawn on the soil of the Middle East, and the impact of the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony was gradually approaching.
The Middle East has always been rich in energy resources, so it has been a battleground for wars since ancient times, and because of the ambition of territorial expansion and the competition for energy resources, this originally rich land has often become a scorched earth.
On the one hand, the reason is that the religions in this land are different.
In addition to the Arab countries that believe in Islam, there is also Israel, which was founded by Jews, and the two camps have been disagreeing with each other because of religious issues all year round, and war may break out at any time.
This also gave the United States and the Soviet Union the opportunity to intervene, and gradually formed a situation of confrontation between the Arab countries representing the Soviet Union and Israel and Saudi Arabia represented by the United States.
Israel's situation in the Middle East seems to be weak and weak, and it is often "besieged" by Arab countries, and the emergence of the big cake of the United States has given the Israeli state hope for development.
Since the founding of Israel, the United States has been vigorously supporting Israel, whether it is from the establishment of a political system, economic support, or even military, scientific and technological assistance, all of which have put Israel's development directly on the "through train" after the establishment of the state.
For Saudi Arabia, the national economy dominated by agriculture and nomadism makes Saudi Arabia eager to change the traditional economic model through the industrial revolution, which requires a lot of financial support, which is obviously very difficult for the Saudi state itself, so when the United States and the Soviet Union extended an olive branch at the same time, Saudi Arabia resolutely chose the United States with strong financial resources, and since then Saudi Arabia has become the only Arab country to defect to the United States.
Like many families with second children, the United States cannot achieve a balance between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Israel, as one of the few Jewish countries in the Middle East, has seen a savior for Israel, which has been in a "siege", and Israel has grown up all the way with the support of the United States, so it is very dependent on the United States, and it is more like a puppet of the United States, and the word "obedient" is deeply engraved in the bones.
Because of this loyalty, Israel has naturally entered the first echelon of U.S. allies.
On the other hand, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is more like using each other, Saudi Arabia used the economic support of the United States to quickly complete the industrial revolution and develop the country's economy into the capitalist system, and the United States used Saudi Arabia to belong to the Arab countries, so it is convenient to monitor the every move of the Arab countries.
In addition, oil is also a top priority, so the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is more like cooperation between each side and the United States, so although Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United States, it can only enter the second echelon.
Therefore, when Israel and Saudi Arabia are in crisis at the same time, the US policy will be more inclined to Israel, which gradually makes Saudi Arabia dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction finally broke out completely after 1979.
In 1979, Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq, and as a leader, Saddam Hussein can be said to be a very ambitious politician, and his coming to power added tension to the already turbulent Middle East.
The United States and the Soviet Union, keenly aware of the imminent change in the situation in the Middle East, began to gradually strengthen their control over the situation in the Middle East after Saddam Hussein took power, and even directly adopted the posture of directly stationing armed forces in the Middle East, ready to deal with the changing situation at any time.
As a lover of peace in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia rarely clashes with other countries, but after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, Israel and Arab countries fought inextricably, which saddened Saudi Arabia, because the missiles flying around during the war between the two sides would fall on Saudi Arabia's territory from time to time, which also made Saudi Arabia begin to have a sense of war crisis.
Israel, with the support of the United States, is already a country with nuclear weapons, but at this time, Saudi Arabia's equipment is still relatively backward, and then Saudi Arabia also had the idea of buying arms from the United States, but it has spent money and suffered.
If you want to protect your country's interests and also have a deterrent effect on neighboring countries, then Saudi Arabia must choose the world's most advanced offensive type of arms purchased, and the countries that meet this requirement in the 80s of the last century only the United States and the Soviet Union, between the two, Saudi Arabia naturally chose the United States that it has followed for many years, and then Saudi Arabia put forward the idea of buying spear missiles from the United States.
The full name of the Lance missile is the Lance surface-to-surface missile, which belongs to the second-generation surface-to-surface tactical missile system of the US military, which is famous for its low cost, high accuracy, and simple operation, but its range is only 120 kilometers, which is a kind of tactical missile.
Although Saudi Arabia has always existed as an ally of the United States as an Arab country in the Middle East, the United States has always been more wary of it, and for Israel, if Saudi Arabia buys advanced ** in the United States, then Israel will begin to feel that there is a strategic crisis.
Therefore, every time Saudi Arabia proposes to purchase advanced military equipment from the United States, Israel will jump out and "cry, make trouble, and hang himself." This has also directly led to the complete blockage of Saudi Arabia's purchase of missiles from the United States.
Repeated requests for help and repeated refusals made Saudi Arabia a little chilled by Western countries, so it began to focus on finding arms purchase channels for non-Western countries, and at this time, China, which had successfully completed nuclear tests, was recommended to the king by the Saudi air defense commander.
Since China had not yet established diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia at that time, the Saudi ambassador to the United States could only go to our country in secret, and revealed that he wanted to buy **, which surprised my country's reception staff.
In terms of China's national conditions at that time, in the 80s of the last century, China has just reformed and opened up for ten years, although the momentum of economic development is very strong, but it is still in a relatively backward stage, if Saudi Arabia buys military ** in China, then it will be a lot of income for our country, so in the face of Saudi Arabia's request, my country gave the answer: "Agree in principle." ”
After the first brief exchange between China and Saudi Arabia, China sent Lieutenant General ***, deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, to Saudi Arabia as a representative to discuss specific information on the arms deal between the two sides, and Saudi Arabia bluntly proposed to purchase China's Dongfeng-3 ballistic missiles.
It is the first generation of strategic missiles independently designed and developed by China, which was officially put into service in 1971, and this ground-to-surface missile has a total length of 24 meters and a diameter of 225 meters, take-off weight 64 tons, can carry two types of warheads.
One is a conventional missile warhead, and the other is a thermonuclear warhead with a yield of 2 million TNT, with a maximum range of up to 2,800 kilometers, which can be said to have completely killed the American Lance missile.
After many secret consultations between the two sides, Saudi Arabia finally decided to place an order for Dongfeng-3 ballistic missiles in China, and the two sides officially entered the bargaining link.
As a well-known tyrant in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia truly confirmed the sentence "Poverty limits my imagination" when negotiating with our country on the Dongfeng-3. ”
After Saudi Arabia confirmed the purchase intention, the members of the project team responsible for the project in China made a difficulty, because the two sides had not yet established diplomatic relations at that time, so China knew little about Saudi Arabia, so the specific pricing became a problem.
The asking price is too high to negotiate and collapse, but the asking price is too low, so it does not reflect the value of China's Dongfeng-3, and finally after multi-party negotiation, the tentative asking price is 100 million yuan, and if the other party bargains, then there is still room for decline.
In this way, the two sides bought the DF-3 and entered the "bargaining" link.
When the representative of the Saudi side asked about the ** of the Dongfeng-3, our representative stretched out an index finger, but did not speak, originally thought that Saudi Arabia would bargain for this, but did not expect that the eyes of the Saudi representatives suddenly lit up, and jumped up happily directly, which made our representative never expect, and the bargaining link between the two sides ended hastily.
However, when the two sides signed the contract, our representative learned that the Saudi side thought that the price of China's Dongfeng-3 missile was 100 million US dollars, which was more than 10 times higher than China's first price, which also allowed our personnel to see the tyrant temperament of Middle Eastern countries.
In fact, it is reasonable for Saudi Arabia to have such a reaction, after all, when it intended to purchase Lance missiles from the United States, the country's budget for this arms purchase was 8 billion to 10 billion US dollars.
If according to my country's **, then this budget can save more than half, so such a price can be said to be a surprise for Saudi Arabia.
In the end, Saudi Arabia purchased 35 Dongfeng-3 missiles for $100 million a piece in China, totaling $3.5 billion.
You must know that all of China's foreign exchange reserves at that time were only about $2 billion, and this arms order directly exceeded the money that China had saved by frugality.
In addition, in order to promote the smooth settlement of DF-3 in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia also spent an additional $15 billion to hire military personnel in China to Saudi Arabia to support the construction of the DF-3 missile base.
Because China and Saudi Arabia have not yet established diplomatic relations, both China and Saudi Arabia have adopted a high degree of secrecy about the construction of missile bases, and the whole world has been kept in the dark.
It was only after the base was completely completed that the United States reacted to Saudi Arabia's purchase of Dongfeng-3 missiles in our country, but it was helpless that the wood was already in the boat, and the raw rice was cooked and cooked, and there was no point in jumping again.
Israel, as a role that has been obstructing Saudi Arabia's purchase of the first time, has completely staged a shrewd drama in the face of Saudi Arabia's purchase of Dongfeng-3, not only wantonly verbally attacking our country in the international community, but even trying to provoke the international community's accusations against our country.
This time, however, the United States has changed its past style and chosen to remain silent about Saudi Arabia's move to purchase missiles in China, and on the contrary, it has also opened up a large number of powerful economic policies to China.
On the one hand, now that the missile launch base has been built and 35 DF-3s have been successfully put into storage, it is too late to come out and block them. On the other hand, because China's "ping-pong diplomacy" relations have eased and the establishment of friendly diplomatic relations has been completed, during this period, because it is obviously not smart to tear up the face of our country, the United States has chosen to acquiesce in the purchase of Saudi Arabia.
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