On September 21st, 1,000 Celestial Trade Marine Corps soldiers boarded from the port of City M and set sail, ending the two-month military occupation. In the future, the security of City M would be handled by the Military Police Corps and the Moro army, and Celestial Trade's garrison in Country F was reduced by half again, retaining only half a brigade.
On the one hand, it was in response to the United Nations peace initiative, and on the other hand, it was to free up their hands.
After boarding the transport ship, these soldiers did not return to Coro Island, but met with another large transport ship. Under the escort of the Guardian-class frigate, they crossed the Indian Ocean and set foot on Madagascar at the southern tip of Africa.
Last week, Madagascar's opposition leader, Sanvini, was elected president. He revoked all privileges of Arrow in the country and revoked their business license for 17 crimes including tax evasion, murder, and bribery.
However, it was obviously impossible for the Freemasonry to give up the power they had been operating in Madagascar for more than a decade. On the first day of Sanvini's inauguration, more than a dozen Arrow special forces lurking in the capital, Antananarivo, ambushed Sanvini's convoy.
The president, who took office for less than 24 hours, died tragically under the bullets of Arrow.
Madagascar was in an uproar.
Arrow simply played along and introduced the former president, La Jonah, claiming that the Liberal Party colluded with foreign forces and attempted to subvert the stability of Madagascar. The election was invalid and must be re-elected!
However, La Jonah had no intention of re-electing. With the support rate in the southern constituency, he formed a presidential guard absolutely loyal to him with the help of the Freemasonry. At the same time, he hired Arrow and directly took the path of an armed coup.
Anyway, for these uncivilized small countries in Africa, coups were much more frequent than elections.
The president died, and the Liberal Party was in a mess.
Fortunately, Vice President Bernard took over the position of president immediately, took control of the Madagascar army, and vowed to resist to the end.
The regular army only had 21,600 soldiers, less than 15 tanks, and armored vehicles were not enough to form a mechanized brigade. With such a backward army, it was obviously unrealistic to confront La Jonah with the support of the Freemasonry.
He urged the Army to defend the line of defense from Anguirabe and stop the rebels 120 kilometers in front of the capital. On the other side, Bernard immediately contacted Jiang Chen, the behind-the-scenes supporter of the Liberal Party, and asked Celestial Trade, which had just repelled the Freemasonry in City M, for help.
Celestial Trade, of course, was duty-bound to accept the request.
A mechanized brigade set sail on a transport ship and landed at the northern port of Madagascar. They went straight to the front line to exchange fire with the rebels. The so-called "Presidential Guard" and the Madagascar Army had become decorations. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the real outcome of this war depended on whether Arrow or Celestial Trade would win or lose.
Therefore, this war was also nicknamed by many as the 'Proxy War' or the 'Mercenary War'.
The longer the war dragged on, the more advantageous it was for Jiang Chen. Celestial Trade mainly dispatched foreign corps, individual drones, and armored vehicles and tanks purchased from Russia. They did not deploy Tiger IIs and Aurora-20s.
Only by exhausting Madagascar's national strength as much as possible could they make it obedient after the war ended, and not have the crooked idea of establishing their own country.
Although it would be unfair to the allies, for the benefit of Xin, they had to make sacrifices.
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Just as Celestial Trade and the Freemasonry fought fiercely on the island of Madagascar, a financial tsunami was quietly brewing.
The situation in the Middle East continued to deteriorate. From IS in Iraq to the Turkish Civil War, it was obvious that the land surrounding the Babylonian civilization had fallen into a continuous war. This war around black gold was also shrouded in smoke in the international crude oil market.
After bottoming out at the beginning of the year, the price of crude oil per barrel continued to rise.
As we all know, the UA economy has long relied on the two pillars of oil and the dollar. According to the estimates of the International Monetary Fund, every $5 increase in oil prices would reduce the global economic growth rate by about 0.3 percentage points, and the UA economic growth rate might decline by about 0.4 percentage points.
It could be said that the dollar and oil were negatively correlated.
It was precisely because of this that the UA had been deliberately promoting the devaluation of oil. As early as 2014, the shale-gas revolution doubled oil production in Texas every three years. Many people subjectively believed that all oil came from the Middle East, but they ignored the fact that the production of the United Arab Emirates was less than that of Texas.
However, even so, the reduction of oil production in the Middle East due to the impact of the war was still a heavy blow to international oil prices.
On September 23rd, Celestial Trade and Arrow exchanged fire in the northern mountains of Antsirabe, Madagascar. The dollar had been declining for three consecutive days due to the fluctuations in the international crude oil market. Wall Street traders predicted that the probability of the Fed raising interest rates in September would reach 47%. At the same time, a report from Future Bank was also placed on Jiang Chen's desk.
"Due to the rising expectations of the Fed's interest rate hike, the dollar rose slightly and stopped the downward momentum of the dollar. However, the international crude oil market showed no signs of stabilizing. The interest rate hike at this time has already buried the hidden danger of an economic crisis in the future. "
"And this economic crisis is destined to be paid by other countries."
Standing in front of Jiang Chen's desk, David Smith, CEO of Future Bank, explained the report to Jiang Chen.
"Will the dollar depreciate?" Jiang Chen held the report and fell into deep thought.
It came faster than he thought.
If the dollar depreciated, the interests of Future Group and even the economy of Xin would bear the brunt. The appreciation of crude oil would also have an immeasurable impact on the industries of the New Malaysia Special District and Ange Island.
Minerals and food could be produced by Future Group, but the problem of oil had never been solved. Xin had a vast sea area and was rich in minerals, but there was no oil. And oil was a very important thing in industrial production.
From fuel, plastics, synthetic rubber, and even clothing, pharmaceuticals, and even food, oil covered a wide range of fields. It was precisely because of this that oil was used as an important indicator to assess global economic expectations.
"Do you have any good ideas?" Jiang Chen put the report aside and looked at David Smith.
"Of course." Mr. Smith nodded. From his expression, it was obvious that he had come prepared.
"I noticed that Xin is still using the dollar for settlement, and its resistance to fluctuations in the foreign exchange market is quite fragile. If the dollar depreciates significantly, the first to go bankrupt is Xin's finance. If the dollar depreciates by ten points, Xin's GDP last year will become a bubble. "
When Jiang Chen heard this, he almost broke out in a cold sweat.
[Fu * k, this is too evil!]
Originally, he planned to wait until the space elevator was built, but now it seemed that he had to do it in advance!
Coinciding with Jiang Chen's thoughts, after a pause, Smith made his suggestion.
"With the current population of Xin, it is fully capable of supporting a currency system. Considering the influence of Future Group in Xin, I propose that Future Bank unite with a number of private banks in Xin to establish an institution similar to the Federal Reserve to issue Xin's own currency! "
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