"Big Boss, if everyone in the Philippines understands things as well as you do, then Hua Xia would definitely be good friends with you," Xu Yun said. "Don't you know how generous Hua Xia is? Let's not talk about the other small countries. Just the US alone, do you know how much money they owe us? "
Joleschwen nodded. "I know … I know very well how rich Hua Xia is. I can see it from your property prices."
Xu Yun nodded and smiled. "You know about the property prices in Hua Xia?"
"Yes." Joleschwin nodded. "I don't even dare to think about it in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Even in a third-tier city, a house would cost one or two million RMB. If it was in Ireland, it would only cost one or two million RMB to buy an island. Yesterday, I saw a 380,000 square meter island three miles from Ireland that was sold for such a low price. The island even has a freshwater pond, a natural karst cave, and a cobblestone beach. "
Lin Ge grinned. "This is really a good place for a hermit. You can live a carefree life here. You can also embrace nature and go diving and exploring."
"A village in the northwest of Spain only costs 40,000 RMB. Cough, 300,000 RMB to buy a village." Joleschwen said, "No one in Hua Xia would dare to think about this."
"Hua Xia's land is too valuable." Xu Yun said, "If you want to demolish a village, even if it's an eighth-tier city, you won't only need to pay 300,000 RMB."
Joleschwen sighed. "Yes, that's why Hua Xia is too rich. Only a fool would go against you."
"So you're saying that Ah Ji is too stupid?" Xu Yun said.
"He is indeed an idiot. We all know that Brunei and Malaysia are both rich countries. Brunei's GDP per capita is as high as 36,000 USD, and Malaysia's GDP per capita is close to 10,000 USD. Our poor Philippines' GDP per capita is only about 2,000 USD. " Joleshwin shook his head helplessly. "We're so poor, yet we're challenging Hua Xia!"
Lin Ge said disdainfully, "You overestimate yourself."
"That's true. We've spent tens of millions of dollars on this arbitration. Moreover, many of our citizens are brainless enough to say on the Internet that they want to boycott the trade with Hua Xia. "Joris Schwen's eyes were filled with tears when he spoke about this.
"If you want to boycott Hua Xia's products, that would be even more interesting," Xu Yun said. "I believe Big Boss knows more about this than I do."
Joleschwin nodded and said, "Our exports to Hua Xia only account for 1% of your total imports, while Hua Xia doesn't even account for 1% of your total exports to the Philippines. And Hua Xia's products account for 20% of our imports! Twenty percent! "
Xu Yun smiled. There was no need to say more.
Lin Ge didn't know about this before. Now that he heard about it, he was shocked. Since the Philippines' imports to Hua Xia accounted for 20% of their total imports, how could they dare to boycott Hua Xia?
If the two countries stopped trading now, many supermarket shelves in the Philippines would become empty. Want to eat Lao Gan Ma? No way!
Many factories in the Philippines would also have to stop operations due to the lack of raw materials exported from Hua Xia.
As he spoke, Joleschwin took out a Huawei phone and showed it to Xu Yun. "Look at this. 99% of the phones in the Philippines market are from Hua Xia. That means that the Filipino netizens' comments on Facebook are all from Hua Xia's phones …"
What a joke!
This was similar to Hua Xia's citizens. How many people used iPhones? MacBooks? What they posted were slandering the American Empire …
Especially those Internet celebrities. When they used Weibo to write about how they were patriotic and how the American Empire was bad, the suffix would be iPhoneXXXX.
It sounded like nothing much, but in fact, it was a very laughable thing.
It was normal and understandable for people to have such needs. Although Hua Xia had a large influx of American products, the domestic market was also trying to catch up. At least, if the American Empire stopped trading with Hua Xia, Hua Xia would still have some products.
If the American Empire had the guts, they shouldn't come to Hua Xia to sell their new iPhone products. After Old Qiao died, he loved to plagiarize. There was nothing new every time. He only knew how to make money.
"Actually, to be honest … Although I am greedy for power, it is really not easy to be the President." Joleschwin shook his head helplessly. "Whether or not Ah Ji will step down, he has stupidly volunteered to be the American Empire's cannon fodder."
Xu Yun nodded. "If you can really take the position, what will be the first thing you will do?"
"I will immediately dismiss the Chief Prosecutor, Calida, because Calida's comments on the Nanyang arbitration will be interpreted by Hua Xia as an official statement on behalf of the Philippines." Joleschwin said, "This kind of thing must never happen again!"
Xu Yun did not say anything.
If the Philippines could resolve the dispute with Hua Xia, they knew how much benefit it would bring.
Joleschwin definitely knew this better than anyone else. "I really hope that Hua Xia can help the Philippines' economic development, because only Hua Xia can help us the most."
"Everyone knows about such a simple matter, but no one has brought it up," Xu Yun said.
Joleschwin sighed helplessly. "I mentioned it once, and it was at that time that Ah Ji started to dislike me. Otherwise, why do you think he is so against me? "
"Looks like you and Ah Ji really don't get along." Lin Ge said, "Then, what other opinions do you have?"
"Another reason is that at that time, someone mentioned that 'Nanyang Island is closer to the Philippines', so it is the Philippines' territory," Joleschwin said.
"Based on the provisions of the International Convention on the Law of the Sea, based on facts and legal principles, and from the perspectives of international politics, international law, and history, this is a kind of knowledge deficiency and wrong logic," Xu Yun said.
Joleschwin added, "I raised this question at that time. I said that the American Empire's Guam is much closer to the Pacific Ocean than the American Empire, so I told Ah Ji not to use this reason to ask for the island."
"Some people talk about sovereignty based on geographical distance," Xu Yun said, "There is nothing to explain about the purpose."
Joleschwin shook his head. "India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands are far from India, and close to Indonesia and Myanmar! Britain's Channel Islands are close to France, and Britain's Indian Ocean Territory is very far away. Some of Greece's territorial waters are ten nautical miles from Turkey's coast … Some of France's overseas territories are near the coast of Canada, and some are near the Pacific Ocean island countries. "
"Big Boss, you are quite good at geography," Xu Yun said.
Joleschwin shook his head. "I am not good at geography, but when I proposed this theory, I thought of this problem and deliberately did some research. In the end, I found that the things I found made me speechless. "
"If that's the case, Alaska is still connected to Canada. Even if Canada doesn't have anything to do with it, it's still connected to Russia," Lin Ge said. "Russia will definitely want that to happen. That way, they can directly ask for land from the American Empire."
"I am against this theory. Ah Ji said that I am a traitor." Joleschwin felt wronged when he thought of this. "But that is not what I meant. I just think that we should respect history."
Xu Yun stretched lazily. "Big Boss, after saying so much, I know very well what your purpose is. If I don't say it, you will definitely be embarrassed to say it. So, I might as well just lay it out there."
"Okay," Joleschwin said expectantly. They could finally get to the main topic.
"Regarding that computer, there is indeed very important evidence in it. It can help you overthrow Ah Ji's regime. But … before you can get the computer, you have to help me do something," Xu Yun said.
Joleschwin nodded. "Just say the word. No matter what it is, I will do anything for you. I am not only doing this for my own power. I am also doing this for the future of the Philippines. I am also doing this for my country. "
Lin Ge looked at Joleschwin with disdain. This guy really wants to be a prostitute. Is there any point in making himself sound so noble?
He is just doing this for power and money! He is not ashamed to say it out loud. Instead, he is doing this for the country. How boring.
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