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Chapter 247 ASEAN Established
On the second day after the establishment of the South China Republic, the news quickly spread around the world.
Although South China is located in the remote and relatively unfamiliar Southeast Asia, its military power, including warships, tanks, nuclear weapons and missiles, has reached every corner of the world through newspapers.
The video of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China was widely circulated, attracting the attention of people from all over the world.
Among them, the equipment displayed in the military parade, especially the missile equipment, caused a huge shock in European countries.
This missile can directly hit Europe from South China, and is also capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads.
Since Europe has always been at the forefront of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, it has already been under tremendous pressure from the war. Now even South China has weapons that can directly attack them, further exacerbating the pressure.
Faced with such a situation, various countries established diplomatic relations with Nanhua at the first opportunity, causing Wang Jixin's work to become extremely busy.
A more difficult problem is the need to send ambassadors to various countries.
However, the South China government does not currently have enough personnel to send.
Therefore, Wang Ze decided to temporarily send ambassadors only to mainland China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France.
Other countries currently have no plans to set up embassies.
We should wait until Nanhua has trained sufficient number and quality of diplomatic talents before considering it.
Therefore, in the second year, New Town University of Technology added a major in diplomacy.
This major not only includes international relations courses, but also covers a variety of language courses.
Obviously, the future employment direction for graduates of this major will be embassies of various countries.
As soon as this major was launched, it attracted a large number of students to sign up, most of whom were girls.
New Town University of Technology focuses on science and engineering, and many majors are not suitable for girls to study.
Now that the diplomacy major has been opened, there are no special requirements for gender, so girls from both Nanhua and neighboring countries have applied enthusiastically.
However, the Nanhua government soon took restrictive measures, limiting the number of female students to less than 30%.
The reason is that people in this profession may be sent to work all over the world in the future, and women do face some inconveniences in some aspects.
These restrictions can only be lifted when South China no longer lacks diplomatic personnel in the future.
In addition, teacher education is also a popular choice, but this major does not have any restrictions on female registration.
Today, New Town University of Technology, which was originally positioned as a science and engineering university, has developed into a comprehensive university in its second year.
However, Wang Ze did not have the idea of continuing to build a university. He believed that the current education system was sufficient to meet the needs. After all, the population of South China was only more than five million, and a large comprehensive university was enough.
He decided to build a large number of technical schools to provide more practical skills training and vocational education opportunities.
This will enable us to better adapt to the needs of social development and cultivate more talents with practical capabilities.
In this way, most high school graduates can be guided to technical schools to receive professional skills training, thereby improving the labor quality of the entire society.
New cities do not need so many college students because with the advancement of technology and industrial upgrading, many jobs require talents with specific skills and practical experience.
Therefore, Wang Ze hopes to cultivate these practical talents through technical schools.
In addition, Wang Ze also hopes to ensure the success rate of universities, that is, to ensure that every student who enters university can truly learn useful knowledge and skills and become the talents needed by society.
He believes that only in this way can the true value of education be realized, otherwise the university diploma will only become a symbol of formalism.
After the founding of South China, the progress of the Malayan Organization in ASEAN accelerated suddenly.
Nine countries including South China, Malaya, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines gathered in the new city to discuss ASEAN affairs.
The conference aims to strengthen regional cooperation and promote economic development and cultural exchanges.
After learning of this, the United States tried to get South Vietnam to join, but was directly rejected by Xincheng.
Xincheng said that since North and South Vietnam were in a state of war, they had to wait until the war was over before considering South Vietnam's application to join.
Wang Ze has a clear plan for ASEAN. He plans to promote a mutual defense agreement within the organization to enhance security among member states.
But if the member states themselves are at war, South China may be forced to get involved, which goes against Wang Ze's original intention.
On March 61, 3, the nine countries jointly signed the "New Town Declaration" in New Town, marking the official establishment of ASEAN.
The alliance will be committed to promoting regional cooperation, strengthening economic ties, enhancing regional influence, and bringing greater well-being to people of all countries.
The most important one is that member states implement a zero tariff policy.
Many countries did not agree with this policy at first, but they agreed to it only after Nanhua stated that it would transfer the low-end industrial chain.
Today, Southeast Asia's industrial strength is very weak. It's not that countries don't want to develop industry, but they have nothing in terms of infrastructure, human resources, financial resources, or technology.
Nanhua has all of these, and everyone will definitely be willing to transfer the industrial chain to Nanhua.
So the topic went off topic and we started to strive for various industrial chains of Nanhua.
Especially the home appliance, textile, shipbuilding, steel and other industries are the focus of competition.
Amidst the ongoing debate, steel was placed in Myanmar considering the country’s rich mineral resources.
The shipbuilding industry was given to Thailand. One reason is that Thailand is adjacent to Myanmar and steel can be transported directly to Thailand by road and rail. The second reason is that the quality of Thailand's population is relatively strong in Southeast Asia. The shipbuilding industry is not simple and requires a lot of manpower, so other countries cannot compete with it.
The rubber industry technology was handed over to Indonesia.
The textile industry was given to Malaya.
As for other countries, even if Nanhua is willing to transfer its industries, it will not be able to take over.
So at the meeting, Nanhua put forward a series of basic requirements for various industries. Only after the basic requirements are met can it apply for industrial transfer.
For example, in Cambodia, the country's electricity generation capacity is very low, and the infrastructure cannot keep up. Any industry that is developed there would be a waste.
Faced with this situation, the visiting prime ministers could only silently resolve to speed up education and infrastructure construction when they return.
Otherwise they will not be able to keep up with ASEAN’s development.
Another topic is ASEAN weapons integration. South China will provide weapons and equipment to ASEAN members at preferential prices.
Of course, nuclear weapons and strategic long-range missiles are not among them. Nanhua will never sell these two things.
The resolution decided that the ASEAN headquarters will be built by Nanhua in a new city and new district. In the future, an ASEAN summit will be held every year to discuss ASEAN's development direction and major issues.
The ASEAN Summit is the highest decision-making body of ASEAN, composed of heads of state or government, and ASEAN countries take turns to serve as the chair.
The first ASEAN Secretary-General was also elected at this meeting. He will be Nagato Ichiro Niigata, who will serve for a five-year term.
The one that most concerns all countries is the ASEAN joint defense mechanism.
If any country invades an ASEAN member state, all member states must provide support immediately.
The existence of this clause is the purpose for Malaya to eagerly organize and establish ASEAN.
Malaya was afraid of South China's military power, fearing that one day South China would find a reason to continue the war. Now that the joint defense mechanism has been introduced, Malaya has put aside its concerns about South China's invasion.