The New Year's Day is the hottest summer... For Yu Diao, who has just experienced the hottest summer in history, this is a very comfortable and pleasant day. In order to take care of the head of state of the Republic who went to Vatican to visit the Pope, the Italian authorities spent tens of millions of euros and used the most advanced technical equipment to carry out artificial rainfall operations at night, reducing the temperature in Rome by several degrees, allowing Roman citizens to enjoy the rare autumn weather in advance.

This was also a very special day for Pope Paul XVII, because he was about to receive the first Republic leader to visit the Vatican in history. Although the Republic is no longer the country with the largest population in all numbers, and the Republic's authorities have not opened their doors to Vatican, as the world's most powerful country, the Republic's recognition of the Vatican has been an amazing progress.

Paul XVII did not intend to go to the East to preach. He did not intend to let nearly ten million Catholics in the Republic obey Vatican's orders. He only hoped that through this secular interaction, Vatican would have one more support point in the unpredictable world, and to live through the world of great struggle safely. In the next prosperous era, it will still be the Pope City in the minds of Catholics.

Of course, he hoped that when peace comes again, Catholicism will remain the most influential religion.

The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

If Paul XVII believes that the head of the Republic can make Vatican's net wall shine, he will be legally disappointed.

During the about 3-hour visit, Pei Chengyi only met Paul XVII. Then, accompanied by the Holy See staff, he visited St. Peter's Basilica, St. Angel Castle, Ethiopian Academy, Pope Academy and Art Gallery in a flash, and then left the Vatican. He followed the Italian officials waiting outside the Pope to the Italian Prime Minister's Office to attend a grand luncheon held by the Italian Prime Minister.

The banquet was arranged at noon, and he was also taking care of Pei Chengyi.

According to rumors, when the itinerary for Lie Chengyi to visit Rome was formulated, the Italian authorities recalled several diplomats from the embassy and consulate in China who had been working in China for more than 20 years, learned in detail about the folk customs of the Republic, and carefully arranged the visits of the head of the Republic based on this. The banquet was arranged at noon because in the customs of the Republic, when encountering major events, banquets with relatives and friends were usually arranged at noon, not at night.

The Italian authorities take care of Pei Chengyi everywhere, which has far exceeded the scope of diplomatic etiquette.

To put it nicely, this attitude is to attach great importance to the relationship with China, and to put it a little bit unpleasant, it is to bow down.

Just like AVIC Group acquired Agusta, which sold backward business aircraft in Europe at a very high price, the Italian authorities' almost servile attitude must mainly look for the reasons from themselves. As mentioned earlier, among the "three carriages" in the EU, Italy has the worst strength, which is almost used to make up the numbers. To be precise, the bipedal relationship between France and Germany is not enough to form a balance among the two continental powers. France is afraid of Germany's comprehensive national strength, and Germany is afraid of France's strategic strength. Italy's role is to bond France and Germany, form a stable situation of three-legged tyrants, and eliminate the contradictions between European continental powers.

Of course, to be a good adhesive, you must have enough strength.

No matter what, glue is glue, not clean water.

In terms of strength alone, Italy will definitely be in the top five in Europe. In terms of economics, as early as the beginning of the century, Italy surpassed the United Kingdom. It was shortlisted in the top three in the EU and has never been surpassed. It is still the third in the EU in previous years. In terms of politics, by looking at North Africa in the south, reaching the Alps in the north, looking at the Balkans in the east, and pointing to the best strategic position in the Mediterranean in Gibraltar in the west. At least in southern Europe and the Mediterranean region, Italy has a very high reputation. In terms of military, with its navy second only to Britain and France, its army slightly worse than Germany and France, its air force, and its slightly obvious sky-high army. Italy has always been in the position of looking around in the EU. In terms of population, with a total of 1,000,000, Italy has long surpassed France and Britain. In terms of the EU, it is only behind Germany. In terms of comprehensive national strength, Italy is definitely behind France, Germany and Britain, and before Spain, becoming the fourth largest power in the EU.

The problem is that this fourth and the first three are essentially different.

Historically, after human civilization entered the industrial era, only Britain, France and Germany had real global influence among the European powers. The former Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands all fell after the wave of industrial revolution, and countries like Venice even became history. Although in a longer period of history, the Romans on the Apennines created one of the most powerful empires in human history, modern Italy had almost no intrinsic connection with the Roman Empire in history. More importantly, Italy

The process of unification is too smooth, far from as difficult as Germany in the north, and Italy's modernization is too simple, far from as heroic as neighboring France. In short, Italy has never been an important country. Even after its economic strength surpasses Britain, it is still regarded as a country with tourism, fashion, and sports car civilization, rather than a powerful country marked by warships, fighter jets, and tanks. It is precisely this way, in the two modern world wars, Italy played an optional secondary role.

In the final analysis, if you lack strength, you naturally have no right to speak.

As we all know, the global abandonment that broke out in the late old era completely changed the world's appearance, changed the political tendency of the EU, and changed the internal structure of the EU. It simply benefits the country.

Among the many member states that have been pressed for Xuexue, only two countries have obtained hydrogen from it. It is France, which has the political influence. Second, Germany has enhanced its right to economic development. The rest of the countries are purely victims of the Great Depression, and Italy is no exception. Take data as an example. In 8 years, Italy's share of the total EU economic output was out. Germany and France ranked first were 2, and Germany and France respectively. By the year of the year, when the impact of the Great Depression was the worst, Italy's proportion dropped to 24, and Germany and France respectively. By the end of the Great Depression, the proportion of Italy was 24, and the proportion of the Great Depression was 24, and when the Great Depression ended, the proportion of Italy was 2. The proportion of Germany and France was 24, and the proportion of the Great Depression was 2. When the Great Depression ended, the proportion of Italy was 2. The same is true for the day, %. From this, it can be seen that if it is calculated simply by proportion.

It is calculated that Italy has been on a downward verge, and the gap with Germany has expanded from the three forces before the Great Depression to the witchyard. If it is based on Germany, Italy's economy has declined by almost 60% even by the population of the two countries. Italy's per capita national output value is only about 60% of that of Germany. Even in the Western Year, Italy's per capita national output value was only about 70% of that of Germany. It can be said that if it weren't for the large population to be reduced to the past year, Italy's population would be better. It was second only to Germany, which had 10,000 people, which had 10,000 people, and France, which had 10,000 people, and Spain, which had 10,000 people, was the second largest country in the EU. Italy had long been overtaken by the UK and was squeezed out of the top three EU.

More importantly, Italy's economic "achievements" mainly rely on foreign capital.

Because Italy is the world's largest luxury exporter, surpassing Germany in Likou year, and during the Great Depression, the luxury market shrank by more than 80%, the Italian economy almost suffered a catastrophe, such as the year when the economic crisis was the worst. The famous Milan Fashion Week was forced to cancel due to insufficient exhibitors. Compared with the sharply shrinking global luxury market, although the Republic's luxury market also shrank significantly, the shrinkage was much smaller, and only about 40% was abandoned. Therefore, relatively speaking, the Republic is not only the world's largest luxury market.

The largest luxury consumer country is one of the few luxury consumer countries that maintained relatively growth during the Great Depression. Mu Yong doubted that the market of the Republic has extraordinary significance to many Italian companies. Take precious clothing for example. At the time of four, the Republic replaced the United States and became the largest consumer market for major Italian clothing brands. By the time of Liwu Nian, it accounted for about 80% of the Italian clothing brand export market, feeding hundreds of Italian companies and tens of thousands of workers.

Under this big back, the relationship between Italy and the Republic is naturally extraordinary.

As early as a coincidence, Italy took advantage of the loopholes in the EU import and export control regulations and took the lead in signing a significant bilateral trade agreement with the Republic. It was precisely through this agreement that the Republic's AVIC Group took the opportunity to acquire Italy's Agusta Company, and made this century-old brand that was about to go bankrupt. In just a few years, it grew into Europe's largest business aviation equipment manufacturer, and made Italy a European aviation powerhouse. There are many similar examples, such as the world's most famous Ferrari Company, which was famous for producing luxury sports cars in the early 2000s, reached a strategic partnership with the Republic's Shanghai Automobile Company. It won the top automotive composite battery and maintained the title of the world's number one sports car manufacturer. Otherwise, the "Ferrari" brand is likely to be history in the Great Depression, just like many sports car brands such as Porsche in Germany and Mustang in the United States.

To be honest, if there were no capital from the Republican Rebate, Italy would have long since fallen.

The problem is that the capitalists of the Republic are not philanthropists, nor are they international philanthropists who specialize in doing good abroad.

While helping the Italian authorities to overcome difficulties, save Italian companies, and provide job opportunities for Italians, many companies in the Republic also gained the opportunity to enter the EU market. Although compared with the entire EU market, the domestic market in Italy is nothing, the Republican companies that have tried their best in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia have gained rich international expansion experience and are clear about the importance of consolidation. It is precisely because when entering the EU, most of the Republican companies first expanded their share in Italy, and with the help of the Italian authorities' many preferential policies, they formed a certain scale and established a good reputation, and then expanded the market to other EU countries. According to official data released by the Italian authorities, as early as before the Shu year, the average share of the Republican companies in Italy's major industries exceeded the peak, and the share in each industry was even higher.

Close trade exchanges naturally link the economies and even politics of the two countries.

According to relevant data released by the Italian authorities at the beginning of the year, Italy has remained the second largest exporter in the EU after Germany in recent years, and its largest export target is the Republic.

More importantly, Italy is still the EU's largest foreign exchange reserve country, with RMB and RMB assets accounting for a high proportion.

In short, in addition to Greece and Romania, several "abandoned countries" in Southeast Europe, among traditional Western European powers, Italy has the closest relationship with the Republic and relies on the Republic. In Zhao's comments, if the Republic turns trade protection during the Great Depression, Dong Jie reads the latest news and says "Kuang Shan Qi Umbrella" "I don't know if it's Italy, if it doesn't take half of the Italian economy, it will be useless. It's known that banks on July 1st will go bankrupt, more than half of the enterprises will go bankrupt, more than 20% of the Italians will lose their jobs, and the Italian government will also completely collapse. In this case, the only thing that can help Italy get out of the predicament is the fascism that has dragged Italy into the abyss a few years ago.

By figuring out these essential things, it is not difficult to understand why the Italian authorities treated Pei Chengyi more courtesy.

From the Republic's standpoint, Italy is definitely the best platform for the Republic's authorities to promote the "New European Policy".

Some experienced journalists have seen this a long time ago, so they came to Luo Kai without hesitation and prepared the press release, and they could issue reports as soon as there is a major news.

Of course, most journalists who came to Rome realized that nothing would definitely not happen the previous two days

thing.

In any case, Pei Chengyi's official state visit to Europe, in accordance with formal diplomatic etiquette, he needs to participate in many symbolic activities before formalizing, such as meeting with the Italian president, visiting the Pope on Vatican website, meeting with the staff of the Republic's embassy and consulate in Italy and participating in major events arranged by the Italian authorities, etc. These things take two or three days, while Pei Chengyi's trip to Italy was only three days ago. So it is very likely that the major news will be released on the third day, the day before leaving Rome.

Because Pei Chengyi's next stop will be Greece in Southeast Europe, considering the special relationship between the Republic and Greece and Greece's position in the EU, it is unlikely that Pei Chengyi will have a stunning work in Athens. After Greece, Pei Chengyi will also visit Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain, and finally set off from Madrid to return home. Among these countries, only Spain is slightly stronger, and the others are small European countries. In other words, unless Pei Chengyi intends to put the most important thing to the end, he will have to express it in Rome. If this is acting, it is understandable. The problem is that in the field of diplomacy, the meaning of "finale" is not obvious, and there is even no benefit.

It has to be admitted that the abilities of some senior Western journalists are indeed amazing.

Of course, the first thing that acts is definitely not the Western news media.

Day and night, when Pei Chengyi attended the official banquet held by the Italian Prime Minister, the Republic's news media summarized the achievements of the head of state's first four stops to Europe and analyzed the current international situation. These are nothing, but what is important is that when analyzing the international situation, the Republic's news media all mentioned a very critical point, that is, the Republic located on both ends of the Eurasian continent has similar national interests and similar strategic purposes, and can fully play a greater role in maintaining world peace and promoting the great change in the inter-photo order.

Mu Yong doubted that this is the alliance signal sent by the Republic to the EU.

To be precise, it is the Republic's news media that are building momentum for what is about to happen.

That night, the Italian authorities broke the silence. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister's Office revealed to reporters on an informal occasion that Italy, on behalf of the European collective security organization, conducted more active and extensive consultations with the Republic in the field of security, and is expected to reach consensus in the near future.

Now, global public opinion was in full swing.

Not to mention anything else, at night and early the next morning, all flights to major Italian cities such as Rome were full. The reporters who had not rushed to Luo Bei and refunded their tickets before, and had not been able to buy the tickets, probably even regretted it.

Of course, what should come sooner or later will come, and the leaders of the Republic and Italy will not wait until they see the news before releasing the news.

At 8:00 a.m. on the Moon Knife Day on Roman Time, at the Cathay Pacific Hotel in the city center, the head of state of the Republic and the Italian Prime Minister, as well as the French President, German Prime Minister, Greek Prime Minister, Romanian President, Polish President, Dutch Prime Minister, Belgium Prime Minister, Grand Duke Luxembourg and other heads of member states of European collective security organizations jointly announced that the Republic and the European collective security organizations had officially formed the "Treaty of Cooperation for Security Affairs".

There is no doubt that this is definitely one of the most explosive news of the year.

Although this treaty has been changed with a name, which was previously called the "China-EU Security Alliance Treaty", the specific content has not changed much. That is, the two sides have carried out and strengthened comprehensive cooperation in the traditional security field on the basis of comprehensive cooperation in the non-traditional security field. The main purpose of changing the name is not to sound better, but to reduce the degree of attention. After all, "cooperation" is much more moderate than "alliance". Moreover, adding "service" to "security" after "security" is equivalent to narrowing the meaning of "security", which also narrows the scope of the treaty.

All in all, this is definitely a quasi-alliance treaty of extraordinary significance.

Even if the treaty is to come into effect, it will have to be reviewed and approved by the legislative bodies of three member states, because the position of France, Germany and Italy has been clear, and within the next few days, Pei Chengyi will visit other old OSCE members one after another. The relationship between these OSCE members and the Republic is not bad, so many international situation commentators believe that the treaty will definitely come into effect and will come into effect soon.
Chapter completed!