Chapter 544 New Situation of the Government Council

After the Venezuela issue, Carter hinted to Zhou Tiance that he hoped to maintain the "stability" of world oil prices and ensure the healthy development of the world economy. However, Zhou Tiance refused without hesitation. He clearly told Americans that oil prices should change with the changes in the market situation, and that oil prices should not be forcibly controlled by a certain force. Zhou Tiance also hoped that Carter could "understand" the various problems faced by oil exporters and accept adjustments to oil prices.

It is absolutely a dream to make Zhou Tiance agree to the Americans' opinions, and it is absolutely impossible to make the Americans agree to the Soviet Union's demands. The contradiction between the two on the issue of oil is too sharp and can be said to be basically irreconcilable. For the Soviet Union, the domestic oil extraction cost of the Soviet Union is nearly 80% higher than that in the Middle East. There is no way, if you can dig out oil in the Middle East, but it is obviously impossible to do so in Siberia. The too low oil price is a disaster for the Soviet Union's country's export income, which will in turn cause the Soviet Union to not have enough money to carry out various domestic developments, thus forming a vicious cycle. In history, the United States and other countries controlled international oil prices and kept oil prices at a very low level. The development of the Soviet Union eventually slowed down the development of the Soviet Union.

For the United States, it is absolutely unacceptable that oil prices cannot be controlled and low. Although the oil prices are at a high level, the country's oil consortium will benefit, but other consortiums will suffer greater losses, which is not allowed. What's more, the lifeline of oil prices is in the hands of others, which will definitely cause the US economy to be controlled by others. If someone encounters an oil crisis from time to time, the United States will be done no matter how much strategic oil reserves it has.

In the following two days, Zhou Tiance visited many places in the United States and visited several famous universities in the United States. During this period, Zhou Tiance and Carter's tough attitude when discussing oil issues was not known how it was "leaked". This attracted great attention in the entire Western world. Journalists from all over the world asked Zhou Tiance about this matter.

In an interview with a reporter, Zhou Tiance told them clearly, "There is no possibility of discussion on the issue of oil prices. As a commodity, it should be affected by market fluctuations and changes with market changes. Any artificial control behavior is terrible. The United States expressed great concern that the Soviet Union and other oil-producing parliaments took the opportunity to control oil prices and create oil crisis. We have never considered this. This is just a slander from some people. We have never thought of creating an economic crisis around the world in this way. Moreover, there is no shortage of oil reserves in a certain country. If it opens those closed wells to continue mining, the Americas will never be affected by the big oil price movement, but for some selfish reasons, they obviously cannot do that."

"We have never thought of restricting oil and natural gas exports to other countries. Recently, the Ministry of Commerce of my country is discussing with negotiators from Britain and other countries to increase the issue of natural gas exports to Europe. We are also discussing with Japan to lay an oil pipeline directly to Vladivostok in Siberia's oil-producing areas, which can better export oil to Japan, South Korea and other countries. This shows that those are just rumors and a slander of the image of the Soviet country!"

As for the eight vice-chairmen who were not elected, in addition to selecting two as assistants to the vice-state-level chairman of the State Council, three others were transferred to the Central Advisory Committee as national policy advisory committee, two were transferred to the Supreme Soviet Union as vice-chairman, and the remaining one was transferred to the upcoming Political Association Business Association Conference as vice-chairman. Since then, the reform of the Soviet Council has also been completed, and the following actions will be tested by time.
Chapter completed!