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【Foreword】
For Saudi Arabia, which is rich and oily, there are only two problems in this world, one is a problem that can be solved with money, and this is not called a problem.
The other is a problem that cannot be solved with money, and for this kind of problem, they will use money to let the person who can solve the problem solve it.
Their foreign policy has always been very detached, keeping a certain distance from the outside world, as long as they can be alone, the disturbances around them seem to have nothing to do with them.
When Israel clamored to bomb the Dongfeng missile base established in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia did not flinch at all, and directly responded: "The Chinese People's Liberation Army is here, if you dare to bomb, then try!" ”
Why does Saudi Arabia have our PLA and Dongfeng bases? Why did Israel blow up the Saudi Dongfeng base?
Saudi Arabia buys Chinese missiles
In 1988, when we were still watching the Seventh National People's Congress in China, a sudden news made the people of the whole country excited.
At the time, news interstitial reports said that we had completed the largest military order at the time, which was a missile deal with Saudi Arabia.
In 1986, the Saudis sent their Prince Bandar to China in person, and our leaders gave him a warm welcome, and of course, all of these activities were done under the premise of a high degree of secrecy.
At that time, Bandar secretly came to China, not to communicate with us, but to buy Chinese Dongfeng missiles.
At that time, we still had very big concerns about this matter, after all, the Dongfeng was very uneven at that time, and Prince Bandar was the Dongfeng No. 3 missile as soon as he opened his mouth.
It's not that we can't sell Dongfeng 3 or there is anything wrong with Dongfeng 3, it is precisely because Dongfeng 3 is more destructive that it is difficult for us to decide for a while.
The DF-3 has a range of up to 3,000 kilometers and can carry not only conventional warheads, but even two-ton nuclear warheads.
At that time, the Middle East was still in chaos, and we have always adhered to the principle of peaceful development, and if they do something that endangers the security of the country or the world after selling the Dongfeng missiles to Saudi Arabia, it will inevitably implicate us.
When Prince Bandar learned of our attitude, he immediately said that they had only purchased Dongfeng missiles for self-protection and would never do anything to disrupt the peace.
This time, let's relax and be able to sit down with Prince Bandar to discuss the purchase of missiles.
Bandar represents Saudi Arabia, and the opening is $100 million per missile, and it is only then that we really feel what it means to "have a piece of cloth on my head, and I am the richest in the world."
The negotiation process between the two sides on the purchase of missiles was very short, and both sides were afraid that the other side would regret it, so they hurriedly finalized the order.
35 Dongfeng No. 3 missiles, that is, 3.5 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to more than double the mainland's foreign exchange reserves at that time, Saudi Arabia is really wealthy.
We are also stingy people, and immediately decided to give them another one for free, and finally Saudi Arabia took away 36 Dongfeng 3 missiles for 3.5 billion US dollars.
Since they are only buying missiles from us for self-protection, what about the Dongfeng base and the PLA in Saudi Arabia?
With a piece of cloth on my head, I am the richest in the world
Saudi Arabia is a young country with a very short history, and modern Saudi Arabia has only been established for less than a century.
After freeing itself from the control of other countries and establishing its own kingdom, Saudi Arabia almost all the way to the end, discovered a large amount of oil resources, and became one of the richest countries in the world with these black gold.
Just a few years after the founding of the country, the United States discovered oil resources on Saudi soil, but it was obviously unrealistic to want to plunder it directly.
So United States used a roundabout tactic, and after some bargaining with Saudi Arabia, the two sides reached a cooperation agreement, and Saudi Arabia leased the oil field to United States people, and only collected rent and oil dividends for itself.
Although this approach would give some of the benefits of oil to the United States, it would make Saudi Arabia make a lot of money without much effort.
Coupled with the in-depth cooperation with United States, United States has also benefited a lot from it, which is almost equivalent to Saudi Arabia paying a huge amount of protection money to United States, and naturally no country dares to harass Saudi Arabia, a newly established country.
Under the umbrella of United States, Saudi Arabia's life can be said to be prosperous, and after decades of good travel, Saudi Arabia can be said to have nothing but money.
However, they are not worried, after all, with money, other problems are easy to solve, even if they do not have the ability to develop themselves, they have the capital to own advanced finished products from other countries.
This kind of life is indeed comfortable, and if it can be protected by United States all the time, Saudi Arabia is simply the happiest place in the world.
But in order to maintain this situation, there is a very big premise, that is, the United States is still willing to continue to be the umbrella of Saudi Arabia.
But if there is a difference in interests one day, the umbrella will immediately turn into a sharp knife and stab Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia's dependence on United States is actually a microcosm of many small countries, but the only thing that Saudi Arabia is thankful for is that they still have enough capital for United States to be an umbrella, and their oil resources are rich enough.
For many years, Saudi Arabia has been on its own, but the smaller countries around it have not had the luck and ability to do so, and these countries have ambitions that do not match their capabilities.
Since the 80s, the situation in the Middle East countries has been quite turbulent, and even if Saudi Arabia wants to stay out of it, the environment has made them helpless.
At this time, Saudi Arabia finally realized how important it was to have the ability to protect itself, and wanted to buy some weapons and equipment from other countries for self-protection, and the most important thing was, of course, missiles with strong deterrent power.
At the beginning, Saudi Arabia did not consider China, after all, the big brother of United States is in front of you, why bother to look near and far to find a nameless China.
Why choose China?
In 1985, he proposed to buy United States F15 fighters and "Lance" short-range missiles, after all, United States missiles have long been sold to many countries.
Saudi Arabia feels that with their friendship with United States for so many years, United States has made so much money in Saudi Arabia, and this face should still be there.
But they never expected that United States would reject Saudi Arabia's request and would not even sell them short-range missiles with a range of only 120 kilometers.
The Saudi king was very dissatisfied, and directly went to confront the people of the United States, and the two sides have cooperated for so many years, but this little thing cannot be done.
For United States, Saudi Arabia still has great use value, so it is impossible to tear up with Saudi Arabia and directly tell Saudi Arabia the reasons for rejecting the missile order.
Saudi Arabia was rejected, that is, Israel is behind the trouble, during this time, although the disputes and conflicts between Israel and Arab countries have long ended, they have not let down their guard.
Originally, Israel felt that there were threats all around, but as a result, Saudi Arabia actually wanted to buy missiles, and Israel was certainly not happy.
When Israel heard that Saudi Arabia sent people to United States for the purpose of buying United States fighters and missiles, it directly unblocked relations and made the Saudis pounce.
Saudi Arabia saw that United States' road would not work, so it could only want other countries to buy weapons and equipment, but it spent more than 10 billion, and what it bought was some weapons that had nothing to do with the same.
Just some ordinary equipment is not enough to deter these neighboring countries, and we can only continue to seek heavy weapons that other countries have deterrent power.
At that time, there were relatively well-known arms suppliers in the world, and United States and the Soviet Union, but United States had already refused once, and the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia did not deal with each other.
China didn't expect Saudi Arabia to be so generous, and Saudi Arabia didn't expect China to do business so realistically.
Both sides are very satisfied with this business, but the mainland has a special requirement for selling Dongfeng missiles, that is, these missiles must be installed in the mainland's Dongfeng base, and the launch button must also be controlled by the mainland.
At that time, Saudi Arabia was very hesitant, but the mainland also promised that when Saudi Arabia encountered danger and needed these missiles for self-defense, our soldiers would not intervene.
In this way, the Saudi prince happily returned to China, and the mainland also helped Saudi Arabia transport these missiles to Saudi Arabia and sent troops to garrison them.
For the sake of safety, we also recommend that the missiles be hidden inside under the guise of the Pakistan-Railway military exercise, and then reach Saudi Arabia after crossing the India Ocean.
Although they encountered the tailgating of United States fighters in the process, the Saudi prince was personally present, and United States did not dare to act rashly, and the transportation of missiles was also considered to be dangerous.
But then Israel learned about Saudi Arabia's purchase of missiles from China and informed United States of this, and United States was very dissatisfied and felt that it was being tricked by Saudi Arabia.
At this time, Israel also "fought with people" and wanted Saudi Arabia to clamor to bomb the Dongfeng missile base that had been established and destroy their missiles.
At this time, Saudi Arabia already has Dongfeng missiles with huge deterrent power, how can Israel be so arrogant.
Saudi Arabia directly hit back at Israel, and even if Israel has the courage to make a move against Saudi Arabia, it will never dare to easily offend China.
At that time, our international influence was indeed not as great as it is now, but it was not a joke to hold nuclear weapons, and with our People's Liberation Army in the Dongfeng base, Israel could only rest its flag.
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The incident also made the Saudis realize how important it is to have heavy weapons, and naturally they were also interested in China, which sold them Dongfeng missiles, and even under heavy pressure at the time, China and Saudi Arabia established diplomatic relations in 1990.
We have always adhered to the concept of peaceful development, from a weak country that was bullied to today, we understand the preciousness of peace better than anyone else, and call on all countries to resolve disputes by peaceful means.
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Resources
On April 30, 2014, the Observer Network reported that "Saudi Arabia's and China's Dongfeng-3 medium-range missiles were publicly exposed for the first time in 30 years".
On September 21, 2014, the Observer Network reported that the Saudi media indirectly admitted for the first time that the country has been equipped with DF-21, and the retired major general said it can be equipped with nuclear warheads
Sina Military reported on April 30, 2014 "Depth: Revealing the Secret of the Saudi Prince's Secret Purchase of Dongfeng-3 Missiles in China".