After the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, the Qing government signed the Treaty of Maguan with Japan, which was humiliating and humiliating, ceding the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan. At that time, Tsarist Russia was in a hurry, so it came forward to win France and Germany to intervene together, so that the Qing government ransomed Liaodong with 30 million taels of silver, and Japan could not twist its arms and thighs at that time, and had to agree.
(Li Hongzhang)
Tsarist Russia not only helped the Qing government to get back the land, but then helped the Qing government build a railway line from Vladivostok to Liaodong, which was good for the local economic development and military upgrading, and the Qing government was of course very cooperative.
But Tsarist Russia is not doing charity, in the process of building the railway, the Qing government has no money, it has to borrow money from Tsarist Russia, there are many conditions for loans, such as the use of customs revenue as a guarantee, the materials and technology for building railways must be used in Czarist Russia, at that time the railway tracks in Russia were wider than those of other countries, that is, the so-called broad gauge, the Qing government also had to adopt, resulting in only running the train of Tsarist Russia on it.
(Far Eastern Railway Map)
After the railway was repaired, Tsarist Russia further used both soft and hard measures, forcing the Qing government to lease Dalian and Lushun to it, thus successfully acquiring Lushun Port, a rare ice-free port in the Far East.
After the Boxer Rebellion, Tsarist Russia stationed its own army along the railway on the grounds that the Qing government's protection was unfavorable, and also obtained the right to mine minerals within 30 kilometers on both sides of the line, gradually turning the Longxing land of the Manchu Qing into its own colony.
The success of Tsarist Russia in China was soon copied by other powers, and for a time railways were built on the land of China, and the Qing government had no resistance in the face of the encroachment of the great powers on its sovereignty, and the only thing it could do was to disperse loans to the countries of the great powers, hoping to balance their interests in the Qing Dynasty and restrain each other, but with little effect, the patriotic intellectuals at that time issued a cry of "the destruction of the country by railroads".
Without further ado, let's see how Musk wants to repeat yesterday's story.
The so-called Starlink project is to deploy 12,000 satellites around the earth to provide Internet access to the world.
(Elon Musk, founder of tesla electric car, rocket launch company SpaceX, etc.)
But this starlink plan, there are many innate deficiencies, such as the speed is very slow, only a few thousandths of the speed of the 5G network; for example, the life of each satellite is only 5 years, that is to say, every year after that, it will continue to send satellites upwards; for example, mobile phones cannot be used directly, and every household must install a satellite signal receiver (that is, the kind of pot that used to watch TV).
The most serious thing is to create space junk, and the problem is that the Starlink project itself is also a victim of its own space junk.
(60 satellites stacked together in one launch)
So why did Musk have to do this? Because there are a lot of benefits to this thing.
This star chain, the best use may not be to let ordinary people go online, but to help Musk occupy the orbit in the sky, to help the United States build a space defense system, after all, those satellites themselves are natural missile interceptors.
Therefore, regardless of whether the Starlink program is successful or not, eventually the US Department of Defense will stand up and pay for it.
On December 27, the Chinese space station had to adjust its attitude continuously, and twice urgently avoided the collision of the "Starlink" satellite.
The matter of occupying space has long been familiar to the powers, but this time, Musk has extended his hand to space.