As the second largest economy, China has played an irreplaceable and important role in the global political pattern, and as a responsible major country, it has made significant contributions to safeguarding world order fairness and justice, maintaining world peace, and promoting the common development of mankind.
It is precisely because of China's important role that most countries in the world have established diplomatic relations with us and strive to maintain good interaction with China.
However, there are also a very small number of countries that do not recognize the trend of history and the actual situation and have never established diplomatic relations with us, and some of these countries even maintain so-called "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan.
Today, we will introduce such a country that is ignorant of current affairs - Eswatini.
This is a strange country, and the reason why it is very strange is because the country is poor, but the king is rich, and the people's lives are very unhappy, and yet the king, as the supreme administrator, has turned a blind eye to this situation for many years.
Eswatini, geographically located in the southern region of Africa, with a total population of about 1.15 million, the country is very small, only about 17,000 square kilometers. In addition, the distribution of cultivated land in the country is very uneven, and the altitude difference between the whole country from east to west is as high as 1700 meters.
Eswatini, at the beginning of the 19th century, it was originally a British colony, and with the end of the Second World War, the world set off anti-colonialism, national independence and liberation movements, and the country declared independence in 1968 and broke away from British control.
Originally, the natural endowments of the Eswatini were good, rich in asbestos, and rich in mineral resources, especially the diamonds produced in the country, which are famous all over the world.
However, due to the serious backwardness of the state and the political system, the country's per capita GDP so far is only more than 3,000 US dollars, which belongs to the lower middle income countries.
The government ostensibly supports a free market economy, especially for loose import and export controls, and has repeatedly emphasized the importance of personal property and the investment of foreign enterprises here, but in fact, this is not the case, and the country is currently one of the few absolute monarchies in the world.
That is to say, on the one hand, the Government strictly prohibits all forms of political parties from participating in the elections, and even in the country, opposition parties are treated as "terrorism".
On the other hand, the duty of the parliament of the country is only to make recommendations to the king, or to provide advisory services, and everything is decided by the king alone.
How can such a poor investment and business environment attract a large number of foreign investors? Therefore, the country's total GDP in 2020 is less than $4 billion, which can be said to be very poor.
From the perspective of industrial structure, of the total population of 1.15 million, nearly 80% are engaged in agricultural labor, in essence, the country belongs to the agricultural country, not at all belongs to the industrial country, the society is still in the agricultural civilization.
Although there are many people engaged in agricultural work, the output value of agriculture and the contribution rate of agriculture to the national economy are very low.
According to relevant data, the contribution rate of the country's agricultural output value does not exceed 10%, and as a relatively backward industry, the contribution rate of industry to the national economy is more than 37%.
Even so far, Eswatini, which have a large agricultural labor force and vast fertile land, food is still a big problem, food production is seriously insufficient, and the country still needs to import food from outside.
Eswatini is a notoriously "open" country, where one in three people suffers from AIDS, and the local population is not nervous about it, eating and drinking.
It is for the above reasons that the average life expectancy in the country is very short, only less than 34 years old, which is arguably one of the countries with the shortest life expectancy in the world.
In this case, there are big problems with medical care, health, education, transportation, etc., and the probability of a child surviving normally after birth does not exceed 15%, which sounds very shocking, but the actual situation is so. This is the current situation of countries that have not established diplomatic relations with China Eswatini.
The country's strange place is far more than this, Eswatini pursue polygamy, although the output value in the above industries is not high, but the country's tourism industry is very developed, the hotel facilities here are very advanced, even a number of five-star hotels, but their tourism industry is mostly controlled by some south African consortiums.
Some people come here to gamble, while others come mainly to watch the Reed Festival celebrations.
Every year in July and August, Eswatini holds a grand reed festival celebration, tens of thousands of beautiful women from all over the world gather in the reeds, the purpose is only one, is to show their charm, let the king look at himself, so as to change his poor living conditions. Yes, this is the equivalent of an event to select a concubine for the king.
Speaking of which, we have to mention the highest power holder of the country, King Swati III. Born in 1968, he ascended the throne in April 1986 and has been the king of the country ever since.
His family was very wealthy, and one of his children was one of the 15 richest royals in Forbes magazine.
Don't look at the country without money, the people without money, but the king is very rich. He bought himself a rolls-royce top-of-the-line custom sedan worth $5 million, 2 private jets, and a Rolls-Royce for each of his princes and concubines.
In addition, for those he "loved", he purchased 120 BMWs, some of which are cars and some of which are SUVs, which together are worth more than 100 million yuan. In addition, he built an ornate palace for each of his concubines.
Although he seems to be very good to his princesses, after all, he is a person who likes to pick flowers and weeds, otherwise he would not have re-elected concubines every year.
Therefore, some people have been in the palace for a long time, can't stand such a life, and eventually choose to elope or simply flee here.
These include both queens like Ramagvasa and princesses like Angela.
Of course, they are undoubtedly lucky to successfully escape, because at least they have freedom, in such a "harem", there are many open and secret struggles, and naturally some people will be beaten into the "cold palace" by the king, and such a person's situation is even more miserable.
Although the king has always insisted that the money for buying cars, building houses, and buying airplanes is earned by himself, the eyes of the people are shining, they know very well where the king's money comes from, and therefore they are very dissatisfied with the king's rule.
Before 2000, the political situation here was relatively stable, but the situation has changed since the news media confronted the Government for justice.
In October 2000, members of the royal family were exposed to the seizure of land, which quickly ignited the local democracy movement.
After months of strikes and rounds of pressure from the West, the king finally promised the people to make adjustments to the constitution.
But in the process, 9/11, the government used brutal means to suppress the domestic opposition in the name of counter-terrorism.
After a long struggle, the country's constitution was eventually changed, but the revised constitution still strongly supported the absolute power of the king, once again emphasizing the king's right to control the judiciary, administration, military, parliament, etc. of the country, and blurring the issues of "party elections and political system reform" that the people were concerned about.
The people were furious about this, and although the government had experienced a large number of arrests of members of the democracy movement in 2008, the people's struggle had not diminished in the slightest, and they insisted that the king step down, and allow other political parties to participate in the politics and politics, and truly return the right to vote to the people.
However, so far, the country's reform is still slowly advancing, the position of the royal family does not seem to have been fundamentally shaken, the king is still squandering money from unknown sources, the people are still living in the water, do not know how long such a state power can last, let us wait and see.