preface
Honesty is a virtue that China has been advocating for 5,000 years, and it is also something that every Chinese son and daughter should remember, honesty is not only reflected in a person, but also in the trade between countries and countries, but unfortunately Peru has not done this.
Can you imagine a country going back on its word? In real life, the Global Times reported in 2010 that Peru had bought 12 tanks from China for display in a military parade.
As a result, he didn't pay after he ran out, and even returned the goods, and now he wants to buy drones, will China accede to his request this time?
eat one's word
In 2009, Peru held a military parade, and this time was crucial for Peru, the 190th anniversary of their independence, for which the Peru government prepared long in advance, and suddenly encountered problems in the preparation process, that is, the number of weapons and equipment was insufficient.
On October 1, 1949, the founding of New China was founded, and a grand military parade was held in Tiananmen Square, but New China was in ruins, poor and white, and there were not enough aircraft.
So Premier Zhou Enlai let the planes fly to Tiananmen Square twice, firstly to solve the problem of the shortage of planes on the mainland, and secondly, to create an illusion for foreign countries that China's flying power should not be underestimated.
Now Peru is facing the same problem, the lack of a well-equipped tank cluster means that it is easy to be laughed at by other countries at the parade, and in order to demonstrate Peru's national military strength and make the Peru people more confident in the country, the Peru government has opened a national bid.
It was hoped that a country could be selected from a large bidding group, cooperate with it, and purchase weapons and equipment, and in the end, the Chinese government successfully won the bid, and the winning project was the MBT-2000 tank, which is impeccable in terms of performance and internal technology, and has been recognized by the Peru government.
In the end, the two countries reached a trade agreement, thinking that after the agreement was signed, all that remained was to pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, but the Peru government suddenly said that it was now at the stage of the military parade, hoping that the Chinese government could let Peru use it first, and then settle the payment after the end.
In the spirit of humanitarianism, coupled with the fact that China believes that this deal is already a sure thing, so it agreed to the request of the Peru government, but I did not expect that the disaster began at this moment.
After the tanks were transported to Peru, they were also used in military parades, and while the Chinese government was waiting to accept the payment, the Peru government suddenly said that because it found that there were big problems with the quality of the tanks during use, it did not agree to pay for the goods and returned the tanks to China by the same route.
The person in charge of the Chinese government was dumbfounded, because he had never seen such a brazen person, who not only did not pay the bill when he ran out of things, but returned the same way.
The Chinese government sent people to negotiate with the Peru government, hoping that the other party would be honest and collect all the remaining payments, but the Peru government has always adhered to its own point of view and has not wavered in the slightest.
In the end, the Chinese government, which had no choice but to eat this dumb loss by itself, paid for all the tanks to China out of its own pocket, and lost a lot of money before and after, both in terms of transportation costs and the maintenance costs of the tanks in the later period.
This incident also left a very unforgettable impression on the Chinese government, originally thought that the two countries should not have business cooperation in the future, but this year, Peru began to want to buy mainland drones again, so this time the Chinese government continues to cooperate with them, or learn the lessons of the last time?
Drone incidents
Modern warfare is no longer like the past, which requires soldiers to go to the battlefield to charge into battle, pay attention to high-precision weapons and equipment, and pay attention to the integration of sea, land and air facilities, among which UAV technology is a vital existence in the field of future warfare and daily life.
For this reason, China's drone technology is not said to be the world's first, at least it can be said, but the result is that people are speechless again, Peru directly proposed to the Chinese government this time, hoping to cooperate with the Chinese government again to buy a certain number of drones.
So will the Chinese government accede to Peru's request this time, as it has done before? The answer is of course no, as the saying goes, eat a trench and grow wise, before China really replied that Peru's approach has been heartbroken, there is no money, even the goods have been returned, this time how may it be re-entering the trap.
So this time the Chinese government came up with a great solution, that is, to adopt the way of renting and not selling, in a word, if the target wants to cooperate with us, he can only choose to lease for a period of time, and he must pay for the goods in advance.
As for the purchase, it will not be discussed for the time being, and the Peru government seems to have seen the attitude of the Chinese government, and it also knows that its ideas can no longer hit the Chinese government, so it can only put away its own careful thoughts.
The Chinese government's unanimous attitude in foreign diplomacy is equality and democracy, and it will never engage in discrimination, and for this reason, many countries have also paid money with one hand and delivered goods with the other hand when carrying out trade cooperation with China, and basically there has not been a big degree of error.
This incident is not only a reminder to the Peru government, but also to all countries in the world, warning them that China is not easy to bully, and do not think that China's promotion of a peaceful image means that we are easy to bully.
All in all, in 2009, Peru completely disregarded the overall image of the country for the military parade of its own country, bought 12 tanks from China, and directly regretted it after using it, not only refusing to pay all the remaining payments, but also returning the previously used tanks.
Is this something that a country can do? Aren't you afraid of directly affecting the country's image and your own credibility?
As a result, when Peru later asked China to buy drones again, the Chinese government directly responded by renting and not selling, so that Peru understood that it was absolutely impossible and absolutely not allowed to play tricks in front of China.
Primary sources
Northern Net - Peru refuses to buy Chinese tanks for unknown reasons and has returned all sample vehicles (photo)''
Phoenix News - Peru has no money to pay for purchased Chinese tanks
Fuzhou News Network - Peru could buy up to 120 Chinese MBT-2000 main battle tanks
Global Network - Russian media: Peru will choose the Leopard 2 and T-90 to abandon the purchase of Chinese MBT2000