Xinjiang cotton suddenly exploded on the Internet, some internationally renowned brands online "boycotted" China's Xinjiang cotton, including H&M, Nike, Adi and other first-line brands, these brands may feel that they do not need China's huge market, have begun to "die", this is not, the country also began to boycott these brands, the dismantling of the brand, the termination of the contract.
In fact, in addition to the recent "Xinjiang cotton incident", some Western countries will do things on the Xinjiang issue from time to time. That's because Xinjiang is too important to China.
Let's first understand the geographical location of Xinjiang, which is located in the western border of China, covering an area of 1,660,000 square kilometers, which is the largest provincial-level administrative region in China in terms of land area. It borders 8 surrounding countries and is the center of the entire Eurasian continent, forming a natural barrier to China's rear and an important passage of the Silk Road in history. From the geographical location, we can see the importance of Xinjiang to our country.
China is still the world's largest developing country, the population base is large, so the demand for oil and various mineral resources is also very large, in order to meet the rapid development of China's economy, we need to import a large number of resources from abroad, 60% of China's oil is from abroad, mainly some countries in the Middle East, but due to geographical reasons, transportation needs to take waterways, so the import of these energy must pass through an important international channel - the Strait of Malacca.
Let's take a look at the Strait of Malacca, which is located near the South China Sea, between many islands, and is jointly administered by The Three Countries of Cape, Malaysia and Indonesia. The Strait of Malacca is the most important energy transportation channel for East Asian countries such as China, South Korea and Japan, and it is also called a "sea lifeline" by these countries. Although Singapore's economy is very developed, it is a small country after all, and it is very difficult to govern such an important sea route, so they seek cooperation from the United States. The hostility of the United States to China is not a day or two, and when they govern such an important transportation channel, China's energy transportation has been greatly affected.
Therefore, if China wants to reduce the risk of energy imports, it must find more reliable energy import channels. For example, China and Myanmar have cooperated in building a transportation pipeline that allows oil to be transported directly through the Bay of Bengal from the west coast of Myanmar to Yunnan, China, and then from Yunnan to developed areas in eastern China, successfully avoiding the Strait of Malacca, which makes China's energy security more secure. There is also the more strategic "China-Pakistan Economic Corridor", which is a 3,000-kilometer-long economic corridor that starts from Kashgar in Xinjiang, China, passes through all of Pakistan, and finally reaches the port of Gwadar. The CPEC is an important part of the Belt and Road Initiative, which not only brings advantages to China's energy transportation, but also boosts the economies of neighboring countries. While further strengthening the China-Pakistan cooperation, it will also enable oil and iron ore resources imported from the Middle East and Africa to avoid the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean and be transported directly to China. It can be said that this is the most ideal of China's energy channels, and the connection point of this economic belt in China is China's Xinjiang.
Although Xinjiang is still in a relatively backward state of development, Xinjiang, as the connecting point of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the land route of the "Belt and Road" must pass through, strong geographical advantages, coupled with the key construction in the later stage, Xinjiang will certainly develop rapidly, and more large cities and land trade cities will appear one after another. In this way, Xinjiang will become the economic and transportation center of Central Asia, and will maintain close and friendly exchanges with neighboring countries, and then China will not rely too much on the Strait of Malacca for energy transportation, so no matter how many restrictions it imposes, it will not have an impact on China.
With the rapid development of the country and the increasing prosperity of the economy, China's position in the international arena has become increasingly prominent, and the Chinese people have enough confidence. At present, some faceless countries still want to make Chinese money while slandering and attacking China, which is absolutely impossible! Chinese people will not agree! China will not agree!