Chapter 1553 - The Seed of Earth Federation (1/2)

Chapter 1553: The Seed of Earth Federation

It was difficult to make progress during the next meeting.

As discussed on the first day, no one raised objections on rescuing the Golovins, but there was serious disagreement on the arrangements after the rescue of Svetovid. Discussions related to the arrangements after the salvage of the Svetovid were almost to the point of irreconcilability.

The debates were both in the placement of the “Golovins” and the technical assistance promised by the “Golovins”…

“I propose to share the technology that the Golovins are donating to us. Any member of the defense alliance has the right to share knowledge from the extraterrestrial civilization.”

“I object. This is unfair to countries that contribute more. Unless all member states bear the same cost in rescuing the Svetovid, it’s unacceptable to require equal sharing of extraterrestrial civilization technology.”

“Sharing the technology can make us stronger, and we will also contribute more to the fight against the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations! Isn’t the point of the alliance to fight the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations? Are you forgetting this?”

“In a compromise, we can register patents for technologies from Golovins and share the patent rights in proportion to each member state’s investment. All member states share these technologies equally, but when using these technologies, we must pay a certain fee to the patent owner…”

Just like that, in the meaningless argument, the meeting was in a deadlock for a whole week. In two of the meetings, Jiang Chen didn’t show up at all. Instead, he entrusted representatives of Celestial Trade to attend the meeting. Finally, in the second week of the conference, Jiang Chen finally spoke some sense.

“We should form a unified federation.”

The whole venue fell silent.

Even if a needle fell on the ground, it would be heard clearly.

After a pause, as he saw that no one interrupted him, Jiang Chen continued.

“So far, among the extraterrestrial civilizations we encountered, it seems that we are the only one that’s scattered. Just as Golovin I said, if we can’t solve our own problems, there will be no way to deal with external threats. ”

“This is nothing more than the arrogance of aliens. How can a single sentence deny the benefits of the pluralistic political structure? Who does he think he is?” A representative shook his head and said with disdain, “A political and economic organization bigger than the European Union? This is not a problem that can be settled in one sentence.”

“Of course this is not a problem that can be settled in one sentence,” Jiang Chen said calmly as he looked to that representative’s direction, “So it will require our collaborative efforts.”

“What then? Who should rule this federation?” The other person stood up, and looked at Jiang Chen with a trace of vigilance, and even a subtle and insignificant amount of hostility, “Celestial Trade? Or the Future Group? Or do you mean yourself?”

As expected, when the proposal to establish the Earth Federation was put on the table, it was almost met with overwhelming opposition. However, Jiang Chen was still patient and explained the proposal of the Earth Federation against the opposing voices.

The first was a community in space resources development.

From the development of space resources to smelting to finishing into products, the goal was to achieve zero-tariff within the Earth Defense Alliance. The community would push for the production and sales of space resources such as steel, titanium ingots, rare earth, and black alkane…

This step was somewhat similar to the path taken by the European Union.

The predecessor of the European Union was the European Coal and Steel Community. It was later extended from coal and steel to other areas of economic cooperation, and finally transformed from the European Community into the current European Union…Although it was now on the verge of disintegration.

After zero-tariff was achieved in the space industry, the next step was naturally pushing for zero-tariff in other industries, with the ultimate goal of being “free trade”, “no tariff borders”, “unified currency” and so on in the economic field. Eventually, the cooperation would advance from economics to politics, then ultimately eliminate the borders in the true sense, and establish the Earth Federation…

The first article proposed by Jiang Chen at the meeting was endorsed by representatives of some countries, but it did not make further progress.