Seven podiums are prepared on the stage. The one in the middle is the largest, and there are three smaller ones on each side.
No one thought that this session of the Seven Summit would be held in this war-torn desert. Many reporters only got the news at the last minute.
After they waited arduously, an old man wearing a dark blue suit, a steady manner, short white hair, a high forehead, and a square and honest face walked into the scene.
His name is Qiao, and he is the Taotie President who was elected for only half a year. As for the people around him who were tall, short, fat, thin and dressed in different styles of men and women, they were the heads of state of the other six countries.
The big bosses finally appeared, and the reporters who had been shivering in the cold desert wind for several hours finally burst into excited applause.
Joe walked to the podium and gently pressed his hands to signal everyone to be quiet. Then he began his speech.
"I know you come from all different countries. We have different languages, we have different skin colors, we believe in different gods."
After finishing this sentence slowly, he glanced at the reporters in the audience with different hair colors, skin colors, and clothing, and then glanced at the six servants beside him who were on the same stage with him.
"But it doesn't matter. We all uphold the universal value of freedom, have the same beliefs, and the same philosophy, and we have persisted until today."
“We shattered the empire of slavery and we lived through the long, dark Middle Ages.
"We led the countries and defeated the countries controlled by the evil god in a total war."
A reporter in the audience took a sip and spit out the chewing gum that had been chewed in his mouth until it no longer had any taste.
I don’t read much, don’t lie to me.
The great slavery empire in Western Continent was a thousand years ago and perished due to internal decay and barbarian invasion.
At that time, Taotie had not yet been born. Did the fight against slavery have anything to do with you, Taotie?
However, after the Taotie country was born, a large number of tribesmen who robbed the South Continent were sent to the New Continent to work as slaves.
To some extent, Taotie is the only country where slaves have been legal for thousands of years.
As for the three all-out wars, they were all a melee between the gods of the Western Continent and the Eastern Continent, while Taotie hid in Qingliang Mountain far away from the ocean, watching a show and selling arms.
Taotie always reaches the last critical moment, raises his arms and crushes the losing party to death, finally achieving the title of winner.
But Joe continued his speech.
"So we now have values and ideas that are common to everyone, no matter which god we believe in."
He looked in all directions with sharp eyes, and the reporters applauded sparsely, urging him to talk about the key points quickly.
"But now we are once again faced with serious challenges."
His brows furrowed and his tone turned serious.
"In the new century, certain old countries have risen again.
“Capital, which pursues profits like flies pursuing carrion, ignores our values and raises her with our blood.
“Cheap goods are flooding the market, our factories are closing down, and our people are losing their jobs and becoming homeless.
"That country never abides by the common rules that the world should have and ignores our common values.
“That country used our wealth and technology to build their military bases and develop their military technology.
“That country is building massive construction projects in neighboring countries, building ports, railways and oil pipelines, trying to make all countries dependent on it.
“That country never gets along with other countries as equals and wants to restore the historical tribute system.
“Now, this country is eating our lunch and getting stronger every day!”
Speaking of excitement, Joe raised his fist and knocked on the table of the podium.
“While we endlessly discussed, deliberated, debated, discussed, argued, and debated.
“At a time when we have been arguing for years about renovating an airport, repairing a highway, and building a new high-speed rail without any conclusion.
“This country has built the most advanced airport, built 10,000 kilometers of high-speed rail, 100,000 kilometers of highways, and countless tunnels and bridges.
“Now this country starts construction of ten high-speed railways, a hundred highways, and countless buildings every year, and their construction sites never stop.
“They have also built roads, high-speed rail, ports and airports to neighboring countries in an attempt to connect their surrounding areas.
“They reclaimed the sea to build roads and created many islands in the ocean, where they placed radars and missiles to block and detect our warships and reconnaissance aircraft.
"They threaten freedom of navigation, they threaten our military bases, and they threaten the weak allies we protect.
"They are the greatest threat to the free world!"
Applause... Where's the applause?
At the most critical moment, he was once again waiting for applause. After five seconds of silence, applause finally broke out reluctantly.
Under the catharsis of a series of parallels, even Joe, who spoke slowly, couldn't help but get excited and clenched his fists hard.
He waved his fist and wanted to hear the response from the reporters below, but unfortunately, there was no life down there.
Because he was neither the first nor the last to say these clichés, nor was he the best to say them.
His predecessor was known as the "Roaring Lion of the West" and was thousands of times better at speaking than he was.
For every politician, telling the same facts in a different way can evoke completely opposite emotions.
If there is such a need, just pick up a random person and you can come up with a lot of comparisons that mean the same thing, but have completely opposite praise and blame.
For example:
“That country feeds more than a billion people.
“That country lifted more than a billion people out of poverty.”
“That country governed the desert.
“That country has built the most highways, high-speed rail lines and bridges in the world.
“That country has made the most remote places accessible to the Internet.
“A hundred years after the Third World War, that country never used troops abroad.
“That country doesn’t have a single military base abroad.
“Then the country doesn’t send warships and planes to hang around other people’s homes all day long.
"That country actively invests in its neighbors, building roads, railways, airports and ports to make the region prosperous."
But Joe is still Joe, and he keeps going.
“So, I want to tell everyone.
“If we are to protect our free world way of life, the international rules and values we all recognize, we must unite!
“We cannot sit back and watch an evil country rise again because we insist on free trade, and we cannot go back to the era of tribute!”
In short, as long as the world is ruled by gluttons, it will be free trade. Once others want to surpass him, it becomes a tribute system.
The reporter who continued to chew gum cursed below: "Bah, he thought this was a campaign rally, and I am a voter? Are you talking about big news?"
