Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 1289 - 1044: Renegotiating Entry into the World_2

Chapter 1289: Chapter 1044: Renegotiating Entry into the World_2

It must be said, this method is more sophisticated, killing people imperceptibly, and it catches you off guard. Before you realize it, the wealth accumulated by the country over decades can be harvested overnight!

Moreover, the harvesters don’t have to take any risks, they don’t face the risk of resistance, and when they harvest your wealth, you even have to smile and thank them..."

Father-in-law deeply agreed with what Wang Ye had said.

Because such things had happened in Russia in the more than ten years after the Former Soviet Breakdown!

Trillions worth of wealth were looted through various privatization schemes by Western capital, and the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years by the country vanished in a moment.

Many ordinary people couldn’t understand why, once a world superpower with a fairly high standard of living, everyone suddenly became impoverished after the breakdown.

Where did all that wealth go!

In fact, wealth does not disappear, it merely shifts...

It shifted to developed countries in the West, to the bank accounts of certain oligarchs...

Father-in-law was silent for a long time, digesting the words of Wang Ye.

Although he didn’t want to admit it, he had to acknowledge that what Wang Ye said was all true.

This world is just so cruel...

Finally, he slowly nodded and said, "Alright, then go ahead and do it, the Kremlin will be your strong backing. Let us work together and see what our country will look like in five or ten years."

Wang Ye nodded vigorously and said resolutely, "Don’t worry, it will definitely get better and better!"

...

Wang Ye was busy forming and joining alliances, pulling together former "little siblings" to re-group and sign integration agreements.

The whole process was naturally not simple, each country had its own demands, each country’s ruling layers were different, and their actual situations had to be considered, so for the whole of August and September, Wang Ye was basically flying from one country to another, discussing the details of integration with Belarus and several Stan countries.

He was immersed in work, extremely busy, so he was unaware that because of his increasing activism in the Moscow political arena over the past two years, and his growing influence, even affecting the entire Eastern Europe situation, he had also begun to enter the vision of some powers in Europe and the United States, and those powers had begun to pay attention to his every move.

Some secret agencies even set up special groups to monitor and collect information about Wang Ye, whether for good or ill intentions, that might still depend on how things developed later, since Wang Ye hadn’t yet done anything seriously harmful to other countries.

If one had to say, during the last Ukraine General Election, Wang Ye did indeed intervene and do quite a lot, but he was in the shadows, and besides Yanukovych, Yulia, and Natalia, not many people knew of his existence, and even fewer knew what he had actually done!

It’s not to belittle those secret agencies, but Wang Ye’s subordinates were also top "professionals" in the industry, operating cleanly and leaving no traces, and those foreign agencies wanted to investigate what actually happened behind the Ukraine General Election, it probably would still take some time.

Of course, Wang Ye was unaware of these things, and even if he knew, he would just smile it off.

After all, his status was not ordinary now, anyone who really wanted to deal with him would have to think twice about whether they were qualified enough!

...

In the second half of the year, Wang Ye was truly very busy.

The integration of the CIS countries was still not finished yet, when another major issue needed his personal involvement.

That was Russia’s negotiation to join the WTO!

As mentioned before, Russia had been negotiating for over a decade to join the WTO, but to date had not yet been able to join...

Of course, it wasn’t just that some member countries of the WTO deliberately made trouble not wanting Russia to join, but even within Russia, there was substantial resistance, as many stakeholders did not want Russia to join the WTO because that would mean many industries would directly face the impact of foreign firms, and their enterprises would have to shut down!

But Wang Ye was determined, and he had to get this done within this year, as this period was a wave of globalization, as well as the best time for economic development.

If Russia couldn’t quickly get onboard the massive ship of global economic development, relying solely on itself and a few impoverished neighboring countries to boost its economy would be laughable!

Even if Wang Ye was capable, it’s like trying to cook a meal without rice.

The market is only so big, the consumer population just as finite, many industries lack a foundation—what could be used for development?

Thus, joining the WTO quickly was the best choice.

Perhaps some industries would be eliminated due to lack of competitiveness, but that was a bearable price to pay for overall development.

Under the agreement with the World Trade Organization, Wang Ye would lead a delegation to Xiangjiang at the end of September to attend the sixth WTO Ministerial Conference. Before this meeting, he would conduct final talks with a few member countries that had not yet reached an agreement and formally sign bilateral agreements.

He aimed to officially join the WTO at this ministerial meeting!

In fact, over the past decade, Russia had already signed bilateral agreements with most of the WTO member countries, including China-America, and faced few obstacles.

Of course, the formal agreement with the United States hadn’t been signed yet. The major framework had no issues, but some specific clauses still needed further discussion.

The main remaining member country wasn’t really a country at all but rather the European Union as a whole, which hadn’t settled specific terms with Russia yet.

Since the EU comprised many countries, it truly had significant internal conflicts. Some countries supported Russia’s WTO accession, while others had reservations and disagreed with its membership.

According to the EU’s unanimous voting system, there was still no internal consensus on whether to allow Russia into the WTO.

But having delayed for so long, with all other WTO member countries agreeing except the European Union, it was not good for appearances.

After all, Russia was considered a major power; it couldn’t realistically be kept out of the WTO forever.

Nowadays, everyone was talking about globalization, the global village, and evidently, economic cooperation was the major trend and unstoppable.

...

"Nova, have all the materials about the United States and the European Union’s WTO delegations been compiled? Have they contacted us recently?"

In the office, Wang Ye was discussing work with Nova.

Russia’s WTO accession team was naturally led by Wang Ye; he had even established a WTO Accession Preparation Office specifically to liaise with the WTO member countries, aiming to iron out differences through communication before the Xiangjiang ministerial meeting.

Although Wang Ye was responsible for WTO accession affairs, he didn’t have much time for it on a daily basis, so he had assigned Nova to periodically gather data and report to him.

When Wang Ye mentioned WTO affairs, Nova immediately responded, "Of course, if you need them, Boss, I can have someone bring them over right now.

Furthermore, the EU delegation sent a detailed discussion summary a few days ago, outlining all our disagreements concerning WTO accession terms they had sorted it out for us.

The EU representatives have also promised that as long as we agree to their demands, they will no longer have any objections, and we can sign the official bilateral agreement at the WTO Ministerial Conference.

As for the United States, there is only one disagreement left, concerning the extent and pace of opening up the agricultural sector.

They hope that once we join the WTO, we immediately liberalize the agricultural products sector, not imposing tariffs on agricultural products from any WTO member countries, of course, our agricultural products would receive the same treatment from other member countries..."

After listening to Nova’s summary, Wang Ye had a general idea.

It was still those few disagreements, and the United States was adamant about the agricultural products issue.

However, times had changed, and with the substantial support Wang Ye had given over the past few years, Russia’s domestic agriculture industry had greatly improved!

If it were liberalized, it was still uncertain who would benefit more and who would lose...