East Africa had grown increasingly assertive on the international stage in recent years. In struggles over interests, there was no room for softness, especially at this critical juncture when East Africa sought to enter more international markets. As East Africa's third-largest market, the Far East Empire was naturally among its key priorities. The first remained the Central and Eastern Europe market, followed by the Western European market.
This was determined by East Africa's industrial structure. What East Africa could take pride in were heavy industry and agriculture. If many heavy industrial products were to be sold, the buyers naturally needed purchasing power; the same was true of agricultural products.
East Africa's foreign agricultural trade centered on tropical cash crops, and the region with the greatest consumption of cash crops in the world was Europe.
Europe itself lacked climatic diversity, especially tropical climate zones. Central and Eastern Europe had even harsher climate conditions than Western Europe. Combined with East Africa's distance advantage over the Central and Eastern Europe market, this made Central and Eastern Europe East Africa's largest consumer market for agricultural products.
As for Western Europe, after the development of East Africa's West Coast, it had grown quite rapidly in recent years thanks to geographical convenience. However, it also had the greatest number of competitors. The countries of the Caribbean Sea, South America, and West Africa could all compete with East Africa, while on the East Coast, the only rival to East African agriculture was India under British control.
Berlin.
A business delegation organized by the Maputo City Government had traveled across vast distances to Berlin, preparing to raise development funds there.
Since the Third Five-Year Plan began, East African policies had been further liberalized, allowing Maputo City to see an opportunity. For Maputo City, what it lacked most