章 638: Chapter 211: Sabotage

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The French reinitiating their colonial development plan has certainly caused quite a stir. Seeing Austria's success, no one could be certain that the French would fail.

In recent years, France has been gradually losing ground in international competition, the primary issue being that domestic economic development has hit a bottleneck, unable to keep pace with the likes of England and Austria.

Especially in the past two years, France's economic growth rate drastically plummeted, whereas the economies of England and Austria continued to skyrocket.

From total economic volume alone, Britannia, which had once been surpassed by France, is now showing signs of catching up again.

This is no minor issue; The British Isles have a total population of just over thirty-one million, while present-day France boasts nearly sixty million.

By simply calculating per capita income, the income of the French people is only sixty percent of that of the British.