the world is at stake

The Japanese ambassador was also devastated by the bad news, but he had no choice but to express his strong indignation and protest to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs—the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not even accept the letter of protest he submitted.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi held a cabinet meeting overnight to discuss the current crisis.But after discussion and discussion, no one said to activate the "Japan-US Security Treaty" and let the American father avenge himself.

At the press conference held by the Prime Minister's Office, all Japanese journalists should not be told not to mention the "security treaty".

Damn, China and the United States are fighting for hegemony, and my little Japan is caught in the middle. Is it because Japan doesn't die fast enough?

These are all major countries capable of using nuclear weapons.They may still survive the verification war.But if they deal with me alone, wouldn't Japan lose Lu Chen?

The spokesperson of the Japanese Prime Minister's Office immediately explained that there is no alliance binding agreement in the 'Japan-US Security Treaty', and Japan has not been invaded.Japan hopes to resolve conflicts and disputes with China through diplomatic means.

Regarding the issue of how the United States would use Japanese bases to attack China, its spokesperson said some nonsense in hopes of maintaining peace and refused to comment.

This is quite a bit like when the Russo-Japanese War was fought in Lushun, the Qing government was a coward, and they didn't dare to let a fart go.

Early the next morning, domestic netizens woke up and learned that the PLA navy and air force had engaged in a battle with Little Japan, and their blood boiled with excitement.

Four enemy planes were shot down, one was forced to land, and one's side was unscathed-this was a victory no matter how you looked at it.It can be regarded as recovering some interest for the Chinese soldiers and civilians who fought bloody back then.

As for some people who are worried that Japan and the United States will go to war with China, they were half dispelled by the Japanese Prime Minister's office the next morning, who was shy and tortoise-like.

The Japanese are very clear - I can follow behind the American father to wave the flag, but if I want to be the first to bite China, this will not work.

Dad, you bite first.

If you bite and don't get beaten, I'll bite.

But if you can't handle Dad, don't expect me to die.

After being violently attacked by China, Japan quickly stopped assisting the US military, neither helping with anti-submarine nor patrolling.The United States can use its bases as it wants, and it can consider paying for them.

But if you want it to contribute, it won't work.

Fortunately, the military pressure of the Yankees is still there, suppressing the domestic war sentiment.Otherwise, with such a one-sided result, maybe the common people in China would not want to regain Taiwan, but destroy Japan and the United States.

Japanese military planes were shot down one after another, and the news reached Washington in less than half an hour. Bush Jr., who had just fallen asleep, was woken up on the big bed in the White House.

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Carter came in person and said to the sleepy-eyed His Excellency: "Sir, the Chinese shot down four Japanese military planes in the waters east of Taiwan and the East of the Philippines, and forced an F- 15J."

Bush Jr. looked bewildered, not sure where exactly the two places his chief of staff mentioned were?He washed his face first, and then walked to the White House Situation Room.

At this time, most of the cabinet ministers went back to sleep.

Only Rumsfeld, who clamored for war with China, hurried over.Many senior officials from the Pentagon were also present.As for Secretary of State Powell, he can only be contacted by phone.

U.S. warplanes penetrated across the Taiwan Strait, but China took Japan first.The intelligence personnel of the Pentagon obtained the recordings of several fighter planes before they crashed and forced to land, basically restoring the situation at that time.

"One minute before being shot down, the Japanese early warning aircraft only detected the radar signal that appeared 1 kilometers away. But the radar signal only lasted for a few seconds and then disappeared."

"According to our experience, this should be a characteristic of stealth fighters launching missiles. It means that the Chinese should dispatch their J-[-]."

Chief of Staff Carter interjected, "When did our F-22 'Raptor' make its first flight?"

"97 years." The intelligence officer said.

"So when will it be ready for service?"

"Not yet in service."

“It amazes me enough that the Chinese have also built a stealth fighter. Now they can fight soon after their first flight?”

Carter spread his hands, expressing his incomprehension.But the intelligence officer could only shrug his shoulders, "Sorry, sir, I can only analyze based on the existing information.

Maybe the Chinese made the first flight and quickly produced small batches, and also compiled training and combat programs. I know this is absurd.But the specific circumstances may always remain a mystery. "

If Marco Shi was here, he would shrug his shoulders and express his helplessness.Because intelligence personnel guessed the truth.But the chief of staff laughed mockingly, obviously very disappointed with the Pentagon.

Feeling humiliated, Rumsfeld glared at the chief of staff, turned to President Bush Jr. and said, "Your Excellency, I hope to obtain your authorization..."

"Fight a war with the Chinese?" Bush Jr. asked blankly.

'La Shi' gritted his teeth and said: "We need an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We must not show weakness to the Chinese. The United States cannot make concessions to any opponent."

As the Pentagon's strongman, 'Lass' has the notion that the United States, as the world's sole superpower, cannot tolerate any military concessions.

This will affect the influence and reputation of the United States in the world.

The Japanese government is cowardly, but it looks at the United States.Taiwan is also looking at the United States.If the United States cannot occupy an overwhelming military advantage, how can it be the "big brother in the lead"?

The younger brothers will be renounced.

The United States desperately suppressed the Soviet Union back then, and it must also desperately suppress China today.Otherwise, the world political and economic system led by the United States after World War II will gradually collapse.

Not everyone in America thinks there is going to be war...

"Just because the Japanese were taught a lesson?" Bush Jr. looked cute and cute. "So I'm going to send an aircraft carrier to fight the opponent's stealth fighter?"

"Japan is our ally. It's worth our price. America shouldn't be so afraid of war and casualties." 'La's' is still emphasizing this point.

"Of course I know that Japan is our ally, an ally as good as a dog." Bush shrugged with a smile, "Didn't the Japanese government say that it would recall its ambassador to China? It even considered cutting off diplomatic relations with China.

We can do the same.

In addition, the U.S. Navy can blockade China's coast and cut off its foreign trade routes.It will be unable to export goods or import raw materials.Petroleum, copper ore, iron ore, etc., are not acceptable.

Before going to bed, Powell talked to me.If China is unwilling to back down, an economic strike is more efficient and safer than a military one. "

This is also an option, 'La Shi' pondered for this.

Powell is the one who used 'washing powder' to frame Saddam at the UN General Assembly.His ideas are more insidious than 'La's'.

The confrontation between China and the United States will not happen overnight, and both sides will have to try a little bit.In the competition between big powers, it is easy to kill yourself if you make a mistake.

Carter, the chief of staff, interjected, "But we are currently very dependent on cheap goods from China.

If China's trade channels are completely cut off, the CPI in the United States will also rise wildly.At present, no country can replace China to meet our needs. "

Bush Jr. admitted this, and said: "I started a trade war against China last year, but the effect was not good. The Chinese economy has not stagnated, but is still developing at a high speed.

I have to admit that the Chinese market has the ability to operate independently, and the United States also needs Chinese products.But how many months can China last if it loses maritime shipping? "

'La's' originally had his elbows on the table, but after hearing what Bush said, he slowly leaned back in his chair and said in a deep voice: "Our navy is indeed capable of blocking China's shipping lanes.

There is no need to block everything, just intercept the oil tanker bound for China in Malacca.At that time, China will become North Korea at the end of the last century, with famine and poverty everywhere. "

The chief of staff took advantage of the situation and laughed, teasingly said: "Are you thinking too much about the situation? China is not North Korea, and they will take the initiative to start a war with us."

I have to say that this will definitely happen, especially now that China and Russia are in a near-military alliance.If China is pushed into a hurry, it will definitely expand its nuclear arsenal crazily.In terms of its national strength, it is not difficult to achieve this.

"Blocking China is easy, but what happens after the blockade? Will Saudi Arabia be willing to reduce oil exports? Will Russia stop exporting oil to China?

Will our allies in Europe follow suit and refuse to trade with China?Are Japan and South Korea willing to completely sever ties with China? "

The chief of staff asked more than a dozen questions in one breath, all of which could not be answered immediately by everyone present.He sighed: "China is not a small country, and it is not a country that we can easily defeat with a few strategies.

You should consider it a stronger opponent than the Soviet Union.It will take a huge effort from our entire country to contain it. "

'La Shi' was very dissatisfied with such cowardly remarks, and hummed displeasedly: "Then what do you think we should do? We can't just do nothing."

In the end, Bush Jr. made the decision, "increase economic sanctions on China. And use the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait as an excuse to restrict China's resource imports, especially oil."

As for the Japanese fighter jets being shot down... a batch of Chinese overseas assets were confiscated for compensation, and their important officials abroad were detained for trial.

Chapter 59 tit for tat

"Down with Chinese imperialism!"

"China's position is an imperialist position."

"Times have changed, Japan is qualified to say no to China!"

The parade crowd held banners, held trumpets, shouted and shouted, and gathered in a mighty way outside the Chinese embassy in Japan.The gate of the embassy was closed, and the staff in the embassy stood at the window and looked out, occasionally taking pictures.

This is a bit like the incident of the Yugoslav Museum Bombing, but the two parties have changed.

The Americans who were originally in the pavilion became bystanders, and the Chinese who were originally victims stayed in the pavilion.The Japanese crowd who watched the theater back then were furious, but no one threw bricks into the theater for them.

The order outside the museum is not bad.

The Japanese police cordoned off the cordon, trying to appease the angry nationals and prevent extremists from rushing into the pavilion. They also wanted to show their national image and must not show weakness.

A group of Chinese students came outside the museum to support the scene. After coming, they found that the protesting Japanese were more and more funny.They simply laughed and took pictures, and occasionally jumped out and shouted 'Long live the Chinese Empire'.

"It's hard! It's really hard!" The Chinese ambassador to Japan sighed behind the glass window of the embassy, ​​his face full of sadness.A group of librarians and military officers behind him snickered.

Just now, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it would summon the Chinese ambassador to Japan to protest and admonish.

Let's talk when you have time.

The conflict in the Taiwan Strait has suddenly turned into a conflict between China and Japan. This situation has changed so quickly that countries around the world have never expected that—European governments are supporting Japan in safeguarding its legitimate rights and interests. Many media have speculated about how the Japanese government will respond.

For example, recall the country's ambassador to China; expel the Chinese ambassador to Japan; directly sever diplomatic relations between the two countries; or even simply declare war and destroy the Chinese navy within half an hour.

The options seem plentiful.

But to the surprise of the outside world, the whole day after the incident broke out, the Japanese government held a few press conferences to protest China's violence, and the most serious move was to go to the UN Security Council to accuse China.

This is quite similar to the posture of the Fruit Party appealing to the League of Nations.

The problem is that there is China as a permanent member of the Security Council—ah... who is kneeling under the hall?How dare you sue this official!

Not even economic sanctions?A few fighter planes were shot down in Japan, at least recall the ambassador to China, and expel the Chinese ambassador—if you don’t even do this, how can you mess around in the international community?

But the Japanese officials probably followed Tokugawa Ieyasu's example, each of them endured the words, and they were obviously beaten, so they could pretend that nothing happened, and planned to yell a few times to fool them.

The Japanese people are also very calm. The Japanese media have conducted interviews for several days in a row, wanting to see what the people think of the "China-Japan air battle"?

As a result, ordinary Japanese people think it is normal, and they are far less excited than imagined by the outside world.Probably they have been bullied enough by the Americans, and now they are bullied by China, and ordinary people have lost their tempers at all.

NHK also interviewed people studying and doing business in China, and found that everyone was really calm.The Chinese felt that it was good to win, and they were very happy, and they didn't imagine that they would suddenly come to bully the Japanese in China.

The Korean media made the most fuss about this matter, mocking the Japanese government for being incompetent and weak, and there is nothing they can do about being bullied.They analyzed the current situation and said that Japan is under the pressure of China and the United States, and there is no room for diplomatic maneuvering.

The Japanese media was originally a grandson, but after being irritated, he asked the Korean media from a distance—if China shoots down your fighter plane, what can you do?Don't forget that you are still in a state of truce with China, not the end of the war.

The Koreans are naturally talking about it, 'We can produce F-16', 'We have the Chungmu Gong Admiral Yi Sun-shin', 'We still have 5000 million people', 'American dad loves me more'.

"It's useless, you can't even deal with North Korea's 'Shuangfa Jianshi', and you are scumbags against 'Veyron'. Maybe one day the North Korean army will go south again."

Heck, when it comes to the re-armed North Korean People's Army, South Korea's arrogance is gone - before North Korea was too poor and its equipment was too backward, it was actually not a big threat.But in the past two years, its economy has developed rapidly.

The topic of "Sino-Japanese Air War" failed to ignite, but the United States did not get out of the conflict in the Taiwan Strait, but increased its stimulus to China.

A large number of U.S. warplanes approached cities in southeastern China over the high seas, and the closest distance was only tens of kilometers.Continental fighter planes also took off, firstly to expel them, and secondly to kill the US military around several bases in Japan for demonstrations.

A week later, the U.S. State Department announced increased sanctions against China, including prohibiting a number of Chinese companies from developing in the U.S., increasing export controls on China’s high-tech equipment and technology, and raising tariffs on Chinese goods again.

In addition, the assets of some Chinese state-owned enterprises in the United States were confiscated in a targeted manner, and sanctions were imposed on some party and government officials, including freezing their foreign accounts.

China's response was unusually fast, immediately requiring the US Consulate in Hong Kong to reduce its staff.

The United States itself claims that there are only 140 American employees and 180 Hong Kong employees in Hong Kong.But actually more than 300 people work for it.Most of them are engaged in jobs that do not match their status.

This is equivalent to deporting nearly a thousand Americans.

Immediately afterwards, China took the initiative to close the US consulate in Houston, and all diplomats returned to China; at the same time, it closed the US consulate in Chengdu, expelled its personnel, and asked to leave the country within a time limit.

This series of actions can be described as staunch, which made the US media and US officials jump up and down in a panic.On the same day, some congressmen clamored in their speeches in Congress that China must be punished twice.

CNN is even more aggressive, claiming that China violated international diplomatic norms and persecuted American diplomats, which is an open confrontation and provocation against the United States.

A series of senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Powell and President Bush Jr., came out to speak harshly, clamoring for reciprocal retaliation, making China obey the international order, and not accepting its challenge to the United States.

When the U.S. confiscated Chinese assets, China confiscated U.S. assets in Hong Kong; the U.S. sanctioned Chinese officials, and China also sanctioned U.S. officials.

Neither side has any plans to settle down.

At the beginning of February 2004, Powell of the US State Department began to visit more than a dozen countries in East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

One is to appease Japan and South Korea, the other is to persuade the "oil tyrants" to impose an oil embargo on China, and the third is to hope to unite with Britain, France, Germany and other countries to impose diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions on China.

There are so many tricks to play, it feels like...

"That's it?"

In the presidential office of the Kremlin, Emperor Putin glanced at the diplomatic briefing, and then looked back at an extremely beautiful young woman behind him.

"Martha, this is exactly what Trump and Pompeo are doing."

Beautiful woman stands at the window and looks at the Kremlin under heavy snow.She whispered: "What else can you expect? It is impossible for China and the United States to really fight. Even if Rumsfeld goes crazy, his generals will also go crazy?"

Pu Dadi was puzzled again: "Didn't the 'Brotherhood' ever think about pulling American political figures into the ranks of followers?"

"How do you know they haven't done it?" Martha sneered. "They have done it long ago, but the US's separation of power system tends to lead to uneven distribution of spoils. When someone wants to take power, there will be civil strife instead."

Martha was actually very dissatisfied with the bald middle-aged man in front of her.He has a mediocre resume and has never worked at the grassroots level, but he was promoted too quickly and became the president of Russia before he was 50 years old.

It's like Mandela, who has been in prison for 20 years, doesn't know how to govern the country, and Putin, who suddenly came to power, has no good means to face the mess left by Yeltsin.