16 October 2000, at 3 p.m.

In the center of Lanfang, under a 30-story luxury new office building, all kinds of official vehicles are parked, and it looks very lively.

The new office building was completed last year and is now home to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Harmony) and the Ministry of Commerce.

Just a few years ago, Lanfang's infrastructure was much more backward than it is today, and because the country is small and there are few public officials, it is common for three or four departments to share an office building, and the number of floors will not exceed 10 floors.

Nowadays, because international cooperation and foreign trade have increased sharply every year, those front-facing departments involved in foreign cooperation, and the hardware facilities have been replaced.

Although the number of staff is far less than the 30-story office building, it is necessary to build more magnificent conference rooms and more supporting facilities. For example, each floor of the office will be equipped with a 1-to-1 rest area, and you can have an independent rest cabin to sleep in when you are tired from working overtime.

A coffee bar and snack corner are available for free, a gym with the most complete equipment in the world, and a rooftop greenhouse garden and indoor oxygen bar with a glass sun room on the top floor.

All in all, how to be magnificent, the facilities are all more humane and considerate than the Google headquarters 20 years later. The staff canteen occupies two floors, and the first floor canteen of each department is open on both weekdays and rest days, serving dishes ranging from Chinese food to Western food to Southeast Asian-style bak kut teh.

The studio for the press conference occupies three floors, one floor for each department, and a third floor for backup, in case of equipment failure in one of the studios at any time, there can also be a mobile spare tire to ensure that there is a place to open the press conference anytime and anywhere 24 hours a day.

30 floors of office building, only 12 floors of offices, 18 floors of supporting leisure. In this way, each employee's office is still very spacious.

The reporters from various countries who came that day were originally based in Southeast Asia by major news agencies, and they usually came to Lijiapo or Xiangjiang, but they only came to Lanzhou temporarily today, after all, there is not so much news in Xiangjiang for them to interview, and they are also idle.

However, many of them have been to Lanfang in the past few years, especially a year and a half ago for major ceremonies such as the groundbreaking of Lanfang Tower and the ribbon-cutting of the main building of the Burj Al Arab, and the number of guests from the media circles from various countries invited by Lanfang is quite large.

After getting off the plane today and going all the way to the city center, most of the reporters who had been here couldn't help but sigh: "The infrastructure development in this place of Lanfang is too fast! It's just an infrastructure madness! I haven't been here for a year and a half, and there are so many luxurious facilities!"

"The level of the studio of this press conference has surpassed that of Li Jiapo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it is more complete than those film and television companies in Xiangjiang. ”

Reporters and friends secretly observed and discussed, Tang Jia had already appeared in noble and decent clothes, the light hit his face, and he looked graceful and luxurious.

After all, the Lan side is still a small matter of national affairs, so the spokesman directly asked the female minister to make a cameo.

The building can be built with money, but the team of powerful henchmen is not so easy to expand, and there is no need to raise too many idlers with unknown reliability.

"It is a great pleasure for you to participate in this clarification meeting on the legitimate defense and counter-attack of bandits in the waters of the Banda Sea and the Arafura Sea of the Indo-Ni Navy. Here today, we will fully answer the questions of the international community on the details.

But before I do that, I'm going to focus on a few of the main questions I've learned about so far. ”

Tang Jia said the opening sentence in a manner, and then with a wave of her hand, a map of Southeast Asia was projected on the projection screen behind her.

Tang Jia pointed and said: "As far as I know, the issue that everyone is most concerned about at present is whether the 'legitimate defense' we insist on meets the constitutive elements, the specific time, place, and process of the occurrence of the antecedents and consequences. This was also questioned during yesterday's protest by the Indonesian diplomatic department.

Here, I can clearly say that on October 9, the yacht "Zhu Sen", a citizen of our country, Gu Kun, was attacked by Indonesian pirates in the area near 132 degrees 47 minutes east longitude and 3 degrees 22 minutes south latitude in the Arafura Sea.

The area is 110 nautical miles away from the nearest Indonesian island, the southeastern island in the East Malu Valley archipelago. The closest point to mainland Australia is Port Kakadu in the northwest corner of Australia, which is 176 nautical miles away. According to the principle of equidistant center line of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the first place of occurrence does not belong to Indonesia's territorial waters, nor Australia's territorial waters, but can only be regarded as Indonesia's exclusive economic zone at most.

As a matter of fact, as far as I know, the Indonesian authorities have never explicitly accepted or rejected the 'equidistant center line principle' since the promulgation of the International Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1975, which means that we can assume that the Indonesian authorities have always adopted a vague and ambiguous attitude on this issue, and it cannot be ruled out that it is based on the pragmatic consideration of maximizing benefits......"

Tang Jia's words were eloquent and very stylish.

Some of these international legal theories may not be well understood by a layman without explanation.

The demarcation of the exclusive economic zone is not a mandatory "equidistant center line", it is only a reference standard provided by the United Nations, and it is recommended to do so. But if the two countries agree on a separate agreement, you want to divide the sphere of influence according to the principle of the natural geographical extension of the continental shelf, etc., that is also possible.

She said this, but also to pave the way for the future.

“...... According to our understanding of the local situation in previous years, in the past 25 years, the Indonesian Coast Guard's attempts to maintain international navigation and fishing order in the local area have been far inferior to those of the relevant Australian authorities. Australians have also conducted international maritime law enforcement on 20 occasions in the past 25 years because they have received relevant calls for help and help.

It can be seen that the Indonesian authorities have not put into practice their maintenance of the international freedom of navigation order in the theoretical exclusive economic zone. In such an environment, the parties cannot be expected to solve the problem without fighting back by self-help when they encounter an emergency. Moreover, the pirates that Gu Kun encountered at that time were very dangerous, and it was entirely possible to launch a second attack when he sailed through the border waters of the Arafura Sea and the Banda Sea in the future. Therefore, the counterattack on their stronghold is entirely a suppression of the potential danger of retaliation......"

Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, and TASS reporters nodded frequently and secretly, and it seems that the theoretical chain of Lan Fangren has been very solid.

The rest depends on whether the evidence of the Lan Fang people is solid and whether they can string together the theoretical chain.

The Indonesian reporters were very angry, but they were not identities enough, and they were embarrassed to be the first to jump out and question, so they followed the script arranged by the previous trust, waited for a while, and did not forget to look at a reporter from the Australian Associated Press next to them.

The Australian Associated Press is the Australian bureau of Reuters, so a few seconds later, a reporter from the Australian Associated Press stood up and questioned.

The reporter, whose name was Marcus Payne, asked sharply: "Minister Tang, how much actual evidence do you have for so many fanciful assumptions? Is there any clear audio-visual evidence at the first scene of the pirate attack? Can these audio-visual evidence conclusively prove the time and place?"

"Great question, of course we have proof, you can watch these videos. Moreover, I would like to say that because Mr. Gu Kun went to Sydney to participate in the Olympic Games before, he was afraid that the Australians would be unfavorable to him, so he kept asking me to accompany him throughout the whole process and deal with possible international disputes for him in a timely manner. On the day of the pirate attack, I was aboard the Jussen and witnessed the whole incident. ”

Tang Jia was not ambiguous at all, answered directly and directly, and asked the staff to broadcast a video shot on film.

From the first shot fired by the Indonesians, and even the first to use bazookas, it was clear that no one could say that these guys were not pirates.

Reporter Marcus Payne questioned a few points, and found that there was nothing to exert his strength, so he took a slight detour: "Then how do you prove that after the pirates who attacked the first attack were repelled by you, the other slave owners in the nearby waters still have the ability and motivation to launch a second strike against you? According to the previous description, your second strike is completely 'false defense' or 'after-the-fact defense'!"

Tang Jia was not angry at all: "Sir, judging whether it is an illusion of defense or an after-the-fact defense cannot be seen from the perspective of God, and the parties have the right to speak only if they are substituted for the environment at the time." I think only those who have been enslaved by him can tell how vicious Banda Yuno and Yusuf, the two slave lords and pirate leaders, were, and how determined they are to take revenge when they are thwarted. ”

Marcus Payne sneered, "You don't mean that you have freed those slaves, do you? You have rescued them, and it is very easy for them to perjury.

But now we are not discussing the question of whether it is legal and reasonable to rescue slaves, but the question of hypothetical defense against piracy! Lord Q is Lord Q, Man Q is Man Q, and one thing is the same thing. ”

Hehe, from this sentence, you can see the hypocrisy of this guy from the Australian Associated Press.

When confronted with their imaginary enemies, they shamelessly proclaim that 'human Q is higher than main Q', but when their potential ally becomes the unclean side in their trouser pockets, their caliber becomes 'main Q is main Q, and human Q is human Q'.

Tang Jia sneered in disgust in his heart for a few seconds, and then said calmly: "You have lived the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, we never said that we would let the slave testify - today, we have invited two witnesses, they were accidentally found and rescued at the scene."

But their independence of personality is fully guaranteed, because they are journalists for AFP. I asked Mr. Pierre and Ms. Jeanne to give detailed testimony. And they not only have testimonies, but also a lot of audio-visual materials accumulated over the years. ”

"What? You actually rescued the AFP reporter in advance? How did we not know?" Marcus Payne suddenly felt a little bitter in his mouth, and the matter of climbing and biting might not be easy to handle.

"Why did you want to announce it in advance? Is this news important? More important than pirates and slaves? Besides, didn't we follow the process and announce it today?" Tang Jia looked innocent, as if he didn't realize that the Australians had bad intentions to induce him.