Two hundred and ninety-one strange invitations
And just when Lei Shidong was planning to join Su Zhen to "eat" News Corporation, Su Zhen encountered another strange thing.
In fact, Su Zhen and his gang were ready to leave for the United States, but they were stopped by a person.
"Want me to join the Federated States of Southern Polynesia?" Su Zhen looked at the former French Polynesian Speaker Luset Taylor a little dumbfounded, and asked, The reason why he said it was the predecessor was because the current French Polynesia would soon be renamed the Federated States of Southern Polynesia (hereinafter referred to as the Southern Polynesia)... As mentioned before, the Sun Island and the Moon Island were France's compensation to Su Zhen in order to quell the poisonous cow incident, and the price was the complete independence of French Polynesia, and afterwards France also fulfilled its promise and agreed to the establishment of the South Polish Federation, and soon the former speaker will become the first president of the South Polish Federation.
Originally, it was a very happy thing to establish a country, but what was good was that the future high-level leaders of Nanbo discovered a very important thing when formulating a new national map, and Su Zhen's two small islands were very strange and happened to divide Nanbo into two parts......
According to international practice, the territorial sea of a country or region is 12 nautical miles wide from the coastline of the country. And Nanbo because of the large number of islands, so its territory is not large, but the scope of the territorial sea is very extensive, but now the two islands owned by Su Zhen have brought them a big problem, because the islands owned by Su Zhen also have territorial waters as a private territory, and although Su Zhen's two islands are not in the core of Nanbo, they are very strangely located at the junction of the two archipelagos. And one of the archipelagos is very far away from the other islands in Nanbo, which is connected by Sun Island and Moon Island, that is to say, one of the archipelago is very strangely isolated from the other islands by Su Zhen's two small islands and has become an enclave
Some people will say that this is the same as Alaska in the United States, and as the largest enclave in the world, the United States is not worried at all.
But the problem is that it cannot be compared, because the United States has the most powerful military strength in the world, so Canada is very unscrupulous and directly does not defend the United States, and the maritime orientation rights in many of Canada's sea areas are directly controlled by the US Coast Guard. Even Canada's national @ earth defense @ air. They are all under the command of the North American Air and Space Defense Command of the United States, which means that the US warships and warplanes are in Canada's territorial waters and airspace, and the warships can be driven as they want, and the fighters can fly as they want... So the United States has never been worried about the problem of control in Alaska ...
And can Nanbo and the United States be compared? Of course not. Not to mention the United States. Let's take Hong Kong as a city. Relying on Hong Kong's more than 30,000 police forces, it is enough to push Nanbo back and forth dozens of times, because although Nanbo has established a country. But like many small Pacific countries, there was no army, and there was no one when it was originally part of France, only a few thousand police.
And the population of the whole of Namba is less than 300,000 people... Three-fifths of them are Polynesians, and these Polynesians are divided into dozens or hundreds of small tribes distributed on various islands, these tribes are independent, and most of the rest are French and European, although they live in Nanbo, but basically retain French nationality, anyway, France allows dual citizenship... What's more, no matter how decaying France is, it is also an old capitalist country, one of the world's great powers... It's better to be a French than to be a citizen of a small country that doesn't even have a little military strength... Therefore, although these French people still live in Nanbo, they actually have no sense of belonging to this newly established small country that is basically invisible on the map, and the reason why they voted to stand alone @ Li is just an addiction to the "people@ Lord".
And what can the Nambo government, which has basically no armed forces and only a few thousand security police, do to control such an enclave? By these cops? Not to mention anything else, even the armed forces of Su Zhen's guards can crush these policemen back and forth several times.
And in this way, it is estimated that in a few years, the tribes on those islands will probably become independent on their own...... Anyway, you can't take me.
Therefore, Nanbo naturally couldn't just watch that archipelago become an enclave and sit idly by, so the future high-level leaders of Nanbo thought of a way, that is, to let Su Zhen's two islands also join the Nanbo Federation.
"Mr. Su, rest assured, joining the South Wave Federation will not affect your control of your island, this is still your private territory, our South Wave Federation is originally a coalition @ government of many self-@ governance @ territories, naturally it will not infringe on the rights and interests of each self-@ governance @ leader" Luset Taylor said quite flatteringly, in fact, another reason why Nanbo wants to pull Su Zhen into the gang is that Su Zhen is an American, and has a good relationship with the US government, because Nanbo has no armed forces at all, So naturally there is a need for a military power to shelter, and there is a stronger force than the United States in this world, and even if the United States can be stationed in South Poland, it would be better, this will not only not affect the sovereignty of South Poland, but can also improve the international status of South Poland, this is not a joke, but a fact, in the South Pacific, such as the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, the Solomon Islands and other countries, because the country is too small, the population is too small, the economic strength is weak, and the territorial sea is too large, Even if they build an army, it is basically useless, so these countries simply do not build an army, but hand over their own defense to the United States, Australia, New Zealand and other big countries, which not only eliminates the military threat of these big countries, but also saves financial funds and invests them in people's livelihood...... More importantly, if the United States is willing to station troops in South Poland, will it also mean that the United States recognizes South Poland's status in the international community? This is what Luset and other high-level leaders in the South Wave value most, and these politicians are nothing more than trying to make a name.
"But it doesn't seem to do me any good?" Su Zhen frowned and said, to be honest, he has no interest in joining this South Wave Federation, in his opinion, the so-called "South Wave Federation" is largely just a joke, why did France agree to the independence of South Poland so easily? Because the South Wave itself does not have any special property and value except for tourism, and even in terms of financial problems, France not only can't make money, but also has to fund it every year, and the South Pacific has always been regarded as the back garden of the US Navy, and it is difficult for France to form actual control over this place, so it turns out that France also uses this place as a nuclear test site...... That's right, when it was used to test the atomic bomb, Su Zhen was quite worried that these two small islands had nuclear radiation, but later it was learned that the small island of France's nuclear test is located in the southernmost atoll of Nanbo, more than 2,000 kilometers away from Sun Island and Moon Island. It's almost as wide as the distance between western Tibet and Haiqing combined, so you don't have to worry about this problem at all, not to mention that the last nuclear test was twenty years ago, twenty years... It's enough to rebuild Hiroshima twice.
"Well, we can give you control of an island if you want," Luset said, shaking his teeth, and that was the bottom line they had discussed.
But Su Zhen still shook his head when he heard this, although the small islands of Nanbo are indeed very beautiful, but in addition to playing, there is no value at all, and for playing, Sun Island and Moon Island are enough, and there is no point in having one more island, and it has to spend a lot of money to develop, the gains outweigh the losses, and join Nanbo, then it is inevitable, more or less must contribute to Nanbo @ the government, pay some money every year, although Su Zhen doesn't care about that money, But I don't want to give my money to others for no reason, do I?
"If that's all there is, there's nothing to talk about, you must know that the United States does not allow dual citizenship, and I have no intention of renouncing my American citizenship, so let's stop the matter of joining the Nambo," he refused to say when he saw that Luset could not give a condition that would make him happy. Of course, the fact that the United States does not allow dual citizenship or anything is just an excuse, and the Constitution of the United States @ law does not explicitly stipulate that dual nationality is not allowed, in fact, it is a tacit attitude.
Luset naturally knew that this was just Su Zhen's excuse, but he was also powerless, in fact, what the entire Nanbo could give Su Zhen was really nothing else except for the island? Money? Just kidding, the entire national @ people @ GDP of the entire Nanbo is only a few billion dollars a year, which is just a fraction of Su Zhen's net worth, so people will care about this? Right? Nanbo was originally federal, and what he could get his hands on was the position of president, but as soon as he mentioned it, he was directly rejected by Su Zhen, not to mention that if he wants to sit in this position, he has to pretend to run a campaign, in case he gets a moth, his reputation will be ruined, and even if he is elected, what if he is on the election? Can the president of such a small country that wants an army without an army, an economy without an economy, and a culture without culture have the right to a bird? I have to worry about the country's national @ people's livelihood, Su Zhen will only be such a president when he is full, not to mention that he has no interest in politics in the first place, as for fame? He is not more famous now than he is the president of such a small country? Even the President of the United States had to be polite to him.
Luset now really feels that TMD's building @ country is really not an easy thing, there are too many things to worry about, I knew that it was better to be an honest French citizen, and now he feels more and more that he is asking for hardship, but now that he has come to this point, if he retreats, then he and the entire Nanbo will become the laughing stock of the world.
So although Su Zhen refused, Luset did not leave immediately, but fell into deep thought, thinking about what he could use to move Su Zhen, and Su Zhen looked at the old man and shook his head boringly, he really didn't think that the other party had the capital to convince him.
For a while, the two people who were talking fell silent. (To be continued......)
PS: I'll go ...... It's not easy, I actually talked for an hour after uploading this chapter, and I was speechless with all kinds of sensitive words