Chapter 214: China's Status

Is China important in the international community?

Perhaps, there will be a thousand answers to this question, but for most of the powerful countries in Europe and the United States at this time, there is only one answer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info That is, China at this time is really not as important as imagined.

A country's international standing is reflected in its influence on the international community and on other countries. But is there such a thing as influence for China, which has completely reduced itself to a semi-colonial society after the fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War and the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance? The answer, of course, is, no.

Although China has the world's largest population resources and abundant mineral resources, although it seems to have rejuvenated itself after a revolution, and although it is constantly creating a series of troubles for the "world" and embarrassing all countries, in the hearts of these world powers, China is still essentially a backward and ignorant semi-colonial country that only supplies raw materials to various countries and serves as a dumping ground for commodities.

In Zhu Erdian's view, the reason why countries hesitate on the issue of China and miss the best opportunity to contain it is because they are entangled by the current grim situation in Europe. At this time, diplomats from various countries, including Zhu Erdian, all believed that even if the war broke out in Europe, it would be over in a short period of time, and believed that as long as the current difficulty was over, the British Empire, which had been freed up, would have enough ability to unite with Japan and Russia to launch a war of partition against China and re-establish its new agents. Therefore, at this time, there is no need to go through a lot of trouble because of the problems of the Chinese; Therefore, while the communist government dragged its feet on the issue of tariffs and the continued implementation of the treaties signed by the Qing government, the governments of the great powers still maintained a leisurely work rhythm of meeting in the morning and drinking tea in the afternoon.

Of course, if things do go at this pace, that's fine. However, the day after the failure of the last negotiation between the two sides, the Chinese provisional government suddenly announced that the People's Army Army would once again expand its army by six armies.

The six armies, according to the establishment of the People's Army, are more than 300,000 people, plus the Beiyang that was originally there and was later surrendered. In the northeast and other places, the standing army of the People's Army will reach the scale of more than one million people in 72 divisions. In the current world, the standing army of more than one million can only be compared with a few countries in France and Russia. The great powers, at last, are no longer calm.

However, before they could fully recover from this shocking news, on October 13, China's provisional government once again announced that Xiao Mubai, chairman of the Communist Progressive Party, would formally meet with U Maung Kyi, chairman of the Burmese National Progressive Party, and others at the Ziguang Pavilion in Zhongnanhai two days later.

At this moment, not to mention the reaction of other countries, but the whole of the British Empire was full of anger at this kind of behavior of the Communist Party. The so-called Myanmar National Progressive Party, others don't know what's going on, how can they not know?

The Myanmar National Progressive Party, formerly known as the Myanmar Buddhist YMCA, was the earliest group established in Myanmar with the overtones of early bourgeois nationalism. Although it has been fighting for the national liberation of the Burmese people, it has not been able to participate in mass political struggles because of its strong religious overtones and its failure to participate in mass political struggles, which makes it very weak when it manifests itself in Myanmar's economy and politics. But now, after the People's Army seized control of northern Burma from the British, and its leaders U Maung Gi and U Mai Ong took over with China's Communist Party, everything changed, and it not only carried out relevant reshuffling, but also formally put forward the idea of "national independence and Burmese people governing Burma". National independence, isn't this a death for the British, who have colonies around the world?

In the British Legation in Beijing, Dongjiaomin Lane, Zhu Erdian carefully and thoroughly read the minutes of the so-called "Sino-Burmese" talks published by the Communist Progressive Party, and finally his frowning brows gradually turned into pimples. Although the situation is not complicated, that is, China will provide loans for the Myanmar National Progressive Party and train the army to help it establish an independent state in northern Myanmar, but the meaning behind this is that Zhu Erdian, who has been engaged in diplomatic activities for decades, feels cold. Once Burma achieves true independence, the British Empire will inevitably face a surging wave of national independence in colonies all over the world.

A spark can start a prairie fire, and this truth is not only understood by Chinese, but also by the British. Zhu Erdian lit a rare cigar and began to concentrate on thinking about how to deal with the troubles caused by this incident, but until the cigar was about to burn out, he still couldn't think of a way for the British Empire to deal with it. This question seems to be unsolvable.

"Damn it! This damn bastard! Zhu Erdian couldn't help but feel more and more angry at China's young, almost unspoken leader.

Just when Zhu Erdian cursed Xiao Mubai fiercely, the German military in Berlin, far away in Europe, questioned its government's foreign policy toward China.

Actually, it is not to blame that the German General Staff would do this. You must know that as far as Europe is concerned, in terms of understanding the strength of the People's Army and the Communist Party, I believe that no one can compare with them. With a huge population of 450 million, a regiment can compete with an army of one division of the British army, and a military industrial system that can produce rifles and artillery on its own has been initially built. Today's China, in their eyes, is God's best ally for Germany.

Germany is pragmatic, and even more so with the German soldiers, who have in fact earned their respect for the performance of the Chinese People's Army in the fighting in Burma.

If it can form an alliance with China, once the evil Entente group attacks the great Germany, with the strength of China's allies, it will be able to punch polar bears, kick Japanese monkeys, and completely muddy the Far East. Even, after defeating Russia with Germany, they can directly march to the Indochina Peninsula, capture the Indian plain, and drink the Indian Ocean. In that case, what will Britain, having lost the jewel in the Queen's crown, take against the German Army, which is armed to the teeth?

But the wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Such a good wish has now been ruined by those stupid and short-sighted politicians. As the old Chinese saying goes, it's easier to put the icing on the cake than to get the better out of the snow, and when the Chinese friends needed help the most, Germany did not choose to be on their side, but on the side of the evil Entente. This made the German military, who have now learned the news, simply resentful.

Of course, the resentment of the German military and the questioning of the government are useless now, because the man who determines the attitude of Germany is always their arrogant, arrogant, and inferior His Majesty Wilhelm.

Xiao Mubai naturally didn't know a series of dirty thoughts in the hearts of the Western powers. At this time, after exchanging views with Shen Bingkun, Zhao Mingchuan and others on Myanmar matters, he was looking at the huge map hanging on the wall in the office with great interest.

As we all know, China's geographical location is not superior. At sea, there is a chain formed by a series of islands, firmly controlling China's passage to the ocean; On land, because of the long national border and the complex terrain around it, China simply cannot achieve effective defense. In this way, whether from the angle of economic development or from the perspective of national defense construction, it is very necessary to support neighboring countries to build their own countries independently and become a buffer area for China's national defense. Myanmar is fortunate to be one of the first countries to be chosen by China.

Of course, Xiao Mubai is not a good man and a woman, and China's efforts are naturally not costless. Whether it is to support Myanmar's independent statehood, or to help it train its army and buy weapons and equipment, it will cost a lot of money, and this money can only come from China.

Myanmar borrowed money from China, and the mortgage was the rich mineral resources in Myanmar. Although there are a series of subsidiary provisions in the loan treaty, such as what money can only be used to purchase from the Chinese side, Myanmar minerals are jointly developed by both sides, and how many years the term is large and small, Xiao Mubai is not afraid that the Burmese will not agree. You must know that compared with the naked barbaric colonial plunder after the imperialist military occupation, China's way of pure economic development and win-win cooperation is simply not known how many times more moderate it is.

By doing so, China will naturally lose face for the British Empire. Although the British acquiesced to northern Burma as China's sphere of influence, they did not allow the Burmese to establish an independent state there. They soon protested to China's provisional government, but the Chinese Foreign Ministry fooled the Chinese Ministry on the grounds that the two sides had not established diplomatic relations and did not accept the protests.

At this point, the British suddenly found themselves with no choice but to express their anger. Although the great powers can all reach a consensus on their attitude toward China, it is better for you to clean up the British Empire's own tile. What is the current international situation, you don't know that the snow in front of each country has not been swept away, so you can still manage so many things.

The anger of the British, of course, Xiao Mubai did not care. The British Empire was preoccupied with its own needs now, and after World War I, it was ill-equipped to deal with China, at least until it recovered in ten years' time. But ten years later, the British Empire is no longer the British Empire it is today, and China is not the China it is today.

So now, Xiao Mubai wants to tell the powers: In the past and now, China's affairs are the world's affairs! Now and in the future, the world's affairs are China's affairs!