(For some complicated reasons, yesterday's third update has only come out now, please forgive me.) ）

The fact that the neighbor to the south wanted to buy a 10,000-ton hydraulic press from the Soviet Union was quickly reported and presented to Yanayev's table, which was closely related to the country's heavy industrial base and was originally a secret that should not be sold, but Yanayev directly signaled to Ryzhkov that as long as the price they gave was reasonable, we would reach this bargain.

After the armored forces in the Far East were dismantled, the southern neighbors also let go of their inner fears and began to exchange checkpoints. The Soviet Union began to attract people from other countries to develop agriculture in the north with a large number of preferential policies, while the governments of other countries also encouraged their own people to go abroad and go to the northern countries to earn foreign exchange and increase income.

The current Soviet Union is like a menacing gold-swallowing monster, whether it is drinking to quench thirst or a long stream of water, he chooses not to hesitate to swallow all the benefits that can be converted into money, to make up for the long-term deformity and unbalanced development.

And the boldness of the Soviet Union gave the neighbor to the south a vague illusion, as if sitting opposite was no longer the enemy who was facing each other with barrels and trying to push his own with a torrent of steel. Instead, he became the only Soviet big brother who was willing to help him in the most difficult moment.

But countries that have matured on the international political scene are no longer the same regimes that tightened their belts to support their allies without asking for anything in return. After experiencing the betrayal of a group of white-eyed wolves, he is more calculating than others and is good at conspiracy. In the face of Yanayev's generosity, he still paid a considerable amount of money to the Soviet Union in accordance with the regulations and procedures. It's just the only difference from the previous deal. This time they did not choose to bargain with the USSR. Rather, it accepted the price that the Soviet side put forward as a conscience.

It's just that everyone knows that they only have a relationship of interest and cooperation. The purely revolutionary class friendship that began to exist long ago had long since disappeared many years ago with the dissipation of the honeymoon period in Sino-Soviet relations.

Yanayev looked at the yellowed propaganda poster of Sino-Soviet relations and friendship in his hand, and his heart was a little mixed. This album scattered among the people was carried over many times to reach Yanayev's hands, and after a period of friendship in the fifties, then a bad relationship, and now a new normalization of relations.

He also remembered that at the previous meeting, when some people opposed the Soviet Union's sale of 10,000-ton hydraulic presses, Yanayev refuted them eloquently. "Perhaps in this world, it is our last ally. Do you watch the Soviet Union end up alone, surrounded by the nations of the world like Hitler? ”

It's not that these people can't see the current form clearly, but they have long been dogmatically exaggerated, and they don't think there is a need to make friends with the countries of the South in this way, but only Yanayev can see clearly that the Soviet Union's desperate efforts to win over will inevitably arouse the vigilance of another country outside the Atlantic. They all fell in love with this potential power and its future place in world politics.

Yanayev continued, "We have shifted from an offensive to a defensive in the European theater, and our sphere of influence has been gradually eroded by the West. Every day you turn on the news, you can see which country has joined the European Community, and which country has received economic aid from the West. These countries hostile to and hostile to the Soviet Union will not hesitate to be pawns. Serve the Western elites. ”

"The internal worries of desperately trying to push against that wall, and the external troubles of holding a battering ram ready to break down at any time. Is all this what you comrades want to see? ”

Although politics emphasizes national interests, only eternal interests and no eternal friends, but the relationship between China and the Soviet Union is too delicate and complicated, although there have been wars in history, but at the last moment of the collapse of the Soviet Union, only China quietly stood in the birch forest where it had met, and regretted the red empire that guided itself forward in front of the broken sickle and hammer tombstone.

Yanayev eventually persuaded everyone to provide their neighbors to the south with the 10,000-ton hydraulic press they urgently needed to solve the most needed problems in industrial manufacturing.

This incident was called an ice-breaking trip by China and the Soviet Union.

The United States, which had just ended its honeymoon period between China and the United States, saw this news, and its first reaction was whether Sino-Soviet relations had begun to warm up again. After the upheavals in Eastern Europe in 1989, the honeymoon period between the two countries that began in the late 70s was completely ended by political events, and since then the relationship between China and the United States has become normal, and it is no longer as glue as before.

President Bush, who has not yet left office, has two choices: First, he will continue to win over China and sabotage the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations. The second is to include China as the target of sanctions and suppression, and impose an economic and military blockade in order to achieve a chance to bring China to its knees and sever ties with the Soviet Union and regain friendship.

An ambitious and rising nation, and a declining but surviving empire, are capable of joining forces to rival a group of established industrial powers in Western Europe and the United States.

Igor Berg put his opinion before the US president, "We advocate an economic blockade and arms embargo on China by EU countries to prevent the rise of another red country." The countries of Western Europe, tormented by the shadow of communism, will inevitably support it vigorously. And then we only support the arms embargo, but we still maintain good economic relations with China. ”

"In fact, it's not exactly an arms embargo, and we can sell some weapons that are not classified but that they lack to their country through Israel. In fact, the republic still needs to import a large number of Black Hawk helicopter parts from our country, so we can also consider this aspect. Although the honeymoon relationship was severed after eight or nine years, Igelberg did not want the East Asian countries to completely fall to his old rivals.

The only thing they can do is for that country to remain on the sidelines in an impartial direction.

The thawing of Sino-Soviet relations and the normalization of relations created the possibility for the United States to increase arms sales to retain East Asian countries. After all, Sikorsky's hope of selling about 100 Black Hawk helicopters to East Asian countries fell through when the honeymoon ended in 1989.

Igelberg knows the importance of economic cooperation with the newly rising powers, the huge market of 1.3 billion people, and the fact that only the fools in Europe who have not turned the corner from the Cold War mentality are still thinking about how to curb the new expansion of redism.

"I hope that Secretary Igorberg will come up with a credible plan for reference, and if I can, I hope to get some channel out to Sikorsky's people so that they can circumvent the European arms embargo and secretly export those weapons to East Asian countries through Israel."

"Okay." Igor Berg nodded, this time they were going to pit their European allies once, and on December 10, 1991, the European Community summit adopted the Treaty on European Union, deciding to change the name of the European Community to the European Union. The treaty stipulates that, by 1 January 1999, the European Council will confirm that the implementation of a single currency will begin if more than seven member States meet the "convergence criteria". This is not a good thing for the United States, which is bent on maintaining its financial hegemony in the world.

"Also, we can go unleashed and prepare to propose a new round of arms sales to the island chain countries to curb the development of the navies of East Asian countries and lock them to the continental shelf. In this way, even if they can really get the weapons they lack from the hands of the Soviet Union, they will carefully consider it when their national interests are damaged. ”

"That's my plan, to use internal and external troubles to coerce them and exert diplomatic pressure, President Bush." Secretary of State Igelberg pushed his glasses, and the light reflected from the lenses made it difficult to see his eyes.

"Good." After listening to Igelberg's plan, Bush nodded with satisfaction, saying that there are still five months left before the next presidential election, and he hopes to lay out a chess game to contain the development of China, the Soviet Union, and the European Union during this period of time, so as to maintain his status as a world power. All in all, if it goes well, everyone but the Americans will be the losers in this game, including the EU.

"Submit the detailed planning steps to me, Igelberg, by next week. I think this time, our allies will have to make small sacrifices to curb the development of the red wave for the time being. President Bush said very shamelessly. (To be continued.) )