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In fact, nothing is strange, nothing is special, the British Empire does not want to give up Hawaii as a strategic place, but it does not want to be involved, so it allows its own Dominion Australia to occupy it.

Australia is 1900, that is, the year when the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing passed the Australian Federal Constitution, nominally becoming a country, as if it had become a country, but their constitutions were all passed by the British Parliament, so there is a constant connection with the United Kingdom, of course, Britain can not give them a real status, their status belongs to the British Dominion, the internal affairs are completely autonomous, but the Dominion has its own trade policy, limited foreign policy autonomy, and its own army, But the British government has the right to declare war, and the leader of the country is the king of England.

Of course, the British are set like this, if you really want the colonies to comply, it depends on their mood, for Australia and New Zealand, which support the British king from the bottom of their hearts, the British Empire is surrounded at all costs in the war, and Canada's contribution to the United Kingdom is also more proportional than that of the British mainland, this is because Australia, New Zealand and Canada have an absolute number of British in their population, and they regard themselves as British from the bottom of their hearts, and the theorem that the expatriates are more patriotic does not only apply to overseas Chinese, The British in these colonies also loved Britain more.

But a racially complex country like South Africa, Ireland, a nation-state that was considered oppressed by the British, was inseparable from the British Empire, and wished to directly obtain complete independence, Ireland contributed almost nothing during the war, and South Africa was even more troublesome in Africa, and the German Antong made a joke.

To put it bluntly, it is still a matter of popular aspirations.

So to entrust Hawaii to Australia is to entrust it to the British Empire.

This was already decided behind the scenes, so there was no suspense in the vote, and everyone unanimously approved the appointment of Australia, a responsible country, to govern Hawaii, and several Australian broken cruisers sailed to Pearl Harbor, completely ruining the well-run military bases of the Americans.

There is also a region that is also hosted in Australia.

As a cruise ship slowly departed Guam, a hundred or so U.S. police officials departed, and the Americans ended all domination in the Pacific.

Guam has no military base, so it has not been attacked or occupied, and after the establishment of the Philippines, it has made territorial claims to this place, and the Philippines has reasoned that Guam was bought by the United States from Spain along with the Philippines in those years, so it should be assigned to Philippine territory.

But the Americans did not accept it, preferring to leave it to the League of Nations to rule and let Australia occupy it.

The Australians took advantage of a lot this time, and in return for their loyalty to the British Empire, Britain handed over British New Guinea to Australia as early as when Australia passed the autonomy constitution and became a self-governing territory, and after occupying German New Guinea in the north in the European War, it was also handed over to Australia for jurisdiction, but it was finally bought from Germany by China.

This time, Australia got Hawaii and Guam, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for the loss of the German colonies in the first place.

The only one who has lost is the United States, but the United States has still not reached any agreement with China, and the two countries have even severed their last diplomatic relations, becoming two great powers that ignore each other's existence.

It is also impossible for the United States to forget its hatred of China, and they have not disarmed and stepped up the rebuilding of their navy, and the size of their army has continued to remain at 3 million.

So the United States did not intend to endure this breath, after the Chinese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Department of Defense began to formulate countermeasures, but the navy was almost half annihilated, so that they had no way to compete with China head-on, and then a series of international diplomatic changes, so that the United States had to accept Australia's rule over Hawaii and Guam, because no matter how you look at it, it is better for Australia to take over here than to let China rule here.

However, the counterattack plan against China has always been studied, but it has never been studied.

President Coolidge listened to the Navy's report for the last time.

"Stretching south from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north, the Kuril Islands, the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and the Philippine archipelago form almost a chain. It is almost impossible for us to quietly cross the chains of this island. ”

Nimitz, a 40-year-old middle-aged officer who had just returned to the army from the Naval Military Academy, explained solemnly.

Nimitz was admitted to the U.S. Navy Annapolis Naval School in 1901, graduated at the age of 20 and went to the ship for internship, and at the age of 23 he served as the captain of a destroyer, and was an outstanding figure among the young generation of officers, went to Germany at the age of 28 to study engineering technology, entered the submarine force at the age of 24, and participated in World War I at the age of 33.

Because of his engineering knowledge and experience, after the European War, the 35-year-old Nimitz was ordered to build the Pearl Harbor military base, and at the age of 37, he entered the Naval Academy again to learn the latest naval theory.

But so far, Nimitz has not found a way to fight back against China.

Coolidge listened to Nimitz's statement, sighed, and looked at the red line marked by Nimitz on the map, that island is like a chain, to be precise, it is more like a ring of fortifications, which firmly protects China in it, if you want to attack China's coastline, you must cross this last island chain, for the current US military, this is an impossible task, let alone crossing this island chain, it is very difficult to approach and not be discovered, and once they approach here, they are discovered by the Chinese Navy, I am afraid that it will be directly sunk by the tough Chinese navy.

After Coolidge looked at the island chain near Chinese mainland, he felt that China's geographical location is simply too good, compared to the American continent with a coastline directly facing the ocean and no protection, China's only coastline is hundreds of kilometers away, is a natural defensive island chain, no wonder they dared to make a desperate sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, because they knew that even if the Americans took the same measures, they could not threaten the Chinese mainland.

Coolidge couldn't help but sigh: "Is there no way to fight back against the Chinese?" ”

Nimitz said: "Unless, like the Chinese navy, it does not attack the Chinese mainland, but only their overseas territories, there is still great hope." ”

Coolidge said: "Like attacking Samoa? ”

Nimitz nodded.

Coolidge smiled bitterly and shook his head, there is no point in attacking Samoa, but it will attract a blow from China, and the gains outweigh the losses. And the British Empire probably will not accept this kind of behavior of the United States, at least not now, because the military power of the British Empire has completely invaded the Pacific region, and now any party launching a military operation in the Pacific region is an offense to the British Empire, and the British Empire will not go to war because of this, but it will not continue to support the attackers, the United States is not ready for military purposes, and it still needs the protection of the British Empire at this time, so they cannot launch a military operation now.

But without a satisfactory counterattack, the U.S. government, which had just lost Hawaii and Guam, was about to fall. (To be continued.) )