Chinese newspapers pulled out the old topic, that is, if the United States does not abolish the Chinese Exclusion Act and apologize to China, it is impossible for China to restore diplomatic relations with the United States, and if the Americans repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act and apologize to China, then the Chinese actually do not care about doing business with the Americans, you must know that there are more countries doing business with China, the British, the French, the Germans, and Sweden, Switzerland and other foreign countries where the big and small Chinese are not clear, there is not much more than the United States, and there is not much less than one United States. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This is the reason why China has a cold attitude towards the United States, because this country has no sense of existence in China, as the most developed country in the world, they are too far away from China, and they broke off diplomatic relations too early, and the Chinese economy has long been without the power of the United States, so the Chinese feel that the United States has no influence on China.

And the United States feels differently about China, it can be said that China is the country that the United States has stimulated the United States the most after the Civil War, and there is no one. Just one sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was a sprinkling of salt on American wounds, and there was no time to heal, and it was hard for Americans to forget.

It was China that first made the United States feel the danger from the Pacific side through the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, it drove the United States out of the Philippines, brought the short colonial history of the United States to an abrupt end, and it was the first time that China threatened the United States' position in the world economy after the United States became the world's largest economic power in the 1860s.

Therefore, there is a big gap between the mutual perceptions of the two countries, and the Americans in the vision of the Chinese cannot even rank among the top three in the world, at least after Britain, France and Germany, and in the eyes of the Americans, China may be ranked second, second only to the United Kingdom, just as for a long time in China's history, the people's attitude towards Japan has always been very warm, and Japan values the attitude of the United States the most.

This situation is destined to make China more receptive to establishing relations with the United States. After all, China is not the one who suffers from the Hawaii incident that led to the severance of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

However, China's attitude has made it difficult for the United States to deal with it, because China put forward it. It is still the same old attitude, that is, the United States repealed the law, apologized, repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, and apologized for the anti-Chinese behavior.

The former Roosevelt knew it had to be abolished. But the latter Roosevelt knew that it was impossible to do so.

Although the United States is not a united nation-state and does not have strong national feelings, there is still a national mood, and the apology hurts the feelings of the Americans too seriously, and the humiliation they feel is no less than losing a war.

Historically, the United States repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act in World War II. But sixty years later, when a generation has forgotten about it, an apology is made, and you know how troublesome this kind of thing is.

And this kind of troublesome thing has no real interests at all, it is completely a matter of feelings and dignity, but it is completely impossible to measure it by interests, and Americans can repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act for the sake of interests, but they cannot accept giving up their dignity for the sake of interests.

As a result, the negotiations reached an impasse.

At this time, Rockefeller's representatives quietly arrived in Siberia. Ask to see Yang Chao.

Previously, they had figured out Yang Chao's attitude through Schacht, and knew that Yang Chao was very positive about the restoration of Sino-US relations, but the Chinese government did not seem to care much about this.

The Miqing government really doesn't care too much, so it's the same old tune. With the attitude that successive Chinese governments have adhered to for more than ten years, for Mi Qing, on this issue, she can not win support, but at least she cannot usher in opposition, and she can become president again. It is the result of Yang Chao's strong support, but she wants to make her own political achievements.

Being elected president for the third time, one of the things that moved Mi Qing the most was that her name was finally officially written in her family ancestral hall, not casually added to the direct line, but side by side with the most prominent ancestors in the history of the Mi family, which means that she finally won her status as a woman.

It is difficult for outsiders and future generations to imagine how rare this is in Chinese clan culture, Tan Yanmin became the overseer of Hunan after the Xinhai Revolution, controlling the power of life and death in a province, but because his mother was a concubine, after his death, the clan was not allowed to go to the main gate to mourn, it was Tan Yanmin who climbed on his mother's coffin, so that people were carried out of the house from the main gate, Tan Yanmin only fought for his mother to go to the main gate to mourn, and Mi Qing really wrote his name into the ancestral hall, and was sacrificed by his descendants for thousands of years in the future.

Mi Qing has worked hard all her life for this, but she knows that this will be her last president, Yang Chao can't accept a lifetime president, and the Chinese people can't accept a woman to rule them for a lifetime, so once she proposes that the president can't be re-elected for two consecutive terms, and a total of no more than three terms, it is absolutely easy to pass among those men in the Congress.

Since it is her last term, Mi Qing wants to leave some political legacy, but she also doesn't want to leave a stain, so she will never make ********, she must not let the people feel humiliated, she would rather not establish diplomatic relations with the United States, and she must not let the people think that the government has made them accept shame.

The Americans know that they can't move the Chinese government, so they can only retreat and persuade Yang Chao, who has great influence on the Chinese government, to persuade Yang Chao, at least Yang Chao is easier to say.

"First, the U.S. government can't afford not to apologize, but I accept that you postpone it for a few years. But Roosevelt must apologize immediately in his personal name, and this is an explanation to the Chinese people, and I believe that Mr. Roosevelt can understand. ”

"Second, once China and the United States establish diplomatic relations, the United States must reduce the current prevailing tax rates, at least with special tariffs on Chinese goods. In a specific way, I think our two countries can give each other the most favored nation treatment. ”

"Third, once our two countries establish diplomatic relations, we must jointly declare a declaration to protect the trade and investment interests of both sides. Repelling each other as before, hurting each other is something that should never happen again. ”

Yang Chao's righteousness is awe-inspiring, but as everyone knows, the most important reason why he excluded the United States in those years was that he felt that the United States' control over China's economy was too strong, and he wanted to find a way to drive out thousands of large American industrial enterprises in China, but now Yang Chao is not only not worried about the economic threat of the United States, on the contrary, he also wants to infiltrate the United States economically, so it is very necessary to protect the private assets of both sides.

As for what apologies, what tax cuts, that's just secondary.

Rockefeller's representative believed that Yang Chao's suggestion was constructive, and as for Roosevelt's own apology, it was Roosevelt's own political prestige that was damaged, and it had a half-dime relationship with Rockefeller.

Then Yang Chao sent a secret telegram to Mi Qing about his attitude, although Mi Qing would inevitably be blamed by some people, but she relied on Yang Chao to become the president, she couldn't refuse, and she also believed that Yang Chao would not make it too difficult for her, although Roosevelt's private apology was not formal, but there was finally an attitude, if done properly, the damage to her reputation could be reduced to the lowest point.

With high-level intervention behind the scenes, the negotiations quickly made progress.

The biggest impetus for progress was that Roosevelt really apologized.

Although this is difficult to accept, in the name of God, we should all realize that the Chinese Exclusion Act was indeed a mistake, an insult to a big country like China, and a blasphemy against the spirit of the US Constitution. I demand a formal apology from Congress to China. ”

Roosevelt spoke to Congress, which this time did not receive support, and Congress vetoed his proposal.

Roosevelt then held a press conference to express his disappointment with Congress, saying that this was a narrow racial conception and that all men are created equal, which was the great American spirit.

Therefore, in his personal name, he apologized to the Chinese people who had been and still suffered, saying that this is what every American should do, and it is an inevitable action of self-reflection of a great nation.

Roosevelt presented himself as a great moral pacesetter, emphasizing that it was morality that led him to apologize.

But is this really moral?

In World War II, he also played the moral card and pushed the United States into the war step by step, but in the original history, in order to stabilize the American currency, he introduced the Silver Act, subsidized American silver producers, and purchased silver all over the world to increase reserves, which greatly increased the price of silver, resulting in the collapse of the silver standard monetary system of the Republic of China, and Song Ziwen had to preside over China's departure from the silver standard, and at the same time produced a serious economic crisis, rural bankruptcy, plummeting housing prices, and industrial obscenity.

The director of the ****** Far East Department of the United States reported to Roosevelt that "we are about to drain the blood of Chinese when we buy silver," and Roosevelt said that the crisis can promote China's self-strengthening, so that they do not always rely on the Europeans and the Japanese.

What kind of outrageous politician rhetoric is this, destroying China's economy in order to make China self-reliant?

But even such shameless politicians are often the real political elite, and idealists cannot survive in politics.

Roosevelt's act of dressing himself up as a moral pacesetter and apologizing to China in his personal name made him suffer the least negative impact, and of course the damage was equally great, and some untimely congressmen even launched a no-confidence motion against him for this, which, unfortunately, did not pass.

The Chinese government immediately expressed its approval of Roosevelt's apology, and immediately signed a series of treaties on the restoration of Sino-US diplomatic and trade relations.

These treaties were sent back to the two countries to sign and renew each other, and the two countries formally resumed diplomatic relations.

But the turmoil caused by this incident did not end so easily. (To be continued.) )