Chapter 68: The Place of Contention

Second, the inclusion of Chadon Nicia into the intensive group can be regarded as the strategic layout of the republic. 【】A step to be examined.

Although in the eyes of many, Southeast Asia's relationship with the Republic is like that of the Caribbean with the United States, but from a strategic point of view. The Republic's influence in Southeast Asia is certainly not as strong as that of the United States in the Caribbean, and its control over the region is not strong.

As mentioned earlier, in order to ensure the strategic security of the country, the republic must take Indonesia.

According to some information that was later declassified one after another, the Indonesian arms trade bribery and compensation case that broke out in February was not a sudden incident, and it had a very close relationship with the Republican Intelligence Bureau. For example, a military intelligence agency official who defected to the United States revealed to the four that the legal person of Envision Trading had received a special commission from the military intelligence agency in the past year. Participated in MIA operations to provide covert military assistance to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And it plays the role of a middleman. Although this does not prove that Envision Trade is a leather bag company secretly opened by the Military Intelligence Agency, judging from the various doubts in the case, Envision Trade must be related to the Military Intelligence Agency. And so it goes. The MIA brought down Indonesian President Espilano through a bribery case. And propping up a pro-China regime becomes logical.

From the Republic's standpoint, the benefits of taking Indonesia are significant.

Among other things, getting a springboard to the south to threaten Australia would be enough to put the republic at any risk. You know, Australia plays a pivotal role in the global strategy of the United States. As early as after the Second World War, the United States took advantage of Britain's decline to actively encourage Australia to become an independent country, and at the end of the year, it officially made Australia and Britain a completely independent country. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Australia was the strategic rear of the US military in the western Pacific region, and it was also the general base for US infiltration into the western Pacific region and the Indian Ocean region, because there were many allies such as Japan, Fuguo, and the Philippines in front of it. Before the war, in addition to actively suppressing the republics on the western Pacific front, the United States also tried to establish a "triangular encirclement" of Japan, Australia, and India. "Australia is the most important apex, while Japan and India are the horns. After the Indian War, the strategic defense line built by the United States to blockade the republic fell apart, and Australia's position in the global strategy of the United States rose instead of decreasing, becoming an irreplaceable and important ally of the United States in the Western Pacific region.

It is precisely for this reason that as early as the year of Limi, the United States and Australia re-signed the "US-Australia Special Relations Act" of great significance. It reaffirmed the unshirkable responsibility of the United States for Australia's strategic security and recognized that Australia has an important position second only to the United States in the global strategic system dominated by the United States. Subsequently, as a founding member of the WEST, Australia helped the United States build a new global strategic system.

It can be seen that Australia is of extraordinary significance to the United States.

In the words of former US Secretary of State Bruderlin, Australia is a very important part of the US global strategic system. It is also a direct beneficiary, and the relationship between the United States and Australia has exceeded the relationship between countries, and the United States will protect Australia with the attitude of protecting the states.

The problem is that, until the end of the year, Australia had no inevitability to turn to the United States.

As we all know, the Great Depression had a far greater impact than any local war.

During this economic crisis, which has lasted for many years, almost all countries are threatened with economic collapse, but there are two groups of countries that have been most affected: low-end industrial countries and resource exporters. The former is easy to understand, after all, during the Great Depression. Unemployment is very high in all countries, trade protectionism is rife, and some traditional high-end industrial countries have also relaxed their restrictions on low-end industries. In particular, the regulation of labour-intensive industries has dealt a heavy blow to many low-end industrial countries that base their economies on export trade. The latter is not difficult to understand, the economic recession is the sluggish social consumption, and without consumption there is no market. There will be no demand for resources, and many resource-exporting countries will certainly be affected.

Unfortunately, Australia is one of the world's leading exporters of resources, and it is also a low-end industrial country.

It is calculated according to the per capita GDP and social production efficiency. Australia is a country that lives up to its name, and it's still a very dynamic country. Since the beginning of the year, with the republic's increase in industrial restructuring, the domestic consumer market has grown rapidly, and the demand for resources has increased rapidly. Australia's economic exhibition has entered the fast lane, and various economic data has been ahead of other countries. More importantly, Australia, like the United States, not only has a unique geographical location and extremely rich natural resources, Australia is located between several major tectonic plates, and has a number of mineral veins formed by plate extrusion, which is very rich in mineral resources, and it is also a natural country of immigrants. In other words, Australia does not lack all the conditions to attract immigrants and is one of the most desirable destinations for immigrants. During the years from Libang to Conau, Australia absorbed more than 340,000 immigrants from many countries, including the Republic, and attracted nearly 10,000 workers from Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. to calendar years. Australia's total population is over 800 million, and if you include the temporarily settled sojourn population, it is over 200 million. According to the United Nations report on the economic survey of the United Nations. Australia's exhibition vitality is discussed, and it ranks first among the countries of Cangqiu.

The thing is, Australia is clearly one. Countries that are "congenitally deficient".

In the words of one Western historian, if Cook had landed on the east coast of Australia four times earlier, the center of the world would not have been on the continent of the United States. It's on the Australian continent.

That's the crux of the matter.

Since entering the induction century, Australia has been striving for opportunities for independent exhibitions, such as economically. Australia has always opposed the isolation and blockade of the republic, believing that the Western world should not exclude the republic from the circle of core interests, but should actively win over the republic and let the republic participate in the formulation of the rules of the game, so that the republic can maintain the world system constructed by the Western world out of the demand of interests. Although the main purpose of the Australian authorities is not to enter into an alliance with the republic. Rather, it is hoped to win the goodwill of the republic in order to export more resources to the republic.

The fact is that after the year of the Force, the Republic is trying to find more sources of resources.

From an overall strategic point of view, with the rapid economic development of the republic, it is impossible for any one country's resources to meet the needs of the republic. Moreover, for the sake of security, it is impossible for the republic to pin its hopes on any one country, and only by diversifying the production areas of resources can the national interests of the republic be fundamentally protected. But in reality, it was Australia's extreme policies in the early second century that made the Republican authorities extra cautious about resources and saw Australia as a major threat.

You know, in the financial crisis that exploded in the past year. On the issue of iron ore imports alone, the Republic and Australia have formed a bond.

Although from an economic point of view, the iron ore price negotiations at the beginning of the century were commercial. Relations with countries, especially diplomatic relations, are largely unrelated, but no one can deny that both governments play a very important role in them. Not much to say about the republic, at the beginning of the 2nd century. The vast majority of the Republic's iron and steel mills, especially the large ones, are state-owned. The key was on the Australian side, and in the circumstances at the time, the Australian authorities did have the ability to influence the iron ore negotiations. For example, in terms of resource extraction tax and resource export tax, as long as the Australian authorities make a little concession, the price of iron ore can be reduced by almost a paste, and the then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd not only did not make concessions on these two taxes. Instead, you have to make inches. To know. Under the influence of the global financial crisis. All countries are looking for ways to reduce the proportion of taxes paid by society. In order to stimulate market consumption, some powerful countries, such as the United States, have also strengthened their ability to consumers by withdrawing from the rhetoric, while the Australian government is raising taxes, which is obviously a very unusual move. It is for this reason that many people believe that Australia has not been affected by the financial crisis. In fact, relying on export resources, Australia came out of the shadow of the financial crisis at the beginning of the year, becoming the first country to recover economically after the financial crisis, and also became one of the countries with the best life during the financial crisis.

Although the Republic is no longer the world's largest iron ore importer since the Year of the Reunion, India has become the world's largest iron ore importer since the Republic of China, and the Republic's dependence on Australia's resources has decreased rapidly, but after the bad year, the Republic no longer trusts Australia and no longer regards Australia as its main trading partner. Not to mention anything else, to the year of the field. Except for Wang Yuanqing and Gu Weimin's unofficial visits to Australia during the Asia-Pacific Cooperation and Brains Summit held in Melbourne and Sydney in the Year of Drowning and Liwu respectively, none of the Republican heads of state has ever paid a state visit to Australia. Although this is related to the state system of Australia, after all, according to the Australian constitution, the King of the United Kingdom is still the head of the country of Australia, and the power is exercised by the Governor-General, who in turn is nominated by the Prime Minister of Australia and approved by the King of the United Kingdom. Therefore, Australia's top national leader is the prime minister, and the significance of the republic's visit to Australia is not obvious, most of the time the premier of the State Council or the chairman of the plenary congress visits Australia instead of the state state. However, Australia is also a large country with a population of hundreds of millions, and it is a country with very strong economic strength, and the heads of state of the Republic have not visited it in recent years, which is indeed a very abnormal thing.

All in all, in the eyes of many, the Republic is deliberately suppressing Australia.

According to a document declassified in Feng Nian, during the strategic negotiations on the full consumption of nuclear weapons, the authorities of the Republic refused to include Australia in the list of "countries capable of developing nuclear weapons". If Australia accepts the strategic protection of the United States, there is no reason to use nuclear weapons. There is no reason to engage in the London negotiations. Had it not been for the repeated insistence of the United States, Australia would most likely have been excluded from this extremely important meeting.

It can be seen that before the calendar year, Australia was indeed having a hard time.

In this context, there have been some subtle changes in social thinking in Australia.

Around the end of the Peninsular War, a wave of "republicanism" emerged in Australia, and some associations and political parties believed that in order for Australia to become a country with global influence like the United States, it had to have all the benefits that an independent country must have, such as the election of a powerful and cohesive national element from among the citizens. As a result, Australia's political system had to be transformed, abolishing the already deeply backward constitutional monarchy and transforming it into a republic. At the time, there were even many who thought that Australia's basic political system should be decided by referendum, as was the case in Na Nian. Because in the referendum in the year of Na, the majority of citizens chose a constitutional monarchy, that is, to maintain relations with the United Kingdom, and the validity period of this vote is the year of the blade, so it is not until the year of Hunan that the referendum on the country's basic political system can be held again. Other words. In the year of the dish, no matter how loud the "republican" voice of the Australian folk is, it will wait for tens of thousands of years.

In essence, the republic is a direct manifestation of Australia's national desire to break away from the United States.

Although Australia is one. Typical of Western countries, white people occupy the mainstream of society, but as a typical democracy. As more and more immigrants move in, the influence of other races in Australia, including the Chinese, is becoming more prominent. According to a census conducted by the Australian government in the year of Daowan, among the approximately 100 million citizens, there are less than 2 white people, and the mixed race accounts for Warno. Among the yellow people, who are mainly Chinese, the Chinese people who occupy the courtyard are about ugly. Wan, the fifth largest ethnic group in Australia, with blacks and Indians accounting for the rest, Anhui. Important: in other ethnic groups. Only the Chinese have the economic power to rival the whites. According to the survey data released by a non-governmental research agency in the same year, the ugly Wanhua who account for the total population, the prosperous percent of the Chinese have about the leading % of Australia's social wealth. And the white people who make up the total population of the population occupy the general wealth of Australia. Purely based on the average market share. The Chinese have been white. Even in terms of total volume. The Chinese are also one percentage point higher than the Indians, who are in third place.

It can be seen that it is the Chinese who hope for a republic in Australia.

In any case, after having wealth, the first thing to pursue is political rights, because only after mastering political rights can the social wealth that has been obtained be secured.

Of course, under the influence of the Chinese, Australia's foreign policy will also change.

It can be said that if it is not for the political status of the Chinese, it is not high, and even in the field of the Chinese, the political influence of the Chinese in Australian society is still minimal, such as in the federal Senate and the House of Representatives. The Chinese occupy less than Wei seats, not only far less than the social wealth they hold, but also far less than the proportion of the population, I am afraid that before the calendar year, Australia will become

All in all, under the influence of the Great Depression, Australia once wanted to move closer to the Republic.

It is a pity that in Australia, it is still the white people who are in charge, especially those with British roots. Take, for example, Australia's outgoing prime minister. Until the Burning Year, when the first prime minister of Aboriginal ancestry appeared, Australia's prime ministers were all white, and nearly seventy percent were of British descent.

It can be said that the situation in Australia just shows that money cannot buy social status.

According to the immigration accumulation announced by the authorities of the Republic in Liwannian, from the beginning, some Chinese who had previously moved to Australia chose to return to China and apply for the nationality of the Republic The Republic has not recognized dual nationality, that is, as long as they have obtained the nationality of other countries, they will no longer be citizens of the Republic. The main reason for the return of Chinese is that they do not have a political status in Australia.

It can be seen that on the issue of Aohong. Whether out of national interests or to protect overseas Chinese, the authorities of the Republic have ignored the fact that if they want to influence Australia, they have to control Indonesia.

Of course, it's never that simple.

Long after the war in India, the republic was putting pressure on the Australian authorities. For example, at the biennial Asia-Pacific Cooperation and Brains Summit, the heads of state of the Republic of China will not forget to mention one thing, that is, the authorities of the Republic will protect the interests of overseas Chinese at all costs. Of course, whenever the head of state of the republic meets with the Australian prime minister, he will raise similar issues, such as that the Australian authorities should pay attention to the social interests and political needs of the Chinese, and give the Chinese equal social status and political rights.

In fact, impactful actions certainly do not appear in public.

According to a later declassified document, back in 2 four. That is, the Chinese took the lead in advocating a "republic" in Australia. , the MIA in a very secretive way. Through a number of businesses founded by Chinese in Europe, the Chinese community in Australia has been provided with an approximate following. 10,000 Australian dollars for activities, and arrange for some members of the Chinese Australian community to return to the Republic. Receive professional training in related fields.

Of course, this is just the beginning, not the end.

Although the purpose of the military intelligence bureau is not to subvert the Australian regime, in fact, with the Australian political system, the significance of subverting the regime is not obvious, in any case, the Chinese, who only account for the total population, cannot become the mainstream group of people in Australia, at least it is impossible to dominate Australia in the middle of the century, but these measures of the military intelligence bureau have made Australia's problems more complicated. Also more sensitive.

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