Chapter Seventy-Two: Destiny

Lan Ran looks at the global situation. Gu is only a secondary battlefield in the struggle for hegemony between China and the United States. Moreover, the "Cuban crisis" was one of the main causes of World War III.

Cuba's position in the Caribbean is very similar to that of the Philippines in South-East Asia.

After the South China Sea War, the United States regarded the Philippines as its number one ally in Southeast Asia, and Singapore was also an ally of the United States at that time. Malaysia and Thailand are quasi-allies of the United States. After the Peninsular War, the Philippines was escalated to become the main ally of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, on a par with Japan and Australia. After the Japanese War, the Philippines became a major ally of the United States in the world, and its status was directly on par with that of the United Kingdom. In order to ensure the security of the Philippines, the United States authorities have told the whole world in various ways, especially warning the Republic, that any violation of the Philippines will lead to world war. Among other things, successive U.S. presidents have visited the Philippines in their first year in office, emphasizing unbreakable alliances. According to the information published by the US authorities in 2 years, before that. The U.S. helped the Philippines thwart a military coup and assassination of Philippine leaders, and forced a country's intelligence agencies to abandon the idea of peaceful evolution in the Philippines.

Yan Ran, "a certain country" here is the republic.

As mentioned earlier, the position of the Philippines is too important.

Although the authorities of the Republic have never admitted that they had carried out military coups and assassinations in the Philippines. And has repeatedly stated that it will not interfere in the internal affairs of the Philippines. However, everyone knows that it is absolutely impossible for the military intelligence bureau of the "republic" not to make a name for itself in the Philippines. In fact, two years ago, the MIA did formulate a plan of action to plan a military coup in the Philippines to overthrow the pro-American regime. And I have done pre-deployment. For example, in Libinian, as the signs of war in India became more and more obvious, the Military Intelligence Agency deployed three assassination teams to the Philippines, preparing to assassinate the concubines of the Philippine national leaders when necessary, so that the Philippines would fall into turmoil, so that they would no longer worry about the threat from the Philippines.

At the beginning of the calendar, when the war in India was about to break out, the Military Intelligence Agency made actual combat deployments. Contingency plans have been developed for all eventualities, such as in the aftermath of the war in India. If the Philippines were to create instability in Southeast Asia, an assassination team that had already been deployed would eliminate the country's leaders in the Philippines within four hours and create social unrest in the same period.

All in all, it is impossible for the republic not to pay attention to the Philippines.

Comparatively speaking, the United States is certainly more concerned about Cuba than the Republic is about the Philippines.

The problem is that, just as the United States cannot tolerate the Republic of creating instability in the Philippines, the Republic cannot tolerate the United States of America creating unrest in Cuba.

Although in the eyes of many people, the relationship between the Republic and Cuba is far inferior to that between the United States and the Philippines, after all, the Philippines is the first colony of the United States, and the only colony in the history of the United States, after the Spanish-American War, Cuba became independent and did not become a colony of the United States, and the historical connection between the Republic and Cuba is almost zero. Especially after the republic's policy of reform. Relations with Cuba are even more distant. However, by the middle of the century, the relations between the Republic and Cuba were by no means worse than those between the United States and the Philippines.

In the immediate aftermath of Lawrès's assassination, the authorities of the Republic stated that the internal situation in Cuba, as an important ally of the Republic, was a matter of vital interest to the Republic.

This, the attitude, is enough to prove the relations between the Republic and Cuba.

As a matter of fact, as early as the fourth time, that is, on Cassili's fifth visit to the Republic, the "Treaty of Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Alliance" was signed in Beijing with Gu Weimin, then the head of state of the Republic, which confirmed the alliance between Cuba and the Republic and received huge assistance from the Republic as a result. In the following year, after the basic conditions were met, the Cuban authorities formally requested to join the intensive group. It also pledged to carry out economic, political and military reforms in accordance with the Group's requirements. Although, according to the rules of the Intensive Group, any country that makes a request for membership will be given a year of reform time after becoming an observer State, and will not have the opportunity to become a full member until all the reforms have been completed and all the requirements for membership have been met, so it is not until the end of the short term, that is, after Cuba becomes an observer State of the Intensive Group, that the formal request for membership is made. The review will take at least two years. Thus, at the beginning of the year, Cuba was still not a member of the Intensive Group, but under the Treaty of Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Alliance, signed between Cuba and the Republic. Cuba is already an ally of the Republic and is a quasi-ally member of the Intensive Group, including Argentina, in accordance with the Treaty of Alliance signed between the Republic and the member States of the Intensive Group.

That is, Cuba is already in fact an ally of the republic.

Under these circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for the Republic to tolerate any "non-separating" actions by the United States against Cuba.

Because in the name of military visits, the Republic sent an aircraft carrier battle group to the South Atlantic, and it was stationed in Argentina for more than a month, so until July. In addition to declaring that it was paying close attention to the situation in Cuba, the Republic immediately dispatched an aircraft carrier battle group operating in the South Atlantic. and announced that he would assist Cassily in returning home in due course.

Affected by this, the news media in the United States immediately went to the United States

At the time, the American news media unanimously agreed. This is because the Republic wants to control Cuba and make it an important part of its all-round strategic layout. And threaten the United States with this, so the things that happened in Cuba were directed by the intelligence agencies of the republic. In deleted terms, Cassily's trip to the republic for medical treatment was a trap. Lawrence, who played an important role in the turmoil, was nothing more than a tragic figure. From the beginning. He is the object of exploitation by the intelligence agencies of the Republic, whose only value is to force Cassily to go to Beijing for medical treatment, so that the intelligence agencies of the Republic can gain control of the number one person in Cuba. As for the later life, namely the assassination of Lawrence, it was the authorities of the Republic who cleared the way for Cassily to return home.

All in all, in the eyes of the American news media. Born in Cuba has nothing to do with the United States authorities.

In fact, the real mastermind behind this is the U.S. intelligence agencies.

As mentioned earlier, the US stripping intelligence agencies are always looking for opportunities to overthrow the Cuban regime. According to some later declassified information, it was the four who used Lawr, but the four did not come forward directly, but through the intelligence agencies of Mexico and the United Kingdom, to convince Lawens that even if he overthrew the Cassili regime in a coup d'état, Latin America and Europe would recognize it and would not affect Cuba's international status. What's more. At the time of the coup d'état, the intelligence services of the Republic did not actively intervene or even take any preventive action.

The problem is that in the American layout, Lawrence is only a very small pawn.

According to information later released, the US intelligence agencies planned to use Lawnes to attack the Workers' Party of Cuba and make the Workers' Party lose its support, thus creating a basis for other parties to come to power. Here's the key. Able to succeed the Workers' Party. Definitely not your average political party. And under Cuba's basic political system, there is no political party that can replace the Workers' Party. As a result, the US authorities have no choice but to consider other methods, such as uniting several small parties and dealing with the Workers' Party in the form of a coalition of political parties. In fact, this is exactly the method adopted by the Four, which is to have the opposition parties demonstrate and demand political reform after Lawrence forced Cassili away.

Only by this time did the republic act.

In any case, it seemed at the time that the authorities of the Republic must have wanted to use Cuba to contain the United States.

On July 20, accompanied by Vice Foreign Minister Qian Xusheng, Cassili returned to Havana on a special diplomatic plane of the Republic and said at the airport that he was still the leader of the Workers' Party of Cuba.

It is interesting that Cassily did not return to his residence in the suburbs, but went to the embassy of the Republic in Havana.

At this time. The situation in Cuba is already very chaotic.

Although the vast majority of Cubans still identify with Cassily and recognize him as the number one leader in Cuba, as a politician with many years of age, coupled with physical factors, almost no one thinks that Cassili can normally exercise the power of the country's leader and therefore cannot lead Cuba. As a result, most Cubans think: Cuba needs a leader who can lead the country through difficult times.

The question is, what kind of leader is this?

Before that, almost everyone believed that Lawrence was Cassily's successor. In any case, being able to succeed Cassily as the head of state has already proved Lawrnes's status. The problem is that Lawrence forced the palace to be a fact, and so did his death in an assassination attempt. More seriously. With Cuba's political system, there is no second person in the Workers' Party who has the status and influence of Lawnes. That is, with Lawrence finished. It will be difficult for the Workers' Party to put forward a leader with national influence in the short term. In fact, this is exactly why Cassili had to return to Cuba in mid-July, after all, there is no better alternative to him.

As mentioned earlier, Cassily is too old and in good health.

As the interim leader, Cassily is a good choice.

And that was exactly the case, after he returned home. The domestic situation in Cuba has quickly stabilized. Although at the time of July rise, there was a conspiracy against Cassily. According to information released by the Cuban authorities, Cassili was planning to visit the veterans and canceled the trip because of the warning, after which the security services located a remote-controlled bomb in the veterans' welfare center and arrested several suspects. However, by the end of July, the vast majority of Cuban political parties had announced that they would accept the leadership of the Workers' Party led by Cassili, and normal order in Cuban society had been restored.

The problem is, everyone knows that Cassily can't keep going.

At the beginning of August, at the plenary session of the Workers' Party, Cassily raised the matter of electing a successor.

This is definitely a very sensitive topic.

Although according to the information released by the Workers' Party, after going to the Republic for medical treatment, Cassily's condition has been stabilized, and shrapnel in the skull has been taken out to eliminate the lesion, but everyone knows that Cassily has collapsed, and he is no longer the leader who repeatedly performed miracles in the past, and he is no longer an old man with low spirits.

It was also at this time that voices emerged within the Workers' Party of Cuba on the need for political reform.

In a sense, Cuba in Cassili's era was actually emulating the Republic of Wang Yuanqing's era, so many people compare Cassili to Cuba's Wang Yuanqing.

As we all know, Wang Yuanqing's greatest achievement was not the defeat of Japan and conquest

If it is said that the defeat of the self and the conquest of India. If the two potential threats to the republic are eliminated, then political reform sets the stage for the republic to challenge the United States. It can be said that if there is no political reform, the technological superiority that the Republic has achieved after the economic years will be able to maintain the prosperity of the fields at most, and in the year of the United States, it will be surpassed by the United States. After all, the main factor that sustains a country's steady development is not one or two advanced technologies, but a well-established society and a political system based on it.

Although Cuba is not a republic, and it cannot become a world power like a republic, as a country with a blade of 10,000 people, as long as Cuba's leaders are a little ambitious, they will be like Wang Yuanqing and carry out political reforms when the country's economy has reached a certain level.

From this. On a level, Cassili's role in Cuba is more akin to that of Ji Yuanqing than Wang Yuanqing.

You must know that the Cuban economy was able to take off after the end of the year, and in the old country, from a relatively backward country to an economic power in Latin America, in terms of per capita income, is inseparable from Cassili's unremitting struggle. More importantly, the economic miracle created by Cuba has broken the "Latin American curse", that is, Latin American countries also have the opportunity to become a major country, and together with Argentina, it has led a "second wave of independence" in Latin American countries, that is, to promote economic development through the right national strategy. This impact extends far beyond Cuba's own economic exhibition.

Since the United States pursued the "Inlo Doctrine". "Latinoization" has become a derogatory term, and almost all Latin American countries have not been able to escape the effects of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, sluggish domestic consumption, and economic stagnation. In the final analysis, this is inextricably linked to the US "Latin American strategy," because in the eyes of the US authorities, a Latin American region will absolutely not obey the command of the United States, and it will be impossible for it to serve US interests.

If Argentina's economic rise is related to the country's basic strength, after all, Argentina is a country with a vast territory, a large population, and rich resources. Cuba's major economic achievements, then, are enough to prove that the right strategic choice is more important than the right economic policy.

In other words, Cuba's economic revitalization is enough to change the strategic stance of many Latin American countries.

The problem is that political reform is absolutely indispensable among the main factors driving the Cuban economy.

As a matter of fact, the Cuban authorities have been carrying out political reforms since the beginning of the year, and they have only taken small steps, and they have been very cautious in carrying out experiments and have not advanced them very quickly.

By the second half of the 2 four, the problem became very acute.

Almost all Cuban politicians believe. Political reform has reached the point where it cannot be delayed.

When reporting related news, Al Jazeera hired a special guest, the former minister of defense industry of Pakistan, mentioned that the things that were born in the first half of the year have proven that with the economic exhibition. The Cuban people's desire and demand for political rights, especially the democratic political system, has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, and the main factor leading to social turmoil in Cuba is not the hostile forces from the outside, but the internal contradictions between the people's political needs and the relatively rigid political system. A very crucial factor in Cassili's ability to quickly stabilize the situation after returning home was the belief of the Cuban people that the leader who had led Cuba to many miracles would absolutely meet the political needs of the people and bring Cuba into a new era by initiating political reforms when certain achievements had already been made in economic construction.

Relations with the authorities of the Republic of Al Jazeera. Such comments speak volumes about the republic

Degree.

As a matter of fact, in mid-August, the Republic's media also reported that Cuba's main problem was the contradiction between its relatively well-established market economy and its rigid political system, and that if Cuba wanted to achieve greater success, it should make full use of its economic achievements and carry out political reforms.

The question is, who will push for political reform?

You must know that Wang Yuanqing was the number one successor of Ji Jieguo, and was supported by a large number of high-level leaders such as Zhao Rundong, Peng Maobang, and Pan Yunsheng, and only after establishing high prestige through the Japanese War did he implement political reform in the republic.

It can be said that only Cassili can carry out political reform in Cuba.

The problem is that for an old man who is many years old, it is certainly impossible to spend his old years engaged in political reform like Wang Yuanqing, who is in his early years.

For Cassili, every day is incomparably precious.

On August 10,000, after the list of candidates for the post of general secretary of the Workers' Party was confirmed, Cassily's illness recovered.

That evening, Cassili left Cuba on a high-pitched commercial plane provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic and went to the Republic again for medical treatment.

Obviously, this is absolutely not a good thing for the social situation in Cuba, which has just stabilized.

To make matters worse, Cassily's condition deteriorated rapidly.

On January 2, Cassily died of illness in Beijing.

On the same day, the Cuban authorities announced seven days of national mourning.

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