Since the outbreak of war in the Far East, the Axis bloc, led by Germany and Austria, has clearly sided with the Chinese, allowing the Chinese to issue billions of dollars in war bonds in Europe to buy their industrial products, munitions, and machinery. The Axis bloc took the opportunity to control the political, military, and economic aspects of the entire country, thereby excluding the United States and Britain from the Chinese market, and Washington has always suspected that there was a secret treaty...... In the Western Pacific, China has fully turned to the Entente bloc, and the Germans are using Chinese to expand in this region, which will likely directly threaten the security of American interests in Asia......"

Christian Monitor, November 7, 1937, "Vigilance - The Dragon's Collaboration with the Eagle"

In the oval office of the White House.

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Roosevelt turned around and looked at the large world map hanging on the wall behind him, frowning slightly. The results of the European war and the "Madrid Peace Treaty" were not the results that the United States wanted to see, the British had been declining, but the fruits that fell in their hands were snatched away by the Germans, and the whole of Europe was basically dominated by the German-Austrian bloc, and they also got a large number of colonies in Africa, and the whole national power was stronger than before the war.

While the Far East was in the midst of war, the United States on the other side of the Pacific was still struggling with the Great Depression, the British used their extensive colonial system to erect high tariff barriers, while the Axis powers of Germany and Austria used their control of Europe, South America, and China to begin a full economic recovery as early as 1934.

But what about the United States? After gaining almost nothing in the European war, they were still excluded from European affairs, and in the South American and Asian markets, the Germans gradually encroached on the American and British markets with their technological superiority, and the contradictions between the two sides became more and more acute.

After the Great Crisis of 1929, the U.S. economy fell into the Great Depression. The recovery was sluggish, and the so-called "Roosevelt's New Deal" was nothing more than a propaganda ploy to deceive others. On the contrary, the annual export of nearly $2 billion of industrial goods to Russia has somewhat alleviated the domestic crisis, especially since the beginning of the war in the Far East, the large number of industrial orders from Soviet Russia and Japan has finally brought the US economy out of the doldrums, and according to the economic statistics of the third quarter, the US industrial production increased by 18 percent compared with the second quarter. It's a leap forward.

"Mr. President, the Japanese envoys have arrived in Washington, and they want to be able to issue war bonds in the United States and Great Britain, just as they did during the Russo-Japanese War." "The bankers are interested, but the majority of the congressmen are against it, arguing that we should not be involved in the conflict in the Far East," said Secretary Hull in a flat tone. ”

In fact, the United States was ambivalent about the war in the Far East, and if the Japanese and Russians repartitioned China, they would immediately become America's greatest adversary in the Pacific. On the other hand, the Americans do not want to see the rise of China, and even see the Japanese as the best tool to contain China in some ways.

In fact, Japan is indeed playing such a role, and if it were not for the support of the Russians and the Americans behind them, and in the face of warnings from Germany and Austria, the Japanese would certainly not have dared to attack China.

The ambition of the Japanese was to control Manchuria and Mongolia in the Far East. This is their stepping stone to the mainland. The Japanese have been promoting that these places have never belonged to China, and that Chinese have lived inside the Great Wall since ancient times. These sites are a gift from heaven to the Japanese.

The problem is that the whole world, except for the Japanese themselves, does not agree with the Japanese.

The Chinese took advantage of the civil strife in the Russians to recover a large part of the territory that had been robbed by the tsar in the past. But now the Red Regime has re-emerged as a military power in just fifteen years, and although this achievement was achieved on the basis of the all-out oppression of the workers and peasants, there are still many people who are particularly interested in this way of development of the Red Regime, believing that the Russians are on a successful path.

"Congress sometimes makes mistakes. Just like everybody. Most parliamentarians are sympathetic to the plight of the Chinese, but the problem is that the country is being controlled by Germany and Austria, and will become a big obstacle to our global strategy in the future. If the United States wants to develop better, it needs more markets, but you look at the whole world. Half of it is controlled by the British, the other half is in the hands of the Germans, and our so-called 'benefit-sharing' policy is not being heeded, and no one cares about the voice of the United States, who are using high tariff barriers to exclude the United States from the global market. Roosevelt said slowly, "We need to change the pattern of the world again, and this war is the best opportunity." ”

"The Russians want to exchange their ore and raw materials for our machines and even arms, and I think this is a reasonable trade, and there should be no restrictions on such trade, on the contrary, we should encourage it." Hopkins, who sat in a chair at his desk, said that he was the president's chief adviser and had always seen Germany as the biggest obstacle to the rise of the United States and had encouraged the president to strengthen cooperation with Russia.

Hopkins had always seen Russia as the hope of the United States for control of Europe, and the Zhuashvili regime had always been haunted by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which cost them Lithuania, half of Latvia, and half of Belarus, and the threefold expansion of German territory in East Prussia, while the Austrians encroached on all of Transnistria's territory and the Crimean peninsula.

After the Russians lost Poland, Ukraine, the lower Donets-Don region, the Caucasus and the Far East in the European War, Zhuashvili had already spoken several times in his speech about the restoration of the Tsar's territory - military operations in the Far East in the name of doctrine were only the beginning and experiment, and soon Europe would rekindle the flames of war.

To make the Russians strong enough, this is also an opportunity for the United States.

Therefore, since 1931, the United States has exported hundreds of thousands of machine tools and a large number of industrial and mining machinery to Russia, and helped the Russians establish dozens of large-scale factories closely related to the military industry. The Russians have enough resources to exchange a large number of machines and machinery from the United States, which is what the Americans need most.

At present, exports to Soviet Russia have accounted for 18 percent of the total exports of the United States and half of the total exports of the United States, occupying a very important position.

Hopkins is a representative of the first faction of politicians in Washington, this kind of force has been strongly supported by arms dealers and bankers behind the scenes, of course, his ** in his own opinion, how much is not unrelated to commercial factors, in fact, many ** faction duì China's antipathy, in fact, most of the anti-German forces in the United States are out of commercial interests, just as there is a certain influence in Washington "pro-Japanese faction", but also because of the factor of product exports.

The problem was that the Japanese could not support the war after only three months. (To be continued......) R527