CHAPTER 65 065 The American Perspective
The incident of Chinese military planes entering South Korean airspace to pursue the defector bomber unsurprisingly shocked the world, but in a particularly bizarre way - China turned itself in.
The Information Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which opened a few days after its opening, held its first press conference, and Qian Qishen, the new spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke on behalf of the PRC of the "country causing the incident" as soon as the parties concerned had not yet figured out what was going on.
"The following is a statement to all parties about the incident: This morning, a H-5 bomber of our country suddenly deviated from the training airspace during training and cut off communications. The headquarters of a certain aviation division in Jikong immediately took off two fighters to intercept them, but because the distance was too far, the defecting bombers fled into South Korea. At this time, the commander of a certain air division ordered two fighters to enter the airspace of the ROK and look for the defected military planes without asking the Lu superiors for instructions. When the ROK military plane intercepted it, in order to protect itself, the two Chinese fighters took countermeasures, during which the ROK suffered certain losses.
Later, after it was determined that they could not complete their mission, the two Chinese fighters returned and were pursued by the ROK fighters. In order to protect our fighters, the responding fighters shouted to the ROK side, but the ROK ignored our explanations out of excitement and responded to the attack of the fighters on our planes. Our fighters were forced to counterattack and inflicted certain losses on the ROK side. β
ββ¦β¦ My country deeply regrets and apologizes for the losses suffered by the Republic of Korea. In response to the humanitarian tragedy caused by Air Force Commander Zha Yong-shin who gave unreasonable combat orders without authorization, Japan promised the ROK that it would severely punish the perpetrators, and at the same time express its sincere apologies and condolences to the families of the victims, and is willing to help and compensate the families of the victims to the best of its ability...... We are willing to work with the ROK to maintain peace in Northeast Asia, resolve the above issues through consultation and dialogue, and promote the recurrence of similar ...... in the world."
No one could have imagined that the Celestial Empire would put his figure so low and be so eye-catching. According to international law, there is no doubt that it was the Celestial Empire that made the mistake, but before the victim could react, the Celestial Empire actually jumped out and slapped himself in the face so abnormally, saying that he had done something wrong and begging for forgiveness.
Anyway, no matter what the matter itself is, the reaction of the international community to the Celestial Empire's single-minded confession is still relatively positive.
Washington, White House.
Reagan, the commander of the Eagle Sauce family, briefly made Bush Sr. president for eight hours because of surgery a few days ago, but not long after he returned, he found that the Chinese, who were steadily becoming the new allies of the United States, had poked another big basket.
Secretary of State Schultz sorted out all kinds of confidential and unclassified information sent from the embassy in China, and said: "The Chinese are very good this time, it seems that it is indeed as they say, this is an accident, the commander who gave the order to enter South Korean airspace without authorization has been controlled, and he may face serious treatment next." β
During his tenure, Reagan was known for his toughness towards the Soviet Union, and his China policy was generally ambiguous, and he was a strong conservative ****, but later he guided his relations with China with pragmatism, and visited China last year and carried out a lot of work, such as including China among the friendly African allies, so that a series of military products such as the Black Hawk could be exported to China.
The charismatic president said: "But the Chinese made mistakes, but they did not repent, they entered the airspace of the South Koreans, but did not accept the forced landing according to normal management, and finally caused a tragedy." β
Secretary of Defense Weinberg smiled and said: "Mr. President, with all due respect, no air force with a sense of honor will accept a forced landing by another country, even if they do not take advantage of it. If we think about it, we can understand, for example, if we enter Cuban airspace, will we accept the forced landing in Cuba? β
Schultz laughed and chimed in: "Of course not, we will throw thousands of pounds of explosives at them." β
Reagan smiled, seemingly unconcerned about South Korea's losses, and said, "But we are America, and they are just communist rats." β
Schultz still said patiently: "Mr. President, after the analysis of many think tanks, we have come to the conclusion that as long as China is allowed to continue their pace of opening up the market economy, it will not take much time for the CPC to face the pressure of the gradually rising propertied class, and have to divide the power, and at that time their power will gradually weaken, until one day, a new Chinese, democratic government will emerge, and finally liquidate the CPC, and then that China will be no different from us." β
Reagan pouted and said, "Well, a democracy with complex domestic problems, serious contradictions among various ethnic groups, and a penchant for infighting will greatly suppress the strength they can regenerate, and become an excellent market for us in the United States, and a flag-bearer to follow our global strategy." β
Schultz nodded and said, "Therefore, we should focus on co-opting and guiding China, not on them in the same way as dealing with the Soviet Union." What's more, I think that in this matter, the Chinese are more face-saving, and before they hold a press conference, they informed us in advance of what happened, which is a good phenomenon, at least in the minds of the Chinese, we need a responsible party to explain, our attitude is important, and they need to pay enough attention to us. β
Reagan smiled satisfactorily and said, "So, you mean we're going to try to keep this thing as cold as possible?" β
Today's South Korea is still ruled by a military junta, that is, Chun Doo-hwan, who was judged by later generations, is the president. In order to hold on to power, Chun Doo-hwan can be said to be obedient to the United States, so what does the Chun Doo-hwan government mean, it has no value at all, and how to deal with it is still what the American godfather says.
Secretary of the Air Force Russell? Locke took the opportunity to speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to remind you that although we need to win over China, the strength shown by the Chinese this time is really unbelievable. They shot down 8 F-4s and F-5s with two fighters, and then they took up 7 more F-4s and F-5s with their second echelon, and they did not lose a single fighter themselves. What does this mean? This shows that the technical level of the Chinese Air Force has been raised to the point that at least in the Asia-Pacific region, the strongest force other than us, and even pessimistically speaking, if their numbers can be guaranteed to be sufficient, we cannot even guarantee that they can be absolutely suppressed. β
The original optimistic expressions of everyone have been put away, and Reagan also asked him seriously: "Can't our F-15 and F-16 fight against the Chinese fighters?" What are you kidding, if the Chinese are really that powerful, why would they be willing to spend billions of dollars on Grumman's F-14? β
Locke said, "Maybe they want to learn more, or maybe their own fighters are still imperfect." There are so many possibilities that I can't predict. But I need to remind you gentlemen that from the rapid development of the Chinese army, what can be predicted is that they will at least grow into a strong regional military presence, not just a sea of troops, and now they are also committed to high-tech war equipment. We had predicted that the chaos of the decade did not have much impact on them, but they made some breakthroughs in some areas. I saw a report submitted by Grumman earlier, and Grumman wants to get their missile technology, electronic component technology, etc., from China, which shows that they are ahead of the curve in these areas. β
Vice President George H.W. Bush, who once served as chargΓ© d'affaires in China, is the most vocal person, saying: "I don't particularly understand that after such a chaos, they can still burst out with such strength for what they can, maybe China is an adversary worthy of fear." Perhaps our China policy should be more striving, and expand to other areas. If the Chinese are very smart, I remember that many of our Nobel laureates are of Chinese descent, and the Manhattan Plan and the Apollo Plan are all of Chinese descent, and we should strengthen the absorption of Chinese talents, especially now, only by mastering talent and mastering high technology can we dominate the future. At the same time, it is also necessary to further make friends with China, they need money, experience, and technology, and we can take what we need and strengthen the alliance, which is an effective containment for the Soviet Union, and we will also use this opportunity to understand the Chinese better, adjust more flexible strategies against them, and contain this country that may contain our world leadership. β
Several important members of the cabinet agreed, and Scholz added: "The long-term strategy is so, but this time, I suggest that we should take China a little bit, but we must also be in a measured position, because it is said that the people of this country have a particularly sensitive national self-esteem, and it would be bad if it was self-defeating and created anti-American sentiment in their country." β
Reagan laughed: "It's not easy, let the Koreans take the lead and denounce them." β
Bush Sr. shook his head and said: "The effect will not be very good, militarily China has overtaken South Korea, and now it is obvious that South Korea cannot get any benefits from them by its own strength alone, so it is impossible to mediate without us, but if we intervene in it, it will be easy to make a mess." Well, in any case, let's sit down and talk about it first, it's impossible for the lion to open his mouth, but at least it must be acceptable to both South Korea and us. β
Reagan nodded and said: "Okay, Mr. Schultz, please let your subordinates issue a carefully worded statement without any position, which is almost to make both sides exercise restraint, express regret over the incident, express condolences to South Korea, welcome China's positive attitude of admitting mistakes, and hope that the two sides will resolve this dispute through peaceful negotiations." β