Chapter 826: The Secret Covenant of the Three Kingdoms
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Although the negotiations did not go well at first due to the large gap in conditions between the two sides, the US government's position eventually loosened as domestic anti-war voices continued to rise and the financial oligarchy began to put pressure on Truman.
After difficult negotiations, the US Government basically accepted the Chinese Government's handling of Japan and the Ryukyus, but on the Nanyang issue, the United States has always refused to agree to make concessions, still less will it accept the Chinese Government's demand for an apology and compensation for its past crimes of aggression and exclusion against China.
However, at this time, the Chinese government suddenly said in a high-profile manner that it would provide nuclear protection to the Soviet Union, so that it no longer cared about the German atomic bombs, and launched an attack on Sweden and Norway in Northern Europe in September 1949
The victory of the allies should have been something to celebrate, but Truman was immediately pale when he learned the news, because according to the secret agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, whoever liberated the land would form a regime, and now that the Soviet Union has "liberated" Northern Europe, it is natural to establish a pro-Soviet socialist regime, so that the Soviet Union can obtain the advanced science and technology of the three Nordic countries and ice-free ports directly leading to the Atlantic, which is an even greater threat to the United States than Nazi Germany. After learning that the Soviet government had announced that the three Nordic countries had decided to join the Soviet Union as union republics after a referendum, Truman was so angry that he even dropped the coffee cup in his hand
In this case, the Americans had to turn to the Chinese government for help. It was hoped that the Chinese government would put pressure on the Soviet Union to prevent it from continuing its frenzied expansion in the name of anti-fascism. It must be noted that the Soviet Union's economy and industry have improved considerably, and it no longer has to rely on American assistance because of the rapid recovery and reconstruction of the country after it was restored to its pre-war territory, and even though it fought a war with China in the middle. The efficiency of the planned economic system in the post-war reconstruction is indeed amazing, and it is no wonder that the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the best parts of the Soviet Union were destroyed, surpassed the pre-war level in a single five-year plan, and the total industrial output was more than 70% higher than in 1940
As Hu Weidong predicted, the ruling class in the United States was far more wary of the Soviet Union than Nazi Germany, first, because of ideological problems, although the Nazis were evil, the capitalists could continue to make a fortune. And if it was ruled by the USSR. It's completely impossible; Second, although Nazi Germany once controlled most of Europe, due to the defects of racism itself, it was completely impossible for the mustache to integrate the European continent, but the socialist Soviet Union could do it. Even if it's only theoretically possible. It is enough to make Americans jealous. After all, not only the dead Roosevelt, but many Americans understood that once a superpower appeared on the "world island" of Eurasia. The United States, which lives in the New World, will never want to have a good life
In this case, the Americans had to make substantial concessions in the negotiations in exchange for China no longer supporting the continued expansion of the USSR. But even so, the two sides struggled until February 1950, when a complete truce was signed.
In the agreement, the United States recognized the independence of Aceh, Lanfang (whose territory mainly includes Borneo and Sulawesi), and Ryukyu, while the Chinese side recognized the Philippines, the islands east of Sulawesi, and the island of Java and many islands to the east of the United States as the sphere of influence of the United States, and divided up the Nanyang Islands completely.
At the strong request of the Chinese government, the U.S. government agreed to give up the right to send troops to Japan after the war and was willing to return the Ogasawara Islands it occupied to Japan (Note 1), but at the same time proposed that those responsible for starting the Pacific War must be tried and punished in order to give an account to the people at home.
In the end, after the negotiation between the Chinese and Japanese governments, the new Japanese government announced the abolition of the emperor system and the reorganization of the republican system of Japan, and gave the Americans a step down, although many nostalgic Japanese after the war were sad about the end of the "one line", but there are also many Japanese who believe that this is the beginning of Japan's complete eradication of feudal poison and rebirth, and even Chongren himself, who took the initiative to abdicate, also thinks so, he even organized an academic research group after the war, specifically arguing that "Xu Fu is the ancestor of the Japanese" This proposition (Chongren has done this in history, let alone this time and space.) It provides a historical basis for Japan's annexation to China, because in Chongren's view, "a drop of water can never dry up, only by merging into the sea." But the Chinese government has not agreed, considering the international impact and domestic food security
At the same time, the US government also publicly apologized for the "mistakes" of the past invasion of China and the subsequent exclusion of China, and used the statement of renunciation of war claims against Japan to squeeze out China's abandonment of claims against the United States; at the same time, due to the old problem of Chinese people dying to save face, this episode also made the Chinese government give up the idea of re-filing war reparations claims against Japan. However, because some reparations had already been received during the first Sino-Japanese armistice, coupled with the profits made during the liquidation of war criminals after the People's Liberation Army entered Japan, the harvest was already not small, so even Hu Weidong did not publicly express his dissatisfaction with this.
The final difficulty in the peace talks between China, the United States and Japan was the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops and millions of Japanese immigrants who were still entrenched in western and northern Australia. After a lot of bargaining between the three countries, mainly China and the United States, the U.S. government finally agreed to persuade the Australian government to abandon the demand for the reckoning of the Japanese military and civilian crimes, and offered to repatriate them at the expense of the U.S. government.
However, due to the sudden change in the post-war international situation, this repatriation could not be carried out after only a third of the time, and the Chinese government began to continue to export people (basically illegal immigrants) to these two places in order to control Australia's main iron ore mining and uranium mining areas, which aroused the extreme dissatisfaction of white Australian right-wingers, and finally triggered the "Northwest Australian War", which is considered to be one of the three major local wars in the early post-war period of this time and space
Note 1: The other Pacific islands were occupied by the United States, even those that had been returned to Japan before the war, and the Americans called it a necessary punishment, but the new Japanese government refused to recognize them due to the sudden changes in the post-war international situation. (To be continued......)