Volume 3 The Storms of the East China Sea Chapter 24 Financial Turmoil

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:, 5 p.m. Beijing time

Two days later, Huang Guowei appeared again at the press center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and issued a strongly worded diplomatic statement to hundreds of journalists from all over the world in a diametrically opposed attitude to those two days ago

The shadow of war has risen again, and Sino-Japanese relations have suddenly become tense

While the vast majority of commentators remain convinced that there will be no full-scale war between China and Japan, no one doubts that a military conflict between China and Japan over the ownership of the Diaoyu Islands will occur

At this time, two views emerged in world public opinion

Optimistic commentators believe that both China and Japan will try to refrain from military conflict, and that military conflict will only occur in extreme cases, and the scale of the conflict will not be very large, mainly concentrated near the Diaoyu Islands, mainly in the sea and air battles, and will not rashly use ground forces Without considering the United States, the probability of China winning is slightly higher than that of Japan If China wins, the Diaoyu Islands will "change hands" If both sides suffer heavy losses, the conflict will end by a truce If Japan wins, it will strengthen its control over the Diaoyu Islands, Regardless of the outcome of building a military base on the island, the war will inevitably lead to a decades-long setback in Sino-Japanese relations, and even lead the two countries into a state of long-term military confrontation

Pessimistic commentators believe that with the joint promotion of both sides, the war will soon break out, China will send submarines to blockade Japan, cooperate with long-range aviation to encircle and annihilate the Japanese fleet, and seize sea supremacy in the western Pacific. Losing sea supremacy in the western Pacific, China will eventually lose the war, fall into a long-term recession, Japan will win a crushing victory, and the national economy will suffer heavy losses, and the United States will take advantage of this to consolidate the "US-Japan alliance" and increase its influence in the western Pacific region

Whether these two views are correct or not, the sudden tensions became the catalyst for financial turmoil

On the morning of the 14th, less than 15 minutes after the opening of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nikkei Stock Average plummeted by 10% again, falling below the 9,000 mark, and then the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets opened, falling 10% in 20 minutes

The stock market plummeted, catching many investors who had just entered the market by surprise

As the threat of war intensifies, international financial speculators with less capital have cut their flesh and come out one after another, and even large speculators with sufficient funds do not dare to buy rashly

The currency market was quickly affected, and the yen fell to 128 against the dollar from 120 at yesterday's close

China's financial market has also turned upside down, with the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets recording the largest decline in the year, and the foreign exchange market has also been implicated, and many investors have lost their money

At 10 a.m. Beijing time, Pang Xinglong announced after the executive meeting of the State Council that the Republic of China will invest an additional 500 million yuan in the next two years through central, local and private investment to accelerate the construction of infrastructure such as power grid trunk lines, electric vehicle charging stations, highways, and large power stations

The good news was immediately effective

After the resumption of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets, driven by the power, energy, steel, automobile, high-tech and other sectors, the decline quickly stopped and rebounded, and investors' confidence began to recover

At 11:30, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced two major scientific research achievements: the first phase of the commercial trial operation of the controllable fusion power station has been completed, and the test data have met or exceeded the design standards; The high-temperature superconducting power transmission scheme has passed the national acceptance and entered the engineering test stage

This is undoubtedly good news for investors

In the afternoon, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets successfully turned red, and by the time they closed, the Shanghai stock market rose 271% throughout the day, and the Shenzhen stock market rose 362% throughout the day

Japan's capital markets are a different story

The Tokyo Stock Exchange resumed trading after a 2-hour hiatus, plummeting 10% in just 20 minutes, and had to suspend trading again before the noon break, and the yen-dollar exchange rate also fell all the way to 133 by noon

At 12:30 Tokyo time (equivalent to 11:30 Beijing time), Ozawa, who was exhausted, personally issued a statement announcing that Japan would make every effort to peacefully resolve the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands with China

In the afternoon, the Tokyo stock market and the foreign exchange market reacted to the Prime Minister's statement

After the Nikkei fell below 8,000 points, as the international speculators who held huge amounts of money entered the market in a big way, stopped falling and rebounded, and regained the 8,200-point mark by the time of closing, with a total decline of more than 18% throughout the day When the yen exchange rate fell to 135, there was a wave of sharp pull in the market, which once rose to 130, and then fell slightly, and the exchange rate against the US dollar was reported at 1314 at the close

So far, Hikohiro and others have invested nearly 2,000 funds in the Japanese financial market

The yen exchange rate rebounded slightly after the plunge, which attracted the attention of international speculators, 2,000 US dollars is not a small amount of money, well-informed financial predators immediately sniffed out the smell The yen exchange rate rebounded in the afternoon trading, and the Nikkei index quickly flattened after a slight rebound in the afternoon, mainly because several financial predators invested the funds planned to invest in the stock market to the foreign exchange market to close, in addition to the 200 billion US dollars invested by Yan Bo and others, into the Japanese foreign exchange market,

The international hot money collected in yen exceeded 250 billion dollars

And that's just the beginning

After getting the all-day trading report, Ozawa didn't even eat dinner, so he rushed to Tachikawa to report the situation to Hatoyama

After listening to the report, Hatoyama asked Ozawa to prepare, and then took the prime minister to the large study on the third floor

Seeing Hatoyama Ryojiro, Fukuda Tawen, Shikano Heiji and others, Ozawa was secretly shocked, but he didn't expect all the heavyweight veterans of Japanese politics to arrive

Glancing at Ozawa, who was sitting in the corner, Hatsujiro said to the other two: "The disputes between us are only partisan contradictions and intra-national contradictions, and in the current situation of the great enemy, we should put aside our prejudices, abandon contradictions, put the interests of the country and the nation first, and jointly lead the Yamato nation out of the predicament."

"I'm afraid your party has to bear the main responsibility for the current situation, right?"

Regarding Fukuda's "provocation", Hatoyama Ryojiro laughed

"Your party has disregarded the actual national conditions, vainly tried to get rid of the influence of the United States, and single-handedly confronted China, which led to today's results, and only seven years ago, I said that although the Yamato nation is the best nation in the world, we have taken too many detours and suffered too many hardships, and we must recuperate and recuperate, become a world power with the help of the United States, and then embark on the road of independent development."

"Blindly relying on the United States is also unrealistic," Heiji Kano, director general of the right-wing coalition of political parties, said, "Thirty years ago, we had the world's second most powerful economic strength, and in the past 30 years, not only have we not transformed our economic strength into real national strength, but we have been constrained everywhere in the diplomatic, political, and military fields. We can only rely on ourselves, we must transform our strong economic strength into real national strength, obtain the status of a great power commensurate with it, and put the Yamato nation on the road to rejuvenation and realize the dream that our predecessors failed to realize! ”

"In the current situation, we cannot break with the United States"

"It doesn't mean that we can't go our own way, we must rely on the United States"

"Without the support of the United States, we will face a life-and-death challenge"

"The Yamato nation is the best nation in the world, capable of overcoming all challenges!"

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Seeing Fukuda Tawen arguing with Shikano Heiji, Ozawa couldn't help but sigh that this small room was a microcosm of Japanese politics, everyone had beautiful dreams, believed in their own opinions, and wanted to dominate Japan, but the result was that everyone's ideas stayed at the dream stage, no point of view became the mainstream thought, and no one could dominate Japan and bring Japan on the road to rejuvenation

"Perhaps, we should listen to the Prime Minister"

The room suddenly fell silent, and several elders looked at Ozawa

Seeing Hatoyama's gaze, Ozawa coughed twice and told what happened during the day

"It's clear that some people with bad intentions are attacking our financial markets," Hatoyama said, ending the argument

The other two patriarchs did not speak, and Hatoyama Ryojiro had not yet made a condition

"In order to show our sincerity, we will slow down the reform process, increase military spending, and provide subsidies for technology research and development for companies, and my request is simple: whether it is the Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, or the right-wing coalition, we will do everything in our power to help the Cabinet government."

Fukuda Tawen and Shikano Heiji glanced at each other, then nodded in agreement

Hatoyama Ryojiro's conditions were not low, and they just met the appetites of the two

The main supporters of the right-wing coalition are the military and the domestic right-wing forces, and the main supporters of the LDP are the two conditions put forward by the large domestic enterprises and the foundation Hamjiro, which not only improve the treatment of military personnel, strengthen the national defense force, and meet the demands of the right-wing forces, but also send life-saving money to major enterprises in dire straits, save millions of jobs, and slow down the reform process, which will weaken the "credibility" of the Democratic Party, turn voters against them, and greatly increase the chances of the LDP and the right-wing coalition winning in next year's general election

This is not a simple concession, but an all-out concession

Whether Hatoyama was willing to give up his partisan interests for the sake of national interests, Fukuda Tamon and Kirano Heiji did not consider, they only knew that the advantages of cooperating with the DPJ far outweighed the disadvantages

The situation in front of them also left Fukuda Tawen and Shikano Heiji with no choice

If they do not accept Hatoyama's offer, the DPJ will shift all responsibility to the LDP and the right-wing coalition, causing the two opposition parties to lose popular support

Witnessing the three elders complete the political transaction, Ozawa was filled with emotion

Family politics, factional politics, and group politics are deeply ingrained in Japan, and even if it takes another 70 years, it will not be possible to get rid of this malignant tumor, let alone seven years

Damn it*

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