Japel has been irritable and in a bad mood these days

Seventy years ago, when the United Nations was proclaimed in New York, the United States was a well-deserved global leader, and even in the Cold War that followed, the huge red empire posed a huge threat to the hegemony of the United States, and during the Cuban Missile Crisis, tens of millions of Americans dug air-raid shelters and hoarded daily necessities in their backyards, and the United States still had the last laugh and still firmly controlled the United Nations

Just over 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the prestige of the United States in the United Nations has been challenged

Although it is not the United States that proposes to add two permanent members to the Security Council, nor does it explicitly support Japan becoming a permanent member, the United States has been actively lobbying other countries to remove obstacles for Japan to become a permanent member of the Security Council

This policy of the United States has been incomprehensible to many people

When the Liberal Democratic Party was in power, Japan was the most "loyal" younger brother of the United States, whether it was fighting Afghanistan, Iraq, or even helping India rearm, Japan contributed money and efforts to share a lot of pressure for the United States

With the coming to power of the Democratic Party of Japan, Japan's basic policies have undergone earth-shaking changes

Many people believe that Japan is gradually breaking free from the control of the United States and striving to become a major power with independent discourse and important influence in Asia and even the world

In fact, on the contrary, instead of suppressing the disobedient "little brother," the United States has given full support to Japan

The reasons for this are all related to the rapid rise of China

The Fourth Indo-Pakistani War showed that China's foreign policy has undergone a major change, and when it comes to safeguarding the interests of the country and the nation, China will no longer just protest and condemn, but will also take decisive and practical actions

All signs point to China's transformation from a regional power to a global power

If it directly confronts China, the United States will not only have to pay a high price, but also bear huge risks; although no force can prevent the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the United States will not watch China become the world's number one power, and proceeding from its practical interests, the best countermeasure that the United States can take is to use China's neighboring countries to drag out the pace of the eastern dragon and gain more time to prepare

Supporting India's reconstruction and helping India rearm is just one of the strategic policies of the United States to contain China

Relatively speaking, Japan's role in containing China far exceeds India's, and if Japan can support Japan to become a regional power and give Japan the military, political, and diplomatic strength to rival China, it will greatly reduce the pressure on the United States, so that China will have to spend more time and pay more money to solve peripheral problems

That is the fundamental reason why the United States fully supports Japan's candidacy as a permanent member of the Security Council

Years of hard work were ultimately wasted by China's veto, can Japeel not be depressed?

He is not worried about Japan's reaction, and China's veto will not only deepen the contradictions between China and Japan, but also make Japan more dependent on the United States

What really annoyed Japell was that China had taken the attention of the "backyard of the United States".

In the reform plan of the Security Council, Latin America has received four "tickets", and there are two "special tickets", which have greatly increased the right to speak in the UN Security Council, not to mention the "thorn in the head" like Venezuela, Brazil, which has long been interested in becoming a regional power, Argentina, which is bent on regrouping, Mexico, which is developing rapidly, and even Colombia, Peru, Chile and other countries hope to improve their international status and get rid of the control of the United States

With a fire in the backyard, can the United States still sit safely?

After seeing off Ji Youguo, Jabell met with British Prime Minister Ragun, French President Reynaud, German Chancellor Malvern, Italian Prime Minister Bettini, Spanish Prime Minister Gomez, and Canadian Prime Minister Luke, and agreed on the convening of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit at the end of the year

As soon as he returned to his study, Wesley rushed over

"Lin Yanbo's background has been clarified," Wesley put a document in front of Jappel, "I didn't expect that he actually had a cooperative relationship with the CIA"

Jappel's brow jumped a few times

After learning that Ji Youguo went to Lin Yanbo's home to meet with the representatives of Chinese in the United States and talked with Lin Yanbo all night, Japel asked Wesley to check Lin Yanbo's background and find out what Lin Yanbo and Ji Youguo had talked about

"How can he be involved with the CIA?"

"I don't know," Wesley sighed, "a lot of information has been destroyed, and from what I have, it is very likely that Lin Yanbo was a direct participant in the Iran-Contra incident, and had been to Pakistan and Afghanistan before that, but it is certain that he was not a regular employee of the CIA."

Japel let out a sigh of relief, and no one could tell how many secrets the CIA was hiding

"We couldn't get the content of the conversation between the two of us, we just ......" Wesley motioned to the president to turn to the next page of the document, "and we found some other clues"

"Palmer!?" Seeing this name, Japel showed a shocked look, "Lin Yanbo has a relationship with Palmer?" ”

"It's not just that the two have been in contact for more than two decades," Wesley pulled out a form from the file, "This is Palmer's personal account, dozens of which are related to or indirectly related to Lin Yanbo, and Palmer was also a participant in the Iran-Contra affair, and he was active in Iraq at the time, and I speculate that they have been secretly working together."

"Cooperation?" Jappel's expression became even more grim

"Business cooperation" Wesley appeared calm: "Palmer provided business intelligence to Lin Yanbo, and Lin Yanbo paid Palmer high returns, and we have enough reason to believe that Palmer did not sell national intelligence to Lin Yanbo, but Palmer must have used the funds provided by Lin Yanbo to pave the way for promotion"

"You mean, Palmer paid bribes to the top of the CIA?"

"It's not a simple bribe, it's a matter of providing benefits to certain executives through Lin Yanbo and his investment companies."

Japel nodded slightly, indicating that he understood what Wesley meant

According to U.S. law, both the president and the director of the CIA must hand over their assets to economic companies before taking up government positions, and the economic companies will manage several economic companies under Lin Yanbo's name, and provide benefits to the CIA executives through "asset trusteeship", which is not only effective, but also very hidden

"Does Lin Yanbo have anything to do with Palmer's disappearance?"

"It's not certain yet," Wesley shrugged his shoulders, "more in-depth investigation is needed"

"Check out for me as soon as possible, and send someone to closely monitor Lin Yanbo"

"He's already on his way to Los Angeles"

"Los Angeles? What was he doing in Los Angeles? ”

"Lin Yanbo spent his childhood in Los Angeles, and his grandfather was also buried in Los Angeles, probably to worship his ancestors."

Japel nodded, "No matter what, closely monitor Lin Yanbo, and also monitor his assets, if Palmer's sudden disappearance is related to him, I'm afraid he already has a lot of top-secret information from the CIA, and even secretly interacts with China's intelligence agencies."

"I'll arrange it at once," Wesley agreed

As a former deputy director of intelligence, Wesley was not a reckless man, and Jappel's analysis was just speculation without any evidence, and of course, secret surveillance would not have much of a bad effect, and the CIA had been secretly monitoring important expatriates within the United States

After seeing Wesley off, Japell rebrewed a cup of coffee

When dealing with Miles, Jappel knew that Palmer was not missing, but was killed by the killers sent by Miles, and later, he also forgot about it, and now that he thinks about it, Japel realizes that he has overlooked a very crucial issue

Before Palmer was finished, he stole several top-secret materials from the CIA's central database, although he did not enter a separate high-level database that required presidential authorization to enter, but those top-secret materials were also very critical, and then several major intelligence networks deployed by the CIA in China were devastated, and Jabell once suspected that the top-secret information stolen by Palmer fell into the hands of Chinese intelligence agencies, and later, he felt that it was unlikely that "Shirley" was a sworn enemy of Chinese intelligence agencies, and it was impossible for him to defect to China, And the CIA's intelligence network in China has not been wiped out

The question is, who is in the hands of those top secret materials?

"Shirley" has disappeared without a trace after assassinating Palmer, will she be protected by Lin Yanbo? With Lin Yanbo's relationship with Palmer, will he know "Shirley"? If both of these assumptions are true, there is a good chance that the top-secret information stolen by Palmer will fall into the hands of Lin Yanbo

Will Lin Yan Fair use this to cooperate with China?

Japel sighed, feeling that there was no need to think about this question at all

Even if Lin Yanbo knew that Miles sent "Shirley" to assassinate Palmer, he would suspect that the CIA would find out about his relationship with Palmer on this basis, so he felt threatened

Thinking of this, Jappel sighed again

Although Miles and Palmer are both dead, the scourge they caused is far from being eliminated, and if Lin Yanbo had known that the President of the United States authorized the CIA to orchestrate the Humayun Tomb bombing, provoked the Indo-Pakistani war, and had solid evidence, the problem would not be so simple

In any case, Lin Yanbo can't be allowed to tell what he knows!