readx; Chen Jingyun wants to expand his military power and influence in the Middle East, then it is inevitable that he will clash with Britain and Soviet Russia, after all, in the Middle East, it has always been Britain's traditional sphere of influence, although China's influence on Iran's side is gradually increasing, Iran has also repeatedly carried out commercial and economic cooperation with China and purchased large quantities of weapons and equipment from China. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But Iran is still a reading country after all, not a vassal state of China, and there is no military alliance treaty between China and Iran, and Iran is not an ally of China.

By 1942, China had signed formal treaties with China, and most of the countries that concluded military alliances were Asian countries: the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Vietnam, the Kingdom of Annam, the Republic of Cochin, the Republic of Cambodia, the Kingdom of Laos, and Thailand. In addition to these seven Asian countries, Finland is also in the Nordic region with a military alliance with China.

It is also worth noting that China's relations with Finland are much more equal than China's relations with other Asian countries.

The treaties signed by China and the seven Asian countries are also different, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they all have a mutual defense treaty with China, and the command of each [***] thing belongs to the joint command of the two countries, and this command is dominated by Chinese generals.

In other words, these countries, including Thailand, which has hundreds of thousands of troops, do not have military command, and their military command is in the hands of China.

To put it bluntly, China controls their military command, and even diplomatically. As for internal affairs, on the premise of not harming China's interests, it is their own business to toss how they like to toss.

In addition, there is a quasi-alliance with China in Asia, but now it has received strong opposition from the British side, and the Republic of Myanmar is currently engaged in a small war with the British, and China has not signed any formal military alliance treaty with Myanmar in order to avoid further irritating the British, but the British will not be able to control the purchase of weapons in private.

At the same time, the relationship between China and Ben is also very close, and the two countries have very frequent commercial and economic activities, and even the largest trading countries between each other, but the two countries have also not signed any military alliance treaties.

After turning around like this, we will find that China actually has no allies in Asia. Burma and the DPRK can only be regarded as a friendly country, and Thailand, North Korea and the like are allies on the surface, but in fact they are subject countries.

Finland was the only country in the Nordic region that really had a normal ally with China, and because of its geographical location and the strategic needs of jointly dealing with Soviet Russia, China and Finland were in a highly cooperative relationship in the late thirties, 1940 and even until the first half of 1941, and even signed a mutual defense treaty in 1940.

However, after Germany attacked Soviet Russia in 1941, Finland once again went to war with Soviet Russia in order to recover the territory ceded to Soviet Russia in 1940. However, they stated on several occasions that their relationship with Germany was not a military alliance, but only a relationship of joint combat.

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, due to the unauthorized attack of the Russian Republic on Soviet Russia, China's policy toward the Soviet Union changed greatly, from the previous hostile confrontation to a supportive attitude, so that the relationship between Finland and China also appeared a freezing point.

However, the Finns also knew that they would take it when they saw it, and after recovering the territory that they were forced to cede in 1940 in the early days of the attack on Soviet Russia, they took the initiative to stop the offensive and repeatedly refused the German army's request for joint operations.

In addition, in the second half of 1941, the situation in Soviet Russia was worse than history, and in order to avoid annihilation, Stalin could give Chen Jingyun the whole of Central Asia and Siberia and the Far East, so it is not surprising that Stalin spit out the Finnish territories annexed in 1940 in exchange for Finland's withdrawal from the war.

Of course, there is also a Chinese factor here, because China does not want Finland to fall completely to Germany, and China does not want Finland to fall like this, or to decline after the war, and China needs an ally in Northern Europe that is not strong but has some strength.

The existence of many factors made Finland attack Soviet Russia a few months later, in October 1941, that is, shortly after China and Soviet Russia signed a secret treaty, and Soviet Russia also signed an armistice agreement, Finland recovered the territory ceded in 1940, and then the two sides ceased war, and at the same time Finland promised not to let the German army use Finland's territorial waters, airspace, and territory to attack Soviet Russia.

If Finland is currently China's military ally, and North Korea and Thailand are vassal states of China, then Iran's relationship with China is even more special.

On the one hand, Iran and China have close commercial and military cooperation, the Iranian army is equipped with a large number of Chinese standard weapons, the Iranian domestic market is full of Chinese republican products, and a large number of Chinese engineers and military advisers are active in Iran. If we look at it from this perspective alone, then the relationship between China and Iran should be a very close alliance.

But on the other hand, Iran has kept a certain distance from China, the two countries have not signed any military alliance agreement, and even Iran's request for a concession naval military base requested by China several times has been categorically refused.

Moreover, after the outbreak of World War II, Iran became the best channel for Britain and the United States to assist Soviet Russia, and Iran took advantage of this to strengthen its ties with Soviet Russia and Britain. To some extent, Iran is now using the power of Britain and Soviet Russia to resist the massive pressure and infiltration from China.

Such behavior is naturally unacceptable for China, and in Chen Jingyun's view, Iran's current behavior is an extremely dangerous tightrope walking behavior.

Iran in World War II can be said to have the intention of not offending anyone, China wants to build the Sino-Iranian railway, he said yes, the Russians said that they want to send more troops on the border, he said yes, the British said to send military instructors, he also said yes, as for whether these things can be done, then China, Britain and the Soviet Union have to compete by themselves.

Neither Soviet Russia nor Britain wanted China to build the Sino-Iranian railway, but China was determined to build the railway, and even Iran, the landlord, could not solve the contradictions here.

And this is the sorrow of a weak country!

Iran has been trying to maintain its reading autonomy for decades, but it has not been successful, and in the twenties and thirties, in order to get rid of the penetration of Britain and Soviet Russia, Iran took the initiative to lean towards China. And now they find that China has a bigger appetite than they do, and that China wants to control not only Iran, but also Iran as a base for controlling the Persian Gulf and the rest of the Middle East.

And in this way, the Iranians again leaned towards the British.

It is precisely this changing attitude of Iran that has allowed China, Britain and the Soviet Union to fight in Iran for many years.

However, Chen Jingyun's Middle East strategy is not something they can stop, not to mention Iran, and even Britain and Soviet Russia cannot stop Chen Jingyun's determination to implement the Middle East strategy.

However, there is little opposition from foreign countries to China's large-scale entry into the Middle East, and there is also some opposition at home, the biggest of which is the navy.

Originally, many admirals thought that when China ended the Russian campaign and occupied a large territory in Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East, then the strategy of the north would be over, and the next step would be to shift the strategic focus to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, that is, to shift the strategic focus to the navy.

Although it is not known what the Standing Committee members of the State Military Commission are thinking now, many admirals are already planning how to send the Navy to the bottom of the sea and then fight the US Navy in the battle of the century, but now it seems that although the military budget for the 1942 fiscal year has increased, it is far from expanding to the extent that the Navy expects.

In China's military budget for 1942, it was estimated that the total military expenditure would be 60 billion yuan, equivalent to about 30 billion US dollars, which was far inferior to the US military budget in 1942, which was as high as $50 billion. How did the United States come to be the number one country in the world, that's how it came about, it just has more money than others!

Strictly speaking, under the influence of inflation and war, China's war budget expenditure in 1942 was not as much as in 1941, although the campaign against Russia in the last few months of 1941 went smoothly, but the military expenditure was also huge, in 1941 China increased additional military expenditure three times, the initial military budget was only 20 billion yuan, Germany increased the military expansion budget by 20 billion after attacking Soviet Russia, and after attacking Soviet Russia in October 1941, it added 10 billion yuan to the special war expenditure, the total is 50 billion Chinese dollars.

But then again, the military budget at the beginning of the war has never been strictly observed, and although a budget of 60 billion yuan was formulated at the beginning of the year, the amount spent in the end depends on whether there is a war outbreak and whether there are other changes in the world situation.

At present, the 60 billion Chinese dollars do not include the cost of the war, but only the cost of purchasing new equipment, personnel salaries, and purchasing and hoarding some materials. If a war breaks out with other countries, such as Ben or the United States, it is estimated that tens of billions of dollars will be allocated for special war expenses as soon as the war starts.

Of the $60 billion budget, the navy alone accounts for $25 billion, or 41 percent. The reason why the navy occupies so much military spending is mainly due to the fact that in last year's military expenditure allocation, the army squeezed out a large amount of military expenditure due to the Russian war, and the navy did not get a dime of the 10 billion yuan of special war funds allocated for the third time in 1941, which made the navy's top brass very dissatisfied.