Chapter 973: Nanjing Negotiations I
readx; Washington, Secretary of State Edward Jr. frowned, looking at the report sent back by the US ambassador to China, although he had expected that the Chinese side would put forward a series of demands after dropping the nuclear bomb, the ambassador did not expect that China's appetite would be so big, not only the Philippines, but also Saipan, the Sauer Islands and other islands in the Central Pacific that originally belonged to the Central Pacific Ocean, these islands were German during World War I, and after World War I, they were occupied by the name of trusteeship, and most of them were occupied by the United States in World War II. However, when this surrendered, in the formal instrument of surrender to China, it was said that all the colonies were handed over to China for trusteeship, and although this trusteeship agreement was not recognized by the United States and Britain, China insisted on holding this article and demanded that the United States withdraw from its original colony and hand it over to China.www.biquge.info
The secret negotiations between China and the United States in Nanjing, although ostensibly aimed at resolving the issue of the Philippine Civil War, were in fact a comprehensive post-war issue of the distribution of benefits.
Therefore, in the negotiations, in addition to the Philippine issue that was first raised, there are also many other issues, such as the issue of the trusteeship of the former colonies, such as the issue of the reading power of Malaysia, and the reading power of the former Dutch Indonesian archipelago. And the above four points are only in the Pacific direction, in addition to the question of the thorough reading power of Iraq in the Middle East direction.
And, of course, the very important question is the distribution of benefits in Europe.
Of course, when the above demands were made, the Chinese side also said that it could stop trade with Germany, and even declare war on Germany and send troops to Europe to participate in the war if necessary.
In a word, China is now demanding many benefits from Britain and the United States with the two main bargaining chips, nuclear bombs and Germany. If he agreed, Chen Jingyun would not hesitate to push Germany down the abyss, and then carve up Europe with Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.
In any case, China must reap sufficient benefits, even if it is to start a war between China and the United States and a global nuclear war.
In the early stage, China and the United States made a large number of military moves, and the further expansion of the navy was to create a threat to Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, and at the same time, it was also to prepare for a war that could explode.
The thing is very simple, that is, if you can talk about it, you can talk about it, and if you can't talk about it, you can start a war!
This negotiation, disguised as a 'settlement of the Philippine civil war', is in fact a negotiation between China and the United States on the division of interests after the war.
Because in addition to these regional problems, there is also a solution to the problem of post-war international trade settlement, because China does not recognize the dollar-dominated international trade settlement system advocated by Britain and the United States last year, and for the first time put forward its own voice, calling for the establishment of a dual settlement system in which the US dollar and the Chinese dollar are both the base currencies for international trade settlement. Specifically, the U.S. dollar and the Chinese dollar are fixed at a one-to-two exchange rate according to the amount of gold they contain, while the currencies of other countries are directly pegged to the U.S. dollar and the Chinese dollar according to the fluctuating exchange rate.
Basically, this binary settlement system is actually imposing a Chinese dollar on the previous dollar settlement system, otherwise China will not recognize this dollar settlement system at all, and the Asian-Organized Economic Association, which is dominated by China, will not recognize it.
As the world's second largest economy, China is the world's second largest economy, and the Asian Economic Association, which is currently the world's largest and only economic and trade organization, has joined in Asia, except for the areas now controlled by Britain and the United States.
In the Asian Economic Association, the member countries use the Chinese dollar as the international settlement currency, that is to say, the Chinese dollar as a foreign exchange reserve, and at the same time, the tariffs between the member countries will be greatly reduced under the framework of the Asian Economic Association, and since the thirties, the Asian Economic Organization has been led by China and has launched many multilateral tariff negotiations, so that the average tariff between the member countries has dropped from more than 40 percent earlier to about 14 percent today. Countries have benefited a lot, and of course, after the tariffs have been lowered, China has benefited the most.
Why, because China is not only the largest importer in the Asian Economic Association, but also the largest exporter, and has had a huge trade surplus for many years. For example, a large number of grain is imported from Thailand and Vietnam, and rubber, crude oil, and rare metals are imported from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and other countries, and raw silk, textile products, some handicraft products, and a small amount of industrial products are imported from the country.
However, China's exports are some high value-added products, such as high-tech electrical products, automobile products, munitions, industrial equipment, low-tech industrial products such as very common shampoo, soap, laundry detergent, etc., in addition to some chemical products, such as the simplest plastic products, plastic sandals produced in China are very good in Southeast Asia, as well as chemical products such as fertilizers and pesticides.
Of course, China has been exporting a large number of pharmaceutical products since the First World War, and almost all antibiotic drugs in these years have been monopolized by China, to be precise, by China's Tongkui Pharmaceutical and Yangcheng Pharmaceutical. These two companies have developed and produced more than 90 percent of the world's antibiotic drugs, even during the war.
Although it was during the war, international trade between countries was almost completely interrupted, but China's pharmaceutical exports are getting bigger and bigger year by year, not only still a large number of exports to the non-participating countries, but also a large number of exports to the participating countries, the United States, Germany, Britain and even Soviet Russia can all use China's exported drugs, as for the imitation situation, although there is a situation, but everyone claims to be a capitalist country, without the explosion of war between each other, it is impossible to large-scale and blatant imitation, but will take a part of the import. Part of the model of patent licensing is produced by their own country, but in many cases, the price of the drugs they produce is still high, and it is not as cheap as importing directly from China, such as penicillin, which can be produced in addition to China now, but the price of penicillin produced by the United States itself is five times more expensive than that imported from China, so even the United States actually has to import a large amount of penicillin from China.
Moreover, China's medicines are not only extremely important strategic materials, but also humanitarian supplies, even if Germany has been under intensive blockade, it can be transported to Germany through normal channels by humanitarian relief organizations such as the Red Cross.
Although the Second World War was fought tragically, everyone still claimed to be a civilized country, even if it was a cruel and inhumane country in later generations, and during the war, the Red Cross organization was allowed to send food, medicine and other materials to various prisoner of war camps and concentration camps. Of course, there are relatively few examples of mass murder of Jews like Hitler's.
But then again, no one regards Jews as normal people these days, before World War II and even during World War II, all countries were jealous and rejected Jews, and the anti-Semitic wave in Europe is not only in Germany, but in general, and only in the United States, as for China, there is no special affection or hatred for Jews, just as ordinary whites.
In World War II, due to the occupation of a large number of Russian areas, a large number of whites were added to China, and the total number of white people in China is about 2,000 people, most of whom live in Central Asia, Siberia, Belga Province, New Eastern Province and other northern regions, but although China's immigration policy has been further implemented, a large number of Han people have migrated to Central Asia and Siberia, and a large number of white people have also migrated to inland areas.
Even in the military, there are some white people who serve, and more in espionage organizations, such as the military intelligence department, which absorbs a large number of white intelligence officers and sends them widely to the West to collect intelligence.
The large export of pharmaceuticals and industrial products has always put China's imports and exports in a great advantageous position, so although tariffs between the Asian Economic Association are ostensibly equal, they are actually unequal.
Low tariffs have deprived other member states of the most effective tariff protection, making their industrial development almost halt under the onslaught of China's large industrial products, let alone developing, and can only maintain an economic model of exporting large quantities of agricultural products and industrial raw materials to obtain foreign exchange to buy China's industrial products, and then struggling to slowly develop industry in the process.
This was the case in China until the 20s, when China was forced to sell a large amount of industrial raw materials and agricultural products in exchange for industrial equipment from Western countries, and then slowly developed, and it took nearly seventy or eighty years to slowly develop into an industrial country.
In any case, the Asian-Organized Economic Association (AEC), led by China, has become a regional economic system, and if this economic system does not join Britain and the United States, then it means that Britain and the United States and other countries will lose the Asian market.
Therefore, in the face of China's request for a dual settlement system, it is difficult for countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States to refuse.
Naturally, the Sino-US talks in Nanjing, which dealt with the interests of the entire post-war period, aroused the great attention of the US side, and in addition to the expected opening of the Chinese lion's mouth, the talks also revealed an extremely important message.
That is, China does not say that it must go to all-out war with the United States, but can resolve the huge dispute between the two countries through peaceful negotiations.