"We must occupy Japan!" Truman, who had just been promoted by the Democratic Party as the vice presidential candidate, confronted Roosevelt and said unabashedly.

"Then there will be no room for redemption between us and Huaxia." There was no fluctuation on Roosevelt's face, just said lightly.

"It is precisely because of China that our actions against Japan must be accelerated!" Truman's impassioned tone remained unchanged as he continued, "Formerly our greatest enemy in Asia was Japan. But now Japan is on the verge of falling, and on the other side of the Pacific is an even larger Chinese empire. ”

He glanced at Roosevelt, who still had no reaction, took out a thick stack of documents from the leather bag he carried, pressed it on the table, and said, "This is the report on China's national situation that we spent two years sorting out." Huaxia is rising too fast, and perhaps some of the numbers need to be adjusted again. However, the information summarized in the report alone is enough to show how terrible China is.

It is a superpower that stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Australian continent in the south, spanning almost all latitudes. The land they occupy has already surpassed Soviet Russia and become the largest power in the world. Coupled with the fact that they are comparable to the population of the whole of Europe, if it weren't for the fact that their overall industrial strength is still at the level of our last century, I am afraid that they are already the most powerful country on the planet. ”

Truman's hand patted on the red cover of the stack of reports and continued: "But their industry is also rapidly rising.

They have no shortage of resources.

Their land stretches from the Arctic Circle to the equator, from coal and oil to iron ore and rubber, from rice and wheat and corn to cotton and wool.

Just think about their horrific population, and you know that they are definitely not short of labor.

While the subsistence allowance in China has increased some of the cost of labor, their other expenses may be as low as the price of a breakfast.

The docility and ability of the Chinese laborers were well understood by us during the large-scale development of the western region. They can even squeeze the Mexicans out of work. In the future, they will even be able to make all of our workers unemployed.

Because the laborers of China today are not just selling their labor as they did when they were building railways. Many of them already have a lot of knowledge and technology.

The Chinese have created another miracle when they established the world's largest compulsory education system.

They are truly compulsory, from kindergarten to high school or higher school, completely free, and even have a free lunch. Although there are still some extremely remote villages that have not been fully affected, at least 95% of school-age children in China have enjoyed 12 years of compulsory education.

You must know that this percentage is based on the fact that Huaxia already has a population of 550 million, which means that it will not be long before that. More than 5 million people with secondary education will emerge in China every year.

They have a sufficient number of advanced machines and equipment. Even now China has enjoyed the benefits of this policy, which began 40 years ago, and every year millions of laborers who have remediated their culture, mastered certain knowledge and technology, and started a large number of machines imported by the Chinese people from Europe and our country.

They do not lack technology, they get everything from Germany, as well as from Europe, and even from us for the development of a country's industry, including some of the latest technologies.

The elite talents who have grown up in the previous decades have been able to partially grasp the latest technology at the forefront of the world.

Even as the number of universities in China grows, more than one-tenth of them will receive a higher level of education, from which hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists will grow. Completely get rid of dependence on the West.

In such a huge industrial country, as long as there is no war and turmoil in their country, they will continue to create astronomical wealth. Push China's industry little by little to the same level as ours, sell their cheap products all over the world, crowd out our markets, make our workers unemployed, and bankrupt our factories. It will even start another large-scale world war for the sake of cheap support from the whole world!

It's hard to imagine how terrible it would be to challenge such giants when they really grow up! ”

Truman had been caught up in the vision of the future that his wise men had reasoned out step by step, and the expression on his face as if the future had come to him. That's exactly the tone. gave the predators of the consortium he had communicated with a sense of crisis and earned their votes of approval.

"So, we need to remove some of the nutrients that this giant needs to grow before he grows up." Truman also pointed to the globe on Roosevelt's desk and pointed to Japan. He looked at Roosevelt eagerly and said, "First of all, we can't let China occupy Japan!" ”

Roosevelt blinked, nodded and motioned for Truman, who was looking over, to continue speaking.

If we are going to help the British and the French and the Dutch from China to get back to Southeast Asia and ,......Australia in the near future," Truman said. Bian glanced meaningfully at a few people in the room.

Although the Americans relied on the Japanese to drive out the British power in Southeast Asia, the last fruits were taken away by China, and if they wanted to regain it, they had to resort to the name of Britain and France.

As for how to distribute the benefits of recapture, I believe that Britain and the Netherlands, which have already declined in the European war, and France, which cannot even take care of their own country, will understand the trade-off.

"We are bound to have a conflict with Huaxia, maybe not too big or small, or maybe the scale will be expanded."

In the consciousness of many people in the United States, in the face of the United States, where the war machine is already running at a high speed, China will retreat in the face of difficulties. The war between the two sides will remain on a small scale. Truman also believed that Huaxia would eventually make some concessions, but what he needed was to suppress Huaxia for a long time, which would undoubtedly require a long-term process.

"So, we need to have a forward base in Asia." Truman pointed out,

"Our army has landed in the Philippines, and if the Chinese don't intervene, we can quickly recover the whole of the Philippines. However, the Philippines can only bring us a part of the tropical resources, but it cannot provide us with sufficient strategic material support. Our discordant relationship with Huaxia may last for a long time. We need to keep a large military presence on the other side of the Pacific for a long time.

All kinds of strategic materials need to be transported across the ocean. Even in the long run, although there is no need to think about food and fresh water, just normal supplies and maintenance and repair work can create a black hole in our finances. ”

Truman, who previously served as chairman of the Senate's Defense Planning Committee, now has a deeper understanding of the relationship between economics and war, as well as logistics. A prolonged war without much revenue would leave Americans with deficits.

"Japan has a large industry that can support our long-term consumption." What Truman did not mention was that in Japan it was possible to replenish the consumption of weapons.

At a time when the arms predators are becoming more and more dominant with the war, even if the consumption of transoceanic transportation is huge, the US government will definitely issue orders to the domestic arms giants.

But just a few other additions are enough to save a lot of money. It was because Truman saved almost $11 billion from the United States in the committee that he was favored by some people and rose rapidly.

"More importantly, although the overall strength of Japan's industry is not very high, it is enough for Huaxia to expand its strength rapidly in a short period of time after obtaining those industrial resources, which poses a greater threat to our next actions in Southeast Asia and Australia. This is simply equivalent to the union of China and Japan! Thinking about that scene, Truman himself felt a little worried.

Although the Americans did not do their best to deal with the Japanese, the Japanese still caused great losses and injuries to the United States.

However, until now, the benefits that the Americans have earned are not proportional to the investment at all after they have been inserted into Huaxia.

This is also a major reason why the United States supports its attack on China.

In the eyes of the vast majority of Americans, China is still the extremely weak country it used to be. Often self-centered Americans are not very familiar with Europe across the Atlantic, let alone on the other side of the ocean. In this era, even the West, with the exception of a few large cities, was a remote area belonging to the Americans.

None of the reports in the United States on the European battlefield are mainstream, let alone China, a country that was once extremely backward. For them, the Huaxia were like the Latin Americans and the Indians, and even with only machine guns and artillery, it was possible to conquer the whole of China.

Of course, the top leaders of the United States, who are often surprised by the changes in China in intelligence, do not think so.

The huge army of Huaxia can already cause great trouble to the Americans, and if the strength of the Japanese is added, it will be a disaster for the Americans.

Of course, in the eyes of the Americans, it is just a trouble and a disaster, not a devastating one.

"If we fight Huaxia now, how much loss can we bear?" Roosevelt, who had already calculated in his heart, nodded and asked indifferently.

"In my report, there are detailed answers!" Truman patted the stack of reports in front of him and said confidently. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )