Chapter 582: Joint Anti-Submarine Exercises

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In fact, even the number of aircraft carriers in the existing fleet of the Japanese Navy exceeds that of all other countries combined. At this time, the British Royal Navy had lost all fleet aircraft carriers in the European War, the United States Navy had 6 fleet aircraft carriers that could be warned, while Germany only had two ships even if it had not yet been finally completed and put into service, China only had one captured aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, and the total number of countries was only 9, and Japan, even if not counting the two Yamato-class giant aircraft carriers that were about to be completed, had a total of 10 ships. Before you know it, the Japanese naval aviation has become the undisputed number one shijie.

However, even with such a powerful navy, Chongren and the Japanese government have always tried hard to hide their true strength, and even endured humiliation and humiliation in the face of the unreasonable demands of the Americans, and never jumped out first to take the lead and fight the United States until they had no choice

On the contrary to Japan, the newly-born Red China has become more and more confident because of its foreign victories since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, but the decision-makers of the Red Party, including Hu Weidong, also know the terrible United States, and they do not really want to meet with this number one industrial country in their hearts, not to mention that China is now in urgent need of a peaceful environment to accelerate the industrialization of the country, so the Red Party leaders are still inclined to negotiate peace with Britain, and from this point of view, the intervention of the United States has given the warring parties a chance to step down.

However, in order to maintain the image of the Red Party as a hardline to the outside world, Hu Weidong, who was in charge of the peace talks, only verbally promised the US representatives that he could temporarily stop the offensive within a week. In the name of repair, he asked the troops on the front line to suspend Jihua, who had been pursuing the victory, but he still maintained a tough attitude in public.

As a China expert, Roosevelt was very familiar with the characteristics of the Chinese who want to save face; anyway, the Americans attach importance to reality, and as long as the Chinese make concessions in the negotiations that satisfy the US and British governments, it is still okay to give the Chinese this little face. To Roosevelt's displeasure, however, Hu Weidong made it clear that he wanted both face and guilt, and the terms he proposed for an armistice were that the British government would pay reparations and at the same time recognize each other's areas of actual control as their inherent territory, which meant that China demanded vast lands over the entire Indochina Peninsula and northeastern India (including present-day East Bengal).

Although Roosevelt also knew that "the price is sky-high, and the money is paid back on the ground." But from the initial demands made by the Chinese, he can still roughly guess the bottom line of their negotiations. That is, at least the Chinese in Indochina are not ready to spit out. This would undoubtedly cause great damage to American interests in the South Seas, which Roosevelt could not tolerate, not to mention that Churchill confessed to him that the British government only agreed to persuade the Free French to recognize China's annexation of French Indochina, and acquiesced in China's occupation of Siam, but it was originally a British colony. The British government was only willing to abandon Hong Kong, which had been recovered shortly after the PLA had advanced into Indochina. However, Myanmar, the barrier to the east of India, and Malaya, which is extremely geographically important, are resolutely refused. In addition, the British government also demanded that the Chinese side disclose the secret weapons that had been used on a large scale not long ago and caused heavy casualties to the British army, and promised not to use them again. This is also obviously unacceptable to the Chinese government. With such a big gap between the conditions between the two sides, how can this negotiation continue?

Although he jumped out to be a peacemaker, he was in the middle of the two countries. The U.S. government is definitely more biased towards Britain, so Roosevelt still decided to put pressure on China, but Hu Weidong was not frightened, and immediately called the central government, asking the Navy to hold a "joint anti-submarine exercise" with the German Far East Fleet (in fact, at this time, it was also a warship of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier), although China could not join the Axis powers, but it was still possible to make a gesture to scare the allies, and Hu Weidong had long been dissatisfied with the British submarines that recklessly entered China's territorial waters to attack Chinese ships, and he really wanted to take the opportunity to clean up

It must be noted that in this time and space, the Chinese government's air force is much stronger than in history, and can help the navy defend a larger sea area, so at the instigation of Hu Weidong, the central government has set the territorial sea range to a maximum of 200 nautical miles (the same as Brazil and other countries), and if there is an intersection with the territorial waters of other countries, the median line (the median line is taken according to the territorial sea range of others, for example, the territorial sea range of Japan is 12 nautical miles, if our 200 nautical miles range does not touch their 12 nautical miles, then 200 nautical miles are ours, If there is an intersection, the overlapping area is divided in half) as a demarcation.

However, although this could settle the maritime dispute once and for all many years later, China did not have enough naval strength at this time, and it was impossible for aircraft to cruise in the sky all the time, so warships of various countries would still cross the line from time to time, much to the anger of the Chinese party and government.

Among them, Germany and the Soviet Union are considered "friendly countries", so naturally it does not matter; France (whichever France it is), Italy, and other countries did not have the spare power to send warships to the Far East; Although the new Japanese government has been trying to reconcile with China, although it is somewhat dissatisfied with the scope of China's 200-nautical-mile territorial waters, it is still acceptable because the far sea only has two economic values, fishing and shipping, which are far less important than those of later generations (Note 1), and Japan now adheres to the national policy of taoguang and obscurity, so very few warships cross the line. Therefore, it is the United Kingdom and the United States that actually violate the ban

Note 1: Japan's shipping will not be affected by the signing of a navigation agreement between the two countries, and in terms of fisheries, Japanese fishermen on the high seas will not be able to compete with us, so it will not have much impact after becoming China's territorial waters, which is the key to the devil's tolerance.

PS: Chinese fishermen have always been fierce, before the liberation was afraid of the enemy's navy did not dare to go deep into the open sea, now the navies of the great powers do not dare to attack China's fishing boats at will, the courage of the Chinese fishermen has become bigger, and the Chinese fishing boats off the coast of this time and space are generally armed like the first 30 years after the liberation of history, the worst also have submachine guns, large fishing boats are even equipped with cannons, and it is strange that Japanese fishermen dare to rob them. These armed fishing boats will definitely stop when they encounter warships, but it is an act of war for warships to attack fishing boats, and even in history, few neighboring countries with fishing conflicts dare to take the initiative to declare war on us, let alone this time and space when China is more powerful; And the conflict between fishing boats is only a private fight between the people, and it does not rise to the national level, and where is there a second country on Shijie that dares to fire cannons to its own civilians (the so-called ban on guns in the United States is simply weak)? Therefore, China's neighbors can only suffer this dumb loss (to be continued......