Chapter 1273 – Tokyo Olympics

“On the Americas side of things, we still have to follow the advice of the Americans and mainly take a softer approach to things, and ours can release some positive signals when necessary.”

In reality what value does the Isle of Man have? To the extent that it can’t be said to be completely devoid of it, it really doesn’t have much value either.

Although the latter said a certain amount of natural resource reserves, but not have the value of mining are not known. Just as Russian natural gas is a boon to European industry, American natural gas can only raise the cost of European industry, and what if it is not cost-effective to extract it?

The war on the Isle of Man was just a diversion for two leaders who were under pressure from public opinion at home. Margaret Thatcher was re-elected several times, but when she carried out her privatization, she faced a wave of protests no smaller than in the United States in the seventies, and countless Britons celebrated until the news of her death came.

From this perspective, the Isle of Man should be retained for now, and left to dry by means of a dispute settlement, which might come in handy later on.

The means of operation is not difficult for the British, first of all, to create the idea that Britain will not use force with Argentina because of the island of Ma, when the vast majority of Argentines are so recognized. The first step was to create the idea that Britain would not use force against Argentina because of the island, and when the vast majority of Argentines realized this, Argentine patriots would be required to hold the flag and express their patriotism, and Alan Wilson would naturally steer the British public opinion to continue to be permissive.

It’s still a lot of steps to say, but it’s really not that hard, and if there’s no Argentine patriot, he can hire a hothead out of his own pocket. As for just beginning to control native opinion it was also simple enough.

At the same time that the two men were discussing the cold handling of the question of the Isle of Man, Frank, the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Treasury, pushed his way through the door, “Sir, you called for me?”

“Oh, Frank, we are all colleagues, don’t address so strangely.” Alan Wilson smiled and pointed to another chair, waited until the other party sat down and then inquired, “Regarding the president of the Royal Interplanetary Association and the chairman of the Semiconductor Association, Mr. Turing, the issue of the financial subsidy required. The Ministry of Finance needs to come up with an attitude, and move forward with professionalism. Is there a problem?”

“Subsidies are something that the Ministry of Finance has never really appreciated. Of course the Secretary General’s concerned about this, we’ll push it through.” Frank leaned back tactically, “I’ll convince my colleagues.”

“Ground rules at the Treasury, be honest if you’re incompetent, be clever if you want to play tricks.” Alan Wilson smiled slightly to himself, “Isn’t that right?”

“It’s like treating workers, they should never be allowed to do whatever they want, otherwise it’s not good for the country.” Frank said this with a twist of words, “But since it’s Your Highness’ husband who is benefiting society, we take this to believe that the financial subsidies for semiconductors and the funding for the Galileo program? Neither will be a problem.”

“It’s reassuring that the Ministry of Finance has this attitude.” Alan Wilson scratched his scalp and seemed to have put down the boulder in his heart, “The international situation is unstable this year, we can be careful. Safeguarding our interests overseas and making the right decisions is tough, no doubt about it.”

“Industrial competition in Japan? By the way, with the Tokyo Olympics starting next month, the Secretary General’s wife should be quite busy right now.” Frank had a point, another opportunity for Newfoundland to make a killing, and behind the revelry of Newfoundlanders, there were other beneficiaries as well, “By the way, where’s the wife been the last few days? I haven’t heard the Secretary General mention it.”

“To Lisbon, and Japan? Hmph!” Alan Wilson said with disdain, “Apart from the tens of millions of so-called demographic dividends, Japan has nothing worth taking seriously. They think they can puff out their chests by rising economically? Then let’s just wait and see. South Korea’s President Park Chung-hee, though, is supposed to be a tough guy.”

In Alan Wilson’s past life, growing up was a constant downward spiral for Japan. In fact with a little bit of harshness from the U.S., Japan would not have reached the status it had in his last life.

Geographically, Cold War Japan lost its original market and source of raw materials, which was a major power. And Japan later adopted a southward strategy, the so-called geese strategy.

Just look at how far Japan itself is from Southeast Asia to see if this strategy is reliable. In the Far East, China, the Soviet Union and North Korea are all hostile camps, and South Korea, which is right next to Japan, is not as good as Japan in terms of basic conditions.

If Japan’s geese strategy crashed into the center of Malaya’s bloom, Malaya in addition to demographic disadvantage, the vast majority of areas are advantageous. There was no Malaya in the original history, but there is now ……

The colony was tailor made for Japan and Korea and a rebalancing of the Asia Pacific in a sense.

With him as the supreme authority, the climb of Japan and South Korea will certainly be full of thorns, but Alan Wilson still thinks it is a good thing, isn’t there a saying? Eat the bitterness of the pain to be a man of the world.

As long as Park Chung-hee dares to send troops, the blood of Koreans in exchange for support, the United States will certainly favor a favor to South Korea.

The so-called overseas there is also a Japanese rhetoric, just listen to it on the line, the person who said this may not realize that a certain big country’s overseas investment is initially estimated to be eight trillion to ten trillion dollars, and that’s not even just a Japan.

Originally used on Russia to freeze foreign exchange, confiscation of assets of the trick, not at all for the preparation of Russia, Russia’s several hundred billion dollars in size of the property can be solved what problem, simply not enough for the United States to fill the hole.

Who would count the overseas investment on their own, from the Second World War after the United Kingdom has been the largest exporter of capital for several decades in a row, so if you calculate, Britain is not powerful to immeasurable?

But the fact is, recently the British public opinion is completely followed by the United States public opinion, although this has the reason of the female president to plug the pound, but people see the fact is that the British public opinion along with the United States dance, the United States of America war a little louder, the British media on the United States of America invincible, the United States said that we need to be calm and cool, the British media on the outside is full of the Vietcong.

At least in public opinion, the United Kingdom now do to the United States bowed to the ear, but did not forget to hurry up the development of semiconductors and Galileo program, two projects are and the French cooperation.

It is also taking the opportunity of Indonesia’s color change to build aircraft carriers for Australia to get on board new aircraft carriers, which is also to enhance its own value as a unifier. Don’t let the time come when the US is weak because of the Vietnam War, and then hit the idea on the UK, it’s not like there is no such thing as a good bully, Latin America, Japan that’s not all.

In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance after the departure of the two senior officials, the Ministry of Defense permanent undersecretary Makins also came, the cabinet secretary general’s day is so simple and boring.

Makins naturally came this time to explain that the first steel plate was cut for the new aircraft carrier customized for the Australian Navy, and the two of them chatted for half a day on this matter, “Alan, actually, there has always been a controversy in the Ministry of Defense as to whether the shipborne aircraft is more worthy of being relied upon, or the anti-ship missiles.”

“Uh?” Alan Wilson opened his mouth, this is really a tough question, after thinking about it, “For the UK, it should be the carrier battle group that is more important.”

The U.S. and the Soviet Union also had completely different ideas for naval confrontation, the Soviet Union’s idea of building a military was the Arsenal idea, and the U.S. was the traditional Carrier Battle Group idea. Just because the Soviet Union was the loser of the Cold War when it didn’t disintegrate doesn’t make it counter-intuitive that the Soviet Union’s arsenal ship mentality was wrong.

It’s taking those old Russian battleships and dismissing the Soviet Red Navy’s newer warships of the era.

The USSR had increased the range of its anti-ship missiles to between five hundred and fifty and seven hundred and fifty kilometers through several generations of anti-ship missiles.

What is the combat radius of the American Super Hornet fighter? Seven hundred kilometers! The combat radius of ship-based aircraft is far worse than that of land-based fighters. The U.S. Navy in the face of the Soviet Red Navy in the seventies, simply can not do you can not hit me I can hit you, before the development of Aegis.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arsenal school seems to have been a flop, and the advanced productivity carrier battle groups represented by the United States seem to have reigned supreme.

But several countries test hypersonic missiles one after another, especially a major country to move the anti-ship ballistic missiles on the warship named destroyer but defined by NATO as a cruiser, all of a sudden the anti-ship missile range increased to more than a thousand kilometers, proving that this debate is not over, f35 shipboard type, the combat radius is also just over a thousand kilometers.

So how does Makins ask such a question for Alan Wilson to answer? How does he know which of the two schools of thought is more valid, it’s much easier to boost the range of a missile, it’s not like the missile has to think about return range.

The difficulty with anti-ship missiles was not knowing where the enemy was, after all, over five hundred kilometers, it was harder to spot enemy warships than to increase range.

“For Britain, carrier battle groups matter.” Alan Wilson waited until Makins was gone and recalled what he had just said, there was no problem, did he replace all the platforms that had been built so easily, how much money would that cost? Do not say that Britain can not afford to change, the United States can not afford to change.

Pamela Mountbatten went to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, in person at the completion ceremony of the Land Rover production line, and Salazar together with the new Portugal’s speech, sang the praises of the British and Portuguese as early as the Spanish Invincible Armada period of the establishment of the alliance.

Portugal reported great enthusiasm for the completion of the Land Rover production line, the poorest country in Western Europe, finally waiting for the conscience of the British ally.

Land Rover production line settled in Portugal, demonstrated that Britain’s ability to deal with weak me heavy handed is still there, the Portuguese people rejoiced, but in the international arena this is not considered a major event, into October, the Tokyo Olympics opened, this is also the day that the residents of Newfoundland eagerly awaited.

On that day, Emperor Showa was on hand to declare the 18th Olympics open. The 75,000-seat National Stadium was filled to capacity, and the Self-Defense Forces flew jets to depict the five Olympic rings in the sky.

The crowd rose in silence as Yoshinori Sakai, a 19-year-old Japanese university student born on the outskirts of Hiroshima on the day the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the island, trotted into the stadium carrying the Olympic torch. It was the first time an Asian country had hosted the Olympics, and it was not only an event for Asia, but for Japan.

“How smug might the Japanese be?” Pamela Mountbatten, who was watching TV with her husband at home, teasingly said to her husband, “Can you borrow Malaya to contain Japan?”

“Then who knows, just like I don’t know if Japan will eat another nuclear bomb in the future.” Alan Wilson laughed out loud, “We’ll see!”