Chapter 1287 Resource Offensive

The whole of Yemen is over half a million square kilometers, and the place under the administration of the Arabs themselves is North Yemen, while the British colony is South Yemen.

South Yemen occupies two-thirds of the whole Yemen area, but the population is only one-third of the north, it is normal, the British also like the sparsely populated places with low management costs.

The mention of Yemen brings us to British India, as the vicinity of Aden was part of British India, which was much larger than people realize, and the former colony of the Straits of Malaya, which at one time was also under the administration of New Delhi, so it is not surprising that the Indians would want to inherit the British Empire’s turf in Asia, and who wouldn’t be greedy for such a large and extensive territory, from the Persian Gulf to the Straits of Malacca?

For the Free Officers Organization, Alan Wilson is no longer a stranger, if not for this organization led by Nasser, there would not have been the Suez Canal War, although he drove a panoramic map to nip this organization in the bud in Egypt, but after that, Algeria, in Libya proved the vitality of this organization.

Britain really didn’t have the energy to chase this organization all over the Arab world and had to shape public opinion to make the Arab monarchies wary of the organization’s existence.

Then it stigmatized the Free Officers organization by saying that Syria, which had turned into a pro-Soviet state, had supported the emergence of this organization.

Without thinking that this organization also existed in Yemen, after some weighing, Alan Wilson decided to leave him alone, for the reason, of course, that Yemen did not have much value for Britain to continue to pursue.

Arab countries all have some amount of oil and gas, but compared to the emirates of the Persian Gulf, Yemen’s resources do not have the value to keep Britain dead in the water. It has been kept in a high-pressure situation, very much pulling the strings yet no benefits.

In addition to oil and gas, Alan Wilson, who has latter-day memories, also knows that gold mines exist in Yemen.

In Hajjah, Hadramawt, Sa’ada, Jawf, Abyan and other provinces and Sana’a region in many places to find a large number of gold deposits. Of these, in the province of Hajjah there can be up to 40 million tons of gold ore, with 65 grams of gold per ton of ore; in the valley of Madn in the province of Hadramawt there are about 678,000 tons of gold ore, with a content of about 15 grams of gold per ton; in the western plains gold ore has been found containing 12 to 32 grams of gold per ton; and in the region of Sana’a it is from 3 to 5 grams.

The reason is the same as in the previous article, that these gold mines are not of bad quality, but they are not worth the investment when compared with the gold mines on the Gold Coast, in Australia, or even on the island of New Guinea, which Pamela Mountbatten has just begun to explore.

Before these Yemeni representatives come, Allen Wilson will take these now undiscovered minerals and create a very passable classified document and give it to these independent leaders. Let these Yemenis know that Yemen is not without anything and that it is possible to develop it properly. After all, in this day and age, Yemen did not have a serious population problem.

It can be said that Allen Wilson was very sincere in returning this colony with its oil and gas and gold mines, intact, to the hands of Yemen.

The point is that the British colonial legacy is too rich, and with him, the Cabinet Secretary who opens panoramic maps, has extracted the most valuable parts of the British colony, he even extracted the Brazilian iron ore, only to have Pamela Mountbatten share a portion of it with the Americans again.

“Inform the public of one thing, and that is that Britain is going to witness the independence of Yemen in its entirety, and that there will never be any idea of partition, and that British India is just an accident. That is not a British tradition. One can recall history, it’s actually obvious how many places we’ve amalgamated over two hundred years.” Alan Wilson informed Brexit to be mindful of public opinion.

Some well-fed foreigners were always pointing fingers at the British process of giving independence to the colonies and insisting that there was some kind of conspiracy. Had it not been for Ali Jinnah’s threat to Britain of civil war without partition, Britain would have wanted British India to be preserved intact and independent.

India lost the entire Indus Valley and the Ganges Delta, the equivalent of the Yellow River Valley and the mouth of the Yangtze River for a major country, and it’s not Britain’s fault, who turned Ari Jinnah from an Indianist, to a separatist? Not the British anyway.

This Yemeni independence will be an opportunity for Britain to self-justify, he thinks the Arabs have nothing to say, does he expect Britain to merge out the Arab empire and then applaud and celebrate?

Prime Minister Aidan is also eagerly awaiting the opening of the round table, as a momentary slip of the tongue in the House of Commons about nuclear submarines being comparable to those of the United States has been rather annoying to the Prime Minister lately, especially with the accusations from the Labor Party.

Before the Yemeni delegation arrived in London, Lin Lianyu, a local Malayan Chinese educator, first came to London, and Alan Wilson private meeting, the public name is to examine the British educational powerhouse of the heritage, but also to continue to learn to learn, in fact, is to inform the situation in Hong Kong.

Because the prologue of the Vietnam War has been opened, the inevitable Xiangjiang by a certain impact, for example, some prohibited products can not be like the previous as a bright and open exchange. This can not be helped, the face of the United States is to be given, normal trade did not end.

“We express our gratitude for the completion and supply of the East Deep Water Supply Project. Xiangjiang being a British colony is only temporary, sooner or later it will return to you.” Alan Wilson spoke directly after meeting Lin Lianyu, “The interests of Britain and the United States are not exactly the same, we also want to make decisions that are completely in line with Britain’s interests, and the current status quo of Xiangjiang needs to be maintained by both of our countries.”

“Lord Zhongtang, the other side also understands Britain’s plight.” Lin Lianyu hesitated for a moment and informed the outcome of this communication, a certain great power expressed understanding.

“Diplomacy is basically from a position of strength, when Britain’s diplomatic success was dependent on Britain’s national strength, now the reason why there is more consideration is that Britain’s national strength is not as good as before. In fact, Washington wants Britain to close the Hong Kong port completely, and we have refused because Britain still has the strength to say no. With the water supply issue, let Washington not push too hard.” Alan Wilson also explained Britain’s difficulties.

It was true that Britain had partially returned to the Britain before World War II, but the United States was no longer the United States before World War II.

Even if Britain can still maintain the framework of the world’s great powers, it must be recognized that the United States is the one that is the strongest, and can maintain normal imports and exports have already done their best, completely unaffected by the Vietnam War is impossible.

The UK is still losing money, and it probably won’t look so good on overseas earnings if it doesn’t work harder elsewhere this year.

Maintaining relations, there is another important reason, that is, China and France have established diplomatic relations, and this is also an explanation that the UK has given to Washington, the UK maintains a certain level of communication, the United States can know, but if France does so, the United States does not necessarily know.

“As I said, I still hope that Southeast Asia, especially Malaya, can maintain stability.” Lin Lianyu said this and continued, “Doesn’t Lord Zhongtang know all about it.”

“Don’t talk nonsense, I don’t know anything.” Alan Wilson shook his head in denial, “Regarding the Vietnam War, I will only say one thing, don’t underestimate America’s strategic determination. As far as I know up to the beginning of the present, the U.S. military’s strategy is based on defensive counterattacks, and has yet to launch a single ground battle.”

Strategic stamina this thing the United States also have, Washington is not Slavic group of diodes, either a strong Hui, Hui can not go on, the resistance to increase the iron rod to thicken.

“In the final analysis, your country’s balls are cupped in the hands of the Americans, not in the hands of Britain, and even if you change your tune temporarily and say that Malaya is an integral part of you since time immemorial, London doesn’t care about putting a nuclear bomb in the center of Kuala Lumpur.”

Alan Wilson sighed, “We judge that the US is not going to win this one well, but one thing hasn’t changed, the US can hit your doorstep at any time, not the other way around. With the geographical location of the United States, as long as it can guarantee the safety of the mainland, even if you use Changgong’s island as a nuclear test site, there is nothing you can do about it. The path before your country is for you to be able to crush America’s most powerful maritime force before you can truly stand up and behave yourselves. Simply watching the Americans laugh at your doorstep is useless.”

Words are somewhat unacceptable, but this is also the truth, detonation of the fraudulent island can not achieve the purpose, the United States still have Japan in hand, if the detonation of Japan also can not stop the rise of a major power?

We, the United States, have long realized that Japan **** has not been eliminated cleanly, and it is time for the Sino-American alliance to begin again.

Anyway, the latter has not even touched the first cordon, let alone let the U.S. detonate Japan, land forces are strong useless, such as the sea and land are strong, the U.S. feel that the loss is not worth the gain in order to coexist peacefully.

The Malayan colonies are making their own preparations for the Vietnam War as well, Richard is building the Clarke Line, a defense line along the junction portion of the Clarke Isthmus to prevent the spillover of the effects of the war in the Central and Southern Peninsulas. As for East Malaysia there was nothing to worry about unless the enemy could swim over.

The independent leaders who came to London this time belonged to seven different forces, including representatives of the Free Officers’ Organization and six emirates. The six emirates are all tribal leaders within the territory of South Yemen, and as for the royal family of North Yemen, they have fled to the territory of Saudi Arabia, where they have been taken in by the Saudi royal family.

This is the situation in the whole of Yemen nowadays, the Houthis of the latter days are actually in North Yemen, but now North Yemen is controlled by the Free Officers Organization. This change, for sure, does not make the Saudis very happy, but the Saudis in this day and age have little influence and certainly cannot organize a coalition of peace cults to act as Sunni bigots.

Under the complicated gaze of the Saudis, this Yemeni Independence Roundtable opened in London, and with Prime Minister Aidan taking it so seriously, Alan Wilson set about fulfilling his duties as Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office by personally stepping in to talk to these people to see if they could find a way to get the best of both worlds.

In order to show sincerity, Allen Wilson first threw out a resource offensive, taking Yemen’s discovery of oil and gas and gold documents, which have real and fake began to guide the meeting towards.