Chapter 1377 The Role of the Neutral State

After India reported on the dangers of Agent Orange, the Soviet camp immediately reprinted it, and then this storm of public opinion crossed national boundaries and spread throughout the world, including the United States.

The hegemony of public opinion, which is stronger than that of the United Kingdom, was useless in this report on Agent Orange, and it was a shame that the term “hegemony of public opinion” was used, and it was defeated in the field that it was best at.

But on second thought it makes sense, because the outbreak of the matter is the battlefield of Vietnam, in the world of 1970, anti-war has almost become the consensus of all countries, even the United States also appeared in the domestic public opinion of the sharp opposition, can not do airtight public opinion defense, Agent Orange report is like cutting the butter of the knife, the Vietnam War bloody side of the show.

“Neutral country status, that’s how it works.” Britain was now awash in Agent Orange coverage as well, and of course Alan Wilson didn’t buy even a single newspaper that reported it because the accompanying pictures were so disgusting.

He merely took the story for what it was and emphasized the reason for choosing India as the location for the story, because India was a neutral country, even if it was a pro-Soviet neutral country, it was a neutral country. That is the reason why India was chosen as the country to uphold justice this time. A certain big country should never be chosen; the state system of a certain big country is not destined to be trusted.

“You certainly made Washington look bad this time.” Pamela Mountbatten sighed, believing that it must be very hard for Nixon now.

“It must have been mostly more powerful than the germ warfare of the Korean War.” Alan Wilson was also quite smug about the ruthlessness of this strike, using the Korean War’s germ warfare as a comparison.

The impact of the Korean War’s germ warfare in the free world? I can’t say it was completely absent, I guess, I can only say it was about equal to none. In fact, almost all the countries in the free world believe that it was planted by a major power.

This comes down to the issue of national attributes, the system of a certain big country, destined to be the identity of the enemy, you say that the city at the top of the mountain launched bacterial warfare, said that planted is planted.

Even Britain, led by the government of Adderley, considered that to be a propaganda campaign, and the evidence was insufficient to prove anything.

The Agent Orange story was a completely different story, and Allen Wilson chose India as the country to report on, taking a page from the Soviet Union’s maneuvering of public opinion on AIDS, where the Soviet Union set out to attack the U.S. on top of the lab leaks after AIDS appeared, but the Soviets knew that even if they reported on it as their own enemy, it would be considered planted, and the Soviets ultimately chose India to be the one to report on it.

In fact, the attack was so successful that many countries around the world believed that it was the leakage of the virus laboratory in the United States that caused the spread of AIDS. But in fact, declassifications after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed that the Soviet Union didn’t really know where AIDS originated and instinctively chose to use the disease to attack the United States.

There is another reason why the United States was unable to deny the harm of Agent Orange, because there were so many victims and the area of the United States where it was used was so extensive that it was thousands of times more difficult to cover up the Korean War’s germ warfare with public opinion manipulation.

The hegemony of public opinion is useless when hundreds of thousands of victims can be found at a whim. Once this shitpot is attached, the United States can’t even take it off if it wants to.

There was no need for Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon-Walker to respond to the Indian press deriding European countries for being afraid to report on the story; a dedicated response from the Foreign Secretary would seem to be too much of a priority for Britain.

Alan Wilson had the Foreign Office send a protest to New Delhi, “It’s not that Britain won’t report it, Britain didn’t know about it before this, if it had found out it would have reported it, the British media has the determination to defy the powers that be ……”

In the foreign ministry to refute India’s shameless attack on the UK when the UK’s major newspapers also followed the foreign ministry’s pace, a series of India’s accusations to criticize, a time when British public opinion is extremely sublimated, multi-level and multi-dimensional expression of dissatisfaction with India, but this rebuttal is also made real Agent Orange hazards are indeed a reality.

There is the British so scolded, there is the Soviet Union so on India to support justice to express gratitude for the move, North Vietnam also praised India’s sound and color of the great powers to bear.

Facts have once again proved that although India is not a country that can support the status of a world power, but from time to time to take a cold pot, the same can make a lot of countries very embarrassed.

However, this time the main embarrassment is the United States, the British side and India to fight the war of public opinion is only righteousness, to defend the special relationship between Britain and the United States only.

Do not have to subscribe to the American newspaper, Alan Wilson can also guess that the United States is very difficult, and even in and Commonwealth Secretary General John Hunt to discuss the Sterling Area and the imperial preferential system, also expressed sympathy for the United States, if the United States to choose to fight the war in Vietnam once again, may be the United States will still choose to go to war, after all, the interests of the army in that, but certainly will improve a lot.

“As it turns out, the United States is still not willing to risk going to war with China in a land war, which makes it difficult. I have to say a camp with the Soviet Union and China is really hard to deal with.” John Hunt has the sense that when the United States went out with gusto, it certainly couldn’t have imagined the dilemma it is in now.

“What’s even more difficult to deal with is that the Soviet Union and China are in one camp, but their national strengths are reversed.” Alan Wilson corrected John Hunt, “It’s not the hardest time yet.”

A few decades later is not it, Russia can not say that the ability to smash the pot is stronger than a major country in the seventies, but the guts to smash the pot is definitely bigger than a major country, the so-called fighting nation’s nickname is nothing more than a poor and horizontal well.

The Soviet Union is a resourceful industrialized country, Russia is an industrialized powerful resource country, once you find your own position, the old Maoist is still quite a difficult opponent.

The main thing is, the twenty-first century imperialist powers, and the Cold War imperialist powers can not be compared.

Russia is decadent, the European powers except the United States is also decadent, Russia still has the ability to clean up any country except the United States, as for the United States, is in East Asia than the strategic determination.

Of course he also knew that Nixon would soon bow down from reality and give up some unrealistic hostility to buy time for the US to reverse its disadvantage. That’s better than the chanting Democrats. Republicans have always been much more realistic than Democrats, in all eras.

“I think in a couple of years the situation in Malaya will reach a turning point. Maybe we can stop worrying about local independence and give a royal fiefdom status when the time comes.” Alan Wilson was now beginning to think about a future in which the United States couldn’t hold out in Vietnam, which of course was predicated on the assumption that the United States took care of some major power before withdrawing from Vietnam.

John Hunt frowned, “I would certainly like that possibility to become a reality, but how do we arrange the role of Malaya?”

“Throughout the Commonwealth, we and Malaya take responsibility for each other, with the mainland responsible for communicating with Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and Malaya managing the other non-white countries. After all, it is a non-European, non-white place, and it is easier to manage other countries than us.” Alan Wilson envisioned, “In fact, with the economic and industrial comparison between Malaya and neighboring countries now, the trend is already obvious.”

A manufacturing base naturally has extra benefits, in fact, look at the same take a similar route of the three East Asian countries will know, developed manufacturing industry can at least ensure that you can enjoy and Europe and the United States the same hardware facilities, in fact, a certain big country’s hardware facilities are also developed countries level, which is completely different from the equivalent statistics almost up and down the country.

Mexico Turkey statistics are also similar to a large country, but at a glance you can see that these two TV series powerhouse, absolutely no TV series inside so bright and shiny.

In fact, the current Japan has also entered the hardware and Europe and the United States on an equal level, although Alan Wilson borrowed Malaya in the targeted sniping against Japan, and Japan’s overwhelming advantage in terms of the size of the population is not a few of his other people’s fear of my greed operation can be canceled out.

It is only that Japan’s lack of resources is more obvious, the United States to kill and eat meat, more no resistance.

As the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth John Hunt of course, Malaya against Japan also know by heart, opened his mouth to ask, “Secretary-General, you have been very concerned about East Asia.”

“Can’t not pay attention to ah, Pamela is still fighting with Japan in the rice paper lawsuit.” Alan Wilson shrugged his shoulders, the lawsuit between the legal department of the Mountbatten Group and Japan occupied a large proportion.

The UK is joining forces with the EC countries to chase Japanese vessels catching bluefin tuna all over the North Atlantic, as well as launching initiatives co-signing that whales are man’s best friend, pushing for a ban on whale catch initiatives, and so on.

Not to mention that now in the semiconductor, Britain and Japan are also competitors, the British mainland to do high-end, Malaya to do the low-end, together in the automobile, shipbuilding competition, Malaya’s steel is also competing with Japan’s steel industry in the market, borrowing Malaya’s geographic location to prevent Japanese companies to go south to raid Southeast Asia.

“Well, let’s not talk about that.” Alan Wilson said as he lifted his wrist, “Pay more attention to things in South Asia, I have a ball game to watch with the Soviet Embassy people.”

The ripples the Agent Orange reports were making in the U.S. weren’t over, the Vietnamese weren’t the only victims of Agent Orange, many U.S. soldiers in regular contact were equally victimized. After a large number of photos of deformed children were reported by American newspapers, many American soldiers who had participated in the Vietnam War had similarly launched protests because they, who had been frequently exposed to the chemical, had also been physically affected to varying degrees.

Alan Wilson is not at all surprised, the United States in this regard has never been equal, not to change the place is also determined not to change, a few decades later there is also depleted uranium bombs, as many of their own soldiers were hit.

“I talked to the Germans in general, the Germans also agreed, first to finish this matter, and then talk about the cooperation between Britain and Germany in the financial field in the future.” Pamela Mountbatten finally with a relieved expression, told her husband the news, this time Britain and Germany to join forces, the United States can also be said to be rich gold reserves back.