Chapter 1404 – Ambassador Level Diplomacy

The most suitable person to be upgraded to ambassador to China was actually Supreme Authority himself, however, he had other things to do, and Richard, who was in charge of the affairs of Sughra, was also a suitable candidate.

However, it’s not good to have someone who is too specialized in something that is too understandable, so it’s more appropriate to have someone who seems to know too much to be the ambassador to China. This can avoid too understand the dictatorship, a lot of things encountered will also consult Whitehall’s opinion.

John Mansfield was one of Prime Minister Adderley’s private secretaries when Alan Wilson was permanent undersecretary of the Foreign Office, and has now been recalled from his post as ambassador to the Philippines. Perfectly fitting the criteria of knowing and not knowing too much, he is a good choice for ambassador to China.

In the British civil service, ambassadors abroad are highly ranked, and John Mansfield, who has been promised such a position, can be said to be delighted and looking forward to his next job.

“Looking at the figures they’ve released, it’s not possible to think of your new job as being in the Philippines, and on many industrial indicators they’re already on a par with the UK mainland. Though monetarily it doesn’t indicate this.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to caution.

There was a saying called surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States, in this world although it had become surpassing France and catching up with the United States, the meaning was the same, in terms of heavy industry, a certain large country was already an existence on par with Britain itself. This is absolutely no water data, because a large country is not integrated into the international economic system.

As for the comparison of energy, the United Kingdom is even worse, the United Kingdom is so large, it is impossible to compare with some countries with a large territory.

Relying on nothing more than the old capital of the Sunset Empire, the Daqing oil field can be offset with the North Sea oil, in fact, there was a period of time a large country is to position itself as a resource country, get rich slogan is ten Daqing.

“The world is so unequal, unless it is some extreme zone, such as drinking water is a problem outside the Sahara desert, the large area of the country is really work. What made the Soviet Union so difficult to deal with was the fact that the largest territory in the world had all the resources that existed, inexhaustible.”

John Mansfield nodded, that was exactly what many free world countries recognized as the most difficult thing about the USSR, the one thing the USSR probably lacked the most was tropical goods, and since Indonesia fell to the USSR, that problem didn’t exist, and North Vietnam could take care of some of that aspect as well.

“We respect their size, so you just treat them like another Britain. Communicate with respect. Inform Whitehall of anything.”

Alan Wilson smiled and said, “Détente is the order of the day, look at last year didn’t Brandt go to Warsaw and kneel? Though I don’t understand how the Poles had the good sense to accept it in place of the Jews, but never mentioned that they helped the Germans capture the Jews in their territory in the first place.”

If you look at the statistics, it seems as if Poland suffered pretty heavy losses in WWII, but if you break down the numbers, you can see where this is going, Poland’s three and a half million Jews were left in the tens of thousands after the war, and the number of Jewish deaths in Poland outnumbered the number of deaths in Poland.

Of course Brandt that kneeling, the impact is actually not big, showmanship is also needed to change the international environment, now the United States has just begun to sweat, the mainstream opinion is still the advantage in me, the free world does not need to be eased with the rival camp, Brandt kneeling is not the mainstream opinion, but the two camps are as if they did not see it, and wait until the need for propaganda will be taken out.

Simply put, the FRG was not ready for propaganda as long as it still saw the GDR as part of a complete Germany, when it really recognized the GDR as a different country was when propaganda was necessary.

Bibi rattled on for a while that the general environment was easing, indicating the correctness of our Great Britain’s elevation of the Chargé d’affaires to the rank of Ambassador, and John Mansfield understood it in seconds, while being deeply impressed with the enormity of the task.

“Just in time for dinner, let’s go have a meal together.” Alan Wilson felt empty in his stomach, so he greeted John Mansfield together and went to the cafeteria.

“The Prime Minister is inferior to us in this.” John Mansfield joked and together they went out for lunch with Alan Wilson.

“The Prime Minister has the money to hire a chef, that’s not a big deal.” Alan Wilson replied with a smile, Harold Wilson’s book on the Labor government made a lot of money, of course, that was what Alan Wilson had Xiangjiang and Malaya amortized, but it could not be denied that the Prime Minister made a lot of money to maintain his expenses.

The dining room already had a number of Whitehall pillars enjoying lunch, seeing the supreme authority come have nodded in greeting, Alan Wilson smiled in response, and John Mansfield found a room with a TV to enter, at this time on the TV, was playing Vivienne’s call for fundraising for the children of Bengal in the civil war news images.

“Our British national treasures have to grow old one day.” John Mansfield listened quietly for a while and gave his own assessment, he and Fei Wenli were of the same age, and it could be said that Fei Wenli was the dream girl of all British males in John Mansfield’s time.

John Mansfield this kind of smashing speech, let Allen Wilson face changed, written all over the content of none of your business, I don’t even dislike others old, not salty opening, “natural law, there is nothing to say, in fact, we are not young.”

“That’s true, Secretary General.” Although John Mansfield did not perceive the seriousness of the matter, he could also feel that the supreme authority was very reluctant to talk about the age issue, and changed the topic, “But a smaller star, who can still get the public’s support like her, Hepburn or Taylor?”

“Both.” Alan Wilson didn’t realize that John Mansfield was still a pretty gossipy civil servant, how come he always mentioned himself and his wife as ladies of equal status? Wasn’t it a discovery?

John Mansfield did not realize that he almost lost his position as ambassador to China because of this, and a little longer, Alan Wilson would have put the idea of I advise you to mind your own business into action.

After lunch, he took John Mansfield’s file to 10 Downing Street, and while he had that power to make the appointment, the chargé d’affaires upgrade of the ambassador still required the Prime Minister’s approval.

“In principle, we’d be better off not putting things off for next year. It’s just that an act of promotion doesn’t take much time to think about, and my colleagues at the Foreign Office think it would be best to do it before New Year’s Day.” Alan Wilson elaborated that since he was jumping ship, he should not drag his feet, it’s not like the UK and Fraud Island have any friendship, it’s the US and not the UK that has a stake.

“Once the diplomatic relations are fully upgraded, the economic and trade between the two countries will surely see explosive growth, and colleagues at the Ministry of Finance believe that it can be raised to three hundred million pounds within three years. The figures are still quite optimistic.” Alan Wilson spoke eloquently, showing the complementary nature of China and Britain in traders.

In fact, Japan and South Korea are lucky to some extent, in the two countries’ industrial upgrading, next to a large country just opened up into a human cost depression, sharing a lot of social pressure in Japan and South Korea. Relying on their own is not complete industrial upgrading, but also need a good international environment.

Take Japan for example, Japan’s investment in Asian countries are settled in Japanese yen, which after the Plaza agreement to reduce Japan’s financial pressure. After the Plaza Accord, a major country just happened to be the peak era of Japanese goods.

In terms of distance, Britain is unlikely to share the dividends in a certain big country, Xiangjiang is indeed too small, but now there is Malaya pinched in the hands of the British in Asia’s basic disk at least not too much worse than Japan and South Korea.

The UK is no more pushy than Japan? Sterling is not more liquid than the yen? Accept that the yen can buy nothing but Japanese goods, accept that the pound can at least currently hold up its chest in a number of places.

“Patrick, doesn’t that make sense to you?” Harold Wilson asked the Foreign Secretary for his opinion in order to show his democratic side.

Foreign Secretary Patrick thought to himself, “Who are you asking? Didn’t the authority on Orientalism just finish? It has to be said that Alan Wilson’s people set up very steadily, Patrick, although his brain was empty, but with a chest of mature doings answered, “Indeed, the Foreign Office’s opinion on this issue is almost unanimous.”

“The Foreign Secretary’s views are never so precise.” Alan Wilson nodded with a smile and continued, “We can conclude that the expansion of economic and trade relations will energize Britain’s economy.”

Expansion of economic and trade relations is definitely favorable, in the beginning of the entry of international trade, it was really a pure deficit country, lasting for more than ten years. The biggest beneficiary is the nearest Japan, the small Japan wolf ambition, return to the United Nations is still opposed, my Great Britain is far away from the miles, more suitable for distance produces beauty.

From the industrial chain competition, the threat of the future that is later, Japan is now on the United Kingdom to form a competition, grabbed in front of Japan to make a layout, can drive this and that.

Turning his head Alan Wilson took the appointment letter and handed it to John Mansfield, “Go and take office, within a week the government will issue a statement to upgrade diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level.”

November 1, the United Kingdom issued a diplomatic communiqué, and a large country to establish diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, the content of the communiqué can not be detailed, anyway, that’s it.

At this time in the UK, the next hot topic in the major newspapers was the increasingly intense civil war in Pakistan and the impact of the return to the United Nations in a sense by Alan Wilson as a timeline, he remembers that the Indo-Pakistani war formally broke out shortly after the return to the United Nations, and after the vote, then began to shape public opinion in a substantial way.

Images of widespread human rights abuses in the Pakistani civil war appeared in British reports, and a documentary produced by Vivien Leigh began to enter major British theaters. Maybe James Bond will have a movie set in the Indo-Pakistani war in the future.