Chapter 1478 Good Britain

Britain can’t turn out of thin air to match the oil resources of the Persian Gulf, the oil that can be exported is of course only a small amount, whether it’s North Sea oil or or Malaya including Brunei, the big head must be supplied for their own use, creating cards out of thin air is not possible, but it is possible to carry out supply chain optimization.

In the case of the United Kingdom hands pinch a portion of the oil, and is not sanctioned by the Arab world, to carry out supply chain optimization is not without room to help the free world suffering from sanctions.

Wouldn’t it be enough to import oil from the Persian Gulf for its own use and supply Europe and Japan and South Korea with oil from the North and South China Seas respectively?

Of course, the British Empire will never bow to some of the countries that raise camels, change a little, fifty-one percent of the democratic oil and forty-nine percent of the feudal oil mix, this is not the democratic oil, is not it?

It wouldn’t hurt relations with the Arab world either, and the Arab League, especially Saudi Arabia, is willing to go along with the U.S. price hike, essentially for the sake of the price hike, not for the sake of a real oil embargo.

What else would the Saudis eat? Sand the Saudis certainly have plenty of, but that doesn’t solve the problem. Really shouting Allahu Akbar does not export, must be against the industrialized countries, Saudi Arabia is likely to revolution.

As the United Nations General Assembly, which is calling for a ceasefire between the two sides for I don’t know how many times, convenes, the Governor of Hong Kong receives a phone call from London.

Governor MacLehose was opening his mouth to rattle off a report on the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the reversal of widespread law and order in Xiangjiang, “Are you listening, Secretary General?”

“Crawford, of course I’m concerned about the law and order in Hong Kong, but as you know, Hong Kong as a transit port and the population can be described as dense, will the oil crisis have an impact on Hong Kong?” Alan Wilson always had to show his concern for Xiangjiang, even if he didn’t care.

“There was only a hint of panic on that day, but the UK was not included in the sanctions.” MacLehose said there was no problem, and that everything was normal in Xiangjiang now.

“The British Empire has never held its interests in Asia in the highest regard, and the importance of Xiangjiang as a transit port is something you understand well without me saying.” Allen Wilson took the official tone and said, “Admittedly Japan and Korea will definitely be affected by the oil crisis, so for the sake of the United States, Britain will definitely provide some help, and as we all know that the relationship between Britain and Japan is also quite good, this is all something that should be done.”

The face does not change color Allen Wilson, lies expounders of the relationship between Britain and Japan, people who do not know also thought it was a new era of the British-Japanese alliance reproduced. In fact, on the Xiangjiang years of smuggling to exercise out of the team, in this oil crisis should be used in the place where it should be used.

There is no doubt that this time the oil crisis, the British Empire will be Japan’s strong backing, the district a group of camel breeding feudal lords, but also dare to threaten the powerful industrialized countries, really do not know how to do.

Japan does not need to be afraid of, firmly and the United States stand together on the line, the Arab League is not without Britain’s traditional friendly countries, as long as Japan dares to harden their mouths a sentence, Kuwait will drop the cup as a number to let Japan feel the treatment of the Netherlands.

I do not know if Japan has the Netherlands, the enterprise has Shell, resources have the North Sea oil bottom.

McGREGOR, as the Governor of Hong Kong, is also a senior diplomat. Now that the United Kingdom is so busy, whether it is the Prime Minister or the Foreign Secretary, they are all busy with the current hotspots, and they really do not have the time. The Foreign Secretary’s schedule is all the way to Chile.

As for the two sides of the same coin, the humble social publican is at the same time the supreme authority, isn’t that receiving foreign dignitaries?

Obviously between a visit to Japan and receiving ladies of equal status to his wife, it was the latter that was more important, and MacLehose was being bothered to take a trip to Japan to go round and express Britain’s firm support for Japan.

Alan Wilson is not not concerned about the work, is meeting to discuss the world economic trends and response to a number of issues, the outbreak of the oil crisis, accompanied by the over-issuance of U.S. dollars in the two-phase role, how Britain should choose, first of all, the routine that the situation in Britain is not a small good, but a big good, and then began to discuss the problems encountered by other countries.

The reason why the United States along with their own sanctions, but also not broken to reverse the current predicament, in fact, the United States in the post-war prosperity was maintained for more than a decade, in the sixties before the American life that is really carefree, the top of the mountain is not at all an expansion of the city.

The Kennedy period and the Johnson administration practiced Keynesianism for a long time, and constantly raised the level of inflation. Beginning in the sixties, the competitiveness of U.S. industry continued to decline, and the share of global exports fell back sharply from twenty percent to thirteen percent.

President Kennedy practiced Keynesianism and implemented a deficit fiscal policy, constantly expanding government spending to stimulate growth and increase employment.

Alan Wilson is not accusing the United States of the move, because the United Kingdom is also doing the same thing, except that the two countries are different, the United Kingdom is in the colonies to open a large building, once the discovery of inflation appeared?

That’s no problem, inflation in developed industrialized countries and penniless backward countries, the degree of tolerance is completely different.

Can’t handle it, let the colonies build big to become independent, and swallow all the Keynesian aftereffects after independence.

The United States side, to the Nixon period, the Nixon government for price control to adopt a “new economic policy”, the implementation of wage and price controls, stop using gold against the dollar, so that the belief in liberalism of the United States nationals were deeply shocked, appeared extremely rare rush to buy the wind.

The supreme authority a look I know a lot about the economy, make it look like an authoritative economist, in fact, he has been in the real estate state for many years, regardless of the kill or bury, the United Kingdom to take the benefits of the colonies to take the capital, and then the capital becomes the capital, so a set of processes.

In fact, this time the United Kingdom showed such a conscientious heart, is also looking at the 60 million labor force of Bangladesh, inflation how? What’s wrong with inflation? What’s wrong with the gap between the rich and the poor? It is not better than the whole country is poor when pants strong?

At present, the inflation rate of the United States is six percent, the unemployment rate is five percent, the United Kingdom, these two figures are lower than the United States, to say that the situation is good is not too much.

This time the oil crisis began, the United Kingdom has been able to determine to stay out of it, the optimistic forecast for the economy should be no problem.

“The fact is that before the oil crisis, the pending rise in the United States was already largely set in stone. It was very much in line with the trend of the Vietnam War. All we need to do now is continue at our own pace.”

Allen Wilson said to the permanent undersecretaries of the departments, “In the diplomatic sphere, a de-escalation posture, especially with Argentina, are negotiable, and there is a certain amount of justification for the Island of Man to go to Argentina. In the Middle East, our traditional friendly relations with the Arabs should be maintained, but not anti-Israel.”

“A good external environment is also favorable to the Israeli economy, the Far East direction and we and the East Asian countries do not have much hatred, good use of the location of Xiangjiang. The position of Xiangjiang as a financial center should be strengthened. The division of labor with Malaya for financing and production should be established. The home appliance industry can try to move to Xiangjiang, where it is more convenient.”

As for how convenient, in the principle that diplomacy is no small matter, Allen Wilson did not say, this point to participate in the meeting of the officials, just understand in their own hearts.

Xiangjiang is of course very important, and now also help from the Saigon government, the lost air-to-air missiles to its owner, the warring Arab League hands it. This spirit of picking up money should be commended.

It was also tasked with returning to its rightful owner the dollars discarded by the Saigon regime, and it must be said that South Vietnam was too careless to lose something as good as a dollar to the Middle Eastern desert.

If a gentleman like Britain had not helped to retrieve it, wouldn’t it have been a loss suffered for nothing? Sand Lau Viet Development Bank and HSBC, also after this time with your money to do your business operation, and South Vietnam senior established a very good relationship, once a certain day North Vietnam mud legs south, these South Vietnamese senior defected to the free world is also convenient.

In the British side of the discussion of economic development at the same time, McLehose has departed to open the visit to Japan, of course, this is in the Whitehall and the United States only after the ventilation.

MacLehose had been Governor of Hong Kong for some time, but had not yet forgotten the conduct expected of a diplomat, and upon arriving in Tokyo, he met with Toshio Tsuchimitsu, Honorary Chairman of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations.

Although it seems to be nothing, but this group is by no means explicitly unimportant, Japan’s development route is the Konzern model, that is, the plutocratic route.

Japan’s large and medium-sized companies are organized in a group, and the Keidanren is one of Japan’s “three economic organizations,” along with the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Keidanren, and the members of Japan’s Diet are tightly knit together, forming a fairly stable 1955 system.

Japan’s dependence on the United States is well known, unlike the United Kingdom and Europe, where the United Kingdom is not a small country in terms of size.

On the Japanese side, a certain big country is a completely different economic system, is it to go and South Korea crouching dragon and phoenix chick to warm up?

The United States is now hard against the sanctions in support of Israel, Japan should normally be embodied a rather stand and die, but Japan is a country in addition to the labor force is nothing.

McLehose at this time with the British full of goodwill to open this visit, for the United Kingdom is not sanctioned by the Arab League, he naturally can not talk more.

Japan is also impossible to learn from Britain, Japan does not even have an army, how to do the Arab League is at least part of the backing?

McLehose expressed Britain is still on the side of the free world, there are voices in the country want to take a tough policy on the Arab world, and before coming to the United States also expressed communication, it is certain that the United States will never compromise, and Britain and the United States in the matter of the differences between the United Kingdom and the United States are still there.

Japan was extremely important in the Far East, a bridgehead to contain the Soviet bloc, and it was all the more important at this point in time to express its unwavering loyalty to the free world, which of course included South Korea.

“Honorable Governor, so what can Britain do to help?” Toshio Tsuchimitsu looked at the teacup under his eyes and wondered in his mind if it was because the United States was unwilling to step in and hoped that the UK would be the villain, cautioning Japan not to compromise, and that both of their countries were, after all, a family whose blood was thicker than water.

“Britain is willing to trade with Japan on the oil resources of the colonies, so that this embargo does not have too great an impact on Japan. When India was first embargoed for oil, it was resolved through the oil pipeline from South Sudan.” MacLehose was as righteous as the British Foreign Secretary Langston Tee who brokered the Anglo-Japanese alliance.