Chapter 1567 Arab allies

Mrs. Thatcher rarely came to Seventy Whitehall, ready to perform the civil servants firmly support their own when the meeting has ended, the Prime Minister did not see the Cabinet Secretary, who stood firmly behind him, but saw a number of departmental permanent undersecretaries after the meeting was adjourned.

“The Secretary General went to Oxford University, to attend a seminar.” Wick, the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, politely answered the prime minister’s query, “A seminar on overseas students, advocating the idea of diversity.”

“Oh, I just came by to see the state of play in Whitehall.” Mrs. Thatcher slowed down her attitude and then wandered around Whitehall, occasionally making a satisfied face.

At this time Alan Wilson had already boarded the Silver Spirit, and his wife Pamela Mountbatten to Oxford, the seminar at the same time, there is the Mountbatten Group’s donation to thank, of course, there is also an accompanying job fair.

As one of the two most prestigious independent universities in the UK, Oxford is naturally well equipped to attract students from all countries, and that includes a major country that has just opened its doors.

Entering Oxford, Alan Wilson was still presenting Whitehall’s projections of the trend, “We believe that international students coming into the UK will immediately reach 10,000 a year.”

“That’s quite a number.” Pamela Mountbatten exclaimed, “Just don’t make it worse than it is.”

Able to understand his wife’s intention, Alan Wilson replied, “Don’t worry, with the current ratio, 60% publicly funded and 40% privately funded, no matter which one, 90% of the international students will try to stay, of course, we will also be ready to set the immigration threshold very high, don’t want to stay if you don’t meet the standard. ”

Probably because of Allen Wilson’s indulgence in smuggling, the precious foreign exchange in the hands of a certain big country, the proportion of pounds far exceeds that of dollars, which leads to the aspect of studying abroad, at least for the time being, the number of international students who come to the United Kingdom is above that of the United States, especially the proportion of the part that is publicly-funded study is higher.

“How high.” Pamela Mountbatten asked her husband with a soft smile, “Is it too much to ask for a degree standard or a wealth standard, and if it’s both?”

“It’s not trivial at all, one slip up and it’s the end of the bee’s knees. Even Xiangjiang and Malaya have tightened up their border controls now. With the size of their populations, you can’t even imagine what would happen once there’s an opportunity to leave the country. Japanese emigration to the United States is nothing more than small-scale.”

When the Japanese economy began to rise in the sixties, the pace of Japanese immigration to the United States also accelerated, but of course it is now more rare, because Japan, never mind whether it is overtime is far more intense than Europe and the United States, people in the figures have not been much worse than in Europe and the United States, and South Koreans have already replaced the Japanese as the mainstay of immigration in East Asia.

Alan Wilson understands very well, this is a small fight, the two countries together with the population is only more than 100 million, the big man in the back of it, Britain must be in the immigration policy in a tight line only, not only the United Kingdom should be a tight line, and even Xiangjiang and Malaya should also implement the same policy.

Highly skilled immigrants any country like, but the population size of such a large source of immigrants, Allen Wilson completely objective evaluation, and a large country to view the big country with a sound and color is almost the same.

You can’t just look at statistics for some things, and the Chinese must be held to a little higher standard because of their size, or they are predictably swarmed by immigrants.

It’s not like something like this hasn’t happened before, many countries that are far poorer than a certain country don’t give visa waivers to a certain country, and the Chinese are really coming.

In the Americas, there have been cases where a visa waiver was granted and then withdrawn. Colombia had tens of thousands of people come through normal channels alone in just a few years, with countless blacks, and then the visa waiver was withdrawn outright.

Even the third world, where living standards are even worse, doesn’t have the slightest fear of making a fuss over this issue, so how dare the UK, a small island on the edge of the world, think it’s special, what? The Sunset Empire? That was in the old days.

It is well known that the world’s hegemony is now the United States, the massive pursuit of a better life, in fact, to put it bluntly, is not enough ability to still be lazy immigrants should be aimed at the United States.

The richest woman, representing the largest industrial group in the UK, expressed her friendliness to the international students who were conducting their studies in Oxford, and openly stated that she would provide half-work, half-study internships, which were used to express the UK’s support for the concept of diversity, and as for Whitehall’s intention to tighten its immigration policy, she, a private entrepreneur, naturally couldn’t influence the government’s decision-making.

“Well!” Alan Wilson stuck on the podium wife radiant, in fact, is to these high-achieving students to lure, so that these after many years of cultivation of talent to stay in the United Kingdom to serve, the face is not denied, and do not feel that it is a big problem, this era of foreign students who go abroad will try to find ways to stay abroad, the historical facts do not need to be too much attention.

Only the difference was whether more stayed in the UK or in the US, other than that there was little difference, and after the heart-warming speech, the couple were called over by the trustees to express their gratitude.

The Oxford trustees are elected by the 5,000-member university council, whose day-to-day work includes setting the annual budget, formulating the university’s strategic plan and other development programs, making major strategic decisions, making decisions based on reports submitted by committees and subordinate departments, and proposing changes to the university’s constitution and regulations.

Since it is a parliamentary system, no matter what kind of variation is made, it can be bought, and this is something that Pamela Mountbatten obviously understands more than Allen Wilson.

Alan Wilson, for his part, asked what he felt about the size of the overseas enrollment, and also received an optimistic answer, “It will add to Oxford’s and indeed the UK’s influence.”

“What a reply in the standard nevertheless.” Alan Wilson looked at the school governor in front of him and expressed his appreciation for his highly bureaucratic reply, what kind of school governor was he, he should have gone to Whitehall, but people didn’t always look at him, civil service was a good career for the vast majority of a country’s population, but not for a small handful.

Although there are other things to be busy, Allen Wilson did not forget the United States, especially the latest developments in the trade dispute with Japan, restricting Japanese car imports, imposing punitive tariffs on Japan, a proposal like the rain of the rainy season slammed on the table of Congress, the Oval Office of the White House, as if by restricting Japan, the United States will be reborn and great again.

No American wanted to face up to the fact that American manufacturing had been far surpassed by Japan. Japan has become the sinner of the United States and the excuse for the decline of American manufacturing – condemning Japan and sanctioning it has become the last shibboleth of the United States.

“Congress is supposed to follow public opinion, but the citizens are stupid and don’t understand our good intentions, and then there’s the fact that the Labor Party has the nerve to bash this arms sale? God only knows how many cuts in military spending I’ve blocked over the past decade or so, it’s good to be in opposition, all of a sudden you can justifiably bash the ruling party for weakening the British Empire’s military capability. Obviously are overdue for something, admittedly, we agree that even if it is overdue, ninety-nine percent of the countries in this world can’t build it, but we believe that the Kingdom of Iraq’s technological capabilities, unable to get useful technology from it, is an oil-producing country that sells its resources, so what is there to worry about, what is there to worry about.”

Wick nodded frequently as he followed the supreme authority, the top man was right, the House of Commons knew shit about running a country.

“Minister Safadi, what a long time it’s been, I always hear a lot of people say that the Foreign Secretary of Iraq is a widely respected man.” Alan Wilson took three steps to express his friendliness to the bearded man with a turban in front of him, because it was a kingdom well, not a republic, so there was not much difference between the high officials of the Kingdom of Iraq and the monarchies of the Gulf.

However, the Middle East monarchies are also divided into two different dress styles, such as Oman, Jordan, Egyptian kings usually wear or very westernized, or directly like the European kings before the First World War, directly wearing military uniforms, the other batch is to Saudi Arabia as the representative of the turban party.

There were no hard and fast rules, and the Kingdom of Iraq was clearly a mixed bag, or at least this foreign minister was on the Saudi route, and considering that the other side represented six billion dollars in arms sales contracts, the scent of wealth was welcoming.

“You don’t realize that the U.S. is actually skeptical about this arms sale, and while we both support the Kingdom, there is a difference in sincerity.” Alan Wilson lowered his voice, expressing that the Anglo-American special relationship was not as good as the Anglo-Iranian special relationship in his case.

Safadi, knowing that neither Britain nor the United States can afford to offend the Kingdom of Iraq, didn’t pick up on it, but just seized on Britain’s support for an emphatic compliment.

“And a slippery one, too.” Alan Wilson smiled and nodded, leaving the rest to the Foreign Secretary to highlight the deep and time-tested friendship between the two countries.

In the midst of thunderous applause from all of his colleagues at the Foreign Ministry, the landmark mega arms sale was concluded on schedule, which would become a milestone in the bilateral relationship between the two countries.

In the face of the Iranian threat, Faisal II has already begun to expand his army after his return to his country, and is initially expected to triple it to a total of 450,000 troops, including the army, navy, and air force.

This will surpass Egypt, the old hegemon of the Arab world, as the strongest military force in the Arab world.

Resisting the evil Persian threat to the peace-loving Arab world, this move was supported by the entire Arab world, from the oil crisis made a lot of money in the Gulf countries were not obliged to support their Arab brothers, Faisal II Arab world allies of the call can be seen.

The direct impact of arms sales reached, is the Iranian government said the hostage crisis can be negotiated, nothing can not be negotiated, anyway, the Carter government has stepped down, the two countries have no essential contradictions.

With the handover of two heavy aircraft carriers from the Royal Pacific Fleet, Iran’s attitude toward the hostage crisis also softened, releasing a number of hostages to express good faith.