Chapter 578 – Offshore Balancing Ground

“Of course we believe in the Middle Hall.” Su Yang and the two of them looked at each other and nodded in unison.

“This world is like this, risk and profit coexist. In this unfamiliar place, the Chinese and us Brits are both outsiders, we deserve to support each other. This matter is a bit risky, but the profit is high.”

Alan Wilson, who was holding a wine glass, followed the advice, “If the matter comes to fruition, we both have benefits, my aim is to maintain the stability of British Malaya, which requires the cooperation of the Chinese. And you are not exactly betraying the interests of the Chinese, the hatred between the Chinese and the Japanese is real in terms of national righteousness, this is your chance to avenge, and likewise a chance to disabuse London of its misgivings.”

“The two of us toast to Zhongtang!” Su Yang spoke, and Tian Qianqiu poured a cup each.

“People who don’t know would think that we are sworn brothers. But if it’s the two future Chinese leaders doing this, I’m not repulsed.” Alan Wilson similarly raised his glass and clinked it with the two.

The rest was a matter of details, such as when would be the right time to do it, Allen Wilson said that it would be more appropriate to do it after his brief departure, although it was only a superficial project, but it was still best for him not to do it while he was in Malaya.

This way on the surface Allen Wilson is not responsible, it is easier to activity to turn the big things into small things.

“In fact, if all goes well, even His Majesty the King, can get the promise that the Chinese will not pursue independence. Will also be very pleasant to issue a pardon, but I have one thing to remind, when the time comes for you to petition, you must ask for the King’s pardon, do not believe the guarantee of the current government, the words of the politicians have a time limit, and trusting the politicians will not do you any good.”

For British politics, the two men were certainly not as familiar as Alan Wilson, and naturally followed good advice.

Regardless of whether it was the Conservative Party or the Labor Party, Allen Wilson did not believe much in the colonial issue, and he believed more in the king, the mascot of the constitutional monarchy in the eyes of the people.

The question of the relationship between the British mainland and the overseas territories was not something that was fatal in the eyes of politicians. Alan Wilson even believed that monarchy was the best way to digest the land.

British Newfoundland was the overseas territory that was not subject to Tory or Labor influence, and that was just fine. And British Malaya is much more complicated than Newfoundland, which is just as big, but does have a much smaller population, and being an offshore financial center would allow Newfoundlanders to make a good living.

British Malaya has so many people, it is unrealistic to rely on finance to feed them, it is still important to develop industries honestly.

“You seem to have a good relationship with the Chinese.” Anna, who was clearing the table, came to a small mood, “I don’t understand any of the language you speak, and I was just very unhappy.”

“Darling, do as the Romans do.” Alan Wilson immediately joined in the aftermath, “The way to overcome fear is to face it, and I’m the best person in the whole of England for the job, at least I know them and do things with a certain amount of certainty.”

“Fear!?” Anna paused slightly in her scrubbing of the dishes, curious, “That’s very refreshing, you have fears?”

“Can’t really talk about fear, a necessary sense of defense is necessary.” Alan Wilson thought back carefully, “But fortunately, although China is a little harder to deal with, it is not as difficult as the Soviet Union.”

“Oh, I thought you weren’t afraid of any country.” Anna’s ears couldn’t help but perk up in a complex tone.

“Anyone who opens a world map and sees such a large country, whether in the Far East, the Middle East, or Europe, creating a huge sense of oppression, who isn’t afraid of it.” Alan Wilson snorted and said, “Where such a large country stands, no matter what kind of system it is practicing, it is the enemy of Britain, even if it is Imperial Russia, it is the life and death enemy of the British Empire, not to mention that the Soviet Union’s strength is far above that of Imperial Russia.”

“After all, the British Empire is such a large territory, and the United States, which is now the strongest.” Anna said sourly, “That’s something we in Germany want and don’t have.”

“Speaking of which, your Germany, as well as France, are in a similar situation to China. Sea power and land power are both tainted. But the difficulty of developing both at the same time is much more difficult than developing Britain to concentrate on sea power alone.” Alan Wilson let the busy Anna sit on his lap, “But the sea power is what we, Britain, grabbed, the sea power actually does not belong to any country. But land rights are different, and with the world as it is now, land rights are naturally in the hands of the Soviet Union, and that’s what they are, far more solid than the sea rights that Britain and the United States still currently hold together.”

Geographically, the US can be described as a beefed up version of Britain. And China is also very different from the USSR, if you look for a European country to compare it to, it would be something like a beefed up version of Germany or France.

To put it nicely, it is called a combination of sea and land, to put it less nicely, it is a combination of both. China’s sea power in the twenty-first century is only after decades of hard work to make progress.

Russia, on the other hand, has gone through a disintegration in the same period, and land power is still in Russia’s hands. NATO swarmed and hammered around Russia for decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and any other country would have died a horrible death.

But Russia has been shrinking by virtue of the huge land resources, still dare and NATO call the shots. Visible innate land power in the hands of Russia how difficult to deal with.

And land and sea countries, want to take into account at the same time will have to pay more efforts. Similar to France and Germany in Europe, as long as a little inattention, the land and sea will become a loss of both.

On the contrary, such as the Soviet Union, such a huge country pressed on top of the Eurasian continent, so a super land power. The benefits of this are not unheard of in the Cold War, where the economy reached six percent of that of the United States and was able to launch a global offensive. The economy is far more than the Soviet Union, the United States to make the dust.

The U.S. intervention in Eurasia to put out ten percent of the force, the Soviet Union to put out six percent of the achievement can make the United States to return to no avail.

This has not been replicated by any country, even if it is just a few decades later when King Know It All made frequent overtures to Russia. King Sleeper came up and still had to designate Russia as the enemy. The Democratic Party’s greatest fear is that once the decades of suppression are over, once Russia, which has not been hammered to death, recovers, it will become a case of not taking care of a certain big country while at the same time releasing Russia as a super land power.

For the current international situation, in fact, Alan Wilson can understand why Britain would rather be a U.S. follower, but also to introduce the United States into Europe, and European countries are still agreed.

Because the threatening power of the Soviet Union and other countries is completely different, if the twenty-first century the United States and even the Five Eyes lost to a major power. In fact, a certain big country does not have the ability to do anything to the Five Eyes alliance. Even if a certain great power wins, most of the land power in Eurasia is still in Russia’s hands, and the worst result is nothing more than that a certain great power gets half of the land power and half of the sea power.

Even if it becomes the world’s number one, it’s still a world’s number one that can be checked and balanced. Take the Silk Road for example, as long as the Russians are not happy, this big plan will be paralyzed at any time. That’s why a certain great power is not going to take the initiative to ruffle Russia’s feathers.

And as the loser, Five Eyes, it wouldn’t be too late to mend fences with Russia at that point, if they see that happening.

But the Cold War if Britain and the United States lost to the Soviet Union, the consequences can be absolutely not still acceptable, the consequences are holding the entire Eurasian continent land rights of the Soviet Union, and then a period of time to grab the sea rights, nothing will be left for Britain and the United States.

Once this result, the Soviet Union is invincible, but also completely blocked the way of other potential challengers.

In short, the consequences of an Anglo-American loss to one of the major powers wouldn’t really be that bad, and it wouldn’t do anything to the Five Eyes Coalition. But if we lose the Cold War to the Soviet Union, we will lose all our pants.

With such consequences in mind, it was only after Sleeping King became president that he continued to suppress Russia, unable to give this Cold War rival the slightest hope of still being able to rise. Even in 2021, the United States still does not change the original intention of thirty years, to prevent Russia has a chance to recover.

Although the Democratic Party this kind of thinking, some do not attach great importance to a major power. But doing so naturally has a set of logic in it.

Alan Wilson did not know whether this set of logic was right or wrong in the twenty-first century, but in the present, he regarded the Soviet Union as an enemy just as much as he did, and once the Soviet Union had recovered from the heavy blows of World War II, Alan Wilson was the Whitehall civil servant who was the most supportive of the special relationship between Britain and the United States.

Anna didn’t know exactly what was going through her mind at the moment, in short it was very complicated. On the one hand, this man had given himself a privileged life and was still a de facto husband and wife. On the other hand, this man’s underlying fear of the Soviet Union was surprisingly so great that she felt it for the first time.

Alan Wilson, who had given the Chinese time to prepare, sent a round of telegrams asking the ladies of the same status as his wife what their recent schedules were, and, finding no intention of coming to Malaya, boarded a plane for the Zanzibar Islands to attend the current year’s meeting of the Commissioners of the Overseas Colonies.

Discussions were held on the program of development in the wake of the Imperial Preference System and the establishment of the Overseas State Enterprises, Zanzibar being a British Trust Territory. Zanzibar, known as the Sultanate of Zanzibar, will become independent and merge with Tanganyika to become the United Republic of Tanzania.

However, the current Zanzibar Sultanate, the last London Commissioner’s meeting, there has been a consensus that the Zanzibar Sultanate should be retained as far as possible, to prevent and any country merger, in the conditions of the right time, to create a response to the East African offshore financial center.

Transit in Ceylon, finally to the Zanzibar Sultanate of Alan Wilson, first out of courtesy to pay a visit to the Khalifa . Ben . Haroba . Ben . Sultan Suyeni. He apologized for disturbing the Sultan’s purity.

The Sultanate of Zanzibar is only a little over 2,000 square kilometers, but it just happens to block the coastline of Tanganyika, and is able to blockade important ports in nearby East African countries if necessary, making it very strategically located, a good place to cast offshore balances.