For the Republic, the first episode is Indonesia.

As mentioned earlier, when preparing for the world war, the Republic and the United States put strategic security first, with the main purpose of ensuring local security. Relatively speaking, the Republic's strategic security situation is still not as good as that of the United States. Even if Russia is not considered in the north, there is a revived Japan to the east, the Philippines to the southeast, the uneasy Indonesia to the south, and Digo Garcia to the south. In other words, if the Republic wants to ensure the basic strategic security of the country, it has to put more effort into the surrounding areas. In the entire security link, Indonesia has extraordinary significance.

It can be seen from the map that Indonesia is a natural springboard that surrounds the Philippines and threatens Australia.

Although after the war on the South China Sea in the past year, due to many factors, the relationship between the Republic and Indonesia has not been tepid. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the Republic's authorities even discouraged domestic companies from investing in Indonesia, at least not encouraged the opening of processing factories in Indonesia.

But for the leaders of the Republic, Indonesia is a pawn that must not be discarded. So long ago, the Republic's intelligence agencies launched secret operations to control Indonesia.

In March 2019, a political scandal broke out in Erdonesia. President Espirano was accused of obtaining illegal benefits through manipulating defense procurement. Among them were the Minister of Finance, Trade, Minerals, Defense Minister, General Administration of Customs, Army Commander, Navy Chief of Staff and Air Force Chief of Staff, allegedly the amount was as high as 700 million yuan, equivalent to 400 million Indonesian rupiah. In addition, three arms companies in the Republic were implicated and two arms trade agencies were accused of bribing senior officials of the Indonesian Ministry of Defense and senior generals of the General Staff.

Just like all scandals related to political struggles, the first thing that emerges is the tip of the iceberg.

Because the Republic's enterprises were suspected of bribing Indonesian government officials and military generals during the arms trade, after the news media disclosed the news, the Republic's authorities immediately stated that they would conduct a thorough investigation, and then the military committee, the Judicial Committee and the Trade Committee of the Plenary Congress took the lead, plus the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Justice, and the Supreme Procuratorate formed a joint investigation team. By the end of March, not only did the investigation team send investigators to the suspected enterprises, but also the Judicial Committee of the Plenary Congress came forward and asked the chairman of the three enterprises to go to the Plenary Congress to make fact statements to assist in the investigation.

Obviously, Zhuo Qing is getting bigger now.

Although the chairman of the three companies expressed their ignorance when making statements at the Jinti Congress. They would actively cooperate with the investigation and would never tolerate illegal employees, in the eyes of the news media, it was definitely not an accident that the Republic's arms companies and arms trading companies bribed Indonesian government officials and military generals.

Al Jazeera mentioned in the report. In the past few decades, in order to expand its overseas market share, it has been very common for the Republic's arms companies to bribe government officials and military generals to expand their overseas market share. It was disclosed before Tian Nian and was convicted by the parties involved in the Republic's arms companies and arms trade. Most of them occurred in remote countries in the Xiaguang Inner Team. For example, as early as two years, the Republic exported the first export to Sudan.

When criticizing small concave fighter jets, the public relations personnel of Chengdu Aircraft Company provided benefits equivalent to 10,000 yuan to Sudan's Ministry of Defense and Air Force officers in various ways, and provided about 10,000 yuan in activity funds for Sudan's Ministry of Defense and Air Force officers' inspection activities in the Republic in the name of invitation. Later, the officials and soldiers who received bribes were tried and convicted. The public relations personnel of Chengdu Aircraft Company were also dismissed, and the company paid the corresponding fine.

Unlike before, the impact of this arms trade bribery case is greater.

The investigation in the Republic ended at the end of the month. The suspected China National Heavy Group, AVIC Group and Jiangnan Ship and Navigation Equipment Group were actually a large ship construction company established after the Jiangnan Shipyard merged with several related enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region. A total of people were quarantined and interrogated. The procuratorate filed a public prosecution. In addition, the person did not accept judicial trial because his behavior did not constitute a crime.

At the same time, detailed results of the investigation were also announced.

Only then did the outside world realize that this was definitely not an emergency.

According to the investigation results released by the joint investigation team, as early as 1998, China National Chung HSG Group was selling vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft and low-altitude attack aircraft to Indonesia under technical export control and could not sell vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft equipped with advanced propulsion systems to countries like Indonesia. Therefore, China National Chung HSG Group could only improve on the basis of inclined rotary wing aircraft and develop a total value of aircraft specifically targeting the export market. When Qu Yuan RMB 100 million, it provided bribes equivalent to the contract value gills to hundreds of Indonesian government officials and military generals. In the following years, China National Chung HSG Group successively won multiple arms orders in Indonesia.

The bribes were provided in the same proportion each time. Because the Zhongzhong Group Southeast Asia Branch "The small market department handed over the bribery operation to the arms trader called Fengjing Trade. "The Zhou was suspected of a company, and after the incident was exposed, the company destroyed all the preserved files, so it was impossible to confirm which Indonesian government officials and military generals had received the restoration and how many bribes had been received. What is certain is that when the incident was revealed, the bribes handed over by Zhongzhong Group to Fengjing Trade alone exceeded 100 million yuan. Fengjing Trade would draw about 100 million yuan from it, so the bribes that fell into the hands of Indonesian government officials and military generals should be between 100 million yuan and 400 million yuan.

In fact, in this case of arms bribery, Zhongzhong Group is definitely not the protagonist.

The real big briber is AVIC. After all, the Indonesian authorities spend the most military spending on the aviation force, and AVIC is the main supplier of the Indonesian Air Force and Naval Air Force.

Perhaps, the problem is too serious. In the published investigation results, there are very few parts related to AVIC Group. It is simply mentioned that in the year before the New Year, AVIC Group sold arms worth nearly RMB to Indonesia, even if it was still at a rate of 3%. The intermediary charged 2 peas for the handling fee. There were also nearly RMB bribes of nearly RMB 100 million in the hands of Indonesian government officials and military generals.

Because the investigation results were announced, in this part of the content, the joint investigation team did not give a sufficiently clear investigation result based on the rush of time and insufficient evidence. According to external estimates, because the profit margin of aviation equipment is much higher than that of ground equipment and has much more choices in the international market, the bribes of AVIC Group must be much higher than that of Zhongzhong Group, probably between Dan and B. It is definitely not as good as 100 million.

Of course, the Jiangnan Group is the real focus.

Although in the field of ship and navigation equipment manufacturing, Jiangnan Group has a very famous reputation. Not only is the largest and most powerful in the Republic, but it is one of the best in the world. Compared with it, only the General Electric Shipping Company in the United States and European companies merged from several shipyards and navigation equipment manufacturing companies in France, Germany, and Italy. However, in the military market, especially in the international arms market, Jiangnan Group's reputation is not very famous. The reason is very simple.

In terms of military products, the South Group mainly undertakes the design and construction of large ships of the Republic's Navy. For example, several aircraft carriers of the Republic's Navy are related to the Jiangnan Group, and three of them are designed and system-built by the Jiangnan Group. All cruisers are designed here, and two-thirds of them are built here, and all strategic ballistic missile submarines are also built here. Obviously, these large ships are not in the Republic's arms export catalog, and few countries are capable of purchasing large ships from the Republic.

Relatively speaking, several shipyards that build small and medium-sized ships are very famous internationally. For example, Wuhan Shipyard is famous for producing electric submarines, Guangzhou Shipyard is famous for building large frigates and multi-purpose destroyers, and Dalian Shipyard is also specially designed for export. In short, in the international ship market, Jiangnan Group is not as famous as several much smaller shipyards.

This time Jiangnan Group is involved, which has basically nothing to do with the arms trade gambling compensation case, and it is Chen Zhima's old thing.

According to the investigation results released by the joint investigation team, in the same year, the Jiangnan Shipyard at that time bribed the Indonesian Ministry of Defense officials and naval generals by bribery, and sent a group of senior technicians to conduct detailed investigations on several ships introduced by the Indonesian Navy from the United States and several submarines purchased from France, and even made accurate measurements to obtain a large amount of first-hand information. At that time, the public relations personnel of the Jiangnan Shipyard even spent money to buy several submersible heavy torpedoes produced by Italian white-headed companies from the Indonesian Navy.

In short, this is to obtain technical bribe compensation.

Relatively speaking, Jiangnan Group bribed Indonesian government officials and military generals not much money. Even if the money to buy torpedoes was included, it was only about 1 yuan, and the impact was very great. Although the matter has passed nearly a year and any advanced technology is outdated. However, when reporting related news, it was mentioned that it was precisely because of the advanced military technology obtained from Indonesia from the United States and Europe. The Republic's arms companies can make breakthroughs in many military technology fields in the next few years. Especially in the guidance technology of heavy torpedoes, the Republic must have benefited a lot from those Italian-made torpedoes.

According to the relevant agreement between the Republic and Indonesia, the citizens of the Republic involved only need to be tried in the Republic and will not be handed over to Indonesia, and the Republic is not qualified to interrogate the persons involved in Indonesia. Of course, the Republic has the obligation to provide the investigation report to Indonesia and assist Indonesia in completing the investigation.

The question is here. Will there be good results for the survey in Indonesia?

The so-called pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud is a sign of smell, and there will definitely be no good things if you dig it down.

More importantly, even if the Republican authorities have published the results of the investigation, even if it is only published, even if it is related to the Indonesian president, the Indonesian judiciary cannot remain indifferent and must give the people an explanation. When the Shuangeria judicial department takes action, it is regretful that the political turmoil begins.

By June, meritorious ministerial officials, including the Minister of Defense, Trade, Finance, and the Ugly Army Commander, Navy Chief of Staff and Air Force Chief of Staff, announced their resignation or retirement. Only President Espirano, who has always been concerned, has been reluctant to announce his resignation. At the beginning of the month, after Espirano insisted that he was innocent and would never resign, Indonesia's opposition parties and opposition parties launched a nationwide demonstration against the president.

For a country composed of tens of thousands of islands and many people, the consequences of the turmoil are unimaginable.

On July 2018, the Republic's three aircraft carrier battle groups moved south into the Java Sea, Sulawesi Sea and Banda Sea, and then declared Indonesia a tourist restriction country, that is, when citizens of the Republic go to Indonesia, safety issues must be fully considered.

Although it is unlikely that Indonesia will have a large-scale anti-China and anti-China incident. It is even more unlikely that the riots against the Chinese will break out. After all, the strength of the Republic is no longer the same as before. Several aircraft carrier battle groups will be parked outside the gates of Indonesia. According to some Western news media comments, if the war breaks out, the Republic's aircraft carrier battle groups can destroy all strategic facilities in Indonesia within hours, and defeat Indonesia within the next week, forcing the Indonesian authorities to admit defeat. However, according to the situation at that time, everyone knows that the Republic puts pressure on the Indonesian president through this move. If the domestic unrest in Indonesia evolves into a riot against the left side of China, the Republic's army will never stand by. At that time, the one who is unlucky will not be someone, but the entire Indonesia.

For Espirano, there is no choice.

On July, Espirano announced the dissolution of the parliament. The general election was held early and then announced his resignation. Vice President Kichelasia temporarily exercised national power.

At this point, the Republic's intentions have been very clear.

More importantly, the incident caused by the arms trade bribery case is definitely not as simple as it is.

You should know that after Tian Nian came to power, Espirano took the slogan of "independent development and national rejuvenation", which made almost all Indonesians believe that with its vast territory, rich natural resources and huge population, Indonesia can not only become a regional power with great influence, but also a world power with global influence. There is no doubt that a president like Espirano is definitely not in the appetite of the Republic. More importantly, because a large number of Indonesians benefited from economic cooperation with the Republic, Espirano formed an election mate with the pro-China Kichelasia in order to gain more support. In a sense, this is not only the insurance Espirano bought for himself, but also the root cause of his ruin.

From this perspective, getting rid of Espirano is the purpose of the Republic.

When reporting on the political changes in Indonesia, it was mentioned that in the investigation report released by the Republic, the identities of the two arms trading companies serving China National Chengchi Group and China National AVIC Group are very questionable. First, China National Chengchi Group and China National AVIC Group have both arms import and export qualifications, and there is no reason to let the trading company intervene. Secondly, from the perspective of security, there is no reason to let a third party join. Finally, the two companies have very little registered capital and are not qualified to bear the bribery and compensation worth hundreds of billions of yuan. The only explanation

That is, these two companies have extraordinary relationships with China National Heavy Group and China AVIC Group, or have received support from other powerful forces, such as the intelligence agencies of the Republic. According to the deletion, the Military Intelligence Bureau has never lacked "foreign institutions" like arms trading companies, and the Military Intelligence Bureau has a very close relationship with the two largest arms companies in the Republic, so the behind-the-scenes planning of this farce is likely to be the Military Intelligence Bureau, and its fundamental purpose is not to smear the two arms companies, but to oust the Indonesian president.

In fact, this bribery case did not have much impact on China National Chengchi Group and AVIC Group.

You should know that in the international arms market, only bribery can get orders is a hidden rule. Moreover, the two companies have advanced weapons that can make the United States covet, so what reason do other countries have to keep them out?

The only ones who were really unlucky were Espirano, as well as the officials and generals who had close ties to him.

Of course, the Indonesian National Baath Party led by Espirano was also deeply affected.

In the general election held in the old month of that year, Kichelasia, who ran for election on behalf of the National Resurrection Party, lost to Susia, the common development party. Then Kichelasia announced that it would withdraw from the National Resurrection Party and form a national struggle party alone. In this regard, Indonesia's most influential political party that insists on independent development collapsed. Whether it is the Common Development Party that came to power or the newly established National Struggle Party, they are actually pro-China parties.

At the beginning of the month of the mouth that year, Susia officially visited the Republic less than Zhou after taking the oath of office.

When meeting Yan Jingyu in Beijing, the first thing Susia proposed was to upgrade from an intensive group observation country to a formal member state.

At this point, Indonesia has finally taken a crucial step towards alliance with the Republic.
Chapter completed!