1696 Total Sanctions
"How is it? How many people don't figure out what they are doing?" Liu Yijiu didn't pay attention to the situation outside.
Every time the US government diplomats want to communicate in detail with the US crew members, he will come forward to use various shameless means to stop it. This is not difficult for him at all.
Even the American crew members were beaten even harder.
Force the U.S. government to get their crew members back as soon as possible.
Although the Americans were angry, they all said that this was done by militia and temporary workers. Even if they didn't know whether it was true, they knew that the Chinese were intentional.
The Chinese government's attitude is very firm. We must let the United States publicly and formally apologize for this incident before we agree to hand over the crew members to them first. The government does not know the truth about the collision incident, and only a few military leaders know it, so they naturally will not take the initiative to tell the truth.
"How is the communication with Britain, France and other countries?" Bush and others rarely focus on the collision incident now, but on sanctions on China.
Powell nodded, "They said that if there is a legitimate reason, our Congress approved large-scale sanctions against China, they will also impose sanctions on the Chinese government."
"What about the Russian side?" Bush knew that these allies following them had no integrity, but only gave them some benefits.
After they showed European countries the evidence of the terrifying growth of China's power and the US think tank team's demand analysis report on various means of production and world market demand after China continued to develop, countries naturally panicked.
They cannot give their market to China, and they cannot give their raw materials to China.
China's production costs are so low that they feel uneasy that China's domestic market is very large, but with the development of these years, international trade has accounted for an increasing proportion of China's economy. The cheap Chinese market has caused many factories in various countries that are already in a recession to go bankrupt.
The only thing that worries the United States is Russia.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia inherited most of it.
Whether it is military equipment or heavy industrial technology, it can be sold to China.
Once Russia does not join them, they will sanction China, which will give Russia great help, allowing China to obtain various technologies from Russia.
Such a thing is to make wedding dresses for others.
"The Russian government has not agreed to sanctions on China. They are very hostile to us..." Powell said with a bitter face.
It is strange that Russia follows the American footsteps.
After all, a country as huge as others was destroyed by the United States, although this has a lot to do with the Soviet Union.
"Of course, they also expressed that they did not support or object." Powell's words made Bush feel better.
"Where is Clinton?" Bush asked.
This was his last major event decision during his tenure.
What is Clinton doing now? Naturally, he is calling his team of staff to have a meeting.
The Bush administration is sanctioning China. If Bush had just come to power, it would have nothing to do with them, but this is obviously a cause of trouble, which puts the Clinton administration in a serious crisis after it comes to power.
"We must repair the relationship with China. The situation in the Gulf cannot be controlled for a short period of time. Once there are too many problems with China, this will make us extremely passive and even seriously affect the interests of the United States. Once we ignore the opposition of the people, the angry people will overthrow the new government just after the establishment of the new government..." Clinton's selected Secretary of State Warren Miner Christopher said very seriously, "We must pay attention to the relationship with China and use China's rapid development economy to drive the stagnant American economy."
Warren Miner Christopher has always advocated strengthening economic cooperation with China.
This is something that anyone can see in the potential of the Chinese market.
The Bush administration is taking the United States into the abyss, and their administration is about to end, so they don't care about anything at all.
In particular, Bush represents the interests of some military production capitalists, so he has been constantly provoking wars since he came to power.
In the Gulf War, the treasury was empty, and the supporters behind Bush made a lot of money.
"The problem is that we have no way to reject the Bush administration's decision now!" How could Clinton not know?
"But we can contact China." The proposal of the Secretary of State waiting to take office immediately brightened the eyes of the new president who is also waiting to take office. "China should be clear that this policy is not what we need, and we can even promise that the Bush administration will impose sanctions on them when we are in power. This is also an opportunity for our government to eliminate negative impacts..."
China definitely does not want to be sanctioned.
Once sanctioned, their economic development will be greatly affected.
"Will China agree? You know, although they do not want to be sanctioned, China has the most potential market in the world and can be completely self-sufficient." Clinton was preparing to play the Chinese card from the beginning to establish good relations with China.
The consulting team has research on China's economic development and policies.
"Secretly send our representatives to contact the Chinese government." Warren Miner Christopher said calmly.
Clinton nodded and asked his secretary of state to do the matter.
Now he has not become the president of the United States, but there will be no accidents.
They did not tell anyone about their secret contact with China, even Clinton's team, and there would not be more than five people who knew about it.
After communicating with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they received a reply from the top Chinese leader, who were willing to communicate with the secret envoy of the Clinton administration.
The Chinese government obviously does not want the domestic economic construction process to be seriously restricted, and does not want to lose technology trade with the United States. China needs to invest huge funds in researching these technologies and takes longer to study them.
What China lacks the most is time.
China's real development, especially in the economy, was calculated only after reform and opening up. The thirty years from the founding of the country to reform and opening up, only laid an industrial foundation.
Without money, even if all the funds of the entire country are invested in military research and development, it will not have much promotion effect.
Everyone knows that the Bush administration's crazy behavior is to cause trouble for the new government before stepping down, so that the new government must continue their policies.
After the negotiations, Clinton sent personnel secretly entered China to consult with China on issues of cooperation between the two sides and repairing relations after President Clinton took office.
The old man who has completely retreated behind the scenes said that when the United States wanted to drive the whole world to sanction China, China is not afraid of sanctions! International sanctions measures cannot scare China at all, just like the great powers imposed nuclear blackmail on China back then.
At the same time, he warned the national leaders: China itself must stabilize its position and maintain our image of autonomy, not believing in evil or fearing ghosts. We must not show weakness. The more you are afraid, the more you show weakness, the more people are more motivated. It is not that others will be better for you because you are soft, but that others will look down on you because you are soft.
It was clearly the Americans who caused trouble, but they poured a pot of dirty water on China.
Two US aircraft carrier fleets provoked at the door of China. Their reconnaissance planes approached close to the reconnaissance, crashed into China's fighter planes, and threatened to sanction China.
This is totally shameless hegemony.
Could it be that China's national defense will be opened up and allowed the power of beautiful things to travel through it at will?
Faced with the US's public sanctions, China's top leader stated that not to mention the seven countries, even the 70 countries imposed sanctions on China will be useless. China hopes to maintain a good relationship with the United States, but cannot make any concessions in national sovereignty and dignity in order to maintain this relationship.
Sovereignty and dignity are sacred and inviolable.
However, the US Bush administration does not care about China's attitude at all.
On the fifth day of the collision, Republican far-right Senator Helms and Democratic Congressman Soraz jointly demanded that the Bush administration cut off relations with China, impose the most severe sanctions on China, and crack down on China's arrogance.
Former President Nixon expressed opposition, hoping that the Bush administration will not cause too much confusion to the new government at the end of its rule, and will have to look forward to the long-term.
Under the pressure of those capitalists who are in the interests of arms production and other interests, the Bush administration also retained Clinton's opinion. On the sixth day of the collision incident, it announced sanctions against China: (1) suspended all arms sales and commercial weapons exports between China and the United States; (2) suspended mutual visits between military leaders between China and the United States; (3) agreed to re-study Chinese students studying in the United States for an extended stay.
The Chinese Foreign Minister expressed great regret for the US sanctions and accused the United States of irresponsibly causing tension in the region for their hegemony expansion...
However, in this regard, strong demands on sanctions against China's US capital consortium are not satisfied and continue to put pressure on the Bush administration to impose severe sanctions: (1) suspend mutual visits with all senior Chinese officials (assistant secretary of state or above); (2) suspend overseas private investment companies' assistance to companies operating industries in China; (3) oppose the new $1 billion loan to China from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
Chapter completed!