After Rudlin and Yan Shanglong met, Westwood immediately convened senior management

Although many news media believe that the sudden change in the Republic's attitude has a lot to do with the French President and Dutch Prime Minister's trip to Beijing, Westwood believes that the Chinese head of state Wang Yuanqing had already made arrangements and only took action by using Yaksey and Alfonta to visit Beijing.

The key question is, why has China's attitude changed so significantly?

After Brudering introduced the meeting with Yan Shanglong, Westwood asked senior federal government officials to express their opinions on the current situation. The result would not be much better. Aides represented by the Secretary of Defense believe that China is testing the confidence of the United States and determining whether it is necessary to land on Japan; aides led by the National Security Advisor believe that China hopes to hold a ceasefire negotiation with Japan through the United States and end the war as soon as possible.

As always, it took hours of discussion and no resolution was reached.

After letting Bruderly stay, Westwood sent away other staff members.

"Overall, the Chinese Foreign Minister expressed his sincerity and hoped to negotiate a truce with Japan through us." Brudering paused for a moment and said, "But the Chinese Foreign Minister's attitude is still tough. I mentioned several times that the strategic blockade was lifted and third-party ships were allowed to transport some strategic materials related to humanitarian aid to Japan. The Chinese Foreign Minister not only did not agree, but also said that before the war ended, China will strictly implement the strategic blockade until Japan admitted its defeat."

"Acknowledge defeat?"

Brudering nodded and said, "Yan Shanglong did not clearly put forward the conditions for Japan to recognize the defeat, but made relevant hints. According to my understanding, if Japan agrees to conduct a ceasefire negotiation, China will issue a series of ceasefire conditions. Only Japan accepts all ceasefire conditions to recognize the defeat."

"It must be very harsh conditions."

"No question. China hopes to achieve national interests to the greatest extent possible through negotiations."

Westwood said: "In this way, China has realized the disadvantages of the war continuing. Or the burden of war is too heavy. It is eager to end the war through negotiations."

"I can't say that for the time being." Brude glanced at the president. "From the situation we have mastered, China's war expenditures and war losses were not large. Cia has long confirmed that after the war started, some of China's military factories were producing at full speed. The war funds have been allocated. More importantly, after a few days, the casualties in China were not large. The number of casualties was less than 500. The number of wounded people did not exceed 2,000. All of them were under the tolerance of China. From this, it can be roughly inferred that China is not in a hurry to end the war."

"Then what is China's initiative to propose the negotiation purpose?"

"Diplomatic means or political means." Brude smiled coldly and said, "Yaksi and Alfonta took the initiative to visit Beijing, indicating that the EU has wavered and wanted to confront China because of this war. Wang Yuanqing accurately understood the EU's intentions and seized the opportunity. China took the initiative to propose a ceasefire negotiation. It has already taken the lead in diplomacy and politics. The problem now is that if Japan agrees to conduct a ceasefire negotiation, China will definitely actively participate. It will give Japan's completely unacceptable conditions in the negotiation. As long as Japan destroys the negotiations, China will have enough reasons to continue. At that time, no matter we are

, neither the EU can blame China. Of course, if Japan refuses negotiations, China has more reason to win over the EU. More importantly, whether Japan agrees to accept negotiations is closely related to the strategic assistance we provide. As long as we put pressure on Japan, Sasashi Murakami will have no choice. That is to say, our attitude determines the final result of the armistice negotiations. If the negotiations fail, China will not only take the opportunity to expand the scale of the war and strengthen the strategic blockade against Japan. It will also create us to secretly undermine the negotiations and destroy our relations with the EU, and ultimately achieve the goal of differentiating the Western countries group."

"That is, China's local actions are directed at Western countries, not Japan."

Brudering nodded, indicating that this is exactly what it means.

Westwood breathed a long breath and lit half of the cigars.

Without Brudering's analysis, Westwood knew China's intentions. After the Secretary of State conducted a comprehensive analysis, Westwood saw it more clearly.

From an objective standpoint, Westwood has to admit that the card played by Wang Yuanqing is very beautiful.

If we take the long-term far, Westwood would rather believe that before the war broke out, Wang Yuanqing thought of this step and planned related actions.

The bombing of all Japan's nuclear facilities has triggered humanitarian disasters, allowing Western countries to make a big fuss about "humanitarianism", triggering internal conflicts among Western countries, using the EU to put pressure on the United States, and ultimately forcing the United States to recognize China's hegemony in the Western Pacific region!

The whole process is tied up one by one, without any gaps.

Next, China has taken the lead regardless of whether the armistice negotiations are held or not.

What should the United States do?

After smoking the cigar, Westwood still didn't think of a countermeasure.

Delin glanced at it, and Westwood knocked out the cigarette butt.

"I think it's better to respond to changes now." Brudering knew what the president was thinking.

Westwood nodded and signaled Brudering to continue.

"In terms of negotiations, we actively cooperate and try to delay the specific issues of negotiations, such as the Japanese territory occupied by China, and the post-war reconstruction of Japan," Brudering paused for a while and said, "Overall, what we need most is morality. Negotiations are time-consuming, and it is not surprising that they will delay for several months. For China, the longer the negotiations are delayed, the more likely they are to make mistakes in the war, such as causing a large number of civilian casualties, etc. In other words, for us, negotiations can be delayed, but for China, negotiations cannot be delayed. As long as China makes mistakes, we can turn the situation around."

"Do you think Wang Yuanqing didn't think of this?"

Brudering browed slightly and said nothing.

"To this day, we have to accept that China's strategic plan is very strict, almost taking into account the various possible situations." Westwood took out a cigar from the sandalwood box. "At the beginning, we didn't believe that China could defeat Japan within a few days. Facts have proved that China not only did it, but also did a very good job. From another perspective, can we defeat Japan within a few days? Obviously impossible! We must believe that China has been planning for this war for several years, and almost all military construction is targeted at Japan. The final outcome of the war is no longer suspense, and even if we participate in the war, it is impossible to prevent Japan from losing."

Brudering suffered a little, not refuting the president's point of view.

At the beginning of the meeting, the Secretary of Defense proposed: Westwood rejected the idea of ​​sending troops to the war without thinking. The reason is that participating in the war cannot change the final outcome, and will only drag the United States into the war.

"In that case, what we need to consider is not how to deal with China, but how to realize national interests."

"The president means..."

"Why is China going to war against Japan just the 'Japanese nuclear issue'?" Westwood smiled coldly and said, "The Japanese nuclear issue is indeed very important. Everyone knows that a Japan with nuclear weapons is China's biggest threat. But if you look at it a little longer, you can find that China's war against Japan is not only to solve the 'Japanese nuclear issue', but to lay the foundation for future development. Since the Fourth India-Pakistan War, China's status as a global major power has gradually gained recognition by solving the surrounding problems. However, if China wants to replace us, it still lacks several key conditions, such as influence in other regions, military delivery capabilities to the world, and decision-making power in international affairs. Defeating Japan, China's international status will inevitably be comprehensively improved. It won't be long before China will solve the South Asian issue and lay the foundation for moving towards other hot spots in the world."

"In this way, we must try our best to ensure Japan's post-status.

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Westwood nodded and said, "This is our fundamental purpose. No matter what the war is like or what the negotiations are like, only by protecting Japan can we restrain China to the greatest extent and force China to continue to concentrate its efforts to solve surrounding problems rather than directly confronting us."

Brudering pondered for a while and said, "In this case, we must communicate with Japan as soon as possible."

"Keiyama Shikawa is still in Washington?"

"Already gone to New York."

"Finding him as soon as possible, let him report to Murakami Sasaki and understand Japan's attitude."

"There is also the EU, we must hurry up."

Westwood nodded and said, "Only by uniting with the West can we overcome China's challenges. I will speak with the leaders of major EU countries as soon as possible to clarify our position and strive to obtain EU support. In any case, this is not a challenge for us, but a challenge for the entire Western world."

Brudering didn't say much, the president's attitude was already very clear.

After leaving the White House, Bruderlin immediately sent a helicopter to pick up Shikawa Kitama to Washington, and expressed the US attitude to the Japanese Foreign Minister, hoping that Shikawa Kitama could contact Sadashi Murakami as soon as possible and give a positive response to China's "arms negotiations".

Westwood contacted the British Prime Minister, Spanish Prime Minister, Italian Prime Minister, German Prime Minister and French Prime Minister to inform the five major EU member states of the United States of America about its active mediation actions, hoping that the EU can make positive contributions to the "China-Japan Armistice Negotiation".

Will the war stop here?
Chapter completed!