In the center of Lanfang City, underneath a 30-story luxury new office building, there are all kinds of official vehicles parked, and it looks very lively.
This new office building was completed last year and now houses the offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Harmony) and the Ministry of Commerce.
Just a few years ago, Lanfang's infrastructure was much more backward than it is today. Moreover, because the country is small and there are few public employees, three or four departments often share an office building with no more than ten floors.
Nowadays, because international cooperation and foreign trade are increasing sharply every year, those facade departments and hardware facilities involved in foreign cooperation have also been replaced with new ones.
Although the number of staff is far from enough to fill a 30-story office building, we need to build more magnificent conference rooms and provide more supporting facilities. For example, each floor of the office will be equipped with a rest area on a 1:1 basis. If you are tired from working overtime,
You can have a separate rest cabin to sleep in.
There is a free coffee bar, a snack corner, a gym with the most complete equipment in the world, a rooftop greenhouse garden with a glass sunroom on the top floor, and an indoor oxygen bar.
All in all, the facilities are as grand as they come, and the facilities are more humane and considerate than the Google headquarters 20 years later. The employee canteen occupies two floors, one for each department. It is open both on working days and holidays, and serves a variety of dishes.
It covers everything from Chinese food to Western food to Southeast Asian style Bak Kut Teh.
The studio where the press conference is held occupies three floors, one for each department, and a third floor for backup. If there is an equipment failure in one of the department's studios at any time, there can be a mobile one.
A spare tire ensures that there is a place to hold a press conference anytime and anywhere 24 hours a day.
In a 30-story office building, there are only offices on the 12th floor and supporting facilities on the 18th floor. In this way, each employee's office space is extremely spacious.
The reporters from various countries who came that day are originally from major news agencies stationed in Southeast Asia. They usually stay in Lijiapo or Xiangjiang. Today they came to Lanfang temporarily. After all, there are not so many news for them to cover in Xiangjiang, so the permanent residents are idle.
However, many of them have been to Lanfang in the past few years, especially during the major ceremonies such as the start of construction of Lanfang Tower and the ribbon-cutting of the main building of Burj Al Arab a year and a half ago. Lanfang invited a lot of guests from the media circles from various countries.
After getting off the plane today, and walking all the way to the city center, most reporters who had been here before couldn't help but sigh: "The infrastructure development in Lanfang is so fast! They are simply infrastructure crazy! I haven't been here for only a year and a half, and they are here again.
So many more luxurious facilities!”
"The quality of this press conference studio has surpassed that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Li Jiapo, and is more complete than the facilities of the film and television companies in Xiangjiang."
While reporters and friends secretly observed and discussed, Tang Jia had appeared, elegantly and elegantly dressed. With the light shining on her face, she looked graceful and elegant.
After all, Lanfang was still a minor in matters, so the spokesperson directly asked the female minister to make a guest appearance.
A building can be built if you have money, but a capable team of trusted talents is not so easy to expand, and there is no need to raise too many idle people whose reliability is unknown.
"I am very glad that everyone has come to attend this clarification meeting about the legitimate defense and counter-suppression of bandits by our navy in the Banda Sea and Arafura Sea in India. Here today, we will fully answer the international community's questions about various details.
But before that, I will give a concentrated explanation of several major doubts that I have learned so far."
Tang Jia spoke the opening remarks gracefully, then waved her hand, and a map of Southeast Asia was projected on the projection screen behind her.
Tang Jia pointed and said: "As far as I know, the issue that everyone is most concerned about right now is whether the 'legitimate defense' we insist on meets the constituent elements, and the specific time, place and process of the causes and consequences. Especially yesterday, the relevant Indonesian foreign affairs department said
This was also questioned in the protests.
Here, I can clearly say that on October 9, Chinese citizen Gu Kun’s yacht Zhu Sen was attacked in the Arafura Sea near 132 degrees 47 minutes east longitude and 3 degrees 22 minutes south latitude.
Attacked by Indonesian pirate forces.
That area is 110 nautical miles away from the nearest Indonesian island, which is the southeasternmost island in the East Maluku Islands. The closest point to the Australian mainland is Kakadu Port in the northwest corner of Australia, and the distance is 176 nautical miles. According to
According to the equidistant center line principle of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the location of the first incident does not belong to Indonesian territorial waters, nor is it Australian territorial waters. At best, it can only be regarded as Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone.
In fact, as far as I know, the Indonesian authorities have never explicitly accepted or rejected the 'equidistance center line principle' since the promulgation of the International Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1975. In other words, we can think that the Indonesian authorities have always been consistent on this issue.
The adoption of a vague and ambiguous attitude cannot be ruled out as pragmatic considerations based on maximizing interests..."
Tang Jia's words were eloquent and elegant.
Some of these international legal principles may be difficult for laypeople to understand without explanation.
The demarcation of the exclusive economic zone does not require an "equidistance center line". It is just a reference standard provided by the United Nations. It is recommended to do so. However, if the two countries on the border reach an agreement through consultation, you have to follow the natural geographical extension of the continental shelf.
It is also possible to divide spheres of influence based on principles.
What she said was also foreshadowing what happened next.
"...According to our understanding of the local situation in previous years, in the past 25 years, the Indonesian Coast Guard's attempts to maintain international navigation and fishery order in the local area have been far inferior to the relevant Australian departments. At least in the past 25 years, the Australians have still been
To the relevant request for help, help and conduct international maritime law enforcement 20 times.
It can be seen that the Indonesian authorities have not actually implemented their maintenance of the order of international navigation freedom in the theoretical exclusive economic zone. In this environment, the parties cannot be expected to solve the problem without self-rescue and counterattack when encountering an emergency. Moreover, when Gu Kun encountered
The pirates who arrived are very dangerous and may launch a second attack when they sail through the Arafura Sea-Banda Sea junction. Therefore, the counterattack against their strongholds is entirely a suppression of the potential risk of retaliation...
…”
AFP, AP, and TASS reporters nodded secretly after hearing this. It seemed that the Lanfang people had a very solid theoretical foundation.
The rest depends on whether the Lanfang people's evidence is solid and whether they can string together the theoretical chain.
The Indonesian reporters were very angry, but they did not have enough status and were too embarrassed to be the first to ask questions, so they followed the script arranged by their previous trust relationship and waited for a while, not forgetting to wink at the reporter from the Australian Associated Press next to them.
The Australian Associated Press is the Australian branch of Reuters, so a few seconds later, an Australian Associated Press reporter stood up and questioned.
The reporter’s name was Marcus Payne. He asked sharply: “Minister Tang, how much actual evidence do you have for all the fanciful hypotheses you mentioned? Is there any clear audio-visual evidence at the first scene of the pirate attack?
?Can these audio-visual evidence conclusively prove its time and location?"
"A very good question. Of course we have evidence. You can watch these videos. Moreover, I want to say that because Mr. Gu Kun went to Sydney to participate in the Olympics before, he was afraid that the Australians would be disadvantageous to him, so he kept asking me to attend the whole process.
Along with him, I helped him handle possible international disputes in a timely manner. On the day of the pirate attack, I was on board the Zhusen and witnessed the entire incident."
Tang Jia was not ambiguous at all. He answered directly and asked the staff to play a video shot on film.
From the moment the Indonesians fired the first shot, and even took the lead in using the rocket launcher, they were clearly photographed. No one can say that these guys are not pirates.
Reporter Marcus Payne questioned a few points and found that there was nothing he could do to make a difference, so he took a roundabout way: "Then how do you prove that after the pirates who attacked for the first time were repelled by you, other slave owners in nearby waters
Do you still have the ability and motivation to launch a second strike against you? According to the previous description, your second strike is completely a 'fake defense' or an 'after-the-fact defense'!"
Tang Jia was not angry at all: "Sir, judging whether it is a false defense or an after-the-fact defense cannot be seen from God's perspective. Only the parties concerned have to have a say in the environment at that time. Bandayuno and Yusuf
I think only those who have been enslaved by him can tell how cruel the slave lord and pirate leader is, and how determined he is to take revenge after being thwarted."
Marcus Payne sneered: "You're not talking about the slaves you rescued, are you? If they are just illiterate slave workers who don't understand the rules, I doubt they can distinguish between kindness and justice. You rescued them
, it is also very easy for them to commit perjury.
But what we are discussing now is not the issue of whether it is legal and reasonable to rescue slaves, but the issue of hypothetical defense against cross-border pirates! The master Q is the master Q, and the human Q is the human Q. One thing is the same thing."
Haha, from this sentence, you can see the hypocrisy of this guy from the Australian Associated Press.
When facing their imaginary enemies, they all shamelessly preached that "human Q is higher than the main Q". However, when their potential allies became the dirty ones in their pockets, their rhetoric changed to "the main Q is the main Q".
Q, person Q is person Q'.
Tang Jia sneered in disgust for a few seconds, and then said calmly: "You are judging a gentleman with a villain's heart. We never said that we would ask slaves to testify - today, we have invited two witnesses.
They were accidentally discovered and rescued by us at the scene.
But their personal independence can be completely guaranteed because they are reporters from AFP. I asked Mr. Pierre and Ms. Jeanne to give detailed testimonies. And they not only have testimonies, but also a lot of audio-visual materials accumulated over the years."
"What? You actually rescued the AFP reporter in advance? How come we didn't know?" Marcus Payne suddenly felt a bit bitter in his mouth, and the biting matter might not be easy to deal with.
"Why should we announce it in advance? Is this information important? More important than pirates and slaves? And, didn't we follow the procedure and announce it today?" Tang Jia looked innocent, seemingly unaware that the Australians had bad intentions.