kvmb Chapter 384 ASEAN Interim Meeting
Chapter 384 ASEAN Interim Meeting
"Let Australia wait for a while. After we have negotiated with South Indonesia, we can organize the ASEAN Leaders' Meeting." Wang Ze closed the meeting minutes and put them on the table.
After obtaining South China's agreement, Suharto immediately took his men to Singapore and then took South China's airship to the new city.
All the surrounding countries have advanced airships specially made for South China, except for South Indonesia.
It’s not that they don’t have money. After all, they are a country and they still have enough money for an airship. It’s just that Nanhua will only accept Singapore dollars.
Because all trade with South China has been cut off, they have no channels to exchange for new currency.
A small amount can be exchanged from a third party country, but an airship is so expensive that it is too expensive to send it from a third party.
Suharto sat on the airship and looked at the citizens riding with him. Suharto thought: "When we join ASEAN, we must first buy a high-end airship. He didn't want to ride on the same airship with these people who were not of the same level as him in the future."
After the airship takes off to a high altitude, as long as there is no extreme weather along the way, it can travel very fast and reach the new city in just a few hours.
After getting off the airship, the person who came to Nanhua to welcome him was Tian Yi, who was also the second highest official in the Nanhua government.
Tian Yi warmly welcomed Suharto and others and invited them to have lunch at the New Town Hotel.
After the meal, everyone took a short break and Suharto couldn't wait to start the formal talks.
When he learned that Australia was also going to join ASEAN, he immediately realized that he could not delay any longer.
Once Australia successfully joins, southern Indonesia will be caught in the dilemma of being surrounded by ASEAN countries on all sides.
Faced with such a situation, he couldn't help but worry about the future development prospects of southern Indonesia, and was even more worried that his country would be divided up by other countries.
In Suharto's eyes, South China, a seemingly peaceful country, actually hides strong aggressiveness.
Although Nan Hua touted its peace advocacy in the media, he did not believe in the superficiality.
After all, was such a vast territory voluntarily given up by former countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and India?
Only five years after its founding, the country had already launched wars against five countries.
In his eyes, it is ridiculous that such a country can be packaged as a so-called "peaceful country".
However, he could only bury these thoughts deep in his heart and would not reveal them to anyone else.
Nowadays, even when facing Chinese people, he dare not implement any discriminatory policies.
In today's Southeast Asia, the Chinese are no longer the vulnerable group that was bullied by others as they once were.
In the past two years, there has been an emergence of Chinese people participating in politics in various countries.
Although no Chinese have yet climbed to high positions, their active presence at the grassroots level has already demonstrated a significant improvement in their status.
The Nanhua Government Building is located not far from the Xincheng Hotel, and has now become a bustling commercial district in the new city.
The tall buildings that were built when Wang Ze first arrived here are now fully utilized.
Not only that, the urban construction department of the new city is also actively building more modern high-rise buildings.
The talks between the two sides progressed rapidly and smoothly. The South Indonesian side showed great sincerity and accepted almost all of the requirements put forward by South China.
The atmosphere of the entire meeting was harmonious and both sides had a pleasant conversation. There was no trace of the tense atmosphere of the fierce armed confrontation that occurred not long ago on the island of Sumatra.
Wang Jixin was very satisfied with Suharto's attitude, so he did not interfere too much or make other demands, but reached a consensus with the other party directly.
Three days later, according to Wang Jixin's arrangement, an emergency meeting of ASEAN leaders was grandly held in Xincheng.
The core topic of this meeting was the admission of South Indonesia and Australia into ASEAN.
Prior to this, Nanhua had conducted in-depth communication with various countries and received support from them.
At the beginning of the meeting, the participants first expressed a warm welcome to the two countries' participation. Even Sukarno smiled and applauded, although his smile seemed a little forced and unnatural.
In fact, deep down, Sukarno would rather see Southern Indonesia not join ASEAN, because in this way, they might still have a chance to regain Southern Indonesia.
The reality disappointed him greatly, but as a politician, he still needed to keep a superficial smile and accept this fact.
"The agreement on the accession of Australia and South Indonesia will be signed in the near future. Now let's discuss the second issue, and it is just right that Australia and South Indonesia can also participate in the discussion together." Wang Jixin said to everyone after the welcome ceremony.
The leaders of all countries were able to understand it directly, except Mars from Australia who needed someone to translate for him.
Mars saw this situation and naturally understood that Chinese has now become the common language of ASEAN.
If they don't know Chinese, they will seem out of place in ASEAN.
"The industrial construction of various countries has been basically completed in the past two years, but the progress is too slow. The quality of personnel in various countries is uneven. We, Nanhua, hope to establish technical training schools in various countries to improve the capabilities of your workers and technicians. I wonder what you think about this?" Wang Jixin said the second thing.
The conference hall suddenly fell into silence, and leaders of various countries were weighing the pros and cons in their minds.
After all, this seems to be a good thing no matter how you look at it, but everyone knows the current situation in their country, and they are powerless to change it.
The low quality of the people has always been a problem that has troubled them.
Although Nanhua's aid-built factory has been completed, problems and issues have frequently arisen during its actual operation.
These factories are of great significance to them because they contain a large number of their personal shares.
So even though they are leaders of various countries, they will support without hesitation any decision that is beneficial to the factory.
As other countries expressed their agreement one after another, Mars was left standing there alone, at a loss as to what to do.
The current situation confused him because he couldn't understand how such an important decision could be made on the spot in a meeting.
Normally, shouldn't such things be concluded after in-depth domestic discussions, congressional votes, and detailed planning?
He felt that all this was too unreasonable.
Faced with the strange looks from leaders of other countries, Mars couldn't help feeling nervous and uneasy.
He had no choice but to say that he did not have the authority to agree to this proposal on his own and that he needed to report it to the relevant domestic departments.