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The other executives also stared blankly at the Fox News live broadcast on TV.

The collapse of those Chinatown buildings was not just about the buildings themselves, but also about the security, confidence, and economy of the United States.

President Ketton looked at the Finance Minister: "Given this situation, could we urgently declare a stock market shutdown?"

The Finance Minister nodded: "Okay!"

President Croton: "You gather your people, discuss whether the market needs to be closed, analyze the pros and cons, and then discuss it at the general meeting."

The Finance Minister replied sternly, "Yes!"

President Croton: "Also, hold a press conference. I'm going to address the nation! The Secretariat, prepare the speech!"

Secretary: "Yes!"

President Croton: "And..."

He issued orders one by one, and although the senior management of various departments had some disagreements, they still cooperated very seriously.

……

Before the press conference could even begin,

News had already spread throughout Europe. BBC News and other major European news outlets were frantically reporting on the bombing of Chinatown in the middle of the night, although there were only photos and no videos.

The news broadcast sent shockwaves through Europe.

Countless people were woken up by the phone call and groaned out of bed.

"Wake up! Something's happened!"

"Chinatown has been bombed to the ground!"

All of Europe is in an uproar!

"My goodness!"

"Crazy, crazy!"

"Oh no, this is a huge disaster!"

Those with a keen sense of smell... no, it should be said that all stock market investors realized that the stock market was about to crash.

Because Wall Street is the world's financial center, its collapse would harm the global economy.

……

On Hong Kong Island, however...

It was already past 10 a.m.

Because of the collapse of the Statue of Liberty, ATV and TVB spent a lot of money to find friends in the United States to send back the news in real time.

then……

When news of the bombing of Chinatown reached them, both television stations were shocked.

They didn't even wait until midnight; they immediately interrupted the news broadcast.

The broadcast on two television stations immediately triggered widespread panic among stock market investors, eroding their confidence in the future of the stock market. In Hong Kong Island, buying stocks is as common as betting on horse races.

This led to widespread panic and a rapid sell-off of stocks.

Hong Kong is a free port, but it has no resources or output of its own. Its economy mainly relies on imports and exports and trade and financial services.

When something happens on Chinatown, Hong Kong, as an economic entity, is the first to be hit.

then,

In just one hour, the Hong Kong stock market plummeted by 200 points.

……

Meanwhile, the situation in Japan and South Korea was equally dire; as soon as the news broke, their stock markets plummeted!

……

at night,

President Croton is finally ready.

He held a press conference, making his first public appearance and delivering a speech to the nation and the world after the incident.

This press conference,

Reporters came from all over the world, including China, Japan, and South Korea. Even ATV and TVB from Hong Kong came.

President Croton faced thousands of journalists and photographers, his gaze both sorrowful and resolute:

"Good evening. Today, our compatriots, our lives and the freedoms we cherish have been deliberately attacked by the KBFZ."

"Innocent citizens, the elderly, and children suddenly lost their precious lives due to the despicable and heinous acts of terrorists. Faced with images of buildings collapsing and raging fires, we cannot believe the tragedy before our eyes and feel immense sorrow and anger."

“KBFZ attacks may shake our buildings, but they cannot shake the solid foundations of our nation. These acts may crush steel, but they cannot break the American people’s resolve to defend their country.”

"The United States has become a target of attack because our beacon of freedom and opportunity is the brightest, most dazzling, and unstoppable light of freedom in the world."

In front of the television,

Countless Americans shed tears.

Meanwhile, the Xiong Kingdom soldiers, Iraqi soldiers, and soldiers whose countries had been destroyed by the United States, who had smuggled themselves into the United States, were sneering.

Your lives and the freedom we cherish?

Innocent citizens, the elderly, and children?

Freedom and opportunity?

That's so well said!

That sounds so good, but what about our country? What about our freedom? What about our elderly and children?

Isn't our country a country?

Is our freedom not freedom?

Aren't our elderly and children human beings? Are they inferior beings?

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"Today is a day for all Americans to unite in the pursuit of justice and peace."

“Every American will never forget this day. We will strive forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in the world.”

Thank you. Good night.

May God bless the United States!

As President Croton finished speaking, fervent Americans across the country chanted:

"Defend freedom!"

"Justice and peace!"

To others, those cries sounded utterly ridiculous.

Freedom, justice, and peace?

What else has the United States brought to other countries?

Following the press conference, President Ketton announced three orders:

"Declare a state of national emergency!"

"The stock market will be closed for four days, until next Monday!"

"The executive order announced the unfreezing of Iraqi assets in the United States, and plans to allocate $35 billion of the $70 billion Iraq holds in the U.S. banking system to compensate the victims of the Wall Street and Statue of Liberty incidents, and another $35 billion to provide aid to Iraq!"

The announcement of this final, third decision instantly shocked all the reporters and people across the United States.

The enthusiastic supporters shouted, "Well done! Support!"

Many people were shocked: "Has the US gone mad? They're actually doing this? Aren't they worried about other countries' financial security?"

This night,

It passed in this chaos.

Too much has happened; the whole world is in chaos, and the shadow of war is beginning to loom.

……

After a few hours,

Stock markets in Europe are gradually opening.

From Eastern Europe to Western Europe...

As soon as the stock market opened,

As everyone expected, the stocks plummeted like diving athletes.

The destruction of Chinatown has foreshadowed a new round of global economic crisis.

The third global economic crisis since World War II occurred between 1980 and 1982, and now, 10 years have passed.

The global economic recovery has led to a large number of bubbles.

Now, the collapse of Chinatown and the United States' assertive stance suggest that the world may be heading into a new war.

Therefore, everyone is pessimistic about the future of the world economy.

then……

People across Europe sold off their stocks, either withdrawing from the stock market or investing in sectors such as military, healthcare, gold, energy, and oil... and these sectors began to surge.

Not long after, when they arrived in countries in South and North America such as Mexico, Brazil, and Canada, the stock markets crashed at the start of the season.

Mexico, in particular, would have experienced a peso-dollar reserve economic crisis this year even without the Wall Street incident. Now, the 1+1 is greater than 2, and the economic crisis is extremely severe, like falling into the eighteenth level of hell.

Subsequently, the stock market crash, following the path of the sunshine, crossed several news items and reached Australia, island nations, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand...

The Asian financial crisis was originally expected to occur in 97, but now the four Asian Tigers, already facing problems, are experiencing their second day of stock market crashes...

Then the stock market crash followed the sun, sweeping across India, Middle Eastern countries...