1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

"Non-violent non-cooperation is not weakness or stupidity. Instead, it was the most helpless yet simplest and most effective choice for India that Gandhi made after deep reflection."

Haruta's analysis made everyone present fall into deep thought.

So that's how it is. Behind the seeming weakness and incompetence, there actually lies such political wisdom and strategic thinking?

I underestimated that Indian...

Seeing that everyone had a thoughtful look on their faces, Chuntian gave them a timely "lecture":

"Everyone, if you want to become pillars of society and liberators of the world, you must not only broaden your knowledge, but also set aside your arrogance and prejudice, conduct thorough research, and view every country, every nation, and even every individual with respect."

"...yes."

This made some people blush.

They were the same group that had mocked Gandhi before. At this time, Qian Xuesen asked again:

"Ms. Field, since you've said that Gandhi's success had little to do with his own efforts but depended on American strategy and changes in the global situation, will you strongly support India's liberation cause?"

Everyone frowned.

This involves the US's Asia-Pacific strategy and even global strategy. Can we just talk about it casually?

However, Haruta answered calmly:

"Yes and no. I will support the liberation of the Indian region, but I will not support the liberation of India."

India...India region...

"You mean you won't support Gandhi personally? Or support him in unifying India?"

"Yes." "Why?"

"If the US simply wants to replace Britain and become a new global hegemon, then there is no doubt that a unified India, even if only in name only, would be beneficial to US interests..."

Everyone nodded.

This is easy to understand.

Apart from anything else, if there is only one India in the Asia-Pacific region, then the United States will only need to connect with and deal with this one country, and the cost of governance will be greatly reduced.

"However, the path of hegemony and colonialism is doomed to fail. The United States cannot take this foolish path that appears to be full of temptations and sweetness, but is actually full of traps."

Haruta raised his chin slightly:

"The United States must become a beacon to the world, guiding the direction of global progress and the future of mankind. This road is extremely difficult, but I will lead the entire United States along the way."

The Americans present puffed out their chests, their eyes full of enthusiasm and pride, without a trace of doubt, as if that future was already just around the corner.

"...Therefore, the US's attitude towards India is not to follow Gandhi's personal ideas, but to respect the will of the local people."

"You mean to allow the states to be independent?"

"To a certain extent, so to speak, if the local people would prefer it to remain that way."

In fact, Springfield/Mark's idea is not that simple.

Now, the British were against Indian independence, but in order to dismantle the colonial system, the United States had to support “Indian” independence;

But in the future, when the British support "India" independence, the United States will have to oppose India's independence.

"But.…."

Qian Xuesen was somewhat unable to understand the thoughts of this woman whom he respected so much and even regarded as an "all-powerful mentor":

"Isn't the US trying to liberate the world? Then why isn't it pulling the people of India... the Indian region out of the quagmire? Is there something wrong with awakening the people?"

"You are just being arrogant." Chuntian pointed in Qian Xuesen's direction:

"Many parts of India are still mired in the era of slash-and-burn slavery. It's not easy to force them into modern society. Otherwise, Gandhi wouldn't have chosen such an unheard-of method as non-violent non-cooperation."

"There's nothing wrong with awakening the people, but who's responsible for awakening them? Us? We're already lucky enough to be able to correct America's own deviations. How could we possibly have extra power to help India? Do you think I'm a god?"

I think most Americans regard you as a god. Qian Xuesen complained in his heart, but did not refute and continued to listen.

"I won't mention anything else for now. If the British can just lay a few traps during the independence process, it will be enough to consume most of the United States' strength in this area."

Chuntian tapped the location of India on the map of Southeast Asia:

"If I were British, I would agree to the independence of India, and then arbitrarily divide the region into India and other countries, and even arbitrarily divide India into states within India;"

"I will force Muslims and Hindus to live together, I will make Tamils ​​and Gaurangas share one land, and I will make Sikhs a special and superior race in India..."

"In this way, the British can make the entire Indian region uneasy forever without paying any price, and make the United States or other challengers who try to change this all fall into a quagmire!"

Everyone shuddered.

This certainly seems like something the British would do, and it would certainly achieve the effect Ms Field describes.

If India is really in the situation they just discussed, then the difficulty of unifying the country is no less than rebuilding a country from scratch.

In the end, Qian Xuesen could only sigh:

"Ms. Field, is there no other way?" "Yes!"

“You’re talking about…”

"If Gandhi wanted to achieve the true unification of India, there was only one way for him to do it: he had to become Zhuanxu, Qin Shi Huang, and Emperor Wu of Han at the same time..."

Of course, there are also teachers, which is the most difficult.

"...Without resolving these issues, which China essentially resolved thousands of years ago, forcibly unifying India will only lead to endless internal strife and inter-state feuds... Do you think Gandhi could have done it?"

There's no way it can be done.

If he could do that, why would he need to engage in "non-violent non-cooperation"?

No wonder Ms. Fidel said that although Gandhi's method is suitable for India, it is a "scam" approach that will plant countless mines for the future of India, the Asia-Pacific and the world, waiting to explode one day.

Therefore, the "Indian region" can be liberated, but "India" cannot be independent.

I understand the reason, but...

The "liberation of the world" that Ms. Field talks about seems to be quite different from the "liberation of the world" of communism...

503 I have at least three ways to get to India! Three!

Considering political considerations, India's current situation and the international environment, Gandhi's "non-violent non-cooperation" resistance movement was undoubtedly supported by the majority of "Indians", otherwise he would not have been able to persist;

This even included former enemies - Muslims, who once stood with Gandhi and used peaceful protests and strikes to fight against the British (of course, they later withdrew because they could not stand it anymore).

But as Springfield said, Gandhi's approach was actually a kind of "sly trickery". If Britain itself was not weak and unwilling to cause major unrest in India, Gandhi would have become a "godbrother" long ago.

Those who can see this clearly are not just Gandhi and many international leaders like Springfield. There are also many people in India who have a clear understanding of this.

Therefore, out of different ideals and interests, some people chose to join Gandhi, because this could avoid bloodshed, avoid the loss of their own property, and may also gain greater benefits and higher status from the British;

After all, in 1885, the retired British Indian civil servant Hume founded the Indian National Congress with the original intention of building a bridge between the Indian landlord class and the British colonists;

This group of landlords only wanted to gain autonomy from the British and protect their own class interests. They did not intend to overthrow the British rule, but just hoped that the British would give them more power.

This group of people recognized Gandhi as their big brother, not because they really agreed with his ideals, but because the British liked people like Gandhi who could objectively help them suppress the Indian national liberation movement.

But not all Indians were fools willing to surrender to the British and be slaughtered, and not all Indians were landlords. In fact, armed resistance never stopped.

This group of people, like Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of England and the bald man in China, believed that Gandhi was a "half-naked psychopath" and hated him very much.

When the First World War ended in 1918, the British immediately promulgated the Rowlatt Act, blatantly violating their pre-war promise of independence for India and frantically massacring Indians who were suppressing the uprising. Gandhi stood up and called on everyone to "non-violence and non-resistance";

It would have been fine if he had just shouted a few times, but at a conference where tens of thousands of people had died and the British had finally been forced to sit down for negotiations, Gandhi actually publicly demanded that those who perpetrated violence voluntarily surrender and confess their crimes!

Both the British and Indian negotiators thought Gandhi had lost his mind, and the rebels were so angry that they almost beat him to death on the spot.

Although this turmoil successfully forced Gandhi to stop his "non-violent non-cooperation", it also dealt a severe blow to the armed uprising because of Gandhi's personal reputation.

Even Nehru, Gandhi's former fanboy, began to feel deeply confused and suspicious about Gandhi's thoughts, actions and motives:

It's not Big Brother, why are you making trouble?

The fighting has gotten this far, and the British are starting to give in, and you suddenly come out and tell everyone to lay down their weapons and for all the leaders to surrender to the British and beg for mercy?

Are you really not a British dog?

After successfully preventing several large-scale armed uprisings across India, Gandhi's value to the British increased greatly, but his reputation among the Indian armed struggle faction had become as stinky as dog shit.

If Gandhi had not enjoyed great prestige, enjoyed many supporters within the Congress Party, and had played a role in "awakening the Indian people's consciousness of independence," resistance groups like the "Akali Lions" would have killed him long ago.

"Humph! Unreasonable idiot."

When a young man in his 30s saw the news that Gandhi was on hunger strike in prison again and was widely praised by the media, he slammed the newspaper on the table in disgust, took a few deep breaths, and calmed down his anger and contempt.

protest?

Hunger strike? Sit-in?

If this method can make the British surrender, then what is the point of all the blood we shed?

Although India doesn't have the saying "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun", the meaning is similar. Over the years, young people have long seen through the tricks played by the British:

When Gandhi went on a hunger strike, they pretended to be afraid, endured for a while, and then made concessions on some insignificant or necessary issues, slightly meeting the protesters' demands, and then found an opportunity to tear up their promises, and the cycle continued;

During this process, Gandhi's personal reputation rose, and the stability the British wanted was achieved, but India's independence was nowhere in sight!

If there is no powerful external force to intervene, I am afraid that when Gandhi and he are reduced to bones, the British will still be the British, and India will still be the devastated and oppressed India!

A strong external force... A strong external force...

The young man's eyes turned to another lady in the newspaper.

Perhaps I made a mistake in coming to Europe to seek refuge and foreign aid. I wasted two years and achieved nothing.

Perhaps if I had approached the new US president earlier, things would have been different. But would Ms. Field have known my name, Subhas Chandra Bose?

Subhas Chandra Bose, born into an Indian lawyer family and an activist in the Indian independence movement, once joined Gandhi's "Non-Violent Non-Cooperation Movement", but later took a completely different path from Gandhi:

He advocated thorough land reform, the elimination of the landlord system, the industrialization of the country, the establishment of a strong army, and the use of violence and blood to oppose the rule of the British colonial authorities.

How good this person's political struggle and national construction were is another matter of debate, but Wang Shao said that like Gandhi, he spent his entire life implementing his own ideas.

Compared with Gandhi, Bose is not as famous in later generations. There are three main reasons:

1. Under the Anglo-American-French neo-colonial system, Gandhi, a "moderate non-resistance activist," was clearly more popular than Bose, a "bastard" who constantly claimed to want to kill the colonizers.

2. For India's independence, he once collaborated with the Japanese and Germans, which naturally put him in the Axis order. Later, he accepted political asylum from the Soviet Union, so he was both "fascist" and "anti-American";

3. In 1945, possibly due to the involvement of Japanese spies, he fell from a crashed plane and died in a hospital in Taipei a few days before Japan surrendered.

All in all, a "radical" "semi-fascist" and "semi-anti-American" who flirted with Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union and died so miserably in the end would naturally not receive much publicity.

Even so, Bose's portrait was later hung in front of the Indian National Assembly together with Gandhi and Nehru, which shows his status in India.

At this time, Bose was arrested by the British for organizing a resistance movement in 1930 and was forced to flee to Europe for asylum. He wrote books and looked for supporters for India's independence.

Of course, this is like looking for bread in a cesspool. After hitting a wall in various European countries, Boss noticed the new US president, Springfield.

Originally, he had only been interested in this seemingly unusual woman because of her gender and the turmoil in the United States. Over the past year, he had also begun to pay attention to her political views and unexpectedly discovered:

The other party seems to support global colonial liberation! This global tour has verified this.

Philippine independence was confirmed by Ms. Field’s public speeches;

Indonesia's independence, Ms. Field's pressure on the Netherlands is also a form of support;

Thailand's constitutionalists and royalists are slamming each other, and now the outside world is speculating that the United States is involved;

As for Gandhi's hunger strike and the Indian protest march...this is what makes Bose most hesitant.

If this is also the work of Ms. Field, then the problem is very serious.

Bose believed that foreign forces that supported Gandhi's "non-violent non-cooperation" approach would never be forces with good intentions towards India.

In fact, non-violent non-cooperation is something that is extremely in line with the appetite of the colonizers and the ruling class. Needless to say, what kind of thoughts do the forces that support this thing have towards India?

Bose was very worried that Gandhi was actually being secretly supported by the United States (at least the target). In this case, India would be lucky not to be sacrificed in the struggle between Britain and the United States, let alone independence.

—Thinking of this, Boss turned his attention to another news report in another newspaper, which said:

When Japanese Prince Fujiwara no Kanezane visited Taiwan, he was first assassinated by Taiwanese Zheng Qingshui in a lone wolf style, and then he was assassinated by a bombing by a Taiwanese resistance organization.

This incident itself is nothing. These days, not only Japan, but also Europe is in chaos. A second "Sarajevo Incident" may break out at any time.

But the problem is, according to media reports, Zheng Qingshui stated on the spot that he had no idea Fujiwara no Kanezane was present before the assassination, otherwise he would not have carried out the assassination, and the assassination organization also publicly apologized to Fujiwara no Kanezane.

This is very difficult.

Killing the wrong person is one thing, and publicly apologizing is another;

On the other hand, Fujiwara Kanezane criticized the assassination organization but also expressed understanding of their motives.