Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Isn't that what you laid off?

In their view, Vance seems to be calling for global contraction while simultaneously demanding that the US military maintain a global presence, essentially employing a left-brain attack on the right brain, with the Sharp Point replacing thinking.

But this is precisely the core issue concerning the United States and the Maga movement.

A country cannot both dominate the world and shrink globally.

Vance also raised his own questions:

"Without victory, no president or emperor in America will be able to step down."

This is Theodore Roosevelt's curse.

The United States experienced two great transformations in modern history. The first was during Theodore Roosevelt's eight years in office, when the US transformed from a regional immigrant nation into a world-class power capable of participating in global affairs. From policies of reconciliation with minority groups to the global White Fleet and the dismantling of trusts to antitrust reforms, Roosevelt's strong leadership was evident in every aspect.

But it was also Theodore Roosevelt who pioneered America's global expansion. From that time onward, a growing habit emerged that US presidents had to demonstrate global dominance or risk losing their position. This problem took shape after World War II and became a chronic issue during the Cold War.

Of course, what's rather funny is that Theodore Roosevelt once tried to get a third term and found a puppet to replace him, but the puppet broke free from his control, which frustrated Roosevelt.

Therefore, during the second great turning point in modern American history, even though Franklin D. Roosevelt was paralyzed, he still insisted on running for a third and fourth term. This can be considered a valuable lesson learned from his uncle.

For Vance, his reign has reached another low point.

"What should we do now?"

Vance asked a question, but no one answered.

If we start counting from the end of last year, Vance's only victory of the entire year was the annexation of Mexico. Although he put a lot of effort into promoting the idea that Mexican industrial production could supplement American public opinion, the actual result was contrary to his expectations.

Mexico's industrial production chain is dead.

Yes, he's dead.

There are many reasons, including drug cartels taking advantage of the situation to form underground societies and disrupt normal public order; the impact of Chinese and Asia-Pacific industrial products disrupting normal trade demand; Mexican resistance during the war, with workers striking and slowing down to confront American capitalists; and so on.

But the most fundamental reason is that even at this point, the US dollar is still artificially inflated relative to its own economy.

Previously, the US dollar had a currency advantage over the Mexican pesos, allowing Mexican industries to profit and leading to the formation of numerous industrial zones along the border. However, with Mexico's conquest by the United States and the subsequent forced adoption of the US dollar, this currency advantage disappeared.

When the value of currency becomes too high, industrial production loses its profit, and without profit, it cannot be sustained. As a result, the basic industrial areas in northern Mexico collapsed one after another.

The United States must try to maintain a high currency value, otherwise it will be unable to preserve the remaining attributes of the world trade currency.

And so, Mexico rotted away.

Where did the laid-off workers go?

Of course, they went to participate in smuggling.

The port of Grace in the Republic of Baja California expanded its shipping volume several times over, with all imported goods being sold everywhere. As a result, perhaps 80% of the cargo on the U.S. railroads was smuggled without customs data, driving the U.S. Census Bureau crazy.

In Vance's hysteria, the Joint Chiefs of Staff could only try to distract him.

They proposed a new solution: "Perhaps we should try to consider curbing the expansion of the consortium."

The Joint Chiefs of Staff produced a map.

On the map, what appeared before Vance and the American elites was a terrifying monster.

A super monster called the Asia-Pacific Alliance, backed by China, is aggressively expanding and invading the world. In the north, it invades Alaska; in the south, it controls Australia; in the west, it has stormed into Jerusalem, the holy land of Europeans; and in the east, it has provided full support to the Mexican resistance movement.

Vance was very conflicted.

"Damn it, this is really... a global offensive..."

At this point, Vance was back to the traditional American predicament.

The Maga movement focuses on local issues and caters to the needs of Americans; it is a strong form of nativism. Therefore, this populist movement can be used to boost votes and achieve victory.

However, once they come to power using their votes, they will face the contradiction of the United States, as a global hegemon, having to suppress emerging developing countries around the world. This is precisely the reality that the American elite currently sees. It is also the basis for their instigation of Vance to oppose Li Xinghe.

Do you want to retreat, or fight?

……

What was Li Xinghe doing when Asian battleships entered the Mediterranean and the United States experienced a historic moment of devastation in Mexico?

He is settling scores with Makabe Kokubun.

Holding his sweet-smelling younger sister, Kokubun, in his arms, Li Xinghe was watching the Tokyo stock market's fluctuations this year. "You Yongyong, I'm busy, Lin Zaizai, are you free yet..."

Undoubtedly, stock market data is declining as a large number of American conglomerates leave.

But in reality, once these departing conglomerates return to the United States, they will unleash their ruthless scythes, wiping out all the Americans' resources. That will be the moment when their destructive power is truly revealed.

Li Xinghe was looking at the section on physical transactions and industrial development in Tokyo's financial sector.

After watching it, Li Xinghe sighed:

"I have a feeling that, given the current global financial flows, Japan is already a thorn in the side of the United States."

The United States' global financial status has led to its reliance on the service sector as a nation, and its privilege of financial dominance makes it extremely hostile to other financial nations.

Now, Japan has actually given its financial status to China, prompting China to gradually become the world's strongest country.

Without understanding why the United States is hostile to India, which shares a similar ecological niche, one cannot understand why Li Xinghe felt threatened at this moment.

Because it has already touched the very lifeblood of America's financial system.

Upon hearing this, Kokubun Makabe rubbed their cheeks together and asked in a low voice:

"What if he suddenly starts a war?"

"How could that be? He wouldn't..."

As he said this, Li Xinghe suddenly felt that he shouldn't be so certain.

So he changed his tune again:

"It's hard to say. But it must be monitored."

Li Xinghe picked up his phone and relayed the latest instructions to the University of California, Baja California:

"Colonel Saqimu, I authorize you to develop undercover forces in San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in the United States. Promote the independence of the Republic of California. Command Aoyama will provide you with intelligence support. Yes, that's right, we must cut off the departure ports of any possible US attack on East Asia as soon as possible."

Chapter 1013: Li Xinghe, the Savior of Gaza, and Europe's Humiliating Century (4100 words)

"Plutonium? These bastards are already researching plutonium?"

At the Negev Atomic Energy Center, after several days of memory recovery exercises, the special investigation team dispatched by the coalition forces, amidst the bewildered expressions of Israeli researchers, basically figured out what Israel was doing with its nuclear energy.

Aside from the highly enriched uranium used in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons, it's surprising to learn that the Israelis are also secretly researching plutonium enrichment. While the Israelis accuse Iran of producing nuclear weapons, they themselves are already busy with their own nuclear weapons program.

If they were to truly understand it, while it wouldn't pose a major problem, it would undoubtedly be a far more terrifying and arduous journey for the Palestinians.

Because of the poor performance of the Japanese missile research institute, the Allied Forces were very happy to take it over and retained all the original researchers to continue production.

"We'll gladly accept it."

The source of high-abundance plutonium and highly enriched uranium was thus secured.

Most countries around the world know that Li Xinghe's goal is to take over Israel's atomic energy research center. To prevent this from escalating into global public opinion, the coalition should start doing some good deeds to boost its global reputation.

Therefore, the Negev Command of the United Nations Forces dispatched the 1st Security Brigade, an armed police unit urgently brought in from within the country, carrying a large amount of UN aid supplies, to enter the Gaza prison wall and drive out the Israeli army.

They came to the wall and called out to the Israelites inside:

“We are taking over the entire Gaza Strip in the name of the United Nations! The Israeli government has sent a note demanding that you withdraw from Tel Aviv.”

The Israeli troops stationed in Gaza do not want to leave, and the reason is not complicated: they do not want to go to Tel Aviv to die.

But faced with the combined forces' artillery fire, they could only slink away, surrendering all their positions. (The rest of the text appears to be nonsensical and unrelated to the previous sentences.)

The war correspondents snapped photos, capturing this 'historic moment'.

In the photo, Chinese troops proudly dismantle the bunkers symbolizing the siege and blockade, and plant the UN flag, while Israeli troops slunk away in trucks and Merkava tanks.

With the deployment of the 1st Negev Security Brigade by the coalition forces, which took over the security of Gaza in the name of the United Nations and organized Hamas personnel to clear mines, the Gaza Strip, which had suffered more than 100,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of people fleeing during years of Israeli blockade, and now has a population of about 1.4 million, has resumed operation.

The coalition's engineering teams repaired the water station and distributed the food donated by the United Nations. This time, finally, no one opened fire to massacre the children.

Organizations such as the "Gaza Government Reconstruction Committee," the "Gaza Water Supply System Repair Committee," and the "Gaza Food Aid Committee" were established and operated by engineers from the coalition forces, while Hamas prepared to form a Gaza government on the spot.

Media outlets around the world have given this extensive coverage, creating a deluge of publicity.

Although the aircraft carrier Ryukyu was intended to protect Gaza, especially this impoverished region divided by prison walls, it would have needed at least a suitable deep-water pier. However, Gaza actually only had one small port, which had been destroyed by Israel long before the war began.

Therefore, during this period, the coalition forces also sent engineers to organize local people to carry out work-for-relief projects to build local military ports and borrow large Egyptian tugboats to dredge the seabed so that the battleships could move into their new home.

At this juncture, He Yang became even more cautious, and Zhang Fei, with meticulous care, convened a nighttime meeting:

"How can we prevent the Turks or Israelis from launching a surprise attack on us?"

Undoubtedly, the coalition forces appear to have won a great victory, but this is because Israel and Türkiye are still locked in a bloodbath.

After careful consideration, the staff of the Negev Security Zone decided to build a wall based on Israel's existing separation wall, extending from the northeastern Gaza Strip to the southeast into the desert of the Negev Security Zone, thus dividing Israel into two parts. All areas west of the wall would be under the control of the coalition forces.

The staff officers believed that:

"In this way, we only need to defend 90 kilometers of the border. Most of the area is still desert, and the key defense area is less than 40 kilometers."

As for the local Jews, they are not a concern.

What? When building the separation wall from the eastern border of Gaza into the Negev Desert, it enclosed Beersheba, a major military town in southern Israel, the Haredi Jewish community of Rahat, and more than 700,000 Jews?

Alright, if you're not willing, we can return the local Jewish population!

Therefore, the coalition forces launched an operation to expel Jews from the area.

Of course, theoretically this is perfectly legal, because the Israeli government, having been notified, chose to compromise. They also needed more Jewish people to assist them in their "battle for an absolute defensive wall" against Turkey, fighting for every inch of land in a bloody struggle. Therefore, the Israeli government proactively requested to send the Jews here to Tel Aviv.

The two sides signed a secret, unwritten agreement in which the coalition forces would provide Israel with 300 155mm howitzers, 10 tons of artillery shells, and 50 drones. Israel pledged that the coalition forces would "administer" the Gaza Strip and the southern administrative region west of the Negev Line.

The coalition forces did not take the blame themselves, but instead allowed the Israeli army to conscript men.

Israeli soldiers stormed into the homes of local Jews, dragging out the men and taking them away, leaving behind orphans and widows who watched in fear as Chinese onlookers observed the scene. The Chinese then announced that the area would be temporarily placed under the administration of the Negev Security Zone government. The elderly, infirm, and disabled were to obey the government's arrangements.

"No, we don't want to go!"

The locals were terrified, but there was nothing they could do.

The people of southern Israel have truly suffered immensely. The Jewish community here is quite unique, comprised of approximately 800,000 marginalized former Soviet Jews, the most ostracized Ethiopian Jews, and the most extremely conservative Haredi Jews, along with over 100,000 Bedouin pastors.

In other words, the people living in this area where agriculture meets aridity are second-class citizens and Dalits in Israel.

As a result, the Israeli government even took away the Dalits, the lowest of the low.

Under the coalition's clearing operations, within just a few days, only one in ten Jewish men remained in the area.

"Wow, I'm rich! Haha!"

The coalition forces are indeed a very bad organization. After expelling large numbers of local Jews to Tel Aviv, they not only gained about 6 hectares of drip-irrigated farmland in the Mediterranean climate, tens of thousands of habitable houses, modern infrastructure, farmland drip irrigation equipment and photovoltaic power stations left by the Israelis, but also took over the entire control of the Gaza Strip.

There are even more than 300,000 Jewish women who fled from Jewish communities here, as well as local Jewish women who stayed behind, waiting to be assigned by the coalition forces.

Naturally, the coalition decided to establish the Negev Security Zone as its permanent nuclear energy base and a springboard for intervening in the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean.

So they hurriedly called back home, trying to persuade people to come over:

"Damn it, come to the Mediterranean! Move in with your bags! House, wife, land, even a daughter is provided."

The only slightly troublesome thing is being neighbors with the Gaza Strip.

No problem, we can take care of it along with the coalition forces.

Even more interestingly, despite Hamas's strong demands to spread anti-fascist and Nazi ideology, the Gaza Strip remains under military closure. The Palestinians trapped in the Gaza Strip are unaware that a large number of empty houses, unclaimed fields, and even Jewish women have suddenly appeared next door, waiting to be allocated resources.

Inside the wall, Gazans are busy restoring production, repairing their homes, connecting electricity, and cultivating the land. They are also very grateful to the coalition forces for sending them Chinese-made tractors, repairing desalination plants and water supply stations, and teaching them more advanced irrigation and pesticide application techniques using drones. They are completely unaware of the changes happening outside the wall.

Perhaps it's better not to know. The brutal fighting and bloodshed in the north have nothing to do with the people of Gaza. Their mobile apps are filled with 100 ways to rebuild their homes and lives after the crisis. These include things like sending children to school to save on lunch, how to fill out loan applications at the UN military dependents bank, and how to get contraceptives from UN Women and Doctors Without Borders. Combined with the bloody battlefield next door, it creates the illusion of a paradise hidden in hell.

Hamas, being quite astute, organized Gaza residents to hang a large portrait of Li Xinghe in front of the government building and bestow upon him a title:

"Saviors of Gaza!"

Li Xinghe was overjoyed. He first had the global media publicize the event extensively for 10 days, and then personally wrote a reply to the people of Gaza, stating:

"Gaza has held on until now entirely thanks to the strength of its people. I have only offered a tiny bit of support."

Next, they began to provide Gaza with manpower for socialist construction, and suggested that Hamas, in addition to reading "On Protracted War," should also read Mao Zedong's Selected Works and a compilation of Chinese economic history to study economics and develop the region. As for the restoration of Palestine, you should leave it alone; Turkey is too reckless. Let's wait until everything is stable before discussing it.

Although the global media doesn't particularly like Li Xinghe, the Gaza issue has been resolved, and people are generous with their praise for him.

At least in the eyes of the international community, Li Xinghe's coalition forces did a rare good deed by resolving the Gaza issue, a major problem that touches a sensitive nerve around the world.

All countries breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to propagate to their domestic left wing that "the United Nations has sent a joint force to resolve the Gaza issue," "there are no more deaths in Gaza now," and "please stop making trouble and go home."