Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Therefore, Vance did not actively become a fascist, but rather he seemed unable to cope with the political confrontation and had to start a more intense authoritarianism and thought control, which can be regarded as a kind of stress response of the little pig.

Li Xinghe fell into deep thought.

If Vance, whether actively or passively, shifts toward a fascist regime, perhaps the next war is not far off.

Based on this alone, Li Xinghe had already begun to sense that something was amiss.

Suddenly, Kokubun Tsukisawa exclaimed in surprise:

"Ah! What are you doing?"

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that Kokubun Makabe had secretly taken a tiny bit of white liquid from her own flower and inserted it into her sister's narrow passage, while laughing strangely and saying:

Don't waste it!

"Stop fooling around!"

Chapter 1015: You Forbid RMB, the County Magistrate's Wife Must Be Me (3100 words)

2033 1 Month 1 Day.

Washington, D.C.

As a purely political capital, Washington, D.C. has a core urban area with only a few hundred thousand people. Life here is naturally not very stable. It is well known that going out in Washington is a risky move, like crossing the Iraq war zone.

After years of development, the United States finally made the main urban areas of Iraq and Afghanistan much safer to walk at night than Washington, D.C., after being driven out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, in the White House, the obese occupant stood on his balcony, looking down at the Washington Monument in the distance, his heart filled with nothing but anger.

On New Year's Eve, at a Christmas dinner, various sectors of American society kept pressuring Vance, repeatedly spouting nonsense like "the presidential term is only four years" and "hold another election."

I've already declared myself emperor, and you guys still think I'm president?

So Vance first marked the bastards who had urged him to step down that day, then marked their entire list and handed it over to his trusted confidants whom he had transferred from the immigration office.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been repeatedly purged and reorganized since the Trump era, and has even been given additional powers. They have always been tasked with arresting 3000 people a day, which has led to their brutal and unreasonable actions. This group of powerful figures who only care about KPIs was transferred by Vance to form the 'Imperial Police Department'.

So, just a few days after Christmas, a large group of socialites were all arrested and taken to the police station. There was no bail or legal process, only Vance's angry words of "never getting out of this."

By this time, the group of people who supported Vance had changed.

They are no longer populist leaders or fanatical extremists of the Maga movement, nor are they technocrats seeking to devalue the dollar to overcome obstacles.

These people were gradually purged from the upper echelons of politics.

Standing behind Vance today are Wall Street financial groups who are very dissatisfied with Li Xinghe, the bosses and senior executives of the military-industrial complex who are opposed to Li Xinghe's seizure of the US arms sales market, a large number of financial giants, and increasingly conservative and opposition-to-the-rise leaders of high-tech companies in China, the Asia-Pacific region, and South Korea.

In other words, Vance has torn off his mask of feigned populism and is once again putting on the same cloak as the American elites whose interests have been harmed by China's rise.

This simple change is known as the New Year's Day Coup.

As for Obama, the great magician in yellow and black, he disappeared without a trace during this bloody coup, and no one noticed him. This person, who was theoretically the head of the American administration, left no trace like a shadow.

At the national political conference on the first day of the new year, Vance angrily conveyed Wall Street's views:

"The Americas should refer to the Americas of the US dollar."

In fact, Wall Street originally wanted to say that the world belongs to the dollar, but unfortunately this statement is no longer valid.

Therefore, starting in 2033, the United States will reorganize the order in the Americas.

Instead of providing substantial aid to Israel, Romania, or Kosovo, the United States issued a ban on the use of the Asia-Pacific currency and the Renminbi by all countries in the Americas, including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile, which have signed trade treaties with China or the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

You are not allowed to use RMB!

It must be in US dollars!

This news sent a chill down the spines of countries across the Americas. All nations were plunged into confusion; only Brazil seemed to be able to weather the storm, while the rest felt as if their doom was imminent.

Peru was forced to withdraw from the CP/TPP.

Argentina is also starting to waver.

……

Li Xinghe was furious at being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night on the last day of 2032.

Having finally escaped the family's minor annoyances—being mocked for telling the children about Afanti while saying "Aladdin is clearly from One Thousand and One Nights," and Li Xinghe spouting nonsense like "Aladdin and Afanti are both Chinese"—he was enjoying a safe nighttime stay in bed when he was dragged out of bed again after only a few hours of sleep. And it wasn't the woman in his family who woke him up, but rather that fat bastard Vance.

"The US dollar is about to wage war against the Asia-Pacific currency."

Li Xinghe got up and dressed, cursing and swearing.

"The Asia-Pacific Yuan has only been in place for a little over a year, and the Americans can't stand it anymore?"

In response to Li Xinghe's complaints, Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei, who had woken him up in the middle of the night, helplessly shrugged:

"I think they let you have your fun for more than a year before they started targeting the Asia-Pacific currency because the United States is extremely weak and doesn't dare to cause you any trouble easily."

It's not that the dollar is being attacked too hastily, but rather that it's being attacked too slowly.

The Asia Pacific stable currency and the US dollar can only exist in this world, and only one of them can exist.

Some people may wonder, aren't the RMB and the US dollar irreconcilable enemies?

It's really not.

If China and the United States were to be in opposition, with one responsible for industrial production and the other passively supported by global finance, the overall world order would still be favorable to the United States. This is because China's industry is rooted in the US-led order. As long as China doesn't dismantle the US-led world system and as long as Chinese goods are still settled in US dollars, the US will remain the world's hegemon, secure and untroubled.

This is where the US-China rivalry differs from the Cold War. The Cold War was a confrontation between two economic systems, the US and the Soviet Union, while the US-China rivalry is a primary-secondary confrontation between different ecological niches within an economic system.

Therefore, what American capital groups find most intolerable is that if the financial and service industries fail, the United States will lose its unique and dominant ecological niche.

From the US perspective, China is beyond repair.

But the competitors squeezing in like bulls behind are utterly despicable.

Li Xinghe wants to compete with the United States for the financial niche supporting China's industrial production capacity.

India, which the United States has devoted all its efforts to nurturing, is not competing with China in low-end manufacturing, but instead vying with the United States for a niche in low-end service industries, including the stock market, AI, programming, and customer service.

And then there's that bastard EU, squeezing in from behind with the euro.

Therefore, on this path, the United States, Japan, India, and the European Union have become players in a death race vying for the same ecological niche.

Just like how I only want to be the county magistrate's wife no matter who is in charge, the fierce competition among everyone in the financial district is becoming increasingly intense.

"He who does not contend, none in the world can contend with him."

This means that China only needs to focus on industrial development and absorb the momentum of other industrialized nations. No country in the world will be willing to engage in a doomsday war with China that threatens its very foundation. Because China has only one niche in the ecosystem of a fully integrated industrial powerhouse, anyone entering the financial sector will have to cooperate with China.

Therefore, when Li Xinghe, Asou Ayako, Shika Michika, Shang Qiujia, and Takajo Mayuki sat in the conference room at home at 6:00 AM, none of them looked very happy.

Because of childbirth, Mizukage Tenpei temporarily withdrew from the center of power and stayed at the Royal Hospital next door.

Shang Qiujia, acting as Empress to Japan, began to sit at the center of power and listen in.

After some analysis, Li Xinghe concluded:

"This is perhaps the reason why our conflict is irreconcilable."

Unfortunately, everyone thought it was a US-China rivalry, but it turns out that China is now too powerful to provoke, and it's now a US-Japan rivalry.

Can our army hold out?

"of course."

Li Xinghe said with certainty.

Only military force and power can protect everything one has fought for.

Unfortunately, Lin Youzi and Lin Meng were also woken up in the early morning, but since they were planning to attend the New Year's shrine visit anyway, it wasn't a big problem.

Li Xinghe called Lin Youzi over and gave her a serious order:

"We should gradually bring in-service aircraft carriers into a multi-domain combat readiness state, and expedite the fifth and sixth sea trials of the Enterprise, Yamato, and Musashi to ensure they enter service as soon as possible. We should also accelerate the construction of the Lexington and Saratoga carriers, aiming for outfitting within six months and sea trials to begin by the end of the year. Furthermore, we should discuss with China the need to obtain authorized production lines and procurement rights for non-advanced HQ and YJ series aircraft in advance. We must at least establish an air defense and radar fortress to protect the Japanese archipelago, Seoul and Busan in South Korea, and urban areas in Australia and New Zealand."

After outlining many defensive arrangements, Li Xinghe asked:

"How are the production lines for F35CN, Dragon Sakura, and Mizusakura going?"

Lin Youzi said:

"Six F35CNs are produced per month, ten for the Dragon Sakura, and three for the Mizu Sakura."

As she spoke, seeing Li Xinghe clutching his waist and grimacing, Lin Youzi whispered a reminder: "This is already quite good. Our six aircraft carriers have about 400 carrier-based aircraft. It is currently estimated that we can complete the carrier-based aircraft quota this year, and soon there will be a surplus that can be exported."

Li Xinghe rubbed his lower back:

"No, that's not it. I threw up my back last night."

As for how it flashed, the surrounding ladies all shook their heads, saying it was none of their business.

……

When Li Xinghe judged that the US was going to clash with the Asia-Pacific region to determine who would become the financial empire commensurate with China's industry, outsiders could see it too. Everyone knew that after a brief honeymoon period, the seemingly fragile friendship between Vance and Li Xinghe had returned to its usual pattern of falling out.

Not to mention outsiders, even the strategic staff of the coalition forces is already writing strategic plans to deal with the situation.

Therefore, from the European Command in Kyiv to the Middle East Command in Negev, and then to Southeast Asia and Australia and New Zealand, it has been found that the United States has been so stressed that it has begun to return to the Monroe Doctrine, which naturally creates a huge contradiction with the Asia-Pacific Yuan launched by the Asia-Pacific Consortium.

The new Soviet Union, the Negev Security Zone, the Southern Command, and authorities in Alaska and Baja California all sent New Year's greetings to their superiors.

What will we do in 2033?

In response, Li Xinghe wrote a personal letter to Zhang Xiaoqian, who then summarized and simplified it into the core operational outline for 2033:

The latest notification has been sent back from Tokyo headquarters:

"Attack, keep attacking. The new Soviet Union must make Europe fall behind the United States, sever their blood ties, continue to intimidate Poland, and promote the subversion of the Polish political situation; halt the expansion of the Negev Security Zone, consolidate the war zone, prepare to train Hamas allies, and prepare to eliminate Turkey; in Alaska and Baja California, adopt a pincer attack strategy from the north and south, and be sure to prevent the US military from launching a surprise attack on Tokyo!"

Chapter 1016: Li Xinghe, King of the Trigonometry, and Poland's Blitzkrieg Against Germany (3100 words)

"Cannonball!"

Screams and voices rose and fell, and the numb lines of the Jewish and Palestinian battle lines churned on both sides.

The Ottoman Turkish army of religious vengeance had breached Caesarea and advanced to the Danitanya defense line. However, this entire line consisted of densely populated residential areas, with only fragmented farmland serving as open ground.

Thus, all the buildings along the entire Netanya defense line became battlefields where the Ottoman Turks and Israel fought to the death.

A room, a toilet, a shanty—all became the focus of contention between the two sides.

On this bloody battlefield, deliberately ignored by the world, Israel and Turkey are fighting at a death-for-death ratio reminiscent of World War I. Along an extremely narrow, approximately 50-kilometer coastal passage, in the ruins of Netanya and the surrounding towns, already reduced to rubble by artillery bombardment, Jews and Palestinians are engaged in a life-or-death struggle.

The Palestinians raised the most righteous slogan:

"Establish a single Palestinian Republic! The State of Israel has never existed; it is an illegal entity established by Jewish colonial troops sent by Western colonialists!"

While the slogan itself is correct, at this moment, it was purely an excuse used by the Ottoman Turks to lure Palestinians into becoming soldiers of ten Coca-Cola. But the Palestinians had no choice but to join the army, because on Israeli soil, only the Turkish army could provide them with a decent meal.

It is extremely regrettable that since the start of the war last year, Israeli agriculture has gradually fallen into disrepair. Farming here is inherently a high-cost, high-tech, and highly educated endeavor, and the 2.5 square kilometers of land cannot support the livelihoods of 1700 million people.

Therefore, dying now or dying later has become a known future for many soldiers on the battlefield.

Lieutenant General Bahtiyar El-Say, commander of the Syrian Front, who had been promoted to general, couldn't help but gasp in shock at the carnage before him.

"This place is hell!"

Unfortunately, the global media has deliberately ignored this situation. Although they have reported on it, they have compared it to the situation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, ignoring the fact that a large number of people have died rapidly.

The reason is that everyone is too busy to make a fuss, so naturally they are unwilling to focus their attention overseas.

As Israel waged bloodshed, with tens of thousands losing their lives on the battlefield every day, and amidst the brutal fighting and reminiscing about World War I, the Negev Security Zone, separated by only one wall, was undergoing massive construction of a separation barrier.

The newly arrived immigrants, with their backs to the sun, were digging the land with excavators in the yellow sand.

Everyone knew that if the construction of this separation wall didn't go smoothly, it would be disastrous if the war in the north spread southwards. So even Jewish women had to carry shovels and dig through the sand, learning how to pour reinforced concrete.

At the very least, the current peace in the Negev Security Zone must be guaranteed.

The Middle East Command was subsequently established in Beersheba, which was jokingly referred to as the 'new Xiangyang'.

The first issue the headquarters needed to address was religion.

He Yang issued a decree:

“Establish a religious administration bureau and a religious development guidance bureau in East Jerusalem.”

The main point of religion is that it needs to be plausible.

Passively managing religion in a reactive manner, or even excluding a segment of the population, is largely meaningless, because everyone knows that religion is generally a universal solution for conservative and impoverished residents. Whether it's Christianity or Islam, they can always find a niche in the margins. Their existence stems from the fact that humans are not robots, so there will always be religious believers.

Therefore, the best approach is to directly target their religious sites and control the quality of their religions from the source.