Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

The coalition has territorial disputes with Cambodia over the Mekong Delta and Phu Quoc Island, with Laos over the demarcation of the Coal Mongol Peninsula, with Thailand over maritime disputes, with Malaysia over seven reefs occupied by Malaysia, with Brunei over one reef, with the Philippines over several island groups, and with Indonesia over the Natuna Islands.

It can be said that, apart from tiny East Timor, Myanmar, embroiled in internal strife, is rife with verbal disputes and lawsuits.

In fact, insightful people in Southeast Asian countries have begun to use the historical story of Japan's southward expansion, which swept across Southeast Asia in six months, to match Li Xinghe's southward plan, believing that Southeast Asian countries probably only have a few years left to survive.

Hesley also felt this was a tricky situation, and he asked:

"Two aircraft carriers seem to be losing control of the situation. We need at least four, rotating them in pairs, to keep these Southeast Asian monkeys in check."

He felt he couldn't sleep soundly unless he had at least one carrier strike group or an air battleship strike group set up in Singapore.

However, no.

The Tamamo-no-Mae was an old ship and frequently needed to return to the shipyard for comprehensive overhauls, spending about half the year in the shipyard. The Japanese ships, on the other hand, had not yet completed full sea trials and could only be described as serving as transit airports and resupply depots in shuttle bombing tactics.

Listening to their discussion, the other officers had already started cursing:

"When will the Shinano finally be launched? Damn it, it's an enlarged Izumo-class light aircraft carrier, a medium-sized aircraft carrier that should be launched in a year, why isn't it launched yet?"

Everyone harbored a lot of resentment towards Mitsubishi Shipyard.

This isn't like the Fujian or Zhejiang, large, advanced, all-electric propulsion aircraft carriers with electromagnetic catapults, which face various technological hurdles and design flaws requiring modification. This is a medium-sized aircraft carrier built with a bunch of civilian technologies, using readily available blueprints; you just need to assemble the hull. The Izumo was launched in less than a year, so why is the Shinano still lying in the shipyard after more than a year?

Hu Zhantian announced:

"The launch of the Shinano has been delayed again."

Holly stared in astonishment:

"Why is it still delayed? Can we possibly revive the traditions of the Showa era? Drag that shipyard manager out and execute him!"

Everyone was a little angry.

If the construction of medium-sized aircraft carriers to supplement overseas deployment time is so slow, how many years will it take for the two large aircraft carriers, Yamato and Musashi, which are based on Nimitz and Fujian designs respectively, to be completed and ready for delivery?

Hu Zhantian coughed twice to explain:

"Ahem. The 704 Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation in Shanghai has integrated their steam catapult technology chain into the design projects of the Yamato and Musashi ships at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding. However, whether it will be successful or not still needs to be tested on a ship. The steam catapult of the Tamamo-no-Mae only had its cylinders repaired and was not actually tested. So now they have disassembled the Shinano in the dock to figure out how to modify it and add steam catapults. You know, engineers always like to waste time studying those meaningless details. They only care about research until the deadline is over."

In short, this medium-sized aircraft carrier has been designated as an experimental vessel, with the primary goal of testing the blueprints and components. Li Xinghe no longer expects it to achieve combat readiness this year.

"Um... alright then. Let's just consider it an experimental ship."

Hearing that 704 was tinkering with new gadgets, everyone was helpless. Mitsubishi Shipyard's capabilities were even inferior to those of Hyundai Shipyard in Ulsan.

Knowing they were this incompetent, we should have just given them the aircraft carrier... no, we really couldn't. Because Hyundai Shipyard in Ulsan lacked the capability to revise blueprints or designs.

He could only sigh and then hope to have a strike group of one aircraft battleship and two Japanese light aircraft stationed there, so that he could sleep peacefully at night.

Until the new aircraft carrier is launched, let's just make do with the two existing carriers that are taking turns going to the shipyard for maintenance.

In response to everyone's anxiety, Hu Zhantian, speaking with a strong Hunan accent, offered some words of comfort:

"No rush. We'll hold onto our money and wait for the American economic system to completely collapse. When the financial tsunami of economic collapse wreaks havoc on them, they'll come kneeling on the ground begging us for relief funds."

"A second Southeast Asian financial crisis?"

"That's right. This time, we're going to use the RMB, JPY, and USD we have to wipe them out completely."

What will happen to Southeast Asia when countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, which heavily rely on entrepot trade and have relatively fragile economic systems, are hit by the tsunami of the collapse of the US dollar?

Do they still have the money to buy weapons, buy an army, or try to maintain their so-called independence and continue to resist Li Xinghe's reach and control?

Furthermore, can they maintain their current size of state and suppress the opposition forces below?

……

What is Li Xinghe doing now?

In Washington, D.C., at Langley headquarters, the CIA's new intelligence analyst is wondering what Li Xinghe, who has just completed the first phase of his southward campaign to disrupt the South Vietnamese border and secure food security, is thinking right now.

Those familiar with Li Xinghe told him:

"In progress."

"Is this a lame joke?"

"Truth, adverb, present continuous tense."

Everyone in the intelligence analysis department was happily using various words to hint to the new analyst that Li Xinghe was probably at home having a baby.

And that is indeed the truth.

Because Li Xinghe is indeed in Maria and Lin Mulan's bed right now, Scarlett joined in halfway through, taking turns to "squeeze" him.

The new analyst looked at the desk in front of him with utter helplessness:

"Um... what we've recorded about his life is all about killing and sex. Is he Genghis Khan?"

“Write it however you like, as long as you don’t say he’s an alien, he can be anyone.”

The intelligence gatherers burst into laughter at the analyst's troubled expression.

There's a joke that some people always think: America knows everything, but just won't say it. America is playing a long game.

However, the reality is that some of the U.S. intelligence gathering personnel are indeed capable of knowing most things, such as 'Li Xinghe's secret dealings with the UK in RMB,' 'the City of London's rapid opening of RMB trading projects,' 'Li Xinghe's acquisition of ballistic missiles with improved Scud missile versions from North Korea,' and 'the political motives behind the $100 billion deal involving Japanese warships,' among other things that are being speculated about by the outside world. The CIA is even fully aware that Li Xinghe actually controls the remaining Taiwanese military forces.

Although the CIA's East Asia Bureau was under Li Xinghe's control, its publicly accessible intelligence trading platform, the Global Information Freedom Center, was also teeming with various traders who gathered classified information. Therefore, many things could be uncovered from the smallest clues. For example, the CIA sent people to the port of Niigata Prefecture, Japan, to specifically monitor the heads of trading ships flying the North Korean flag, thus determining that Li Xinghe had extensive technology and financial transactions with North Korea.

The CIA learned some of the details of the siege of Singapore and the surprise attack on Vietnam as quickly as Li Xinghe did.

Therefore, intelligence gathering personnel have an easy job.

However, the intelligence agencies were unable to disclose any of this information to the White House.

Or even if it is said, it must lead to an outrageous conclusion.

Speaking of Li Xinghe's secret deal with Britain, what can be done? Should we eliminate Britain? Or eliminate Li Xinghe? Does the United States have that capability?

Last time, when Vance deployed a dual-carrier strike group, two of its F-18EFs were shot down by the air defense missile brigade that Li Xinghe had brought from all over the place, and all incoming missiles were shot down.

Since we can't resolve the conflict between Li Xinghe and Britain, what should we do?

He could only continue to deceive himself by covering his eyes, saying, "I am the best in the world, I just haven't been serious. As long as I get serious, I will definitely be able to defeat the evil old Chinese."

Therefore, despite being faced with countless intelligence reports, the intelligence analyst couldn't write a single word.

If I'm going to write, all I can write is some made-up nonsense.

For example, statements like "Li Xinghe's bombing tactics can be learned by the US military," "Li Xinghe's military capabilities were passed down from the US military," and "The US military can achieve the same bombing capabilities if it gets serious" are things that even they themselves don't believe.

Ultimately, it all stems from the inability to shatter the illusion that the United States is no longer invincible, which prevents it from drawing any correct conclusions despite still maintaining a massive global information acquisition capability.

To draw the correct conclusion, one must acknowledge that the United States is no longer the world's leading power. (The remaining text appears to be gibberish and unrelated.)

That would shatter the pride in the hearts of Americans, tear apart their fragile dream of self-reliance, and also affect the media influence that the United States exports worldwide.

American hegemony over public opinion is a hegemony built on the illusion that the United States is the world's top power. If it were to acknowledge reality, it would be unable to maintain this hegemony. If it lost this hegemony, the United States would be even less worthy of being the world's leading superpower.

This is a self-contradictory deadlock.

The intelligence analyst, left with no other choice, wrote a bunch of intelligence analysis reports that he himself didn't believe in, and then went to report to Chief Mora of the CIA.

When we got close to Mora's office, we found that it was already sealed off.

Meanwhile, in his office, Chief Mora picked up the phone and spoke with Tulsi Gabad:

"Someone has decided to assassinate Osa Vance."

Tulsi Gabad was taken aback:

"Who?"

“Her husband, Vance,” Chief Mora said without changing his expression.

How can the future technological emperor of America, the current president of the United States, who has been heavily promoted by many wealthy right-wing tech bosses, still maintain an elite wife from an Indian tycoon?

For the increasingly extreme right-wing tech bosses who are more resistant to wealthy people of color, and for those opinion leaders and the Magas who flock to Vance for the money, they have also reached a consensus: the tech emperor should have a pure-blooded white player.

Usa Vance is no longer needed.

Chapter 865: American Printing and Defected Planes (5100 words)

"Vance wants to get rid of his wife and children."

In the old office with a 90s style, the old air conditioner hums loudly, and several piles of documents are placed on the worn-out desk.

A white woman with a distinctively square head, who looked remarkably like an orc chieftain, twirled a cigarette in her hand.

"I want to emphasize again that this is something only you and I know about."

She said casually.

But Tulsi Gabbard on the other end of the phone was almost going crazy.

For the past year or so, she has been leading her team to beat up the incompetent people who wanted to take her office while working hard to maintain the United States' foreign intelligence system. Although she may lack the ability, she has devoted herself to the United States.

Now she realizes once again that the leaky ship that is America is leaking from the top, whether it was the Trump administration or the Vance administration, the result has always been the same.

Chief Mora proposed:

"I strongly advise against revealing this to anyone, because as of now, as the legitimately elected president of the United States, he remains the highest authority over all executive branches of the country until he decides to crown himself. He possesses supreme legitimacy granted by the people."

Tulsi's furious roar:

"Is it legitimacy granted by 35% of the crazy public?"

"Whatever you think, that's the truth. The CIA has nothing to do with this; I'm just telling you because of my job."

Chief Mora said.

But despite this, Tulsi was even more sarcastic: "You've finally given me some information that I had no choice but to know."

In the past, Mora would always drag his feet and give nothing, leaving Tulsi completely unaware. This sudden, unusual notification to Tulsi, however, actually conceals a hidden purpose.

Mora wants Tulsi out of Washington.

However, Tulsi either has to save Usa Vance's life or keep quiet and watch her die. If he does, then Mora will have more dirt on Tulsi Gabad that he didn't report.

The final result is the same.

This is a conspiracy.

"Damn it..."

After hanging up the phone, Tulsi Gabbard pulled a pistol from his desk. In the silent night, after serving as multiple Directors of Intelligence and trying to find a way to save America in the Maga movement, only to end up playing a bunch of idiots' patriotic games for years, Tulsi felt that his days in Washington were utterly bleak.

"Goodbye."

She left her room, booked two plane tickets, and then immediately drove to Washington Airport.

At this moment, Mrs. Usa, with her three children, was preparing to enter the airport. According to the assassination plan, she was to die in the aisle of the plane. Due to the assassination arrangement, there were no Secret Service agents protecting Usa today.

Tulsi Gabad suddenly appeared in an old Toyota and stopped Usa:

"Madam, take the child and come with me! Something terrible is about to happen!"

"what?"

Usa and Tulsi were clearly not very familiar with each other.

"Vance is going to kill you all."

No words can describe Mrs. Usa's sorrow at this moment. As Vance's capable wife, she married this poor young man with her wealthy father's money and her status as an elite lawyer, never expecting that her life's work would end up like this.

Tulsi stunned Osa with a single sentence, delivering CIA intelligence. After reading the assassination plot details, Osa wept bitterly, clutching her child, and followed Tulsi to an air force base in Maryland, from where they flew to San Francisco and then escaped to Tokyo.

……

"What did you say? My wife, with my children, defected with my Director of Intelligence? They betrayed America and me?"

In the White House, Vance stared wide-eyed, his hair standing on end in fury.

Anyone who didn't know better would think that Tulsi and Usa were in love.

In reality, while the assassination intelligence was genuine, Vance himself wasn't entirely aware of it. He probably knew about it, but he didn't make the decision to kill his wife. The people who actually carried out the plan were white supremacists and numerous financial backers.

The Secret Service replied, "Yes. They have already defected to Tokyo and joined Li Xinghe."

Hearing this, Vance became even more furious.

Li Xinghe was like the longest obstacle in his life, always making him feel powerless, even though he was already the President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world.

Rage overwhelmed his reason; Vance summoned his advisors, and together they vehemently condemned the outcome.

"Damn Indians! Damn Indian women! The real problem is in India!"