Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Who knew India would go even further than Japan, simultaneously hoping to complete the projects while constantly demanding more money from Japan, exploiting them to the point of exhaustion, ultimately forcing many aid projects to fail completely. Without the follow-up phase, how could Japanese companies have swindled money from India?

Li Xinghe was angry for a while, then decided that rather than making himself angry, he would rather make the Indians angry.

He is not without power in the Indian Ocean.

Under Li Xinghe's orders, the Seoul Center immediately relayed to the Southern Command a top-level directive since the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Alliance:

"Teach India a lesson. Make them pay back the money!"

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When Li Xinghe's request came to Southeast Asia, the Southeast Asian Alliance, an organization that had been established for decades, was essentially on the verge of disintegration.

Malaysia was furious but dared not speak out, Brunei covered its face and hid in a corner, Thailand and Cambodia were terrified by the speed of the coalition's expansion and shocked by the rapid expansion of the number of Southeast Asian Chinese groups that had been 'rediscovered', while Myanmar was indulging in its own self-amusement while wallowing in its own filth.

That's how cruel the international order based on power is.

Those countries that enjoyed the benefits of independence during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union and the wave of neoliberal globalization may now realize that their only reason for existence was that the cost of governance was too high, so powerful countries were only willing to drain them of their essence from a financial perspective.

Meanwhile, four more independent autonomous entities have been added to the waters off Indonesia.

"The Ternat-Tidorei Autonomous Region has been established."

"The Republic of Jayololo is established!"

"The Federation of the Bazan Islands is established!"

"The Autonomous Republic of Maluku is established!"

Political families on each island rushed to seize this opportunity to gain independence, as it was a race against time.

These island federations are located on the western side of Papua Island and were historically known as the Spice Islands. The local Christian community is strong, and the islands once had their own republic, which was annexed by Indonesia, hence their rapid independence.

After gaining independence, they signed several cooperation agreements with the coalition forces and joined the Asia-Pacific Consortium.

Some might ask: Wait a minute, with so many independent island nations, wouldn't they lack the foundation to cultivate a common market?

Even when they were unified, a unified market foundation didn't necessarily exist. The various islands of Indonesia were largely independent and lacked cohesion. Dismantling them would actually allow commercial groups from other East Asian countries to penetrate and dominate the market individually.

Amid the heartbreaking cries of despair from the Indonesians, the United Army of the Sin Chew Special Region once again mobilized en masse.

This deployment included the Shinano aircraft carrier, which was undergoing sea trials, more than ten guided-missile destroyers, two amphibious landing ships, and a division of troops.

"Target: Medan."

Medan is located at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. The local population consists of hundreds of thousands of Hokkien people, and a small dialect called Medan Hokkien has even developed, which is based on the Zhangzhou-accented Hokkien.

As a Chinese city, Medan maintains close ties with the Chinese communities across the sea in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore. They not only have excellent economic ties but also frequent daily interactions. Therefore, the coalition forces are determined to capture this area.

This was a forward base for entering the Indian Ocean and a forward port for maintaining trade routes to West Asia.

When the army approached the port of Belawan in Medan, only Hokkien Chinese community members were there to welcome them.

Commander Zhang Xiaoqian disembarked and asked:

Where is the enemy?

The intelligence personnel who organized the local Chinese community were overjoyed:

"After the Java Sea rabbit hunting competition, the Indonesian army was terrified. They withdrew on their own. Now North Sumatra province is all under our control."

Fearing the overwhelming military power of the coalition forces, the Indonesian army hastily fled northern Sumatra as soon as it saw the coalition forces move in the Sinchu Special Region, handing over the Aceh Islamic region and North Sumatra province, where Medan, a city with a predominantly Chinese population, to the coalition forces.

Of course, another reason was that the Southern Command bribed the commander of Indonesia's First Military Region with $50 and offered to help him balance his accounts, so the commander of the First Military Region immediately led his troops to retreat to Riau Province.

"Of the more than 7 square kilometers of land, we only want Medan. Let the surrounding non-Chinese areas govern themselves."

Unfortunately, the Allied Forces didn't want such a large amount of land. The Southern Command continued to adhere to Li Xinghe's policy of not engaging in poverty alleviation.

The fleet then continued westward, visiting Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Special Region.

After the defeat of Indonesia's First Military Region, the Kingdom of Aceh was successfully restored.

Here, Zhang Xiaoqian and He Yang participated in the ceremony marking the official establishment of the State of Aceh Darussalam, a Muslim country that adopted Islamic law and finally achieved independence.

Some might ask, wait a minute, how did you end up with a maritime Afghanistan like Aziz Darussalam?

As an island empire, the Asia-Pacific alliance is highly inclusive.

It is precisely because the Acehnese people's goals are simple—to establish an independent state and maintain the ancient order of their Islamic community—that they are most willing to bow to the Southern Command and relinquish military and diplomatic command. The locals are incredibly poor, earning only a few hundred yuan a month; it is one of the poorest places in Indonesia.

Let them be conservative if they want; they won't spread to other places anyway, just staying conservative in this small mountain village of Aceh. If Aceh Darussalam were like Malaysia, with Muslims governed by Islamic law, Chinese communities self-governing, and Christians managed by pastors, that would be fine.

Talented individuals, intelligent people, and middle-class women from islands like Aceh would naturally flock to the Allied territory.

The Southern Command doesn't want to spend money on modernization for them.

As a security measure, President Nova of Aceh designated We Island, their northwesternmost island, as a naval base for the allied forces.

Here lies the natural deep-water harbor of Shahuang Bay.

Standing on the beach in Sabang, a small city dominated by natural gas and oil processing industries, Zhang Xiaoqian and He Yang, along with their staff, pondered Li Xinghe's demand for a difficult debt collection mission: getting the Indians to repay their money.

"Isn't the boss asking too much of us? How could the Indians possibly pay back the money? They'll probably compensate us with hundreds of thousands of Indian laborers who can eat and defecate a lot."

He Yang complained.

"Look, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are just to the north." (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the previous sentence.)

Zhang Xiaoqian pointed to the distant horizon.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a rare string of pearls archipelago on the eastern side of the Indian Ocean. They cover an area of ​​8250 square kilometers and have a population of about 30. They were formed by the compression of the South Asian subcontinent and the Southeast Asian plate.

Between the vast Bay of Bengal and the Myanmar Sea, only this massive archipelago, stretching 1000 kilometers from north to south, forms an unsinkable aircraft carrier-like warship controlling the eastern Indian Ocean.

The headquarters of India's Far East Armed Forces is located in Port Blair.

Now, this territory is like a neighbor to the Southern Command of the United Nations, practically next door.

The staff officers read through the latest inside intelligence:

"The Indonesian democrats have had enough. The five principles of Panchashira that they believe in have been broken, and the Indonesian military government has lost the will to fight. They have made demands of us, asking us to launch a coup and establish the Sunda-Java Union. At least half of South Sumatra, all of Java, and some other islands must be retained."

Just as everyone was pondering whether the strategy of dismembering Indonesia had come to an end, Zhang Xiaoqian suddenly remembered his troublesome younger sister.

Yui Oshiyama is currently interning at the United Front Operations Headquarters in Tokyo, where she's come up with a lot of outrageous and bad ideas.

Inspired by her, Zhang Xiaoqian suddenly realized that seizing India's overseas assets and forcing India to repay the money, thus giving them a taste of their own medicine, was also a viable solution.

India’s largest overseas asset is this strategically important archipelago.

So he pointed to the distant sea:

"What do you say? We launch a surprise attack on Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, seize India's aircraft carrier INS Vikrant and Far East Fleet, and demand that India repay its 12 trillion yen debt. What do you say?"

The Vikrant aircraft carrier actually doesn't have much combat capability, with only a few Russian-made carrier-based aircraft.

The reason it came to the Far East from its home port in the western Indian Ocean was to take this opportunity to see if it could gain some benefits in Southeast Asia.

He Yang exclaimed in amazement:

"Are you crazy...?"

Even if the Indian army is terrible, it shouldn't be so easy for them to launch a surprise attack on their most important island military port in the Far East, right?

impossible?

It can't be that bad...

As for...

When everyone thinks of the countless classic cases of terrorist attacks in India, such as the Mumbai attacks and the Pahargham attacks, which are extremely outrageous terrorist attacks, it suddenly seems like it's possible.

Because India is such a peculiar country.

Don't use common sense or logical frameworks to think; anything is possible in India.

Zhang Xiaoqian shrugged and suggested:

"Let's test it out. Send 500 Aceh jihadist suicide bombers to try it out first. If they fail, let them self-destruct, and just say it's the Islamic terrorist Lashkar-e-Taiba, and that Pakistanis are to blame. If they successfully capture Wel Sawaka International Airport in Port Blair, we'll immediately deploy a South Korean airlift battalion for testing. If that fails, we'll say the airlift battalion was sent to hunt down terrorists. If they successfully capture the Indian Far East Command headquarters in Port Blair, we'll send a South Korean debt brigade to take control of the INS Vikrant aircraft carrier and its associated submarines and destroyers. We'll demand that India repay its 12 trillion yen debt, or we won't return the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and their Far East Fleet."

This operational strategy is very comprehensive.

Hunting down terrorists is Indians' favorite excuse.

They accidentally occupied the Andaman Islands; this is something Indians often do—annexing neighboring small countries.

Indians often occupy islands and demand repayment, a practice that disgusts foreign companies every day.

The General Staff began discussions on the spot.

A representative from India asked:

"What if India wants to send fighter jets?"

The opposing side then answered:

"Then let's have another air battle between India and Pakistan. Our fighter jets are far superior to Pakistan's, so it's not impossible to give the Indian Air Force a clean sweep."

Some people also represented India in their thinking:

"What if India goes crazy and uses all its fleet and submarines to blockade Indian Ocean trade routes and launch unrestricted attacks on merchant ships from China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand?"

The opposing staff gave an optimistic answer:

"Unrestricted submarine warfare? The US, Europe, and West Asian countries will be even more furious than we are. And given India's current crumbling economy, do you think the Indian government has the capability? If India dares to start a war, people in their own country will starve to death first. Our demands are very simple and reasonable: make the damn Indian government pay back the money quickly! And we only want yen or yuan."

India is such a country.

Because their industries, such as fertilizers, are heavily reliant on international trade, if they were to launch an unrestricted submarine war, it would immediately cause widespread famine and starvation in India. Moreover, they simply don't have the capability to do so.

In reality, once the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are captured, and the coalition gains control of the unsinkable aircraft carrier fleet in the eastern Indian Ocean, the coalition forces will absolutely not hand them back. This is because fighter jets and bombers launched from the islands could easily bomb key areas of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra, establishing absolute air strategic superiority.

India's mainland is nearly a thousand kilometers away from the archipelago, and none of the fighter jets they currently possess can cross the sea to achieve air superiority.

The only thing that can limit the coalition's operations is the operation of its logistics system and the amount of military spending.

However, with the complete elimination of US arms suppliers, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand all have substantial surpluses in their military spending. This amount to tens of billions of dollars, which serves as the main expenditure for expanding military orders and sustaining the massive southward operations of the coalition forces.

After three hours of simulation, the General Staff realized that this was the only way to get the Indians to repay the money.

To occupy their islands and control their national symbol, the domestically built aircraft carrier Vikrant.

If they don't pay back the money, they'll dismantle the aircraft carrier.

He Yang asked:

"What about Indonesia?"

Zhang Xiaoqian waved:

"You're in charge of the frontline raids, forget about Indonesia. Send Hosley back to Singapore Special Administrative Region and sell the arms that were originally going to the US to Mexico. Send all the century-old light weapons and artillery from the South Korean military's warehouses to Java. Let them fight it out. We'll go collect our debts from India. That's a whopping 12 trillion yen, enough to build ten Yamato-class aircraft carriers."

With a command given, 10 South Korean troops organized by the Southern Command set off from Saigon and marched south to Medan and Sabang, spreading out across Sumatra.

The Aceh Liberation Organization sent 500 determined extremist suicide fighters to the Southern Command, sending them with weapons and bombs to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, hundreds of kilometers to the north, like a flock of footless birds that had lost their usefulness, waiting to land.

Then it exploded.

Chapter 921: The Most Outrageous Occupation in History (6000 words)

Seoul.

The Asia-Pacific Consortium's organizational meetings are still ongoing.

Foreign ministries from various countries are in close consultation to study the details of the consortium's economic development.

Li Xinghe's firm stance against India's entry displeased Duchess Olympia for the first time, and she whispered in Li Xinghe's ear:

"You have made India an international laughingstock. This is not in line with the determination to seize India's interests."

"I don't want India's interests, I want them to pay back the 12 trillion yen they owe me right now!"

Li Xinghe was still furious that India had been taking advantage of him for 20 years, and that India should have started repaying the debt 5 years ago, but India kept dragging its feet and making excuses, to the point that the Japanese government and banks seemed to have treated the debt as a bad debt.

Internationally, people just laughed even louder.

India has become the clown.

India wants to join the Asia-Pacific region's advanced financial and stock markets, developed industrial economies, vast markets, and multiple resource suppliers. It wants to borrow money from Asia-Pacific banks to fill its foreign exchange deficit and also wants to send India's poor laborers to the East to work and earn remittances.

As the world's most populous market and labor-exporting country, we believe we deserve sufficient respect here.

Then Li Xinghe kicked the Indian representative out of the meeting.

No, he didn't allow the Indian representatives to enter at all.