Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Li Xinghe shrugged:

"It's alright, as long as the Congress Party government is in power, I won't take action against India."

The Congress Party and Rahul Gandhi are iron waste.

This left India's elites with an unavoidable choice.

Either stick with this idiotic and useless Congress Party, which doesn't incite public resentment and can't lead India to victory, and let Li Xinghe bleed him dry.

If they want to replace India with a new BJP, a new Modi, and continue with their populist reforms, then Li Xinghe will rely on the United Nations to continue slapping India in the face. As Gao Tiaowuyue said, India seems to have too much dark history; during that period, it mainly engaged in imperialist behavior, and it had excuses everywhere to cause trouble.

Li Xinghe's performance at the UN Asia Division, along with China's cooperation, led to two potential consensuses being reached quickly at the meeting.

The coalition forces are the United Nations forces.

The statement, aimed at promoting peace in Yemen, quickly gained the approval of the Houthi rebels. Faced with the dire situation in South Yemen, countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are also willing to continue discussions.

After the news spread, the world felt a vibrant new force.

At least Li Xinghe can resolve many troublesome issues that were originally impossible to resolve.

This is truly embarrassing for the American strategic academic community.

They've already started learning how to govern the world there, while 'great' His Majesty Vance is now sending workers to spray paint UN resistance slogans.

Yes, Vance is still playing 'Splatoon'.

The United Nations headquarters is displaying various flags filled with resistance slogans, which has caused considerable public relations trouble.

How can we silence their flags?

Anyone who comes to New York for business or official business and stands in front of the Empire State Building or a city park will see the United Nations headquarters in the distance covered with protest flags and anti-imperialist slogans. How can anyone stand that?

His Majesty Vance certainly had a solution. He brought in several aerial work platforms and had the soldiers use large black nozzles to spray black paint onto the flags outside the United Nations headquarters building.

Inside, they're hanging up banners; outside, they're spraying paint.

Not only did they paint over all the slogans, but they also smeared the exterior of the United Nations building in a mess, making it look like a mural on a run-down street.

"That was well done."

Vance, however, was very happy.

There's a guy sitting in front of the TV playing console games. Wherever he points, the aerial work platform sprays black paint over it. Watching those glaring slogans gradually being covered in black paint is incredibly stress-relieving.

But the more he does this, the more desperate the American academic community feels.

Of course, at this point, people familiar with Asian affairs will point out that at the latest and largest Icup comic convention in Japan, Li Xinghe's erotic pictures and doujinshi were everywhere. Da Huanggua's new masterpiece even caused a stir in the Metropolitan Police Department, which sent police to confiscate her overly erotic doujinshi.

"Japan is having the C115 doujinshi convention right now, and Li Xinghe is there too. He even plays the clown in those trashy TV dramas."

Vance is using the country's soft power to play Splatoon.

How can Li Xinghe film trashy TV dramas and act funny while remaining composed when he needs to be serious?

In response, in an interview with Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Sachs, Sachs offered a scathing critique:

"How can that be the same!"

"Li Xinghe came from a warlord background. He sold his body, performed as a stage clown on television, and even allowed anime fan clubs to create his various illustrations and texts, all to cover up the same fact: he was a shameless little bastard who illegally seized power. Without a doubt, he was that kind of person."

Look at them!

He was rebellious from a young age and was involved in political intrigues when he was young. He fought his way out of a bloodbath.

And look at Vance's pathetic state. A former Ivy League elite, a communication major, a man who navigates the world of public opinion, he's never experienced the bloody battles of politics. Ever since the assassin stabbed his prostate, he's ballooned up like a balloon, and he'll soon be approaching 400 pounds.

"Does anyone still remember that Li Xinghe was a warlord who staged a coup? Very few," Professor Sachs commented.

We see Li Xinghe making a scene on TV every day, but does anyone still remember that he came to power through a coup?

There are very few left.

Related reports and content have been largely deleted under the manipulation of the behind-the-scenes manipulators, and are gradually being squeezed into the restricted areas on major platforms.

Carlson, during the interview, coughed twice:

"What about Vance? Vance is also... cough cough."

"He is not."

Professor Sachs aptly pointed out:

"Vance completely exploited the public's urgent need to change the status quo and transformed the American national system, but in reality he did not change anything except create even larger-scale inflation."

This statement actually implies that Vance's actions have a fascist nature, and criticizes Vance as being even worse than Hitler.

Carlson, for the sake of the show's existence, reminded Sachs:

"Isn't that too hurtful to His Majesty Vance?"

However, Saxony paused for a moment, then retorted:

No, I didn't praise him.

Sachs felt he had been quite tactful, not directly calling Vance a clown manipulated by Li Xinghe, which was already giving Vance a lot of face. Besides, the two assassination attempts that had hit Vance's vitals—one piercing his buttocks and the other puncturing his testicles and prostate—were not the end of the story. In the past few months, there had been at least five more desperate attacks on Vance, leaving him covered in wounds. Canada was still in turmoil; the Wild Beast People's Corps' reach was expanding, and the New York Ratmen Communist Party had practically infiltrated the sewers of major East Coast cities. This was by no means a normal state of governance.

"boast?"

Tucker Carlson's interview ended abruptly there.

Because Jeffrey Sachs criticized Vance too much, Vance ordered him to be deported, so Sachs flew to Tokyo.

Chapter 954: Second-Type Super Battle Water Sakura, Whip Spanking (3400 words)

Li Xinghe returned to Japan from Kalimantan aboard the Indian INS Vikrant.

They're escorting the Indian aircraft carrier to Tokyo for an exhibition.

"Once this trip is over, the Vikrant, this piece of scrap metal, will be returned to India," Li Xinghe said leisurely, legs crossed.

This dilapidated aircraft carrier is purely a piece of outdated iron junk that the Indians created simply for the sake of domestic production. The most ridiculous part is that its air conditioning system isn't even fully installed yet; only a few areas have air conditioning, while the rest are stuck in canisters practicing heat resistance. Without catapults or blast deflectors, it's a quintessential example of a useless piece of junk.

Gao Tiao Wuyue sat astride Li Xinghe's neck, massaging it for him:

"Just give it back to them. If you dismantle it at scrap metal prices, India will actually have extra military funds to build new ones. Let the Indians worry about the maintenance and repair costs of this aircraft carrier."

Li Xinghe naturally agreed wholeheartedly.

This situation is similar to Japan's creation of the Eight-Eight Fleet after World War I. Given Japan's economic situation at the time, it could have built it by tightening its belt. However, Japan insisted on intervening in the Russian Civil War, and the army's involvement caused problems. A total of 700 million yen was spent on this wasteful endeavor, completely squandering the funds intended for warship construction. The total cost of the Eight-Eight Fleet was only slightly over 400 million yen, and its annual maintenance costs could be covered by cutting 16 infantry divisions.

India must be forced to waste a lot of money on maintaining existing garbage.

Gao Tiao Wuyue played with Li Xinghe's hair.

A secretary riding on the boss's neck would be considered outrageous in other places, but it was perfectly normal for Li Xinghe.

She not only rode on the boss's neck, but she also rode on top of him.

"Is there any buzz about it internationally?" Li Xinghe asked.

"Europeans made a few sarcastic remarks."

"Trash, skip it."

Li Xinghe tapped his fingers, very satisfied with the move to relocate the United Nations to Lanfangfu.

Duchess Olympia, as expected of someone from the Churchill family, truly excels at this inherited talent for stirring up trouble. With just one suggestion, she revitalized the new order in Southeast Asian countries and caused the United Nations to suffer heavy losses.

In this way, Li Xinghe could also legitimately begin to interfere in Asian countries.

No one can cause trouble for Li Xinghe.

Because the United Nations represents the highest legitimacy, and its controller, the United States, is currently struggling to keep up, the branch that Li Xinghe poached from the United Nations was only responsible for the Asian region.

Yemen belongs to Asia, even though it is closer to Europe and Africa. Why can't I interfere in this matter?

Speaking of the United Nations, Gao Tiaowuyue whispered in Li Xinghe's ear:

“Nam Ho-nyeo told me that North Korea is very happy and hopes that after the sanctions against Yemen are lifted, the external sanctions against North Korea will be lifted in an orderly manner.”

The US sanctions against North Korea have not yet stopped. The UN's move to the heart of Asia could ease some of the restrictions on North Korea and allow it to begin integrating into mainstream East Asian trade channels.

"Okay, I'll exchange it for immigration."

Li Xinghe continued to nod. North Korean immigrants and soldiers are very hardworking and are good candidates for immigration.

At this moment, the Asian branch of the United Nations, which Li Xinghe controls, is not just a branch; it is the supreme deity that governs the order in Asia!

May Takajo also introduced:

"Iran also wants our help to lift the international sanctions imposed on them by the United States."

Iran, a country...

Li Xinghe was once highly regarded, then looked down upon, and later felt that it was just a regional upstart; when you thought it was bad, it would pull off something big, and when you thought it was strong, it would falter terribly.

Moreover, international sanctions against Yemen have only just begun to be gradually lifted, and coordination with Saudi Arabia and the UAE is still needed. It's impossible for all sanctions to be lifted at once, which would be a destructive shock to regional economic stability. Compared to Iran, providing financial support to the Houthi rebels to keep them afloat is more important.

Considering its location in West Asia, Li Xinghe said:

"An immediate solution is not appropriate. But I can make some promises first. For example, increase oil purchases from Iran. What other projects can be approved? Don't let them get stuck."

Don't let it die yet, but until Iran figures out what it should give in return, it won't treat them well.

In May, Gao Tiao summoned secretaries from other departments. The secretary in charge of research and education suggested:

"Our country... well... lacks people willing to go to university..."

This is the painful consequence of Japan's drastic cuts to research funding (including medical research funding). Universities have no funding, and doctoral and master's students have no research funding whatsoever. Some even have to sell themselves after completing their master's degrees, while doctoral students are heavily reliant on Chinese research laborers, who provide them with money as soon as they arrive.

However, due to the rampant spread of heretical and unorthodox ideas in Japanese politics a few years ago, constantly promoting the idea that foreigners were superior, the relevant subsidies were canceled. As a result, scientific research in Japan suffered even more, with the country struggling to recruit enough doctoral students. Now, only a few years after the policy was abolished, the number of domestic university students enrolling has decreased.

At this point, finding new research talent became a top priority. Iran happens to be an industrialized country with a surplus of research talent, and its number of unemployed STEM students is far ahead of other countries.

The military secretary summarized:

"In addition, the Iranian Air Force is still using old F-14 and MiG helicopters, which are decades old. We can also sell our old F-15J and F-2 helicopters to Iran."

Li Xinghe tapped his knee, pondering:

"We could first consider recruiting Iranian female university students to study for their master's and doctoral degrees here, providing them with some academic subsidies from the United Nations and our government, hoping that they will stay in Japan to get married and live after graduation. As for the plane... let's wait and see, I'm not sure if the plane will crash."

The main problem was that the old Japanese aircraft, after being heavily escorted by Chinese fighter jets, kept crashing every now and then. This was mostly due to engine damage, turning elite pilots into prisoners. Li Xinghe also avoided flying on Japanese Air Self-Defense Force aircraft and helicopters.

Iran has already lost its future successor in a plane crash. If a plane sold to Japan were to crash, it would be a disgrace to Li Xinghe.

"Wouldn't it be better for Iran if a few Iranian leaders were killed in a crash?"

After the secretaries left, Takajo Mayu quietly recounted many jokes from the online political community.

"But it can't be that my plane crashed and killed him."

Li Xinghe felt that he shouldn't bear the responsibility.

……

After returning from Southeast Asia, the aircraft carrier went to Tokyo for an exhibition, while Li Xinghe, accompanied by Takajo Satsuki, visited the Komaki Aircraft Assembly Plant in Nagoya. This was the final assembly line for the Type 1 Super Fighter, and the F-15 and F-35 were also being assembled in a nearby factory.

The Type-1 Super Battle Dragon Sakura has been iterated to version BLOCK3.

Wang Shengming had already planned the route when Longying made its maiden flight.

The B1 version was essentially a modified F-15, taking the engines and other components from the old aircraft and converting them into new ones. Back then, calling it a fifth-generation fighter was pure boasting; it was at most a fourth-and-a-half-generation level.

When the B2 version entered the production line last year, the entire machine was brand new.

This year marks the beginning of the improved version phase.

Wang Shengming introduced Li Xinghe:

"The biggest feature of the B3 version is that it combines the engine design of the F35 with the optimized design of the Longying F110 turbofan engine, resulting in improvements in all aspects, especially a 12% increase in thrust. This can be called the Asia-Pacific joint F1 engine, which is excellent."

Li Xinghe didn't quite understand, but in short, he was very strong.

He casually asked:

"I heard there's more good news?"

Wang Shengming rubbed his hands together and introduced Li Xinghe to their latest research achievement: a smaller version of the Dragon Cherry.

"Yes, the carrier-based version of the Dragon Sakura has been developed. We call it codename 1.5. We still adhere to the heavy air superiority defense approach, reducing the weight of the airframe as much as possible. Furthermore, while reducing two hardpoints, we have reduced the width of the folded wings to 9.4 meters and the length to 18.5 meters. This allows the existing carrier dock to expand its capacity from several to more than ten aircraft. The Shinano can approach 40 aircraft, while the Nimitz, Yamato, and Musashi can approach 75."

The most important factor for carrier-based aircraft is their size. While the Ryuzakura is indeed a good choice for carrier operations, its massive size adds significant challenges to dry dock space and takeoff/landing difficulties. Therefore, the development of a dedicated carrier-based version effectively addresses the issue of carrier operational availability.

Without further ado, Li Xinghe instructed Gao Tiao Wuyue to distribute bonuses to the R&D team.