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Dobrynin bid farewell to the two in an elegant and polite way, and a seemingly friendly but smoky conversation finally came to an end.

Chapter 461 Draw the Final Symbol

Under the matchmaking of the Soviet Union, the United States and China began negotiations on the Taiwan Strait issue. Of course, the negotiations between the two sides did not appear to be very friendly at the beginning, at least they were full of gunpowder.Like Kissinger before him, President Mario did not pass the official diplomatic visit of the State Department. Instead, he let Anthony Lake, the national adviser, take the lead in contacting the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Li Daoyu, and the two sides finalized the time for the secret visit.

Then Anthony Lake began to visit Beijing first to lay the foundation for the next three-party talks. At the same time, he also wanted to know where the bottom line of China and the Soviet Union was, so as to prepare chips for the next negotiations.

The situation is still developing in the direction Yanayev expected. Mario did not listen to his original suggestion, and insisted not to withdraw from the Taiwan waters until the political turmoil in the Taiwan area stabilized. This move greatly stimulated the nerves of the Chinese side. It also allowed the Soviet Union to see the shameless and wonderful side of the American government.

"Well now, the United States is planning to humiliate itself again." Yanayev was not shocked at all when he heard the news, because the United States did not realize that Taiwan is more important to China than Cuba to the United States , China will not compromise with others on this issue. This is their war and has nothing to do with others.

Yanayev walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside the window through the bulletproof glass. Moscow has entered June, the warmest season, and Red Square is calmer than ever.But Yanayev, who is used to being at the center of the political vortex, believes that the so-called calm is just a prelude before the crisis erupts.

"Next, the United States will encounter the most troublesome trilateral talks, because China has always been soft and hard on the Taiwan issue."

Therefore, China's attitude was obviously beyond the expectations of Anthony's advisers. Li Daoyu basically vetoed the US proposal to maintain the status quo, and strongly accused the US Pacific Seventh Fleet of interfering in China's internal affairs. The US must withdraw from this turmoil, otherwise The Chinese side will definitely not hold tripartite talks.

"This is China's bottom line. We will never adopt the so-called compromise for peace. Advisor Anthony, please tell President Mario that our conditions will not change. The US Pacific Fleet will withdraw from the Taiwan waters first, and then discuss the so-called resolve the issue peacefully, otherwise everything will be a face-to-face meeting.”

Faced with China's aggressive posture, the United States had no choice but to speed up negotiations with Taiwan.He even directly threatened that as long as Masao Iwasato dared to raise the slogan of independence again, the United States would send the Central Intelligence Agency to Taiwan.Compared with the threat of economic blockade and force intimidation before, the United States has adopted the most direct and brutal method to coerce Taiwan's top leader.

The coercion of the United States is not unilateral. At the same time, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore have begun to alienate the Taiwan government intentionally or unintentionally. The capital of Masao Iwasato's independence lies in Taiwan's economy and external support. After losing these two means, After all, his independence is just a dream in his youth.

Under the threat of the United States, the shivering leader of Taiwan agreed to the request of the United States, reaffirmed the one-China principle in public, agreed with the principle of the [-] consensus, and actively promoted the second Wang-Koo talks, hoping that the cross-strait The relationship between them is normalized again.

Taiwan's compromise was forced by the United States with a knife on its neck. After completing this series of small actions, Uncle Sam turned his head gracefully and started holding three-party talks with China and the Soviet Union.The decision of Taiwan's future situation is not in the hands of Masao Iwasato, but in the game between China and the United States.

The condition proposed by the Chinese side is that the US Pacific Fleet withdraw from Taiwan. The Taiwan issue is an internal issue of China, and the US has no right to govern it.

The United States stated that after the Pacific Fleet left Taiwan, Taiwan must maintain the status quo, and China cannot arbitrarily use force to unify Taiwan because of the Taiwan issue.

Although they say that they will not interfere in the Taiwan issue, in fact, the Americans who do not give up hope to maintain the current status quo of neither independence nor unification. After all, the attitude of high-level political leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the attitude of disagreement can ensure that the United States can use the island chain to block Taiwan. The rising red dragon.

This is a contest between China and the United States. The Soviet Union is only used as a bargaining chip for pressure, but it cannot play a decisive role in this contest.Even so, on the Taiwan issue.In private, China and the Soviet Union reached a consensus to advance and retreat together.

Foreign Minister Shevardnadze, U.S. Secretary of State Warren, and the special staff of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Qian Qichen first conducted tentative negotiations, and the venue of the meeting was set in Beijing.

This is almost a negotiation that determines the direction of the Asia-Pacific situation.

"China can maintain the current state, but the prerequisite is after the US fleet withdraws from our country's waters, otherwise China will never agree to any plan." At the beginning, China showed a strong aura, as if to let Warren Feel back to the era of negotiating with the Soviet Union.

"However, we must ensure that Taiwan will not have a large-scale military conflict. This will have a very bad impact on the peace of the Asia-Pacific region. Washington does not want to see this happen." Warren's tone is very strong. If this crisis and conflict is over, then he hopes to at least save face elsewhere.

But the Chinese representative, Qian Qichen, immediately replied, "Will there be a conflict in Taiwan? When will it be your turn to manage it? This is our own problem, and it has nothing to do with you. Why don't we pay more attention to you if you have so much control over Taiwan?" The domestic situation and China's problems can be solved by the Chinese themselves, without the intervention of outsiders."

Only Shevardnadze did not say a word. Although the United States and China had such a fierce quarrel, they had reached an agreement on general issues, but some small details always felt that it was necessary to save face.To put it bluntly, now the two countries are fighting for the face of their respective countries.

But in any case, everything will end after this meeting. Even if China and the United States are facing each other now, they will eventually choose to shake hands and make peace.

This is the complexity of the political game among major powers, and the frogs in Taiwan who sit in a well and watch the sky will never understand this truth.

"Ahem." Shevardnadze coughed and said to Qian Qichen and Warren, "I think you two should listen to the Soviet Union's opinion now?"

Chapter 462 The Negotiation Breakdown

As soon as the Soviet Ambassador to Foreign Affairs Shevardnadze said this, the entire meeting fell silent, and all the representatives sat in a circle on the round oak table. At this time, Li Daoyu and Warren looked at each other, not understanding Shevard What would Denazir have to say.He stood up and looked around. Shevardnadze was much younger than all the diplomats present, and the positions of both the Chinese representative and the American representative were much higher than his foreign minister. One person entered the list of the Politburo, and the other is a powerful figure in the State Council, but this does not mean that Shevardnadze has no say in this matter.The country he represents behind him is far more important than his status as foreign minister.

Shevardnadze took a deep breath and said unhurriedly, "First of all, the U.S. fleet will completely withdraw from the Pacific Ocean. When the U.S. fleet returns to Hawaii or Japan, then the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Union's Red Navy in the Pacific Ocean will also Then leave. And we will also urge the armed forces of all countries to completely withdraw from the Taiwan waters."

Warren, the US representative, frowned. Isn't this exactly the same as the independent handling policy proposed by the Chinese representative?He raised his own question, "Wait, Minister Shevardnadze, how to solve the Taiwan issue next?"

Shevardnadze ignored Warren, but turned his head to look at Li Daoyu, and said word by word, "Secondly, regarding the Taiwan issue, we must maintain the status quo, use diplomatic pressure to force KMT Chairman Yan Li Zhengnan stepped down, this is the second condition we put forward."

Li Daoyu did not speak this time. According to the current situation, Taiwan is a hot potato. Even if he can be successfully recovered, there are still a lot of remaining problems that need to be resolved. According to the think tanks in the political office, let it be maintained. A state of neither independence nor disagreement is the best. No one wants to see a hostile state of being isolated by the international community because of the Taiwan issue.

"I agree with this statement." Li Daoyu said suddenly.

"I also agree with Representative Shevardnadze's statement." Seeing that the enemy has taken a step back, Warren has no excuse to continue to persevere. Compared with the current situation, stabilizing the Asia-Pacific situation as soon as possible is the top priority.

Warren raised his head and looked at Shevardnadze, who was several years younger than himself. This "cunning fox" who inherited the previous foreign spokesperson knew how to deal with the United States. In times of chaos, the Soviet Union was able to sneak in, largely because of the secret operations of the diplomatic department he led.

The United States does not want to lose Japan, its largest ally in the Asia-Pacific region.

Seeing that neither side has any objections, Shevardnadze made the last suggestion, "The third is to maintain a balanced state in the Asia-Pacific region and adopt a policy of non-interference in the Asia-Pacific region."

Warren's expression became gloomy. He looked at Li Daoyu, the special representative of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the other party drew a knowing smile.Anyone can see that the third clause is a negotiating condition prepared for the Soviet Union itself, because it sounds more like an open door policy, creating opportunities for the Soviet Union to further intervene in the fast-growing economic behemoth of the Asia-Pacific.

Now the Soviet Union is selling arms to Japan, South Korea, North Korea and other Asia-Pacific countries in full swing. Not only is it cooperating with Japan to develop the bastion system, but Sukhoi and Mikoyan are even actively participating in the fighter cooperation project with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in order to better Open up the Soviet Union's arms sales market in the Asia-Pacific region.

The policy of non-intervention clearly meant that the United States had no right to interfere with all the actions of the Soviet Union in the Asia-Pacific region.The United States remains opposed to this point, and you have begun to win over my Asian allies. Isn't the United States still involved?

In fact, since entering the economic crisis in 1991, the Japanese government has maintained a kind of vigilance against the United States. To a large extent, they believe that the "Hiroshima Agreement" of the Americans led to the crisis. Now Japanese Prime Minister Ryu Hashimoto Taro also frequently showed a tough attitude in the U.S.-Japan auto trade negotiations, which means that the relationship between the two countries is quietly changing, especially after opening up the Soviet Union's electronic product market, Hashimoto Ryutaro believes that Japan has It is necessary to reduce dependence on the United States and deepen economic cooperation between China and the Soviet Union.

Because of the previous Soviet-Japanese trade agreement, the Soviet Union's bastion system was able to successfully obtain orders from Japan.And Shevardnadze proposed the non-intervention policy at this time, but it was just to continue to deepen the suspicion between the two countries.

"China agrees that the Asia-Pacific issue belongs to each country's own issue. We don't need to let non-Asian countries judge their own internal affairs." Li Daoyu pointed at Sang Huai and said.

Just as Warren was about to refute, he suddenly realized a very important thing. Any agreement reached in the three-party talks could have been implemented with the consent of the two parties, which means that the United States is now at a very disadvantageous side. Well, the Soviet Union can favor China, and China can also favor the Soviet Union on this issue, so the United States is just being taken advantage of.

"I disagree with this approach. The United States must safeguard its own interests in the Asia-Pacific, so I think there is no need to continue this negotiation."

Warren took the approach of resolutely withdrawing from the talks. He said to Shevardnadze and Li Daoyu, "Perhaps the US can consider accepting the opinions put forward by the Chinese side, but we absolutely cannot accept the third point given by the Soviet Union. Let us leave. Two."

After speaking, he got up and left, and walked out of the door of the meeting room without saying a word, leaving a whole room of people in the same place feeling a little overwhelmed.

When Warren walked out of the conference room, he was a little out of breath. No one had ever seen a country’s secretary of state be so angry during a meeting. Li Daoyu breathed a sigh of relief, and he turned his head and asked Shevardnadze, “It seems that your purpose is not It has been achieved, it is not an easy task to intervene in Japan now."

"Is it really appropriate to discuss this issue less than 30 seconds after our common enemy left?" Shevardnadze said half-jokingly. Preventing exchanges between the Soviet Union and Japan will also vigorously match up economic exchanges between the two countries.

After all, the United States is simultaneously oppressing an economic power that wants to become a political power, a fast-growing oriental dragon, and a red giant bear that is hostile and blocked. Under President Mario's tough policies, the three countries have looming A tendency to want to form alliances.

"Our competition with the Americans has only now begun." Shevardnadze scratched his head, and Warren's reaction did not surprise him. After all, this was the first time the Soviet Union was testing his reaction with the United States.

"I believe that the Americans will definitely be much tougher on the Japanese issue in the near future than they are now." Li Daoyu sighed, and he could even imagine the difficult situation that Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto would face next.

"Yes, but the tougher the attitude, the more determined the Chinese government in Japan is to fight the United States to the end." Shevardnadze turned around, looked at Li Daoyu who was a little puzzled, and said with a smile, "Because these Japanese People don't want to be a vassal of America."

"So?" Li Daoyu asked.

"So this is another purpose for me to attend this meeting." Shevardnadze looked around. Fortunately, all the translators and clerical personnel were no longer in the meeting room, so he dared to say that the high-level Moscow ordered him to convey A word from the Chinese side.

"On the issue of Japan, we hope that the Chinese side can reach a consensus, and we also ask Minister Li Daoyu to convey Moscow's thoughts to Beijing's high-level officials." Shevardnadze revealed the Soviet Union's little secret.The Triple Alliance plan that Yanayev wants to implement in every possible way is to prepare for the Asian regional economic crisis in the next two years.

"No problem, I will tell the Beijing side." Li Daoyu replied affirmatively.

Chapter 463 Arms Sales of Sino-Soviet Warships

The Soviet Union and China exchanged their opinions. On the Japan issue, China will support the decision made by the Soviet Union. On the Taiwan issue, the Soviet Union will unconditionally support all of China's measures to achieve common understanding on the Asia-Pacific issue. advance and retreat.In other words, the two countries have now reached a consensus on the Taiwan issue to maximize their respective interests in the Asia-Pacific region.