Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 787 Western Isolation
On May 1880, 5, the Privy Council meeting continued in Melbourne, mainland Australia, Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Treasury report of Chief Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jules Danetang made all members of the Privy Council look hopeful.

It is true that Britain has been too aggressive in its offensive against the Netherlands recently, wooing France, promoting Japan, and using Germany's ambitions to implement a policy of appeasement. Naturally, the pressure on us is unprecedented.

In terms of trade, in the European trade market, the Netherlands has encountered various obstacles from various countries. Therefore, although the current trade situation of the Netherlands is not difficult, it is at least in danger.

Britain's scruples about the Netherlands made everyone realize that Britain would seriously suppress the Netherlands in an all-round way, so the Netherlands must respond in a comprehensive way.

Otherwise, there will be a situation that no one in the Netherlands wants to see.

Interior Minister David Blank comes from the Christian Party. As one of the backbones of the Christian Party, the largest party in the Dutch ruling coalition, he naturally will not let Danetang Jules dominate at this time, so he said: "Front Both of the two statements made by the Deputy Prime Minister are true, so the PK between the two major sectors at this stage will be an unstable transitional state. In the long term, movable production factors such as capital and talents will eventually move between the two major sectors, thus making The world is once again 'returning' in a new direction"

After David Blanc showed a submissive look to William IV, he confidently judged: "All of this phase of actions is the UK's promotion of global trade against their original advantage. The purpose is all In order to deal with the Netherlands, we will even sacrifice the interests of the UK itself and its allies and businesses, and we must also use the Netherlands to deal with it.”

William IV sighed at this time: "Economics as a social science cannot be realized. I never thought that it was because Britain launched an unprecedented big experiment in economics in order to deal with the Netherlands. This experiment took the entire east and west of the earth. Trade is a big experiment in a laboratory. Of course, time must be left to give an answer as to what the final result will be. However, we do not object to just making some inferences and judgments in this category.

At this time, Wuying suddenly realized a truth. For a long time, the United Kingdom relied on the advantage of being the first and strongest industrialization to liberalize global trade. But now, with the loss of its core manufacturing and heavy industry core strength, the United Kingdom not only Instead of taking advantage, it became the loser. Therefore, the British side has always supported the attitude of other countries in opening up their borders and strongly advocated globalization in the past, and angrily announced the severance of trade ties with the Netherlands."

Industry Minister Joseph Lanka asked: "Your Majesty, how should the Netherlands deal with them at this time?"

William IV looked around at the crowd and said: "On the other hand, the Netherlands is currently facing some attempts to encourage the Netherlands to oppose global trade in the Western European camp. However, we need to continue to promote global trade with the Netherlands as the center and towards Asia, South America, and even our allies in the United States and Europe are actively promoting alliance trade supply chains, with supporting measures such as the South American Political Alliance Trade Circle, the Asia-Asia Allies + Partner Trade Chain, the Netherlands-U.S. Investment Free Trade Agreement, and the Stabilization of Nordic Countries etc."

"As long as we stabilize these allies, an unprecedented situation that is beneficial to the Netherlands is taking shape. No matter how much the UK interferes or how disgusted the European powers are, the Netherlands will enter one of the two new sectors of global trade." Core member.One is centered on Britain, France, and Germany, covering the British plate of traditional Western Europe such as Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal and other countries; the other is centered on the Netherlands and the United States as the second, covering the South The Dutch Plate of America and Far East Asia and Sweden and Denmark can also be referred to as the Pacific + Economic Plate.
The operation of the British plate is anti-globalization, and the operation of the Dutch plate is pro-globalization. In other words, since the beginning of this century, globalized trade has entered a big era. After 80 years of progress, a new era has been formed with the development of the Netherlands in the Far East as its core. The globalization situation of the Dutch sector VS the troika-dominated sectors such as the UK + Germany + France”

German Empire, Berlin.

Bismarck, Prime Minister of the German Empire, said to Stephen Douglas, President of the United States of America: "After the rise of the Netherlands, Britain began to lose confidence in its own industrial strength, and began to promote open country trade. There was a retreat. This is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the trade group. This is also the reason why the UK was unwilling to agree to the Dutch proposal to establish a European or even global trading system based on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and it no longer mentioned joining the Netherlands or other countries to establish similar organizations."

Bismarck ridiculed: "But not long after, it was discovered that the UK was unwilling, but the Netherlands would not retreat and continued to draw nutrients from global trade on this issue. Only then did he finally decide to use his trump card and start from politics to try to completely cut off The Dutch-speaking Western powers have two lines of control over the industrial chain and market of the science and technology industry. For example, they have stirred up dissatisfaction within each country against the Netherlands' seizure of market share, banned the sale of Dutch high-tech products, and imposed sanctions on Dutch high-tech companies. It made these countries dissatisfied with the Netherlands, and also offered inducements to high-tech companies from countries such as Germany, France, Austria, and the United States, so that they would list their Dutch counterparts as vigilant rivals. Finally, they tried to make a profit and let the United Kingdom replace the Netherlands' market position. We even want to move talents from various countries to the UK.”

Stephen Douglas: "The Commonwealth of the United States gained independence from the British Empire in 1776. It has a history of 105 years and the United States has fully risen. Its economic scale is second only to the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the German Empire.

Its political status is the most powerful country in the Americas.The fifth largest naval power in the world, second only to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany.

Excluding the United States in the south, our population in the north ranks sixth among the powerful countries after the Russian Empire, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Austria-Hungary, and ahead of the Netherlands, Spain, and the Ottoman Empire.If you add the 1600 million people in the south, this is second only to the Russian Empire and almost the same as the German Empire. "

Stephen Douglas came up one by one, but Bismarck did not refute.

Stephen Douglas's words have clearly shown that the president of the United States is already very ambitious about his position among the top five powers.It seemed to have launched a challenge to the Austro-Hungarian and Tsarist Russian empires, and even seemed to no longer regard Spain as an opponent.

Bismarck thought to himself: It’s interesting!Perhaps in the future, this will be a good breakthrough against the United States and Spain.

(End of this chapter)