The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 628: Isolated and helpless (asking for monthly votes at the beginning of the month)

United States.

Since the "Toshiba incident" broke out, major American media, both print and television, such as USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, have been reporting that Toshiba had seriously violated the relevant regulations of the Batumo Embargo Committee and that the Japanese provided banned technology and equipment to the Soviet Union.

With the introduction of these media, almost the entire American public knows that Japan's Toshiba Corporation provided the Soviet Union with five-axis CNC machine tools for processing large warship propellers and used in cutting-edge military industrial manufacturing. It is also the world's top five-axis, five-link CNC machining center.

Thanks to Toshiba's help, the Soviets successfully replaced the propellers of their nuclear submarines with smoother ones, reducing the noise of their nuclear submarines that could be heard across the Atlantic Ocean. NATO's monitoring stations could no longer monitor the movements of Soviet nuclear submarines.

This is a serious problem for NATO's entire defense system.

This undoubtedly filled the entire American people with anger. Not only the Americans, but the entire European people were filled with panic and anger. After all, the TV stations had been broadcasting the Soviet Union's "81-Military Exercise". Under the threat of nuclear war, how could they resist the Soviet Union's huge and trembling steel torrent?
This question has existed in Europe for many years, but there is still no answer.

In other words, the only answer, or the consensus of the whole of Europe, was that it would only take the Soviets a week to sweep across Europe, reach the Atlantic coast, and point their swords at Britain.

In the United States and Europe, countless people have launched demonstrations to boycott Japanese goods.

The current atmosphere in Europe makes Europe very annoyed, and almost no European government dares to say a word for Japan.

They all knew that this was nothing more than the United States attacking Japan and trying to deal with Japan.

If it were normal times, they would have interfered and helped Japan. It is true that the Americans have gone too far in recent years.

In 1960, the US GDP was $5433 billion. At that time, the US was the world's most powerful industrial country, and it was extremely strong in all aspects. This was the "golden age" of the US. The US economy developed rapidly. By 1970, the US GDP had grown to $1.07 trillion.

However, throughout the 70s, the United States experienced its first oil crisis, many companies went bankrupt, low-end manufacturing industries continued to leave the United States, the Vietnam War dragged down the United States, the entire US economy was very weak, and the number of unemployed workers reached new highs every year. Americans were even unable to maintain the 'Bretton Woods system' and announced that the dollar could no longer be freely exchanged for gold. The 'Bretton Woods system' collapsed, and in the competition with the Soviet Union, the United States was at a disadvantage. 'Soviet attack, US defense' was the situation throughout the 70s.

Under such circumstances, the US GDP increased from US$1970 trillion in 1.07 to US$1980 trillion in 2.86, and the US debt increased from US$3710 billion to US$9080 billion, an increase of US$5370 billion in ten years.

But look at the period after 1980, during Reagan's two terms in office, the United States experienced the second economic crisis. American products were beaten badly by Japanese products, the economy was extremely weak, and it was trapped both internally and externally. The dollar began to raise interest rates dramatically. The US GDP increased from 1980 trillion US dollars in 2.86 to 1988 trillion US dollars in 5.24, almost doubling. The US debt increased from 1980 billion US dollars in 9080 to 4 trillion US dollars, an increase of 8 trillion US dollars in 3.1 years.

Europeans are not stupid, how could they not know what Americans are doing?

It's just that the people are now sensitive about the Americans and are extremely dissatisfied with Japan. As people who came to power through elections, they dare not offend the people at this time, otherwise they will lose votes.

For a time, Japan was in unprecedented isolation and faced tremendous pressure. Japan was like Alexander.

Takeshita Noboru was shocked and angry, and cursed the United States!

When Noboru Takeshita was the Minister of Finance, he signed the Plaza Accord with the Americans, which caused the Japanese yen to appreciate by nearly one-fold.

However, during this appreciation process, the US dollar depreciated significantly.

Even when the news of the Plaza Accord came out and the yen appreciated sharply, the Japanese suspected that it was the Americans who did it.

It can be said that in the past two or three years, Japan has lost hundreds of billions of dollars to the United States for nothing.

In order to stabilize the people's hearts and stabilize the Japanese yen which was appreciating rapidly at that time, Takeshita Noboru came up with an idea to use the stock market and the real estate market as reservoirs of the Japanese yen.

Coupled with the G5 Finance Ministers' Meeting in France, Takeshita Noboru withstood the pressure and thus ascended to the throne of Japanese Prime Minister.

It can be said that Takeshita Noboru was very clear about the American mind, because he had faced the American stick and carrot more than once, and experienced all kinds of temptations, threats and intimidation.

He did not expect that the Americans would kill Japan in this way.

"Bakayarō~~" Takeshita Noboru couldn't help but get angry and overturned the table.

This immediately put Japan into an isolated situation, leaving it completely helpless.

In this situation, how can Japan withstand the pressure from the United States?

"Oh no, Prime Minister, the US military is causing trouble!" At this moment, the Defense Minister ran in with a terrified look on his face.

"What kind of mess is going on at the US military base again?" Takeshita Noboru frowned.

The US troops stationed in Japan are always causing trouble, and I don't know how many mixed-race children they have created.

Moreover, those beasts dare to play with anything, even elementary school students.

I don’t know how many times the people have demanded severe punishment for the murderer, but in the end nothing is done. Once he left Japan and returned to the United States, he was still at large and was not punished at all.

With only the Self-Defense Forces, Japan undoubtedly cannot be tough in this regard.

"They raped a junior high school student on the subway," the defense minister said, "and a U.S. aircraft carrier fleet arrived in Tokyo Bay."

When talking about an aircraft carrier formation arriving in Tokyo Bay, the Defense Minister was trembling all over and his face was full of fear.

Takeshita Noboru suddenly sat paralyzed on the ground.

He knew the meaning behind this. Making trouble was a provocation. The arrival of the aircraft carrier formation in Tokyo Bay was a provocation, a demonstration, and even a form of coercion.

Forcing them to accept the Americans' conditions!

Otherwise, we will have to use force!

Takeshita Noboru gave a miserable smile. He had not expected that the Americans could be so shameless. They clearly wanted to rob, they were clearly robbers, but they had to find a reasonable reason.

He is really going to cry to death!

He wants to say to Americans: Thank you so much!
Takeshita Noboru gritted his teeth. Facing the terrible pressure, Takeshita Noboru knew very well that he could not agree to those harsh conditions.

Once he agrees, he will be a traitor!

There will be a brave Japanese boy who will take him to see Yaki-no-Ohkami.

Noboru Takeshita chose to bow, apologize and resign!
Whoever agrees, can go!
Anyway, there is no way that Takeshita Noboru would agree!
Because Takeshita Noboru knew very well that once Japan agreed, Japan's economy would be completely doomed.

Japanese companies will have their backbones broken, and will never be able to stand up straight again to compete with American and European companies.

Even Takeshita Noboru wondered, if the Americans were forcing Japan so much, weren't they afraid that Japan would join the Soviet camp?
(End of this chapter)