Changkong Fighter

Chapter 37 They Don’t Have That Ability
Everyone looked at the world map. The small notebook was like a shield in front of a rooster. Further down was the Treasure Island, and below the Treasure Island were the ten East Asian countries and Australia.

It is foreseeable that there is no need for Tokyo to take action on its own. The aliens will directly kick the American influence out of the Asia-Pacific region, and the first, second, and third island chains will no longer exist!
By then, these small countries can only rely on the big brother in the East. As soon as the United States retreats, they will kneel down to the big brother in the East.

"The setback suffered by the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will have a serious impact on the United States, shattering the myth of the US military and further accelerating the division of society. However, the US government will also use this opportunity to shift conflicts outward, relieve internal pressure, and blame us for the failure."

Everyone present is familiar with the smear campaign, and it’s not the first time anyway. But will it be effective just like this?

"NATO is made up of 30 countries, but they don't have enough industry. Western countries as a whole are financializing, focusing on the service industry, and deindustrializing. They only produce 1 rounds of artillery shells a year!"

"The hollowing out of the U.S. industry and deindustrialization will severely weaken their military industry. Even if they try to repair it now, it will take time. Production lines will be dismantled, industrial workers will be cut off, there will be a shortage of skilled personnel, and the cost of construction will be too high. Most importantly, the government is incompetent!"

Effective government. The most important political dividing line between countries lies not in their form of government, but in the effectiveness of their government, and state capacity is the ability to mobilize human, material and financial resources to realize national will and complete national tasks.

These are things that Western countries do not have, or are losing.

Fukuyama pointed out that the successful realization of modern liberal democracy requires a stable balance between the state, the rule of law, and accountability. In his book The Building Blocks of the State: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, he pointed out that state capacity is the strength of the state's functions, which includes efficient, clean, and transparent policy formulation and implementation capabilities, as well as law enforcement capabilities.

I haven't seen anything like what he's talking about in the US. After the losses of their current warplanes and warships, I doubt they can withstand a possible future attack from alien civilizations. A serious expression crossed the professor's face. He still couldn't forget Francis Fukuyama, whom he had defeated three times in debate.

The war with alien civilization cannot be resolved quickly, especially when the technological gap has not formed a dimensionality reduction attack. The two sides will fight a war of attrition, competing in population, technology, industry, and economy. The most important thing is willpower, whether there is the determination to fight to the end.

A quick victory or a quick defeat is not desirable. This is a "protracted war". Fortunately, humans are fighting at home and have certain advantages.

"The aliens cutting off the Pacific Ocean is equivalent to cutting off our maritime trade with the United States, which directly decouples us from the United States."

"In 2024, our trade volume with the United States was $6882.8 billion, of which exports to the United States were $5246.56 billion and imports were $1636.24 billion, resulting in a trade deficit with the United States of $3610.32 billion."

Under this situation, Tokyo and the United States are constantly criticizing each other at the United Nations and calling for trade decoupling. However, the US still has a trade deficit of more than 3600 billion US dollars, which shows how much the United States relies on Tokyo's cheap industrial products.

Now, before the Americans can really decouple, the appearance of aliens has forced a hard decoupling. Only those who feel it know how hard it is.

"Geopolitically, the US is an isolated island overseas. Without the support of the Eurasian continent, the cost of living will increase dramatically. Internal capital interest groups don't care about the lives of ordinary people. The increased costs will be passed on to the people. The 50 yuan bread will soon be gone. Under external pressure, internal collapse is only a matter of time."

"As a maritime power, being blocked from shipping is fatal. To avoid internal collapse, the Americans will definitely gamble their national destiny! They desperately need a victory, especially a foreign military victory. Even those who are clear-headed will be swayed by their politicians and public opinion and will definitely take military risks.

The combination of existing naval and air forces is their advantage. The use of nuclear weapons cannot be ruled out. If the United States succeeds, it will remain a 'beacon of humanity' for a while, provided it can defeat alien civilizations."

What if I fail?

The Fudan professor was silent for more than ten seconds:

"If the United States collapses from within, neo-colonial nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East will seize the opportunity to break free from US control, launch counterattacks against US capital, and achieve strategic independence. However, the collapse of the US will also have a global impact, causing humanity to question its ability to fight against extraterrestrial civilizations, and some countries will have second thoughts."

"Perhaps they don't need to fail. Some capital groups are already transferring their capital, and the safest place in the world is right here. As some people say, the direction of human flow is the direction of civilization."

At this moment, the door suddenly opened, and a civil servant walked quickly to the person on the stage, said something, then turned around and left in a hurry.

It seems the professor is right. The ten ASEAN countries have already applied to visit China, while Japan hopes our Eastern Theater Command will visit. Major players in the Middle East have also drawn up visit plans. They're quite sensitive.

We have to commend these leaders with a keen political sense; they always spot crises. Those with a weak sense, or even no sense at all, often end up in dire straits. Take, for example, a monkey that jumps around all day; he probably doesn't even know what will happen if the Pacific Ocean is cut off by aliens! Do you still think the United States today is still the same as it was in the 1990s?

After the person on the stage finished speaking, he looked towards the [Ryukyu Islands] and stared at it for a long time.

After the professor finished speaking, officials from the Ministry of Industry came on stage. Like the Ministry of Technology, they were also the backbone of the fight against the invasion of alien civilizations.

[Can we currently withstand a large-scale alien invasion? ]

"As the professor mentioned earlier, due to geopolitical reasons, we won't face the threat of alien civilizations directly. However, if alien civilizations begin a full-scale invasion of the Pacific Rim countries, we must fully mobilize our industrial and military production capacity to support the countries on the front lines. We can't let them fall. We have the confidence and determination!"

Next, the Ministry of Industry detailed last year's industrial production capacity.

"In 2024, pig iron production will be 8.52 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 2.3%; steel production will be 14.00 billion tons. After the improvement of the 6-second steelmaking process, steel production will increase significantly."

Listening to the report from the Ministry of Industry, each piece of data is very scary. This is the confidence of the world's number one industrial country. Backed by the Russian bear to the north and supplied by the world's largest resource-rich country, it will burst out with extremely powerful production capacity. This is the confidence of the University of Tokyo in facing alien civilizations.

(End of this chapter)