Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 687: Make Britain a human rights persecutor?
On October 1878, 10, the Dutch Socialist Party published the "Investigation of Democracy and Human Rights in the UK" report in the Australian Daily News. What shocked everyone was that the report directly pointed to the British colonial forces in the Indian Ocean. Colonial India massacred more than 29 people, and 50 people were missing in the Malay Archipelago. In Myanmar, the locals were enslaved. The indigenous people in these places had no means of livelihood, and even the most basic rights of survival were denied to them by the British governor. The British local government headed by it said it was exploited and it was terrible.
Because of the human rights and democracy issues in South America, the Australian Daily has become the most watched newspaper in the world these days, even surpassing the European Times for a time.

Social elites have already been waiting to see where this newspaper will point next after its "Democracy in Latin America" ​​report.
Well now, the truth has come out, it’s actually the UK?

Moreover, this report cleverly did not point to the British mainland, which made the British people very happy, but also very helpless, because this time the report directly broke the news and pointed to the colonial Indian Ocean.
British Foreign Secretary Granville Gower summoned the Dutch ambassador to the UK, Marklin, to protest against the Dutch publication of "Freedom's Home", which criticized the British government for its contempt for human rights in the colonies.

In particular, the British Foreign Secretary was very dissatisfied with the report of the Dutch Socialist Party and the Australian Daily that publicly accused the British of persecuting the indigenous people on duty in the Indian colonies. Greville was dissatisfied with the report, which summarized the British actions there, especially in Bombay. and refuted the massacre of more than 50 natives in Ceylon.

“I really don’t know where the data in the Australian Daily came from, and I don’t even know why the Socialist Party, the third largest party in the Netherlands, has the authority to produce a report based on this and accuse the British government in the name of human rights.

But one thing I can confirm is that the Dutch government is allowing the Socialist Party to make various evaluations of the world, and then make criticisms and lessons like a master of human rights.The UK does not support such criticism, and we deny the existence of the so-called truth accused in the "Australian Daily" in the UK. We were warmly welcomed locally. The Indians respect and admire Queen Victoria very much, and it is completely unimaginable that this third country in the Netherlands The three major parties have made such weak judgments on the world's superpower, the United Kingdom. I would like to ask the Dutch government here, do you really want to use the Socialist Party to offend countries around the world? "

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed dissatisfaction with the protest by British Foreign Minister Greville Gower. A spokesman for the Ministry said:

"We in the Netherlands are a country of freedom of speech. In the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we will allow people to express their opinions freely as long as they do not express any disrespectful words or actions towards the royal family.

The UK claims to be the freest country in the world, and also claims to be the country with the most advanced and best systems in the world. When faced with a political party in the Netherlands expressing issues related to freedom and democracy, it should not be so angry and angry. This will only make people angry. People look down on them, but I think that if the UK does not admit that such massacres occurred in those places, why not open up India, Myanmar, Malaya and other places and let reporters from all over the world go in to find the truth?
If not, does that not prove that the British government has a guilty conscience?
Once again, we call on the UK to maintain its confidence in its advanced system, just like the Netherlands. We will not support the Socialist Party’s approach, but we will not oppose it, because again, the Socialist Party points out various issues for the Netherlands and the world. This wrong approach allows us to discover our own weaknesses, which is worth promoting. We hope that the UK will face itself and not just refute for the sake of refutation."

The statement of the spokesperson of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately made it known that the Netherlands was favoring the Socialist Party. Obviously, the Dutch government had used the Socialist Party's "British Human Rights and Democracy" report as a weapon to launch an institutional system against the United Kingdom for the first time. Attack, in order to demonstrate the Netherlands' openness and confidence in this regard.

The British rebuttal was at a disadvantage.For this reason, Britain was naturally unconvinced.

On October 1878, 10, Prime Minister Creston held a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office at 30 Downing Street, London. At the meeting, Creston stated that his cabinet government was re-evaluating The British Foreign and Military Policy concluded that because competitors have deployed a series of non-actual attacks to attack the UK's image, the UK will ask the Foreign Office to fight back.

The UK and its allies may be harmed at a "strategic level". The UK will continue to protect itself and its allies while effectively countering each other. To this end, the UK will cooperate with President Miter of Argentina and Mascaiano of Southern Chile in the Americas. The government and President List of the Confederate States of America banned Dutch newspapers in order to prevent Dutch newspapers from penetrating into these places.

He also said that in the face of the increasing threat from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom will no longer impose restrictions on the British diplomatic alliance. He will soon release a new version of the National Defense Strategy with the British in hand, accusing the Netherlands of its interference in the relationship between the Malayan Islands and Sumatra. The intention to monopolize the Strait of Malacca is a serious threat to British interests, accusing the Netherlands of violating Arturo Lauzon's government, and this report directly pointed out that the Netherlands will be Britain's biggest challenge in the next 20 years.

In this new version of the "Defense Report" of the British Ministry of Defense, it is said that in the next 20 years, the UK will face for the first time in its history the threats of four potential challengers that most directly challenge its position. They are the UK's strategic competition. These three countries are the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, South America), the German Empire (Europe), the Commonwealth of America (Atlantic North America), and the Tsarist Empire (Central Asia).

The report stated that the UK will still strive to maintain its maritime hegemony and will choose to communicate with other countries safely, but it does not rule out fully mobilizing British maritime power to defeat its opponents when the British military and allies at home, overseas and allies face provocations. .

The document did not reveal how much of a threat those opponents pose to the UK before all of the UK's maritime power needs to be mobilized to deal with it. Does the Netherlands' current action of sinking eight British warships off the coast of Chile in South America count?There is no description on this.

Before the election, Creston promised to work hard to maintain Britain's maritime supremacy and not let countries, including the Kingdom of the Netherlands, threaten Britain's maritime supremacy. Therefore, many people in the opposition Tories said at the time I agree, but the defense hawks criticize this strategy as insufficient. However, in the past two years, the current threats to the UK have changed dramatically, and the world is different from what it was 10 years ago.

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