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Chapter 1154 Big Brother will always cut leeks (first update, please subscribe)
What's next for the "no-fly zone"?
Siam is an example!

After crossing the no-fly zone, the next step is to attack Bangkok directly!

During the Cold War, everyone was constantly drawing red lines to make the other side understand their bottom line.

Of course, this is drawing a red line, not weaving a red carpet. Some red lines are gone once someone steps on them, while others are gone once someone steps on them.

As we all know, there is only one red line in Nanyang, and that red line is the bottom line. If you cross it, something bad will definitely happen.

Siam was trampled, and Siam was restored!

So, with a living example there, Li Yian was not worried that they would not understand.

Li Guoren smiled and said:
"Your Excellency, they will certainly accuse us of interfering in their internal affairs through the United Nations."

"United Nations……"

Li Yian said indifferently:

"He's nothing more than a waste paper machine. We don't need to pay attention to him until we become a permanent member of the Security Council!"

Li Yian, smoking a cigar, spoke calmly without any discomfort. In fact, this is the rule of the international game - as a rule maker, of course, one must uphold the rules, but since one is not a rule maker, of course one can do whatever is beneficial to one.

Why can Nanyang ignore the rules?
It's not just because of strength, a more important reason is that the Western world, or more precisely, the United States needs Nanyang to break some rules.

Nanyang is now the Western world's number one thug, and it has nuclear weapons, missiles, strategic bombers, and aircraft carriers. When Nanyang shows up, even the Soviet Union has a headache.

In this case, Nanyang can completely ignore some international rules.

Besides, Nanyang also has a legitimate reason.

"Even if it goes to the United Nations, the lawsuit can still be fought. Yangon is committing genocide, and we are just seeking justice."

It doesn’t matter whether it exists or not. What matters is... as long as there is a name.

Haven’t you seen that in another world, NATO in Kosovo and Russia in South Ossetia, the so-called "humanitarian disaster" is nothing but a reason and an excuse. Even laundry detergent can be taken to the United Nations, and it’s easy to take a few staged photos.

"Okay, I know what to do,"

After expressing his agreement, Li Guoren asked again.

"Sir, regarding Shan State, Bangkok asked us what our attitude is. They meant the final outcome, whether it is independence or maintaining the status quo."

In fact, it is Bangkok that has always been concerned about the Shan State issue, because they know very well that for Yu Xianluo, it is an indispensable buffer zone.

Therefore, Bangkok has always been very active in supporting Shan State. In addition to handing over a large number of captured Soviet weapons to the Shan State Freedom Army, it even handed over more than 6 aircraft to Shan State, including 15 MiG- fighters captured that year, thus helping Shan State to establish an air force.

Faced with the question, Li Yian did not answer immediately, but paced back and forth with a cigar in his mouth. Finally, he slowly walked to the window, stared out for a while, and after a long time, he spoke.

"This is a matter for the future. We don't need to think about it too much for now. Our policy towards Shan State is very simple. We will help the locals get rid of poverty through development loans, let them join the Nanyang 'flying geese model', promote local economic development and get them out of poverty."

The "Flying Geese Model" is an economic development model adopted by Li Yian based on the experience of Japan in another world.

Although it is only 59 years old, Nanyang’s status in Asia, especially Southeast Asia, is that of a giant.

The "flying geese model" is a development plan formulated by Nanyang based on the situation in Southeast Asia, or more accurately, the situation in "friendly countries".

In this economic development process, Nanyang, which has completed industrialization, has advanced technology, developed industry, and strong capital, and has become the leader in East Asian economic development; Malaya, Mindanao, Surabaya, Kyushu, South Korea, Siam, Hong Kong Island and the Taiwan Islands are the second and third echelons.

Nanyang has successively transferred mature industries or industries with potential comparative disadvantages to these regions, such as labor-intensive clothing, textiles, shoes, toys and other products. Of course, there will also be highly polluting heavy chemical industries in the future.

This industrial transfer from Southeast Asia and investment in processing and assembly industries in these regions not only meets the needs of regional economic development, but these countries and regions have also become a sink for Southeast Asia's export of industrial manufactured products and intermediate products.

Among these countries and regions, some will be more advanced in technology and focus on developing capital-intensive enterprises, such as Malaya, Mindanao, Surabaya, Kyushu, South Korea, etc. Thanks to the Confucian tradition, these regions attach great importance to education and play the role of the goose body.

Countries that started from agriculture and moved towards developing export-oriented industries - such as Siam, Shan State, and even South Vietnam and the Philippines - all belong to the third level. They have resources and labor, and focus on developing labor-intensive industries. They play the role of the tail of the goose.

Actually, to put it bluntly.

Nanyang’s “flying geese model” is essentially a model of cutting leeks, which requires the use of the intellectual resources of the Tang cultural circle and the labor resources of other cultural circles.

In the end, with their joint efforts, Nanyang people can live a better life. This world has always been like this. No matter how it is disguised, no matter how it is called a high-sounding name, as the big brother, it always needs to cut leeks. Cutting leeks is for a better life. Of course, only when you live well can you properly feed back to your little brothers, but the way and mode of cutting leeks are different. The model adopted by Nanyang is somewhat similar to that of the United States, but on the other hand, it draws on Japan's "flying geese model", or it is closer to the "flying geese model". After all, unlike the Western European little brothers of the United States, the little brothers of Nanyang are all a group of poor brothers. In comparison, the "flying geese model" is more suitable for these little brothers.

What is different from Japan in another world is that Nanyang, as the leading goose, has fully ensured its core position as the "leader" from the very beginning through direct investment, control of financial resources and other means under the design of Li Yian.

It ensures that the "flock of geese" does not get out of control.

In another world, Japan lost its status as the "leader goose" not because of the challenge from the University of Tokyo, but because of the loss of control of the "flock of geese" - Japan's international influence determined that it was impossible for it to achieve dual control in the economy and politics.

At that time, Southeast Asia served as Japan's raw material supply base and market. Japan only controlled its economy, but its political influence was minimal!

Southeast Asian countries are politically controlled by the United States, and so is Japan.

However, when the East Asian financial crisis broke out, Japan was not only unable to save the Southeast Asian economy from decline and recession, but it was even unable to protect itself, causing its domestic economy to remain in a long-term downturn and its direct investment in Southeast Asia to decline significantly.

As a result, until the 21st century, a "East Asian Economic Circle" cooperation system with Japan as the core has not been formed, and it is even more impossible to form an Asian Economic Community to compete with the "Western European Economic Circle" and the "North American Economic Circle".

This was also the reason why the "flock of geese" later lost control.

What Li Yian has been committed to building is the "Nanyang Economic Circle". The first prerequisite of this economic circle is to ensure economic control and political influence.

If this East Asian economic circle can be formed, then East Asia will become the third center of the world after the United States and Europe in the future, and its GDP will exceed that of either the United States or Europe.

This is not a fantasy, but a reality of future development. Even in another world, why the United States adopts strategies such as offshore balancing in East Asia to instigate conflicts among East Asian countries is that the total economic volume of the East Asian economic circle far exceeds that of the North American and Western European economic circles.

Therefore, for the United States, preventing the integration of the East Asian economic circle has become its top priority.

But now, East Asia has not yet demonstrated this power, so what is needed is to complete the integration of the East Asian economic circle before the Americans realize this.

In other words, complete the layout in advance, and at the right time in the future, promote the complete integration of the East Asian economic circle, forming the world's third economic center and posing a challenge to the United States.

Of course, a group of rich brothers are needed. This is also the reason why Nanyang needs to implement the "Goose Model". To put it bluntly, it is to drive their development so that when confronting the United States and Europe in the future, Nanyang will not be fighting alone.

And what is the core of it?
Of course it is dual control of economy and politics!

Otherwise, it will end up like Japan in another world, with nothing gained.

Just like that, recalling the pros and cons of Japan's "flying geese model" in another era, Li Yian said:

"But in this 'flying geese model', there are close and distant ones. The close ones are those that can be controlled by us politically. For example, the flying geese should be Malaya, Mindanao, Surabaya, Siam, and Kyushu. Economically, they are equivalent to the external extension of the Nanyang economy. Politically, they are directly influenced by Nanyang. As for South Korea, the Philippines and other countries, they..."

Shaking his head, Li Yian took a puff of his cigar and said slowly:

"They can serve as the tail of the goose, but the industrial transfer in Southeast Asia has not yet reached that stage. Everything has to be done slowly. And what about Shan State? The role they will play in the future is actually very complicated. First of all, it is located inland. From the perspective of economic development, this alone restricts its development potential. Although there is the Mekong River, but... inland rivers, transportation is always restricted."

In fact, it is not the inland waterway transportation that is restricted. In fact, if the Mekong River is developed, its transport capacity is not necessarily worse than that of the Yangtze River. The only problem is that its estuary is located in Saigon. After the fall of Saigon, it was naturally blocked. Moreover, Cambodia will be controlled by Pol Pot in the future. Not to mention trade, people will directly go to de-urbanization.

In short, in one word, the future economic development of Shan State can be seen at a glance. Therefore, Li Yian has his own plan for it.

"In the next decade or so, Shan State's focus will be on building modern agriculture and banning yap cultivation. This is what they should do. In the process, they need a stable situation. So, there is no need to consider the issue of independence. We can take it slow in the future and consider this issue when the time is right."

After thinking about it, Li Yian added.

"In the future, Mindanao and Surabaya will inevitably have to face these problems. Shan State...tell Bangkok that we prefer them to maintain the status quo. OK, this is our basic position. We can also communicate this with Yangon, but we must tell them that if Yangon tries to break the current situation, no matter in what way, and creates a humanitarian disaster, Nanyang will not sit idly by!"

Is this a threat?
Of course it’s a threat!

Although it sounds unpleasant, Yangon must listen. If they don't listen, they will definitely pay the price.

"I will make our wishes clear to Yangon."

Li Guoren nodded slightly, and then reported some other problems, all of which were problems in neighboring countries, from the war in Laos to the unrest in public security in Saigon. Of course, there was also Jakarta's attack on local rebel forces with the support of the Soviet Union. In short, it seemed that there was turmoil everywhere in Southeast Asia.

How will this chaotic situation turn out?
No one knows, not even Li Yian can predict the future. He can only analyze based on what he knows and then make some instructions.

Li Guoren stood motionless, accepting instructions and writing down all the key points.

(End of this chapter)