klisemfg Chapter 367 Johnson Comes to South China
Chapter 367 Johnson Comes to South China
As An Yi began to act, the situation around the world gradually changed.
First, some local newspapers began to report on the situation in Vietnam and portrayed the Soviet Union's success in Vietnam as a failure of the West.
These shocking headlines made people who didn't care about Southeast Asia feel that the West was about to be destroyed by the Soviet Union.
Soon, major media also noticed this trend of public opinion and joined in, either actively or passively.
People like to watch the fun. They don’t care whether there are problems behind it. They just want to catch this wave of traffic and don’t want small newspapers to monopolize the limelight.
At this time, US President Johnson was facing tremendous pressure and difficulties.
Former President John won high reputation among Americans because of his successful handling of Southeast Asian affairs and his successful containment of the Soviet Union through non-war means during the missile crisis.
This made Johnson feel a lot of pressure after taking office, especially when faced with the assassination of John, he did not immediately organize people to investigate, causing more people to have deeper suspicion of him.
But Johnson also had his own difficulties. He was worried that if he continued to investigate in depth, he might become the next John F. Kennedy.
When he saw that newspapers in the United States and Western countries began to focus on reporting on events in Vietnam, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He simply chose to ignore the report submitted by the intelligence department on the problems with public opinion.
He even suspected that the person behind the assassination was intentional in an attempt to divert public attention elsewhere.
This was exactly what he wanted, so he had no interest in what was hidden behind it and didn't want to find out at all.
Johnson declared without hesitation that the free and democratic South Vietnamese government was a place that the West must never give up, and that the entire Western world would certainly do its utmost to support the South Vietnamese government.
Immediately afterwards, he urgently took a special plane to South Vietnam for an inspection visit.
Wang Ze was very satisfied after receiving the report from An Yi.
As long as the United States' attention was turned back to South Vietnam, South China could avoid the huge losses that would come with direct intervention in the war.
After all, Vietnam’s jungle environment is not suitable for large-scale mechanized operations, so many of Nanhua’s advantages cannot be fully utilized.
Relying solely on the strength of individual soldiers to fight, although the combat effectiveness of a single soldier far exceeds that of the South due to the light steel structure of the armor, the large number of tunnels in Vietnam are not friendly to armor.
Therefore, Wang Ze only needs to wait for the United States to increase its support for South China when Vietnam shows signs of recession.
In general, in his view, maintaining the status quo between North and South Vietnam was the most beneficial policy for South China.
If North Vietnam completely annexed South Vietnam, war would inevitably break out between South China and Vietnam.
After all, Phu Quoc Island was obtained through an agreement signed between South China and South Vietnam, and North Vietnam would most likely not recognize the agreement at that time.
At present, Phu Quoc Island has become a purely military island, and all the original local residents have been sent to South Vietnam by Nanhua.
Nanhua only wants islands, not people.
A military airport and a large airship field were built on the island.
The naval port also has two destroyers docked all year round.
Even five of the dozen or so aircraft purchased by Nan Hua for pilot training were specially dispatched to Phu Quoc Island.
It has become the second training ground for the South China Air Force.
Over Phu Quoc Island, South China's Air Force and the U.S. military frequently conduct actual combat drills, with pilots from both sides engaging in fierce confrontation exercises in the air.
At the beginning, the South China Air Force was basically at a disadvantage, but now it is on par with the US military.
The South China Air Force made great progress in tactics, technology and training.
Several missile bases have been deployed on the island, and underground launch silos have been built, which have the ability to launch nuclear weapons.
Deploying nuclear bombs on the island means that if the situation deteriorates, South China may resort to nuclear strikes to maintain security.
Wang Ze doesn't care about public opinion. Who will care about such things in a few decades?
After all, Japan, the only country in the world that has suffered a nuclear attack, is not too obsessed with this history now.
After years of hard work, Nanhua's wind tunnel project finally made a major breakthrough.
A group of conventional wind tunnels have been built, with wind speeds reaching below 140 meters per second, which is sufficient to meet the needs of layout and performance research on conventional aircraft.
The wind tunnel is located in an underground scientific research base group beneath the artificial continent, and a special underground cavity space has been opened for the construction of the wind tunnel group.
In order to ensure a stable power supply for the wind tunnel group, Wang Ze personally went to the site to install a geothermal generator.
This is one of the few times he has directly built a geothermal power plant again.
At present, Nanhua’s power generation equipment mainly relies on thermal power generation. Except for Xincheng and Xindao, other cities rely on thermal power to obtain electricity.
Although geothermal power generation is environmentally friendly and efficient, due to technical limitations, Nanhua would not be able to manufacture geothermal power generation equipment on its own without Wang Ze's participation.
In addition, Southeast Asia has abundant coal resources, making the cost of thermal power generation relatively low.
The research institute originally planned to master geothermal power generation technology, but faced with the difficulty of building geothermal channels, they racked their brains but still failed to produce a qualified product.
At the same time, the aircraft manufacturing designers sent to France returned to Nanhua one after another and began to make improvements based on the Super Etendard fighter.
Multiple wind tunnels were started simultaneously, and a large amount of resources were invested to speed up the research and development process.
This rapidly accelerated Nanhua's aircraft manufacturing progress.
Wang Ze once visited the aircraft manufacturing plant in person and saw that the fighter jets in the factory had entered the assembly stage. It is expected that in the near future, Nanhua’s independently manufactured fighter jets will be able to soar into the blue sky.
What Wang Ze did not expect was that after Johnson's inspection in Vietnam, he did not return directly to the United States, but informed the South China government of his request for a visit.
This abrupt arrangement made Nanhua confused. Is this person so brave? He didn't even discuss it in advance and just wanted to come to Nanhua. Did he really think Nanhua was Vietnam?
However, the other party was the newly elected president of the United States after all, so Wang Jixin did not refuse and agreed to his arrival.
However, as you can imagine, the welcome ceremony was rather simple.
Johnson didn't care about this. He also knew that it was inappropriate to give such a short notice and it didn't give South China time to prepare.
After Johnson communicated with Wang Jixin about the Vietnam issue, he expressed his desire to visit Wang Ze.
Wang Ze didn't expect that this person would want to take a shortcut and bypass the government to talk to him directly.
It seems that the political ecology of South China has been thoroughly studied by these Western countries, Wang Ze thought helplessly.
However, in Wang Ze's view, although such politics is very good for him, after all, his words are law in Nanhua, but he wants to establish a balanced political system.
Nanhua’s clan association should be an institution for supervision and punishment, rather than exercising government functions.
Therefore, Wang Ze directly rejected Johnson's visit, making it clear that the matter should be handled by the government, and that such official meeting requests would no longer need to be submitted.