Chapter 1,134 The Security Treaty Is Going Bankrupt

"You mean them..." The student glanced at Jiang Chen with a strange expression. He felt that the person in front of him looked familiar, but he couldn't tell where he had seen him before. "I guess some political party is canvassing votes for the election." , there have been more and more such activities recently.”

Jiang Chen nodded clearly.

Speaking of which, almost four years have passed since he overthrew the previous regime, President Edward. In the past four years, the changes in Koro Island can really be described as earth-shaking, and there is almost no trace of the small fishing village that it once was.

The new country implements a presidential system, with general elections held every four years. The election campaign will begin at the end of March next year.

If nothing unexpected happens, Zhang Yaping will continue to be his president, and Xinghuan Trading will continue to be the behind-the-scenes controller of this country. The remaining parties symbolically compete for the position of president, and then the battlefield will be on the seats of members of Congress.

As a revolutionary pioneer who saves the people from the burning water, unless Zhang Yaping voluntarily gives up his candidacy, with the support behind Star Ring Trade, it is almost impossible for an accident to happen.

At this moment, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered something.

Speaking of the US election that attracts global attention, it seems that it will also be next year.

After such a big mistake was made in the second half of 2019, I am afraid that it is unlikely that Hillary will be re-elected. Not to mention the people who asked her to step down, I'm afraid that the current Democratic Party members don't really buy her account.

When Jiang Chen thought of this, he couldn't help but curl up his lips.

God bless the new country, I hope the American people will choose an even more idiotic opponent for him next year.

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Jiang Chen's guess was correct. Hillary's life was indeed not very good recently.

The U.S. aircraft carrier battle group has never turned around due to threats from any country, not to mention that what stands in front of them is just a small country with a fleet of only six frigates and only twenty or thirty fighter planes.

Everyone except those who stood in the Pentagon's operations room that day blamed Hillary's weakness in foreign policy. Even though Hillary's public relations team released some inside information, saying that the president was facing a lunatic who was not willing to launch a nuclear war, it was obvious that not many people bought it.

Nuclear deterrence.

deterrence.

How do you know he's not bluffing? How do you make sure he dares to press the button?

Hillary really doesn't know,

But she didn't dare to gamble with the future of the United States whether it would be heaven or hell in ten seconds.

Although many people ask themselves that they might not be able to do better than her in her position, this does not prevent them from criticizing her.

This is politics.

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton was sitting in the Oval Office, listening to the FBI director's report on recent work.

At this moment, the office door was pushed open, and the FBI director immediately stopped talking and took two steps back to the side.

Hillary frowned slightly when she saw the person standing at the door.

"You forgot to knock, Mr. Bolden."

"I'll apologize for my rudeness, but please wait until I finish... The second wave of colonists from the Halo Trade have arrived on Mars. We've lost to them on the Moon and are now being left behind on Mars. Tens of millions of kilometers." Bolden hurriedly walked into the door. He placed a document on Hillary's desk, stared at her seriously and said, "NASA needs more budget! If you still want us to If a space elevator is built before 2050."

Hillary rubbed the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes.

"You should go talk to Congress, not come to me."

With a bitter smile on his lips, Bolden shook his head.

"Those short-sighted guys are losing confidence in Silicon Valley and Seattle. I have written two plans and submitted them, but they were stuck in the budget committee. I can only come to you... Well, I have it for me. Apologize for the rudeness just now.”

After carefully speaking the second half of his sentence, Bolden exited the Oval Office.

"What are the people in Congress thinking?" Hillary frowned, buried her nose in the gap between her palms, took a deep breath, closed her eyes and pondered for a moment, then looked at the FBI director standing next to her, "Help me Find out who-"

Hillary's words shocked the FBI director and he waved his hands quickly.

"This is against the rules and I will not help you investigate members of Congress."

"I think someone is behind it," Hillary said calmly. "Someone is lobbying the Budget Committee to block the budget for government projects. The Secretary of Defense came to me this morning to talk about similar issues."

This situation is very common. In order to achieve political goals, certain groups or companies often put pressure on the White House through Congress, and the Budget Committee is only one of the means. For example, the famous K Street between Capitol Hill and the White House is a microcosm of this phenomenon and can be regarded as a gray area in the American democratic system.

Hillary's words made the FBI director hesitate for a moment and reluctantly nodded.

"The best I can do is help you keep an eye on who the hearing committee members have been talking to lately—"

At this moment, the door was pushed open again.

Hillary immediately became angry.

"That's enough. Don't you know how to knock on the door?"

"Sorry, I'm really in a hurry," Kerry apologized apologetically as he quickly walked into the room, took out the documents he had tucked under his arm, and placed them on Hillary's desk, looking anxious. Said, "Japan announced that it will join the Earth Defense Alliance, and our people have just confirmed this news."

Hillary raised her eyebrows, "Just confirmed? What on earth are the CIA people doing!"

"Japan has done it very carefully. Their Congress has not even publicly discussed this matter."

"This is against the rules!"

"This is not the first time they have not followed the rules. All Asian countries have this kind of behavior!" Kerry couldn't help but scolded.

The cabinet bypassed Congress and acted first and then reported it. This is indeed not the first time Japan has done this. But last time it was for the benefit of the United States, and this time it was to prevent the United States from knowing...

After a pause, Cree continued with a look of embarrassment, "The thing that worries us most has happened. It is said that they are now renegotiating the security treaty with us."

"How dare they..." Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Hillary's back.

The legal basis for the U.S. military stationing in Japan is the "Japan-U.S. Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty" signed on January 9, 1960, which lasts for ten years and can be abrogated by either party with one year's advance notice. After the new treaty expired in 1970, it continued to this day in the form of automatic extension without notification of abrogation by both countries.

Today, the U.S. military forces stationed in East Asia are no longer monitoring the defeated countries in World War II, but are serving as military forces to realize the U.S. rebalancing strategy in the Asia-Pacific. Japan's willingness to be the pawn of the United States is also an attempt to use the protective umbrella of the United States to use tiger skin as a banner to pave the way for outward expansion.

This is also the fundamental reason why neither party has mentioned the termination of the contract for more than 40 years.

In order to keep the US troops stationed, the Japanese government even does not hesitate to offend the people and incurs US$5.2 billion in military expenditures every year.

However, since the biochemical crisis in Tokyo and the resignation of Prime Minister Abe, the right-wing forces have been in decline. Now the rise of the new country and the expansion of the development of outer space resources have completely cut off Japan's idea of ​​​​expanding outwards, and completely embraced the Earth Defense Alliance.

As a result, the hope of retaining troops in Japan has changed from a hit-and-miss to a wishful thinking of the United States.

If they say they are renegotiating the treaty, I am afraid they are going to start driving people away...

If the weak performance of the U.S. Combined Fleet in the Western Pacific has only slightly weakened Hillary's approval rating, then the loss of the Japanese military base by the United States will completely become a political stain on her.

This time, Hillary was really panicked. (To be continued.)