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Chapter 383 Meeting
When the Australian officials arrived in Xincheng, they directly chose Xincheng Hotel as their accommodation.
This hotel is not only the most luxurious in the new city, but also the best choice for receiving foreign guests.
Every item here is carefully prepared by Nanhua, striving to be the best.
After all, this is where the patriarch lived after he set foot on this land.
It has special significance for the top management of South China.
The leading figure in Australia's visit is Mars, who comes as the Deputy Prime Minister of a country, which undoubtedly shows the importance and high level of this meeting.
Ambassadors from various countries in China were full of curiosity about this sudden bilateral meeting.
Especially the US government. Australia has always been extremely wary of ASEAN, but now it suddenly sits down to negotiate with ASEAN, which surprised the United States.
On the same day that the Australian delegation arrived, the United States took quick action to obtain information through spies planted in Australia.
Just one day later, they received intelligence that Australia was interested in joining ASEAN.
At present, Australia's political situation is quite stable, and it is difficult for the United States to find a breakthrough for the time being.
So they passed this information to Britain. From the US perspective, Australia's actions were clearly a betrayal of the Commonwealth.
However, the development of things was beyond everyone's expectation.
The British response was unusually cold, making it clear that this was an entirely independent decision made by Australia and they would not get involved.
Time was running out, and the United States watched helplessly as the two sides sat together.
Although the talks were about Australia joining ASEAN, Wang Jixin did not inform other ASEAN member states in advance.
He believes that if no agreement can be reached with South China, there is no need to convene an ASEAN leaders' meeting.
The agreement Mars brought was fair and reasonable for both parties.
Under the agreement, Australia will join ASEAN and enjoy tax breaks and currency trade preferences among ASEAN member states.
At the same time, Australia has pledged to disarm the 12 troops stationed in its northern region, leaving only soldiers behind.
In addition, Australia has opened its resources to ASEAN, allowing citizens of ASEAN member states to go to Australia to purchase land and set up businesses.
Wang Jixin still agrees with the agreement proposed by Australia. After all, ASEAN member states will enjoy these benefits as long as they join.
Especially in terms of the industrial chain, Australia expressed its willingness to actively join the ASEAN industrial chain layout, and even readily accepted Nanhua's request to hold 49% of its shares.
However, this decision did not fully meet Wang Jixin's expectations, and he still put forward some additional conditions.
First, South China hopes to build a large-scale radar station in Australia and deploy an air defense missile camp to strengthen its monitoring capabilities in the South Pacific region, thereby better protecting ASEAN from potential threats.
Secondly, Australia needs to send a certain number of soldiers to join the ASEAN joint force, and at the same time set aside an area within its territory for the joint force to be stationed.
Mars was actually mentally prepared for the second requirement, because now ASEAN countries are all working to establish joint military bases, and if Australia wants to integrate into them, it will naturally be no exception.
However, Mars found the first condition difficult.
After all, in the vast Pacific Ocean, there is almost no other choice except the United States for a target that ASEAN can be so vigilant and closely monitor and defend.
This condition is undoubtedly full of precautions against the United States.
Mars felt very embarrassed about the conditions proposed by Nanhua.
They originally hoped to balance the United States by introducing South China or ASEAN, but if they accept the first condition, it would almost be equivalent to taking sides.
The first day of the meeting was stuck on this issue. Mars firmly refused to build radar and air defense missile bases on the grounds that "there are no targets that need to be defended in the South Pacific."
However, Wang Jixin took a tough stance on this condition and refused to accept any negotiations.
After all, even the pro-American Philippines has built a radar station, so why should Australia refuse?
After the meeting, Mars took out the New Town satellite phone and dialed Robert's number who was waiting for the results.
He had to admit that this satellite phone was indeed very practical, but the high call charges made him staggering.
Fortunately, the cost of the phone is covered by the Australian government.
"Accept Nanhua's request, but it must be made clear that the missile base must not add any offensive weapons." Robert ordered seriously.
In his opinion, as long as there is no offensive missile deployment, there will still be room for negotiation with the United States in the future and there will not be a direct fallout.
The next day, the two sides sat together again. The atmosphere of this meeting was obviously much more relaxed. After yesterday's verbal battle, both sides had figured out each other's bottom line.
After the talks, Wang Jixin went directly to the mountain base.
"They are a little anxious." Wang Ze looked at the meeting minutes and couldn't help but sigh.
"Yes, the progress is really too fast. I have also learned about the situation in Australia in the past few days. The domestic economic situation is not very good. Maybe they want to join ASEAN to improve their economy." Wang Jixin speculated.
Wang Ze frowned, thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's possible, but I always feel that things are not that simple." He shook his head, indicating that he was not satisfied with this reason.
But he couldn't think of any other more reasonable explanation for the moment, so he could only put his doubts aside for the time being.
In any case, judging from the current content of the meeting, there are only benefits for Nanhua.
Whatever the reason behind it, it has nothing to do with them.
"Okay, let's do it this way." Wang Ze nodded.
"There is one more thing. Today we received a meeting request from South Indonesia." Wang Jixin said with a smile.
"What? They also want to rejoin ASEAN?" Wang Ze asked curiously.
Southern Indonesia is quite hostile towards South China, so why did it suddenly make this choice?
You know, South China annexed Sumatra Island, and the nuclear bomb that exploded in Jakarta was released by North Indonesia, but the nuclear bomb was made by South China.
Therefore, many people in southern Indonesia blamed Nan Hua for this.
"Maybe it's because Australia has joined and he's the only one that hasn't joined and feels insecure," Wang Jixin said jokingly.
"Sure, the conditions are the same, but if they want to join, they must publicly recognize the ownership of Sumatra and the fact that North and South Indonesia are divided." Wang Ze said after some consideration.
Now the argument of southern Indonesia is that they do not recognize that Sumatra is the territory of South China. It is just a good opportunity to put an end to this matter to avoid any trouble in the future.