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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 24, 2021 17:02:00 GMT
Indeed. Solves the problem with eliminating any evidence too. Except that they would be eliminating a massive landfill. However. there might also be something like this at one of those death camps too. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 27, 2021 4:57:02 GMT
Chapter Fifty-Seven: Devil Spawns of Anarchy
PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE CHECKPOINTS IN HAMI TARGETED BY CAR BOMBS, UYGHUR SEPARATISTS MAIN SUSPECTS IN THE ATTACK
South China Morning Post
November 25, 1997
 Members of the People's Armed Police, or China's national gendarmerie, are deployed to the bombed checkpoint in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region's city of Hami. Earlier, a car bomb had been detonated at several checkpoints, killing a few PAP members.(Hami, XINJIANG AUTONOMOUS REGION) - Security officials in the Xinjiang city of Hami today, have confirmed reports of a series of car bombings that targeted multiple checkpoints crewed by the People's Armed Police. Municipal police officers, acting in collaboration with both the People's Armed Police and agents of the Ministry of State Security, have suspected Uyghur terrorists linked to the outlawed Turkistan Islamic Party, as the responsible party involved in the attack. Upon closer inspection of the scenes of the attack, MSS agents have concluded that the Uyghur terrorists could not have pulled off such a sophisticated series of chain attacks, meaning that they somehow had help from other parties. Official casualty reports indicate that up to 13 civilians in the city of Hami, have been killed by the car bombs, with an additional 59 injured civilians that have been reported to authorities.
"The terrorists that were responsible for the attack on Hami, we have but one message to you: we will not negotiate with you. We will hunt you down and punish you in ways that your enemies could not even dream of," an unnamed MSS spokesperson announced during a press release. "The attacks only confirm our suspicions that the Uyghur separatists are possibly gaining help for the attacks from two nations that we know of: Turkey, and the Philippines."
Suspicion immediately fell on the Tadiar fascist dictatorship in the Philippines, whose insistence on their perpetual state of war with China, have resulted in additional PLA military exercises designed to intimidate the Filipino reactionaries into signing the peace treaty that they refused to sign in Berlin a few years ago, and convincing them of China's sovereignty over the Nansha Islands. However, regional Communist Party boss for Chongqing, Bo Xilai, have also accused the Turkish Republic of sponsoring such an attack on the checkpoints in Xinjiang, citing the Pan-Turkist ideology as the main motivator. Chongqing Party boss Bo's accusations towards Turkey is agreed upon with various segments of the MSS and the PLA, who stands to gain from acquiring the former Soviet military base in Gyumri, Armenia. Even so, Premier Jiang Zemin has revealed that the Turkish and Filipino governments are in talks of establishing a training camp, where Uyghur separatists will be given the training needed to attack China. In addition, the Premier has also ordered the PLAAF to be ready at a moment's notice, for when the bombing missions will resume, although Comrade General Wang Dongxing has expressed concerns that the bombing missions will be more difficult, given the American government's open violations of the UN arms embargo imposed on the Tadiar dictatorship.
--- MASSIVE AIRPORT BOMBINGS OCCUR THROUGHOUT EASTERN EUROPE! GOVERNMENTS OF RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND UNION STATE OF UKRAINE AND BELARUS DECLARE MARTIAL LAW IN RESPONSE
The Sun
December 10, 1996
 Members of the Ukrainian Special Police Force, known as the Berkut, are being deployed into the streets of the Crimean city of Simferopol, after its airport was targeted by Al-Qaeda backed terrorists.(Kiev, UKRAINE) - Just only two and a bit weeks left until Christmas left, and already there is tragedy, as Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists have carried out a chain of airplane bombings in the cities of Rostov-on-the-Don, Simferopol, Kutaisi, and Vitebsk. Officials from those governments indicate that as many as 400 people were killed in the attacks in each cities, bringing it up to around 1,200 to 1,300 civilians dead, including airport staff, who were killed in the blast as well. In response to the string of bombings in the airports, the governments of Russia, Georgia, and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus have declared martial law to deal with the terrorist threat, and also gave orders for all aircraft to be grounded, until martial law was lifted. In addition, all of the targeted nations have deployed most of their medical workers to help their colleagues in the airports where the attacks have occurred.
"The threat of Islamic terrorist attacks are real, and in fact, we have already been on the front lines in this new War on Terror," says Russian President Gennady Burbulis, during a briefing in the Duma. "From Central Asia, to the Caucasus, we are seeing disenfranchised young people being vulnerable to the radicalization efforts by outside players, namely Al-Qaeda."
An Islamist uprising has broken out only hours after the airport bombings have occurred, with the Russian military being deployed to the Autonomous Republic of Dagestan, where Al-Qaeda had managed to establish their presence there. This, in addition to increased instability inside Kazakhstan, has forced the Burbulis government to mobilize the rest of the Russian military for a potential intervention, to the fears of the international community, who were divided between confronting the Islamist threat seeking to destroy the Russian Federation, and condemning Russia for what they see as another potential military invasion, for the first time since the Second Russian Civil War. In addition, the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus has deployed the predominantly Ukrainian soldiers into Crimea, where a failed attempt to establish a Crimean cell of Al-Qaeda had been reported. Finally, Georgia's government under President Zviad Gamsakhurdia has announced the deployment of Georgian soldiers to the border with Russia's North Caucasus Autonomous Republics.
"Georgia finds itself on the front lines against Islamist terrorism, and we did not even provoke the Muslims into attacking us. However, because we are merely a transit route into the predominantly Muslim majority regions in the North Caucasus, an attack on us is vital for their goals," Gamsakhurdia says while addressing the Georgian Parliament. "Rest assured however, that Georgia will stand by our friends in the North against this new threat."
In the meanwhile, incoming flights into various airports throughout Russia, Georgia, and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, as well as outgoing flights out of the same airports, have been suspended, with tourists encouraged to redirect their journeys through either Lithuania, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia, if they intend to go to those states. However, tourists wishing to go to Georgia will have a tougher time, as Turkey had announced the closure of its borders with both Georgia and Armenia, in response to a renewed threat coming from the latter, as the Vazgen Manukyan administration is set to sign a formal alliance with China.
--- Opinion Piece: The True Winner of the Spratlys Conflict
PolitBlog
By: Giselle Dunois
September 19, 2020
It is easy to assume that China had won the Spratlys conflict, with the unilateral annexation of the entirety of the Spratly Islands, and the takeover of the former Soviet naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, just as it is easy to assume that SE Asia as a whole lost the war. However, I believe that neither side had actually won the conflict at all. Far from it, the nation that stood to benefit the most from the conflict, was neither the United States, or even the Russian Federation. Surprisingly, it was Japan who benefited from the conflict, albeit indirectly, as they positioned themselves to become the savior who helped the Philippines and Vietnam from their post-war condition. I don't know if the Japanese government had manipulated the situation at hand, but I am most certain that it had something to do with the recent revelation that the CIA had sent an affiliate with the notorious Corsairs into Japan, to scout for a possible ally that would agree with Jack Kemp's definition of a multi-polar New World Order. Both Paul Manafort, and the CEO of Breitbart Consulting Ltd., Steve Bannon, played a role in creating the Japanese Deep State, centered around Toshio Tamogami. Tamogami was the real power behind the throne, as he had the final say on who gets to become the Prime Minister of Japan. His ascension into the shadow throne began years before he officially declared his intention to run in the 2017 Japanese election, which he narrowly lost to Yukio Edano. Yet, it was suspected that he intentionally lost the election, just so he could remain in the shadows, where he could operate with impunity. The suspicion however, is met with skepticism, as Yukio Edano's party was anything but conservative. Still, it was a clever set up, what Bannon and Manafort had done. It was Tamogami who made the hard decisions, selecting suitable front men like Sadakazu Tanigaki, who served as the Prime Minister of Japan in 2002, until the first constitutional amendment on term limits were passed, with a two term limit, consisting of five years per term. After 2007, Tanigaki fell out of power, and was replaced with Masahiko Komura, who began to lead a stridently anti-China faction.
The power struggles between the pro-East Asian unity faction within the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, against the hardline anti-China faction, which favored closer relations with the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other anti-China nations, resulted in the split within the party, as the pro-East Asian unity faction eventually defected to the Social Democratic Party in 2010, while the anti-China faction eventually merged with Tamogami's own National Rebirth Party, and Makoto Sakurai's Japan First Party, to form the largest right-wing populist party in Japan, the United Japan Party. Yet, Tamogami did not simply stop with the infiltration of the Japanese political system. He also gathered like minded officers within the Japan Self-Defense Force, and indoctrinated them into his way of thinking. Tamogami can be compared to the likes of China's murdered PLA officer Ye Fei, in that both men had sought to rebuild their respective country's dominant tributary systems. The only difference is that Tamogami's so-called Second Japanese Empire has met with more opposition from both China and the Korean Federal Republic, due to their historical grievances against Japan. Tamogami has learned his lessons well from the CIA Corsairs in the art of creating a network of sympathizers who are interested in using the deep state concept to subvert true political diversity, as the liberals and those Japanese politicians who want to maintain a cordial relationship with China and Korea are finding themselves increasingly isolated and marginalized, allowing the hardliners to emerge stronger. Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan has traditionally been rooted in both post-war anti-communism and the historical lost of respect for China among the Japanese militarists who were the driving force behind the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army during WWII, but with Tamogami's creeping influence inside the Japanese government, the world might experience a more ideologically and racially based form of Sinophobia. The Chinese bombing campaigns against both Vietnam and the Philippines have resulted in the resurgence of Sinophobia, as was evident by both Vietnamese and Filipino collaboration in committing acts of piracy that targeted both PLAN warships, and civilian ships controlled by China. For instance, the infamous Emerald Prince incident of March 29, 1997, where a combined number of Vietnamese and Filipino special forces troops had hijacked the Chinese cruise ship 'Emerald Prince', and upon their discovery of numerous Chinese civilians inside, the hijackers demanded that the passengers empty their wallets and pockets, before proceeding to steal the money, and afterwards, the hijackers began to violently assault the hostages. What happened next, was something that the international community had thoroughly condemned: the hijackers planted several bombs inside the ship, and detonated it, only after executing the hostages, including the staff members who worked aboard the ship. The 'Emerald Prince' was sunk in the vicinity of Hainan Island, causing an uproar from within the Chinese public. It was because of this action that the UN had imposed economic sanctions on Vietnam, but the seeds for Vietnam's collapse of its communist government had been planted in that same incident.
Japan too, should have taken responsibility for the notorious hijacking of China Eastern Air Flight 439, because some of the Japanese volunteers had joined Aum Shinrikyo, in their pursuit of a bigger thrill in their desire to cause mayhem against the Chinese communist government. Out of the 27 hijackers who took over the aircraft, 15 of them were Japanese citizens, while the remaining few were either members of the Taiwanese Bamboo Union, Filipino NISA agents accompanying the hostage takers, and two Americans named Timothy McVeigh and David Koresh. The American hostage takers built the bomb that exploded aboard the aircraft, while the Aum Shinrikyo members would torture both Ye Fei and Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin, who were aboard the aircraft. The attack had occurred on July 23, 1998, the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, meaning that the guilty party responsible for the biggest terrorist attacks after the chain of airport bombings that occurred back in 1997 in Russia, Georgia, and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, had specifically chosen the date to humiliate China, and to satisfy their revenge. In addition, Japan's sponsorship of the radical Nicanor Faeldon faction within the Tadiar regime had brought out the worst in Philippine society, who began to clamour for the rehabilitation of the Japanese-sponsored puppet government of the Second Philippine Republic, and the notorious Filipino collaborators who worked with the Japanese. In addition, many methods employed by the former Kempeitai were adopted by Tadiar's secret police, and in fact, there is also a growing revival for the current Japanese intelligence agency to be remodeled after both the Kempeitai, and its civilian counterpart, the Tokubetsu Koto Keisatsu, or the Tokko.
--- 1998 FIFA World Cup France
Qualified Teams:
AFC: Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan
CAF: Nigeria, Egypt, Congo, Cameroon, Morocco
CONCACAF: Mexico, United States, Costa Rica
CONMEBOL: Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile, Brazil (world champions)
OFC: Australia (Australia defeated China with a score of a 4-1 aggregate)
UEFA: Croatia, England, Norway, Scotland, Russia, Spain, Belgium, Romania, Germany (group winners), Netherlands (1st place in rankings of 2nd placed teams), Sweden, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Italy (playoff winners)
Playoffs:
Sweden vs Lithuania (Sweden wins on a 5-1 aggregate)
Greece vs Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia wins on a 1-1 aggregate with 1 away goal)
Hungary vs Ukraine (Ukraine wins on a 2-1 aggregate)
Italy vs Bulgaria (Italy wins on a 3-1 aggregate)
Group A: France, Sweden, South Korea, Mexico
Group B: Spain, Norway, Australia, United States
Group C: Romania, Netherlands, Colombia, Nigeria
Group D: England, Scotland, Chile, Cameroon
Group E: Germany, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Morocco
Group F: Brazil, Russia, Japan, Congo
Group G: Belgium, Croatia, Paraguay, Egypt
Group H: Argentina, Yugoslavia, Italy, Costa Rica
--- MEXICAN ARMY RETAKES BORDER TOWN OF CHAHUITES FROM ERP, CHAPARRO GRATEFUL FOR NEWLY ARRIVED SHIPMENT OF AMERICAN ARMS
Dallas Morning Tribune
May 12, 1997
 A Mexican Army ERC-90 F4 Sagaie bombards an enemy position in the outskirts of the border town of Chahuites. Air support provided by the US Air Force, along with Mexican ground troops' advances into the rest of Oaxaca Province, had resulted in the liberation of the entire province from the ERP.(Chahuites, OAXACA PROVINCE) - The arrival of several new M30 mortars, M551 Sheridans, and most importantly, 18 Bell AH-1 SuperCobra attack helicopters, were instrumental in the string of successful Mexican Army offensives throughout Oaxaca province, as the border town of Chahuites was restored to government control, after several months of ERP occupation. When the first Mexican Army soldier stepped inside the newly liberated town of Chahuites, they saw several rotting bodies decomposing while entering an abandoned house. Upon further discovery, it was revealed that the ERP had rounded up suspected 'counterrevolutionaries' and had them executed. The scenes of such carnage had resulted in a massive bombing campaign provided by the US Air Force (on General Chaparro's recommendation), which targeted Chiapas Province, especially the bases used by the ERP's main allies, the Zapatista forces.
"The fight against the communists in Mexico's southeastern regions continue on a regular basis, and I have to admit that while our army is performing well, we will need every assistance as we could possibly acquire," announces General Chaparro during a press conference. "Which is why I have accepted American President Kemp's offer of military assistance in our fight against the communists and their lackeys. In addition, I have also contacted the South Korean ambassador to Mexico, to see if he could contact his superiors in Seoul, for assistance as well. The Mexican military is in a need of modernization, even if we will emerge victorious."
The possibility of a South Korean military assistance to Mexico is difficult, given the long distance between the two nations. However, Chaparro is hesitant to ask the Chileans for help with the modernization of Mexico's military, given that his political opponents are already comparing him to Chile's notorious dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Moreover, Chaparro is also being compared to widely reviled military dictator Artemio Tadiar, a comparison that he was glad to accept all too well, and in fact, he has approached Tadiar with a request for assistance once again. The Tadiar dictatorship responded warmly to Chaparro's request, given that Filipino volunteers had been deployed into Chiapas back in 1994, until they were pulled out of southeastern Mexico in order to prepare for a possible Chinese amphibious invasion. Yet, Chaparro, in his first address since taking power, has lashed out at Mexico's elites for the chronic poverty that allowed the communist movement to regain its lost influence, especially with the presence of the ERP and the Zapatistas. In Seoul, South Korean President Kim Young-sam responded to the South Korean ambassador to Mexico's message that he received, plus the request for military assistance from General Chaparro.
"While I would be happy to send a few of our troops to help the Mexican government restore stability in its troubled regions, we are not comfortable with what we are seeing in Mexico City. The presence of a military dictator in a region so close to the United States can be really disturbing, while we, the Korean people, know too well about military dictatorships," says President Kim, referencing the former Park Chung-hee dictatorship. "However, we will not rule out the possibility of enhancing our defense ties to Mexico, and in fact, we are open to the idea of helping General Chaparro's desire to reform the Mexican Armed Forces. Moreover, because Mexico is not under UN sanctions, we are open to additional economic opportunities between our two nations."
--- "The transformation of the Philippines into the dumping ground for deposed military dictators and their supporters have been a rather brutal affair. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq, several hundreds of former Ba'ath Party members, many of whom were also officers in the Iraqi military (except for the officers in the Iraqi Navy, who were forced to serve the Special Administrative Jurisdiction of Basra), had arrived in the Philippines back in January 1, 1997, while at the same time selling what was left of their chemical weapon stockpile to the Tadiar regime. In fact, only 13% of the wealth taken from the exiled Filipino Chinese families was used to purchase those chemical weapons, which would later be used to its most devastating effect in the 2002-2004 Second Korean War. Next, the deposed officers of the Burmese junta who lost the Burmese Civil War to the pro-Chinese factions in the Northern Alliance had arrived in the Philippines, carrying with them vital information on Chinese military capabilities that the Tadiar regime had craved. Finally, just two months before the infamous Shanghai Oriental Pearl and Radio Tower attack, several former South African Army officers had arrived in the Philippines, because they refused to serve in the post-apartheid government. It was the South African officers that Tadiar was most hesitant, primarily because of their anti-Black, and anti-Asian rhetoric. Officers like Constand Viljoen, Georg Meiring, and Johannes Gendenhuys arrived in the Philippines, with the experience they acquired from the Border Wars, in which they fought viciously against left-wing guerrillas in Namibia and Angola. Yet, after 2000, those same South African officers would later become the first former military officers to be recruited by the CIA, but they would be attached to the Corsairs. It was these former South African officers who would eventually become the founders of a private military contractor company, known as the Special Security Service Group. The Special Security Service Group was officially founded as an Indonesia-based PMC company, but had three branches running throughout the Philippines. It competed with both Sandline International and the Strategic Resource Corporation (though operating under the name Executive Outcomes, which was founded by fellow former South African Defense Force officer Eeben Barlow) for top jobs throughout Africa and Asia, and the CIA was interested in giving some of its more unsavoury jobs to the PMCs. It was these PMCs (essentially mercenaries) who would employ both former and active military personnel from the Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, large parts of Africa, and Latin America, though the Special Security Service Group would hire mostly former soldiers from the nations listed, for missions in Latin America. In one incident, members of the Special Security Service Group had been responsible for capturing one Zapatista cell in the border between Chiapas and Campeche, resulting in over 21 Zapatistas falling under PMC captivity. These Zapatista POWs were sent to interrogation centers, where Mexican intelligence agents had engaged in torture, to extract information out of the captured Zapatistas. Another group of mercenaries working for Special Security Service Group would be sent to fight the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, though the ascension of General Ramon Rodriguez Chacin as the new military dictator of Venezuela would scupper the CIA Corsairs' plans for installing a Venezuelan Artemio Tadiar figure into power, and drive out the PMC mercenaries out of Colombia." Alex Jones and Monica Lewinsky, from the Documentary "The Land of Renegade Warlords: How the CIA Corsairs Turned the Philippines into a Dumping Ground for Exiled Generals", sponsored by 'The American Cause', released in 2006, years after "Corporate America's Dirty Little Secret", released in 1999.
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Post by simeon on Apr 27, 2021 6:05:05 GMT
Given Jone's relevance into the Oughts, it seemed that his fall will be anything but uneventful, or even peaceful.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 27, 2021 6:15:28 GMT
Given Jone's relevance into the Oughts, it seemed that his fall will be anything but uneventful, or even peaceful. While it is hinted that he would be a Senator, I would probably say that his potential clashes with both Adam Schiff and James Traficant would be one of the factors in his downfall. Of course, the real question is, who is Monica going to marry ITTL? Will it be Alex Jones, or his best ATL buddy in Isaac Feldman? Keep in mind that Feldman may not even be a real guy IOTL, and he is the main factor in Alex Jones not dropping out of college ITTL. Another notorious bad habit that I personally found annoying IOTL was the way we dispose of our own garbage, which explains the huge garbage mountains we see today, which thankfully it was deconstructed. I have a feeling that TTL will do more than simply demolishing the cringe habits that we often have IOTL, including the degrading habit of feeding our leftovers to our dogs and cats, which thankfully won’t happen here, as well as the ban on consuming dogs and cats, not only because Tadiar wants to make sure that Filipinos do not end up getting some weird flu from consuming dogs and cats, practically avoiding the situation that leads to pandemics. As hinted earlier, Ross Perot eventually becomes Governor of Texas. It is how he does it that will be covered in the next update, as well as hopefully, the ATL 1998 FIFA World Cup, and the infamous Oriental Pearl and Radio Tower attack. |
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Post by stevep on Apr 27, 2021 11:29:11 GMT
Well it continues to get darker with growing Islamic terrorism, albeit 'Russia' and China apparently being the primary targets here and also brutal actions by Tadiar's regime, in co-operation with Vietnam. Plus Kemp seeking to undermine democracy and create a terror state in Mexico and Japan looking as if its going the way it went in the 1930's with a militaristic racist state. Not a good world.
Looking forward to seeing how the world cup develops but one question please? When does Korea become united as I thought it had already occurred but notice your still referring to S Korea as the team playing in the tournament.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 27, 2021 12:35:10 GMT
The Second Korean War occurs in 2002-2004 of ATL.
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Post by kyuzoaoi on Apr 27, 2021 15:37:58 GMT
Should it need a TvTropes page?
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 27, 2021 17:08:09 GMT
Definitely, although I don’t have a TV Tropes account.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 27, 2021 17:14:53 GMT
Should it need a TvTropes page? Is that allowed. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 27, 2021 20:06:54 GMT
Should it need a TvTropes page? Is that allowed. Unsure, but just to be on the safe side, I would probably hold off on that idea. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 29, 2021 4:34:44 GMT
Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Day Which Will Live in Infamy
FOURTEEN CHINESE TROOPS KILLED BY VIETNAMESE RESISTANCE FIGHTERS INSIDE PLA-OCCUPIED HANOI
Manila Times
May 13, 1998
(Hanoi, CHINESE-OCCUPIED NORTHERN VIETNAM) - The continued resistance to the Chinese occupation of northern Vietnam continues, as fourteen PLA troops were ambushed and killed by various militia fighters unaffiliated with the Vietnamese military. Just yesterday, several PLA checkpoints were subjected to sniper fire, as well as machine gun and artillery fire coming from guerrilla fighters. Numerous sources within the Chinese military have confirmed that at least ten Vietnamese resistance fighters were killed in the confrontation with the PLA occupation forces inside the city of Hanoi. Most of the civilians who resided in Hanoi have fled southwards, into the rest of unoccupied Vietnam. The Vietnamese government, which is currently based in the old Vietnamese capital of Hue, have opened the interim capital city's doors to the incoming refugees, while at the same time has also accepted the other refugees fleeing from areas of southern Vietnam that is occupied by the Cambodian Army. Unlike the refugees from northern Vietnam, who are fleeing from Chinese occupation, the refugees fleeing from southern Vietnam have told stories of the Khmer Rouge's renegade militias rounding up Vietnamese males of fighting age, and have executed them en masse.
"We were lucky to have fled from the village of Kien Tuong, just hours before the Khmer Rouge started to drag out some of our neighbors. When we arrived at the interim border, we could hear the faint sound of gunfire," comments Vietnamese refugee Huynh Lieu, whose family currently lives in the city of Tuy Hoa. "Now I'm thinking of joining the resistance movement, and taking the fight to those Khmer Rouge thugs who are killing our people."
Some of the Vietnamese refugees who fled from northern Vietnam have joined various paramilitary units that were created and sponsored by the Vietnamese government. In a curious turn of events, Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong has sent a representative to meet with Filipino officials for the purpose of establishing a ground work for a formal Filipino-Vietnamese alliance, despite the Treaty of Berlin's ban on Vietnam forming any potential alliances aimed at China. However, the Vietnamese government has so far, ignored the terms of the Treaty of Berlin, and have sent out diplomats to negotiate trade deals and other kinds of deals with its neighbors. While Myanmar and Thailand are a no go right now, Indonesia's new President Megawati Sukarnoputri has been warm and receptive to the alliance with Vietnam, even though it has struggled to maintain a cordial relationship with China. In addition, Indonesia is also engaging in a delicate balancing act, between a peaceful co-existence with China, and providing humanitarian aid to the Tadiar government.
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Excerpts from "Dragon's Roar: The Resurgent Middle Kingdom After Mao"
BY: Ye Fei
Zhonghua Book Company (Translated into English from Mandarin)
Chapter Nine: Last Call
The ongoing occupation of northern Vietnam had been a constant source of irritation within our government, as Comrade Wang had insisted on harsher methods of cracking down on the Vietnamese resistance movement that have arisen inside northern Vietnam. I also heard that the Vietnamese diaspora have been raising money for their cause, often going around ethnic enclaves and asking for money to give to the resistance movements, mainly in the United States, but also Australia and Canada as well. More reports of our soldiers returning to China in body bags are coming out at an alarming rate, and some of those corpses had reminded Comrade Wang of the last time our country fought against Vietnam, back in 1979. It was the same, ghastly episode where many soldiers have returned, either dead, or alive with lost arms or limbs. Despite the surge of patriotism among the Chinese public, the presence of these wounded soldiers have caused some of the patriots to cry out in anguish, as they recognized their friends among the wounded, or the dead. Luckily for us in Beijing, we were far away from the increasing violent frontier that was SE Asia. I was going over some military reports, when Comrade Wang and Premier Jiang arrived inside my office.
"There has been a major attack," started Comrade Wang. I stood up in shock and turned to the Premier. "Twelve buses in Shenzhen blew up. All of the passengers inside those buses are killed, as a result."
"Twelve buses? Who the hell neglected their duties?" I asked angrily, but Premier Jiang shook his head. "How could we let twelve buses be rigged with bombs?"
Premier Jiang sighed in agony. "According to testimonies given by the survivors of the attack, there were three groups of suspicious persons loitering around the bus depot. All of them spoke fluent Mandarin and Hokkien, meaning that they could be locals who were lost."
"Locals? I think not." I sat down and looked over one of the reports that was given to me. "I could narrow down the list of the guilty party involved: the Uyghurs and the Tadiar-controlled fascists."
"Unfortunately, you may have to add another group to the list," Comrade Wang told me, as he handed over what appeared to be a black folder. I looked at its contents, as we heard someone knocking on the door. "Who is it?"
An unfamiliar voice rang out. "Comrade Captain Sheng, of the People's Armed Police, reporting for duty. I have new information on the attack in Shenzhen."
I nodded for Comrade Wang to open the door, to reveal the aforementioned captain, who had entered the door. He saluted to Comrade Wang first, before turning to Premier Jiang, and saluted as well. Only after he finished saluting both men present, did he salute to me, and closed the door. For whatever reason, the presence of a captain in the People's Armed Police does not bode well for all of us inside.
"What news do you have, Comrade Captain Sheng?" I asked first. When the captain hesitated, he looked at the Premier, before he nodded, allowing the captain to continue. "Report."
"Yes, Comrade Ye," Comrade Captain Sheng replied back. "The official reports of the Mandarin speaking suspicious persons were confirmed by the local municipal police force there, but what no one knows, is that one of the witnesses heard someone speaking in an unfamiliar language that we don't know."
"Unfamiliar?" Premier Jiang asked curiously.
"Initially, we didn't know what it was, until we picked up the words like 'higante' and 'patay'. I can conclude that there may be some Filipino spies that have been smuggled into Shenzhen, through Hong Kong, most likely," Comrade Captain Sheng reported. His facial expression grew darker. "There is something else."
"Another attack?" I asked again.
Comrade Captain Sheng nodded gravely. "Yes, but this time the attack took place in Hong Kong. One of the armored personnel carriers was patrolling the streets of Hong Kong, when it was attacked by local protesters who did not like our presence there."
"The fucking ingrates!" Premier Jiang snarled angrily, much to our shock. "We helped our wayward countrymen reunite with us, and this is what we get? How much garbage did those British devils fill up in the heads of the Hong Kong population?"
I answered that instead. "The citizens of Hong Kong, or what's left of the population, have been extremely paranoid, ever since the Handover. Almost 55% of Hong Kong's population have migrated to Taiwan, Singapore, and the Anglophone countries."
"Singapore? At least our cousins in the Straits are taking care of those city snobs," Comrade Wang sneered. "I did not have a chance to visit Hong Kong yet, and already I have a less impressive view of those brainwashed colonized fools."
"Do you think we could go to Hong Kong, just to talk to the local residents there?" Premier Jiang asked the People's Armed Police officer. He looked at the calendar and smiled. "There is only a week left, before the anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party. I think we could use the anniversary to bolster our presence in Hong Kong there."
Comrade Captain Sheng nodded in agreement. "I can get in touch with my contacts within China Eastern. If you two fly in an official government aircraft, there is a chance that terrorists might shoot it down."
Comrade Captain Sheng's suggestion made sense, given that the late Arturo Tolentino's plane was shot down over international airspace, by hotheads within our own anti-air defense unit, nonetheless. Even so, we took the PAP officer's suggestion to heart, and began to plan for our anniversary trip to Hong Kong. By the time the travel plans was finished, Premier Jiang told me that the flight would be from Beijing to Xiamen, and from there, we would take a train to Shenzhen. From Shenzhen, we would have armed escort while traveling into Hong Kong. The armed escort also made sense, since even the PLA considered Hong Kong to be hostile territory, despite it being under our control. Yet, I have this nasty feeling that something wrong will definitely happen during our trip, but I am not sure what it is.
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Portions from the Opening Game of the North American Professional Baseball, "Houston Astros vs Los Angeles Dodgers", July 22, 1998 (PST)
ANNOUNCER #1: Well, it seems that the Dodgers are becoming red hot right now, with their recent win yesterday over the Cincinnati Reds, by a score of 4-2. I know for a fact that Mondesi and Karros are still performing well, but given that they're entering into a game against the Houston Astros, what do you say about that, Stan?
ANNOUNCER #2: Well, Richie. While the Reds are struggling right now, Houston is a totally different animal. The Astros are coming off a 5-0 shutout at the hands of the Colorado Rockies, and I gotta tell you, what we will see here at tonight's game will be an interesting match. We're already talking about the playoff race, but so far the Dodgers will have a difficult time trying to reach one of the top 8 spots within the National League.
ANNOUNCER #1: With the new rules in place for the North American Professional Baseball league, I honestly think that more teams will deliver some surprises. Don't count the likes of the Cardinals and even the Mets out yet for the National League, while we could see some miracles on the part of the White Sox, or even the Angels.
ANNOUNCER #2: Could we also see any improvements in the Montreal Expos?
ANNOUNCER #1: Given that the Expos are so far out of reach of the few final spots, I doubt it. I could see some major changes in the off season.
ANNOUNCER #2: Well, they are lucky that the Expos are still in the National League, given that the NAPB has announced that they will award some new franchises, as well as relocating some older ones, starting in 2004.
ANNOUNCER #1: As it turns out, NAPB Commissioner Jack McKeon has already confirmed that the NAPB will also expand further into Canada, with Vancouver being the frontrunner for a 3rd NAPB franchise.
(WARNING SIGN lights up)
ANNOUNCER #1: Stan! Does this remind you of anything?
ANNOUNCER #2: The last time the warning sign lit up was during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and at that time, Major League Baseball still existed. I distinctly remember the Blue Jays-Padres series that was an emotional roller coaster. Since then, it etched into our minds of the tragic losses that the Giants faced.
ANNOUNCER #1: Well, this time, it isn't another earthquake. (pauses for a moment) We got breaking news! It's coming out of......China?
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Portions from the NBC Final News at 11, July 22, 1998
BILL HANRAHAN: Good evening, America. This is Billl Hanrahan, reporting live from the studio in Washington, DC, with an urgent breaking news. Earlier at 7:29 PM, Pacific Standard Time, and 10:29 am, Shanghai Time, a China Eastern Airlines MD-88 aircraft, carrying 150 passengers, had crashed into the Shanghai Oriental Pearl and Radio Tower. Numerous reports coming out of Shanghai have indicated that it was not an accident. In fact, even the People's Armed Police have called it an act of terrorism. Before the crash had occurred, officials from the Chinese Ministry of State Security have confirmed that General Ye Fei and Premier Jiang Zemin were aboard Flight 5741, which had taken off from Beijing Airport, and was due to arrive at Xiamen Airport, when numerous hijackers have captured the cockpit, and killed the two pilots onboard. (pauses) Hold on a sec, we are live with a news correspondent who is stationed in Taipei. Elaine?
(Scene switches to TAIPEI, where ELAINE CORRAL is standing in front of Taipei Chiang Kai Shek International Airport)
ELAINE CORRAL: I have received credible information from my Taiwanese contacts that all the flights bound for mainland China have either been rerouted to Taiwan, or even Seoul in South Korea, because General Wang Dongxing has announced the closure of the entire Chinese airspace. Even as we speak, Chiang Kai Shek Airport is receiving an influx of passengers eager to continue to China, but have found themselves stranded here.
BILL HANRAHAN: Do we have the casualty count so far?
ELAINE CORRAL: Not yet, but we do have confirmation that in addition to the deaths of both General Ye Fei and Premier Jiang Zemin, there were rumors of two American hijackers who played a part in the attack, and they built the bombs that were placed on the bottom part of the aircraft. The hijackers' names are David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh, and both Taiwanese officials and their Singaporean counterparts confirmed that they were working in the Philippines as humanitarian volunteers. However, one of the airport security personnel in Beijing has told my Taiwanese contact that there were several suspicious looking persons who were speaking in Japanese, and they did not look like a typical Japanese tourist.
BILL HANRAHAN: Were they mercenaries, or terrorists?
ELAINE CORRAL: From what I can gather, the security personnel were unable to get their names, but only two hours ago, we received information about the attack from a Filipino military officer who was working as an attache in Turkey that Ikuo Hayashi and Koichi Kitamura were confirmed to have been working as humanitarian volunteers before General Artemio Tadiar had apparently recruited them for something else. This military officer, whose name we cannot disclose for confidential reasons, has defected to the Embassy of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus in Ankara, citing the Tadiar regime's growing criminal enterprises.
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A HEAD FOR AN EYE! YE FEI AND JIANG ZEMIN AMONG VICTIMS OF SHANGHAI ORIENTAL PEARL AND RADIO TOWER ATTACK, AS CASUALTIES CONTINUE TO RISE
Sydney Herald
July 24, 1998
(Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA) - Shanghai awoke to the horrors that its citizens saw today, as the China Eastern Airlines Flight 5741, which was flying from Beijing to Xiamen, had been hijacked by members of a notorious, but obscure Japanese cult called Aum Shinrikyo. However, additional reports released from the Chinese government have also revealed that in addition to the Aum Shinrikyo members who captured the entire aircraft, two American accomplices were reported to have installed the bombs inside a large luggage that miraculously fit inside the aircraft. All of the hijackers, plus their accomplices, have been in the Philippines at one point, working as humanitarian volunteers providing medical and dental support to the locals there, under the watchful eye of the Tadiar regime. However, a Philippine military attache who was working in Turkey, a certain Hermogenes Esperon, had announced his defection when he entered inside the compound of the Embassy of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus. Once inside, General Esperon had been debriefed by the Union State's intelligence agency, the SBU.
"My sole reason for defecting from the criminal enterprise that is the Tadiar government is because Artemio Tadiar had gone beyond the diplomatic irregularity, and has now committed an act of mass murder against foreign citizens of an independent nation. While I do not agree with the unsigned terms of the Treaty of Berlin, this kind of atrocity cannot be condoned," announces Esperon, while being asked about the details of his defection. "In the meanwhile, I will reside in the embassy compound until the government of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus grant me political asylum, and I will behave better than the morons who were dumb enough to get themselves deported."
Esperon's comments on the 'morons' refers to the infamous case of former San Juan mayor Joseph Estrada, who was arrested in a Los Angeles nightclub for public drunkenness, and has been deported back to the Philippines, where the Tadiar regime has sentenced him to life imprisonment in the notorious Calusa Island labor camp. At the same time, the deportation of the Sotto brothers and Joey DeLeon to the Philippines to stand trial for the Pepsi Paloma case has electrified the international community to the growing issue of abuse of power on part of the former exiles, who are now at the mercy of the Tadiar regime. However, the presiding judge over the Pepsi Paloma case, Miriam Defensor Santiago, has began to express her disillusionment with the ongoing case, in light of the terrorist attack committed by Aum Shinrikyo, whose leader Shoko Asahara, have currently resided in the Philippines.
"At this point, I am tempted to suspend the trial of the Sotto brothers and Joey DeLeon, because it is nothing but a distraction from the real criminal act that was committed, and that is the indiscriminate mass murder of over 3,245 civilians in Shanghai alone," says Santiago, whose rumors of defection are rife. "I cannot, in good conscience, continue with this farce of a case, when the real case I should be trying, is the trial of Artemio Tadiar, for violations of numerous international laws!"
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THREE CHINESE H-6K BOMBERS SHOT DOWN OVER PHILIPPINE AIRSPACE IN FAILED RETALIATORY ATTACK, GROUND INVASION IMMINENT AS TADIAR GOVERNMENT PREPARES FOR COUNTRY'S DEFENSE
Manila Times
July 27, 1998
(Manila) - A Chinese attempt to restart the bombing campaign has ran into trouble when three of its H-6K bombers were shot down over Philippine airspace. Several Army and Marine Corps troops armed with the latest FIM-43 Redeye MANPADs have successfully shot down the bombers, before they could drop their payload. Luckily, the bombers exploded in mid-air, before they could land in Philippine territory, but the pilots of the downed aircraft were severely beaten and tortured, before being executed. The planned resumption of the bombing campaign was in response to the infamous China Eastern Airlines Flight 5741 hijacking, which was initially carried out by members of a Japanese cult called Aum Shinrikyo, until government sources revealed that the terrorist organization was being funded by the Tadiar regime to carry out bombing attacks on Chinese civilians. It is also confirmed that it was Aum Shinrikyo, along with the Taiwanese Bamboo Union, who were responsible for the recent string of bus bombings in the city of Shenzhen.
"If the Tadiar regime wants to restart the war, then we are more than prepared to settle this, once and for all," comments General Wang Dongxing, who seized power in a temporary coup after Ye Fei and Premier Jiang Zemin perished onboard Flight 5741. "We will teach those banana sellers the real meaning of pain."
However, several countries are now ignoring the UN arms embargo that was imposed on the Tadiar regime, most notably the United States, and to a lesser extent, Japan and Turkey. Recently, the Turkish government has donated the equipment that Germany gave to them, which mostly consisted of weapons and equipment used by the former East German military, including five 2K12 Kub air defense equipment. Yet, the Tadiar regime has mostly employed the smuggled and donated MIM-72 Chaparral surface-to-air missiles in key defensive areas throughout the Philippines, although they are limited in number, as the Philippines is set to collaborate with the United States on improving the designs of the aborted Santa Barbara Project to create both an air-defense rocket launcher, and a regular artillery based rocket launcher.
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Excerpts from "When Civilizations Collide: America in the Age of Rogue Generals"
By: Paul Manafort
Simon and Schuster, published 2019
Chapter Seven: Meet the Candidates
By the time I was settling in Japan as a political consultant to Toshio Tamogami, I received a call from DC, telling me to stay put in the country, while the President is discussing the ongoing crisis that has erupted in the Philippines again. I was disturbed when I heard reports of various former junta leaders arriving in the Philippines, first in a trickle, then in droves. Deposed Saddam loyalists, Burmese junta officers who lost their civil war to the pro-Chinese coalition built to depose them, and even the South African officers who fought in the Bush War. Terrific. The only place that I know where we have multiple warlords running around would be Africa, and from what I heard, Zaire is finishing up their conflict there. I have lost count as to how many countries in Africa that are in the middle of their civil wars, but their military dictators there would do things that not even Artemio Tadiar would have dreamt of. Come to think of it, if there were military dictatorships in Africa that were deposed, odds are that they would flee to the Philippines, just to be safe. As if things haven't gotten bad enough, Steve Bannon has arrived at his office inside Breitbart Consulting Ltd. in Kanagawa, accompanied by both Toshio Tamogami and a man called Shintaro Ishihara. For some odd reason, both men smiled at me as we bowed to each other, a formal sign of respect here in Japan.
"You seemed oddly happy today, Mr. Ishihara. What brings you here today?" I asked and waited as the interpreter translated my words into Japanese.
Surprisingly, it was Toshio Tamogami himself who spoke first. "We would like to thank you for your contribution to the growth of US-Japan relations, although I agree with what your President is saying. That America is growing tired of being the global policeman, and that there should be regional blocs that could take up America's burden."
"Of course, although what President Kemp is saying officially, and what he says unofficially are two different things. What do you have in mind today, General?" I asked again.
"Well, we are interested in creating an influential group that could agitate for the repealing of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution. As it stands, the Self-Defense Force is basically an overglorified armed police detachment, and not a formal military. Article 9 was imposed on us, as a result of the war we lost. Yet, times have changed, and China is becoming more aggressive as a result," the General told me, while the interpreter continued her work.
Shintaro Ishihara nodded in agreement. "The post-war prosperity has indeed benefited most of the Japanese people, but I fear that such prosperity has turned them soft. For instance, interest in learning about our nation's history has declined, to the point where even the youth are hesitant to talk about what their grandparents did during the Greater East Asia War."
I had to keep myself and Mr. Bannon from reacting negatively to what the Japanese refer to as their version of WWII. As it stands, the Japanese are still fiercely defensive of what they did during the war, but we could not help but remember that we defeated them in that very same war. All the same, I beckoned for Mr. Bannon to give his chair to Mr. Ishihara, as General Tamogami preferred to stand.
"Well, what we can do for starters, is to help create an image that many people will be drawn into." Bannon showed both men samples of old political campaign posters, including the 1996 Presidental Campaign of Ross Perot, shortly before he withdrew his nomination to support Jack Kemp. "What you need is a sense of self-confidence, and a matching slogan to boot." He beckoned for Mr. Ishihara to come forward. "A public face is something that most people will want to remember, and during an election campaign, your policies will be something that a lot of people will want to remember, as well as your image. You are essentially marketing yourself in this case."
Mr. Ishihara nodded and smiled. "So, in this instance, I am marketing myself as part of a promotional campaign?"
"That is correct," Bannon replied back. He stowed away the Ross Perot campaign posters and turned on the television, as the news of a local election was underway. "In addition, you also need qualified volunteers, and finances. Yes, running a campaign will definitely cost a lot of money, and that money could come from donations. It's how you receive the donations that decides the election."
"I see. How will Ishihara-san's image be of great use for our cause?" Tamogami asked back. He had a point; Ishihara's image was something that we needed to use to bring the General into the position where he can work from the shadows.
"As an outspoken nationalist, Mr. Ishihara can use his words to make an appeal to the older generation, as well as to make an impression upon a younger generation. You can say that Japan is facing a societal crisis from young men who choose to withdraw from public life as a national crisis, and everyone will talk about it," suggested Bannon. Both of us had to research the current societal trends that the Japanese are in right now, to make sure that we did our jobs properly. "You cannot make promises you can't keep. That is how a politician becomes a one-term politician. If you want to become more than just a single term politician, you must make modest promises that can be kept on a realistic rate."
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VIETNAMESE ARMY LAUNCHES BLITZKRIEG OPERATION AGAINST OCCUPYING CAMBODIAN ARMY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIETNAM
Vancouver Sun
July 31, 1998
(Ho Chi Minh City) - While the People's Liberation Army occupation forces are being rerouted for a potential amphibious invasion of the Philippines, the rebuilt Vietnamese military, which is being supplied with the latest weapons from both Russia and Israel, have launched a devastating operation against the outstretched Cambodian occupation forces stationed in southwestern Vietnam. The attack started as Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong announced Vietnam's abgoration of the Treaty of Berlin, which was signed back in 1996 to signal the formal end of the Spratlys conflict. At the same time, Vietnamese Navy frigates and other fast attack craft have started to launch seaborne raids on the Spratly Islands themselves, tying down PLAN vessels that might otherwise be used in the attack on the Philippines, while Vietnamese Air Force fighter planes carried out close to air support attacks on Cambodian targets.
"The time for the shameful occupation of our lands by the Cambodian and Chinese armies ends today," announces President Tran, in front of an applauding audience inside the temporary headquarters of the Vietnamese government in the interim capital of Hue. "We will first expel the Cambodians from southwestern Vietnam, and then we will take the fight to the Khmer Rouge and avenge our defeats at their hands."
Although there has been an increase in Vietnamese resistance attacks on Chinese targets in northern Vietnam, the Chinese military is unable to assist their Cambodian counterparts, meaning that the Cambodian occupational forces are vulnerable to a mult-pronged offensive launched by the Vietnamese Army. At the same time, other Vietnamese forces have been deployed to areas formerly controlled by the FULRO resistance group, to make sure that no uprising would occur in that region. Within several hours, Ho Chi Minh City was liberated, as the Vietnamese military started to discover several mass graves being unearthed, containing the bodies of the recently executed Vietnamese civilians killed by the Khmer Rouge during their brief occupation of southwestern Vietnam. In retaliation, the Vietnamese Air Force started to carry out airstrikes inside Cambodia itself, with Phnom Penh being subjected to occassional airstrikes launched by Vietnamese Sukhoi Su-27s. As a result of Vietnam's offensives against the Cambodian occupational forces, the Vietnamese military started to round up its Khmer minority population that resided in southwestern Vietnam, and began to expel them at gunpoint, resulting in the biggest scene of ethnic cleansing after Operation: Batyr, in which over 4,000,000 Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and other European ethnic minorities were forcibly expelled by the Soviet loyalist-aligned Central Asian republics, to Russia proper.
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Post by kyuzoaoi on Apr 29, 2021 5:36:07 GMT
And then when will the Aum attack?
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 29, 2021 5:41:37 GMT
And then when will the Aum attack? Aum has already attacked, though indirectly. What we could see next is China’s version of the Bay of Pigs invasion, or the Raid at Dieppe. |
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Post by gillan1220 on Apr 29, 2021 6:39:07 GMT
(Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA) - Shanghai awoke to the horrors that its citizens saw today, as the China Eastern Airlines Flight 5741, which was flying from Beijing to Xiamen, had been hijacked by members of a notorious, but obscure Japanese cult called Aum Shinrikyo. However, additional reports released from the Chinese government have also revealed that in addition to the Aum Shinrikyo members who captured the entire aircraft, two American accomplices were reported to have installed the bombs inside a large luggage that miraculously fit inside the aircraft. All of the hijackers, plus their accomplices, have been in the Philippines at one point, working as humanitarian volunteers providing medical and dental support to the locals there, under the watchful eye of the Tadiar regime. However, a Philippine military attache who was working in Turkey, a certain Hermogenes Esperon, had announced his defection when he entered inside the compound of the Embassy of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus. Once inside, General Esperon had been debriefed by the Union State's intelligence agency, the SBU. This timeline's version of 9/11 has finally happened. THREE CHINESE H-6K BOMBERS SHOT DOWN OVER PHILIPPINE AIRSPACE IN FAILED RETALIATORY ATTACK, GROUND INVASION IMMINENT AS TADIAR GOVERNMENT PREPARES FOR COUNTRY'S DEFENSE Irony is that the Philippines of Tadiar has better air defense systems compared to OTL. Shintaro Ishihara nodded in agreement. "The post-war prosperity has indeed benefited most of the Japanese people, but I fear that such prosperity has turned them soft. For instance, interest in learning about our nation's history has declined, to the point where even the youth are hesitant to talk about what their grandparents did during the Greater East Asia War[/u]." You are correct about this term. Some Japanese that still believe in the Pan-Asian struggle consider it to have began on December 8, 1941 and fully ended on April 30, 1975 (when Saigon fell to the NVA). I actually support that the Japanese amend Article 9 since the PRC has become the next threat here. VIETNAMESE ARMY LAUNCHES BLITZKRIEG OPERATION AGAINST OCCUPYING CAMBODIAN ARMY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIETNAM I'd see the Vietnamese crush the Khmers once more while China will experience what the Soviets tried in Afghanistan. |
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Post by simeon on Apr 29, 2021 13:17:30 GMT
This timeline's version of 9/11 has finally happened. I wonder why the terrorist attacks in Russia didn't catch on to the Chinese. Anyway though, what is happening on Rwanda? The resulting shit show destabilised much of Central Africa due to the fleeing people and genocidaires, and while you could butterfly away the death of President Habrayimana, the instilled promoted by radical Hutus against the Tutsis couldn't be, especially when Paul Kagame starts the Tutsi insurgency. |
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