Chapter 587 Saturday War

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Reston chose to compromise.

To be precise, the White House chose to compromise.As a negotiator, Reston sat back at the negotiating table after the second time on the phone with the White House.

The Star Ring Trade must withdraw its troops from Mindanao... We can talk about the issue of Morocco's independence.

Hearing Reston say this, DiTeter immediately jumped up like a cat with his tail stepped on, his neck and face turned bloody, and he cursed at Reston with a spitting star.

This is a naked conspiracy!Don’t you feel ashamed of betraying your allies!

Reston looked at Jiang Chen indifferently, ignoring the furious DiTet.

Eric, who was sitting aside, couldn't bear to watch it anymore, coughed softly, acted as a peacemaker, and began to soothe DiTet's emotions.

It is OK to withdraw troops, but we will retain 100 Marines in the city of Kagayan.We are preparing to establish a relief station here to fulfill our humanitarian rescue obligations.Jiang Chen said righteously.

This sentence almost choked Eric on the side. This was the first time he saw a garrison who used humanitarianism as a guild.

Up to 50 people, and fighter jets cannot be deployed.Reston said.

100 people.Speaking of which, Kagayan City is the territory of the Moro, this is an agreement between us and third-party countries. Do you have the right to interfere?Jiang Chen said.

Reston looked at Santos.

Santos smiled and showed his white teeth, and his cunning that was inconsistent with his muscles.

We have no comments and welcome Star Ring Trade to support the reconstruction of Kagayan City and to invest in Mindanao's industries.

……good.Reston nodded reluctantly.

Then there is negotiation on the territorial issue of the Moro, except for the undisputed main island of Mindanao, the Sulu Islands

This is nothing to be discussed.DiTet interrupted Jiang Chen's words with a shout.

However, Jiang Chen seemed not to notice him and continued.

The Sulu Islands are currently under the actual control of the 11th Guerrilla Brigade of the Moro.

Actual control is one aspect, sovereignty. UN observer Eric just spoke, but was interrupted by Santos.

Here is the sovereign document.Santos placed a stack of documents on the table.

...It takes time to check the legitimacy of sovereign documents.Reston said in a deep voice, "What's more, don't you think you should pay more attention to the opinions of the people of the Sulu Islands than sovereignty?"After all, in our opinion, human rights are higher than sovereignty.

Yeah?Your standards always seem to be unpredictable.For example, in Ukraine, the human rights of the western states are higher than sovereignty, and the sovereignty of the eastern states is higher than human rights.Jiang Chen mocked.

Reston's expression was a little awkward and he coughed lightly.

We are now discussing the Sulu Islands issue.

I propose a full-name referendum, which is the fairest.Jiang Chen said.

no!Unless all the Filipino people participate in the voting together, the Philippines' territory should be decided by all the Filipinos!DiTet yelled as he slapped the table.

Just kidding, the unruly people in the Sulu Islands have long wanted to separate, how could they allow themselves to vote?

As Dieter said.Just like a house, one cannot demolish his bedroom just because one person wants to separate his family, unless everyone in the house agrees with his choice.This was the first time Reston was at the negotiating table that matched DiTet's opinion.

The Sulu Islands are the gateway to the Sea of ​​Cyribes into the Sea of ​​Sulu. In a strategic sense, as long as the Moro controls the region, the warships of the Star Ring Trade will be able to enter the heartland of the Philippines at any time, or even advance into the Bay of Manila.

In an economic sense, the Sulu Islands are located on the island arc belt in the western Pacific Ocean, and nearby waters store a large number of minerals such as manganese nodules containing rare earth elements.

Controlled by the Moro country is equivalent to controlling the Star Ring Trade, so Jiang Chen will not give in any way about the ownership of the Sulu Islands.

The first day of negotiations collapsed due to territorial issues.

The two sides only took a step back to reach a ceasefire agreement, and then agreed to continue to discuss peace negotiations tomorrow.

Territorial differences are not so easy to resolve, especially when the Aquino government is unwilling to let go anyway.

Jiang Chen's approach was very sinister. While conducting negotiations, he instructed Santos to open a channel for 340,000 Philippine government troops to capture families in Zamboyan City in the western section of Mindanao.

Visitors are allowed to enter the country and stay for up to two days, and visit the detained relatives under the leadership of Moro soldiers.

Now, the family members of these prisoners can still maintain their rationality when they don’t meet. When they see their son, husband and boyfriend being locked in a prisoner’s camp, they can’t help but she’s tears and sadness.

Although these prisoners of war were not treated inhumanely, they were all more or less miserable war wounds.

Faced with the plea of ​​letting go, Moro's response was firm and tough.

We long for peace, but we will definitely compromise with the enemy.If you want your loved ones to go home, then go and ask your Aquino, the choice is always in his hands.As long as he is willing to sign the peace agreement, we can also put down our weapons and go home to reunite with our loved ones!

We are victims too!We long for peace, too!This villain's hat was naturally slapped on Aquino's head.

You can think of what happened next with your toes.

The families of soldiers who returned to the Philippines held up protest signs and shouted anti-war slogans, blocking the Philippine Presidential Palace and the dead mansion of Aquino.

The experience of the soldiers' families was responded by other anti-war figures in the Philippines and citizens who had lost their source of living due to the war. The wave of protests came one after another, and one wave was even better than one. The warm card played by Jiang Chen achieved extraordinary results in the Philippines, where the economy was already overwhelmed.

Only a small number of nationalists shouted the slogan of not compromising, fighting to the end, pulling the father country into the water, and firmly opposed Aquino's compromise on territorial issues.

But these calls are already loud and thunder.

The people are always fickle.

In peacetime, they may clamor for war because of their pride, but in wartime, most of them will change their previous ideas as their quality of life declines.

Until the signing of the ceasefire agreement, Star Ring Trade participated in the war for a total of seven days, while the Philippine currency depreciated by nearly 20%, and prices rose by 50%.

Those monkeys who clamored to crush the new country and turn the Panu Islands into a Philippine colony immediately calmed down and began to reflect on their lives and values.

Under domestic pressure, the Aquino government finally returned to the negotiating table in humiliation after persisting for half a month.

The Philippines recognizes the independence of the Moro, the Sulu Islands, Mindanao and some territorial waters belong to the Moro, and five divisions of the Philippines withdraw troops from the North Surigao Province of Mindanao.

In contrast, the frigates and submarines of the Star Ring Trade retreated from the Sulu Sea.

Two guerrilla divisions in the Moro withdraw troops from the Greater Bucas and Siagao Islands in northern Mindanao, returning control of the region to the Philippines.

At the same time, both the Moro and the Philippines unconditionally released their respective prisoners of war.

As a result, the Moro finally fulfilled its demand for independence for decades and became the 195th sovereign state in the world.

The Philippines has been unable to recover due to the loss of the second largest island in China after Luzon.

The Star Ring Trade, which led to all this, has become their suzerain and the biggest winner in this war.

Because the Star Ring Trade is a war that was intervened on Saturday, and the war ended just one week, this war is called the Saturday War by the international community.