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Chapter 538 The Collapse of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

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    ¡°While the People¡¯s Army was fighting its way through the south, the international situation had undergone great changes.

    The refusal to sign the Paris Peace Treaty has a milestone significance in the history of Chinese diplomacy.  For the first time, China said "no" to the great powers, finally breaking the diplomatic situation of "starting with fighting and ending with giving in". In the end, China did not give in. This was also the starting point of China's diplomatic victory.  It also caused the US government and opposition parties to re-examine their policies towards China.

    Because of the Chinese people's unyielding struggle against Japan during the May 4th Movement, as well as the dissatisfaction of the Western government and opposition parties with the Japanese compromise policy of the British and American authorities, things must be reversed. Impacted and influenced by these public opinions, the United States adjusted its Far East policy after the war: from allying with Japan to containing it.  Japan.

    Because after World War I, the isolationist trend resurfaced in the United States, and citizens were unwilling to show off America's muscles in distant Asia. This made it impossible for the government to expand its military. At the same time, its troops stationed in Asia were not enough to compete with Japan.  confrontation.

    In fact, although the United States is considered to have retreated into an "isolationist" policy because it refused to join the League of Nations and signed a peace treaty with Germany, what it pursues is freedom of action in order to take advantage of favorable opportunities to expand the United States' influence in the world.  , plays a leading role in world politics and economics, and therefore actively participates in safeguarding world peace, contributes to world economic prosperity, and participates in armed intervention against socialism. It is actually a kind of "independent cosmopolitanism."

    At the turn of the century, the U.S. Navy stationed in the Far East was affected by two major events.  The Spanish-American War was the first of these events.  The United States dispatched a naval squadron led by Commodore George Dewey to Hong Kong and Manila successively. This fleet defeated the Spanish forces in Manila. This was an event with a major impact.

    Dewey¡¯s victory allowed the United States to take the Philippine Islands as its own, so that the Philippine Islands became an operational base for the United States to promote military and commercial activities in the Far East.  More importantly, after 1898, Far East politics had obvious interests for the United States. The United States occupied the Philippine Islands, which made the United States assume the obligation to protect the Philippine Islands.  In order to fulfill this obligation, the United States must continue to station U.S. Army and Navy troops in this region.

    The U.S. naval force stationed in Far Eastern waters is relatively weak.  After occupying the Philippines, the United States faced an unsolvable defense problem because the U.S. Army did not have enough troops to guard the archipelago and prevent a successful invasion.  You must know that after World War I, the U.S. Army only had 200,000 troops. This amount of troops was enough to defend the U.S. land surrounded by two oceans. However, some of them were sent to the distant Philippines. The government and the opposition were puzzled by this: There were too few troops.  It won't work; if we have more troops, we will inevitably spend huge amounts of money. Is this necessary?

    At the same time, the size of the U.S. naval fleet in peacetime is not large. It can only maintain the necessary force in one ocean region for a period of time, and cannot take care of two oceans.  Since the United States strategically prioritizes the Atlantic theater, it is impossible to deploy a combat fleet in the Western Pacific.  The United States recognized the strategic vulnerability of the Philippine Islands, and during the first quarter of the twentieth century the United States pursued two policies to remedy this weakness: first, the United States attempted to negotiate a diplomatic agreement to protect the archipelago;  The United States has also stationed a naval force in the area.

    Military and diplomatic decision-makers both believe that Japan poses the most serious threat to the Philippines. The United States is trying to establish closer relations with Japan to protect the Philippine Islands.  Under this circumstance, the United States and Japan signed the Taft-Katsura Agreement in 1905, the Lotto-Takahira Agreement in 1908, and the Lansing-Ishii Agreement in 1917.

    The United States wants to use these agreements to make Japan recognize that the United States has sovereignty over the Philippines.  What these agreements imply is that in exchange, the United States will acquiesce to Japan's various desires in Korea and China.

    However, Japan's actions in Vladivostok and the large number of troops stationed in Siberia exposed its desires to everyone. Especially after the "intervention forces" of Britain, the United States and other countries decided to withdraw from the Far East, Japan simply broke the agreement, which greatly disappointed the United States.  , and after the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the conflicts between the United States and Japan became increasingly acute due to competition for interests in China, Yap Island and the mandated islands.

    In this way, the United States has become more wary of Japan, the naval arms race between the two countries has intensified, and the cloud of war between the United States and Japan has become more and more serious.  In view of this, in the 1920s, the commanders-in-chief of the Asian Fleet believed that their main mission was to prepare for a large-scale naval battle. Instead, they believed that protecting and advancing U.S. interests in China was secondary.  Task.

    The commander of the U.S. Asia Fleet solemnly described the mission of the Asia Fleet: The most crucial task during wartime is to execute the "OrangeThe Asia-Pacific region cannot thrive alone, and it must rely on the more powerful United States to act. This is the first time that Japan has been isolated in Asia-Pacific affairs. It has also caused the Japanese government to be dissatisfied with Britain and the United States and other countries, so that it has become increasingly aggressive towards China, especially Northeast China.  There have been great changes in the policy, which has brought considerable benefits to the Fengclique government: in the subsequent confrontation between the People's Army, the Fengclique and the Zhili clique supported by Britain and the United States, he basically watched with a gloating mentality.

    I¡¯m afraid this was unexpected by the American elites who made the original policy, right?¡ª¡ª

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