[War] Japan: "While We Wait"

[Ian Martell]

Riiight, the sources... sorry folks here it is.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/indonesia/joint0611-2.html

>From: "Ian Martell" <martellian at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: war at esteroic.com
>To: war at esteroic.com
>Subject: [War] Japan: "While We Wait"
>Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:58:28 -0700
>
>(OOC: The date on the last post should have been Feb 3rd 2013)
>
>“While We Wait…”
>Prime Minister Hiroshi Sakai
>Japan
>February 3rd 2013
>
>Hiroshi came up from the Disaster Response Center where the Japanese 
>Security Council met in times like this. There wasn’t much more to report 
>on the Kim Jong-Il situation the JADF was dispatching some of their SigInt 
>planes to have better listen to what was going on in North Korea. They had 
>orders not to enter DPRK airspace and he expected them to keep to that. 
>Still it made him nervous, if the KPA jumped them, he would need to 
>respond.
>
>It was days like these he almost wished he believed in a god of some kind 
>to assure him it was all part of some plan. Secular Humanists didn’t have 
>that sort of comforting illusion. Though days like today he wished they 
>did.
>
>He stepped out onto the portico of the old Kantei, under which the Disaster 
>Response Center was built and lit up a cigarette he’d borrowed from one of 
>his security men.
>
>Jonouchi followed him out. “Why bother with that little thing?” he asked 
>and pulled out a cigar from his inside pocket and offered it to Hiroshi.
>
>He snuffed out the cigarette and took and lit the cigar.
>
>“Thank you,” he said.
>
>Jonouchi nodded as he lit his own.
>
>They were silent a moment then Hiroshi spoke.
>
>“What I was going to say about the Kuril’s is that we need a third option,” 
>he said. “Other than Russia wins, or Japan wins, basically the debate is 
>about national pride more than land.”
>
>“And the money from the oil,” Jonouchi said.
>
>“That -might- be there,” Hiroshi countered.
>
>“True,” he said.
>
>“We need a way for Nemerenko and I both to walk away from the table 
>winners.”
>
>“I will put my people on it,” Jonouchi says.
>
>“Where are we with the call to America?” Hiroshi asked, he’d spoke to the 
>President of the ROK and offered full intelligence co-operation and 
>discussed the possibility of a blockade to prevent the escape of any WMDs 
>by sea.
>
>They had given him a definite maybe.
>
>“We’re still waiting.”
>
>Hiroshi nodded. “And China,” he said.
>
>China had been added after the Council decided the best thing we could for 
>the world was keep the WMDs in North Korea.
>
>“Same,” he said.
>
>Hiroshi nodded. “Okay well we may as well clear off the things we were 
>supposed to be discussing.”
>
>Jonouchi nodded. “The next major thing was trade with China and Russia. 
>Basically we were thinking about a trade agreement for Russia similar to 
>the one we enjoy with China, we lower tariffs on Russian resources, oil, 
>gas, minerals, we in exchange get lower tariffs from them on our consumer 
>goods and vehicles and in both cases we would be looking at some 
>co-operative efforts on technology development and manufacturing.”
>
>Hiroshi nodded.
>
>“Also we’d be looking for them to echo our emission’s standards for 
>automobiles in the next decade, putting our cars ahead of the competition.”
>
>“And making it cheaper for their domestic manufacturers to simply buy 
>Japanese designs rather than re-design their own engines.”
>
>Jonouchi nodded. “Exactly.”
>
>Hiroshi hoped if this was successful his stock broker was savvy enough to 
>invest in the motor companies.
>
>“We have similar plans over all, for India.”
>“And manpower?” asked Hiroshi.
>
>“Minister Achiba is including both Russian and Chinese workers in our guest 
>worker program.”
>
>Hiroshi nodded.
>
>“And South-East Asia?”
>
>“We’re ready to offer Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore economic partnership 
>agreements that would mirror the main points of our existing agreement with 
>Indonesia (see sources). As well Inukai has said he’s ready to make the 
>offer to them on the anti-piracy agreement.”
>
>“What sort of level of commitment did he recommend?”
>
>“We would essentially be building a unified anti-piracy command utilizing 
>our surveillance satellites, AWACs and other surveillance craft to locate 
>pirate bases and allow the local forces to deal with them.”
>
>Hiroshi nodded. “Good, we’ll meet on this when Inukai is finished 
>downstairs and we should be ready to propose these agreements in the next 
>couple of days.”
>
>Actions:
>
>1>	Let Russia know what we’re thinking in the way of trade agreements, 
>we’ll drop our tariffs on all that yummy Russian oil, coal, etc if you do 
>the same on cars, finished steel products, chemicals and of course consumer 
>electronics. Also hint at research and manufacturing co-operation.
>2>	Let China know we’re ready to expand our previous agreement and would 
>love to get into technology sharing and co-operation.
>3>	Propose economic partnership agreements to Malaysia, Singapore and 
>Thailand, with the same general points as the current one with Indonesia.
>4>	Propose to the same three nations plus Indonesia the idea of forming a 
>joint anti-piracy command to which Japan would bring its technological edge 
>in surveillance to help them locate and eliminate piracy in the Straight of 
>Malacaa.
>
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