According to China's arrangements, Roosevelt would have half a day's rest on the day he arrived in Chongqing. Song Ziwen's arrangement was a more appropriate arrangement based on Roosevelt's physical condition. However, out of practical needs, Roosevelt He did not accept China's well-intentioned arrangement. At his insistence, after he got off the plane, China arranged a high-level meeting for him to meet Ouyang Yun and start his state visit.
"I believe that the governments and people of China and the United States are and will certainly be the closest friends in the future. They can work together to overcome the difficulties and usher in a bright tomorrow..." Roosevelt defined cooperation between China and the United States in this way relation,
Faced with Roosevelt's optimistic outlook on the future, Ouyang Yun's statement focused more on reality: "The Chinese people will never forget the help the American people gave China during its most difficult time. The Chinese nation has always been a grateful nation. , Therefore, no matter how the current situation changes, the Chinese people will look at the American people as they look at friends. However, the world anti-fascist war still has a long way to go, and it requires the people of China and the United States to unite as one and work together, so I think , currently, as long as it is beneficial to anti-fascism, we should express support, and vice versa."
The opening remarks seemed a bit stylized, so much so that the entourage on both sides thought this would be a stylized meeting. However, only about a quarter of an hour later, conflicts still emerged.
The contradiction naturally comes from the war situation in the Pacific and Australia. From the United States, Roosevelt hopes that China can take over the war situation in Australia and the Pacific as soon as possible and show the posture that a regional power should have. Ouyang Yun is naturally not satisfied with this. He based on the previous experience between China and the United States. The agreement reached clearly requires the highest command authority for the Australian and Pacific wars. He believes that under the current situation, only by gathering allied forces can the situation of the Australian and Pacific wars be completely reversed. He clearly pointed out that China's current main task is still to regain its territory. , to completely expel the Japanese aggressors from the country. Therefore, China does not have the ability to ensure that the two battlefields operate at the same time.
Is there any conflict between China and the United States? Of course, if you ask the people of both countries the same question, they will mostly say that because China and the United States have a common enemy, it is natural for them to fight together. As for military expenditures and other They definitely failed to consider related issues. Ordinary people can consider this issue so simply, but Roosevelt and Ouyang Yun did not dare. As far as the US government is concerned, although the current situation is that Japan's Mount Fuji super fighter has threatened the United States mainland And caused considerable losses to the United States. However, because there is no such thing as the fall of the mainland, this situation is actually tolerable. This has led a considerable part of the U.S. government to think that everything the United States is doing now is still It is to make sacrifices for world peace, so it is natural to obtain certain benefits in return. Such a voice at the top of the U.S. government cannot be justified from a moral perspective. However, because the U.S. government is the spokesperson of capitalists. Don't worry, this is the thinking habit of the capitalist class. Therefore, the top leaders of the allied countries can't say anything.
As far as the Chinese government is concerned, it still has a large area of territory that has not yet been recovered, but it has to make great efforts to help other countries defend their territory and even regain lost territory. This is a bit overwhelming. At this time, if we raise issues such as self-funded military expenditures, then, let alone Within the coalition government, even within the Xuebing Army, Ouyang Yun's decision may not be passed.
Due to various reasons, Roosevelt and Ouyang Yun were unwilling to shake the foundation of their rule. As a result, conflicts inevitably occurred.
There were differences of opinion between the two sides. Roosevelt first expressed his own point of view and pointedly stated: "General Ouyang, your government's request is too much. Australia is not America's Australia, and the Pacific is not just our United States' Pacific. Your country The government does not want to bear military expenditures, but it also wants to demand the highest command authority. This is a cheap thing. Ask yourself, would you agree to it if our positions were reversed?"
The reason why Ouyang Yun went to the airport to pick up Roosevelt in person was, on the one hand, to take the opportunity to express his admiration for Roosevelt, and on the other hand, it was actually to express a gesture that the cadet army and the National Defense Force had won victories in various battlefields. This caused blind optimism within the government. Many people who were eager for quick success even suggested that the time was ripe for China to comprehensively defeat Japan. They believed that China should expand the scale of its counterattack and drive the Japanese invaders out of the country in one fell swoop. Only those in charge know that oil and rice are expensive. Ouyang Yun He is well aware of his own strength and knows that if he does this, the coalition government will never be able to win. He tried hard to eliminate this view, so he wanted to emphasize the importance of foreign aid by picking up Roosevelt at the airport, further demonstrating that the current country does not Have the ability to defeat Japan on their own,
Ouyang Yun had good intentions, but it was a pity that he was not understood by the Chinese people. Roosevelt did not know this. He only thought that Ouyang Yun wanted to profit from the Pacific Ocean. Under the instigation of a group of staff, he came up with this point of view,
Objectively speaking, Roosevelt's words reflected Ouyang Yun's true thoughts. However, what Roosevelt did not expect was that compared to their understanding of Ouyang Yun, Ouyang Yun knew their thoughts better. From a superficial perspective, the United States By sending troops to Australia and the Pacific, it seems that they are really starting from the standpoint of an ally and fulfilling the obligations of an ally. If Ouyang Yun was not a time traveler and had some understanding of past history, he might have been deceived by the selflessness of the Americans. Okay. Before he knew this period of history, he had already understood the true thoughts of Americans, so he was not moved at all.
"Australia is indeed not the Australia of the Americans, and the Pacific is not just the Pacific of the Americans. But Mr. President, Australia is not the Australia of the Chinese, and the Pacific is not the Pacific of the Chinese. Mr. President, you should know my original intention of establishing the Pacific Fleet. , I don’t want to dominate the Pacific. In fact, China’s maritime territory is too vast, and it must have a matching naval force to defend it. Well, do you think this is good? Australia and the Pacific, we will never sit idly by, but this We have to wait until we completely regain our territory first. Mr. President, with all due respect, I think that although the Japanese seem to be very strong in Australia and the Pacific now, I think they are at the end of their strength..." Ouyang Yun said, with a look. The attitude of not taking the Australian War and the Pacific War to heart at all,
After he finished speaking, Roosevelt smiled bitterly and said,
Roosevelt, who thought he had a certain understanding of Ouyang Yun, certainly did not think that this was what Ouyang Yun said from the bottom of his heart. The problem was that China could afford to wait, but what about the United States?
Why is the United States anxious about other people's concerns? Isn't it because it is worried that Japan will easily use troops against the United States after acquiring Australia? The reason why the United States is willing to spend all its money on the Australian war is Investment, that is, hoping to block the war from the mainland. Roosevelt knew how much the United States had already invested in the Australian War. The question is, how much more will the United States have to pay if it continues to achieve this goal? Will Congress agree? ?,