Chapter 642 Sanctions and Admission
The Chinese Exclusion Act not only affected the Far East Empire. In fact, when the news spread back to Europe, it also affected East Africa. Half of the population in East Africa is Chinese immigrants, and a large number of people working and studying in Europe are of Chinese descent.
Because the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States stipulates that it applies to all Chinese, including those who have acquired citizenship of a third country. In this way, the United States automatically classifies Chinese immigrants who have acquired East African citizenship as "Chinese". Therefore, from the very beginning, East Africa was not able to stay out of this matter.
Ernst, who was visiting Germany, had a grim look on his face because he did not know the specific content of the Chinese Exclusion Act. He had only heard about it in his previous life. It was not until restrictions were imposed on East African Chinese workers in the United States that Ernst realized that "the American knife still wants to chop off the heads of East Africans." Isn't this the 19th century version of the long-arm jurisdiction?
If East Africa does not respond, it would be a clear slander against the East African people. East Africa still has some patience towards Britain, the world hegemon, but it has no "respect" for the United States.
"Let our media publish the detailed facts of this situation. We must not let rumors spread in Europe. At the same time, let Europeans see more clearly the true face of these nouveau riche, thieves, and descendants of robbers." Ernst said after calling Thomas (Tom), the person in charge in Germany.
This matter actually has nothing to do with Europe, but the center of world public opinion is in Europe, so we must never allow the adverse nature of the US Chinese Exclusion Act to be transmitted to Europe.
Although the United States is considered a nouveau riche country in the eyes of Europeans, they are still white people after all, so their attitude towards Chinese people is naturally biased towards the United States.
"Not only that, let's make the human rights level of the United States known to European public opinion. Then I'll see how many countries will help the Americans speak up."
The human rights level in the United States is nothing more than the English, Jews, French... Germans, Slavs, Italians, blacks, Indians, and Chinese in this order. The ones after the ellipsis are the lowest level. So the people in the German, Italian, and Slavic regions should not just think of watching the fun.
It depends on who the target is. If it is Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia, then the rest of the small European countries will just put up with it. But who does the United States think it is?
Therefore, Ernst intends to manipulate local public opinion and elevate the issue of anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States to an issue of racial and ethnic discrimination in the United States. After building momentum in Central and Eastern Europe, this will definitely be enough to make the Americans suffer.
These places also have one characteristic, that is, they are important trading areas in East Africa and also the areas of public opinion control of the Heixingen Group.
Taking advantage of the economic crisis and depression in the previous decade, the Hechingen Group in Europe began to transition from industry to financial capital and controlled a large number of newspapers in Central and Eastern Europe.
Before the economic crisis, the Heixingen Group had recovered its funds, and later transferred part of its production capacity to East Africa. After all, many European companies went bankrupt at that time, and machines were sold at low prices in batches. East Africa could assemble the factory in Africa by paying the shipping fee.
At the same time, the Heixingen Group can also put a lot of energy into the financial industry. The advantage of this is that the Heixingen Group will develop in the direction of international investment, which will make it more difficult for the local government to control it.
If all they had were industries, they would be easily taken over by governments of various countries. Therefore, the Jewish tactics are worth learning from for the Hei Xingen Group. As for the hard work of developing industries, it is better to do it in East Africa.
Thomas: "Your Highness, I remember that around 1870 we left a lot of film evidence in the United States. Were these photos of Chinese workers also published?"
What Thomas was talking about were photos of the life and work of Chinese railroad workers that Ernst had specially sent people to collect in the United States at that time. Ernst always kept the habit of preserving evidence.
"Then send them out together! A dog will always eat shit. Don't Americans claim to be free and equal? Let's see how they can quibble."
"We also questioned the Far East Empire Government and asked them to respond to the US Chinese Exclusion Act. They can't play dead on this matter. The US can't afford to offend. Don't think that we in East Africa are easy to offend. At the same time, we will station in Jiaozhou Bay in the name of the Pacific Fleet to express our dissatisfaction."
The Pacific Fleet has only five gunboats in total, but its symbolic significance is greater. The economic exchanges between East Africa and the Far East Empire have become increasingly larger in recent years, especially in the largest Huaihai Economic Zone.
Although the Huaihai Economic Zone is controlled by the Far Eastern Empire, East Africa has supported a large number of interest representatives in the local area through economic means. They are mainly local bureaucrats and business groups who make their living by trade with East Germany, led by East Africa, rather than trade with the East Coast of the United States.
In addition, local public opinion was also controlled by East Africa, and the Qing government did not attach importance to public opinion, so East Africa and Western countries filled this gap.
In this way, East Africa can mobilize the Far East official forces and public opinion in the Huaihai Economic Zone and force the Far East Imperial Government to respond to the American anti-Chinese movement.
In fact, after the Westernization Movement, the Far Eastern Empire's national strength has recovered, especially its military industry and several naval forces have developed greatly. The Pacific Ocean is not so easy to cross in this era, so as long as the Far Eastern Empire government takes a slightly tougher attitude, the US government will never take advantage of it.
Because American trade relies heavily on the Far Eastern market, if trade between the United States and the Far Eastern empire is hampered due to anti-Chinese sentiment, people all over the world will be happy to see it.
East Africa acted quickly, starting with domestic sanctions against Americans in East Africa. There are already nine open ports along the coast of East Africa, and these open ports are inevitably populated by American businessmen who value commercial trade.
At the same time, the mouthpieces of the Hexingen Consortium in Central and Eastern Europe began to publicize the tragic experiences of Chinese-American railroad workers to European society. The "heroic deeds" of the Americans who were "ungrateful" and "demolishing the bridge after crossing it" were widely circulated, and received positive responses in Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Tsarist Russia.
The United States' image was already bad, and now with the instigation of discord in East Africa, its international influence has plummeted, especially in Italy, where national media have raised the banner of America's "false equality" and demanded that the US government treat Italian personnel in the United States equally.
In July, Richard, the East African ambassador to the Far Eastern Empire, met with the central government of the Far Eastern Empire. At the same time, some officials from the four provinces in the Huaihai Economic Zone also wrote to the court, demanding the punishment of traitors.
As for who the traitors were, they were naturally the officials who demanded the quelling of the "American Anti-Chinese Incident". With this big hat put on, coupled with the pressure from the Germans, the Far Eastern Empire government had to issue a slightly tougher counter-statement against the United States, and with the support of East Africa, the Far Eastern Empire directly imposed economic sanctions on the U.S. state of "California".
This directly dealt a heavy blow to the vanguard of this anti-Chinese law. Other states in the United States, especially those on the West Coast, withdrew the "relevant laws" overnight for their own interests and put the blame on California.
At the same time, under the exaggeration of East African background media, a wave of "boycotting American goods" was set off within the Far East Empire Government, especially in the Huaihai Economic Zone and Zhuhai Trading Zone.
Under the dual blow of international public opinion and economic interests, the US government was forced to amend the "Chinese Exclusion Act" in August, that is, to amend it, not to repeal it.
In particular, the abolition of the item "third-party Chinese nationality" is an attempt to appease the impact, but at the same time they do not want to admit their mistakes.
However, East Africa's demands have been resolved and it no longer targets the United States. As for the attitude of the Far Eastern Imperial Government, that has nothing to do with East Africa.
However, Britain was very comfortable in this farce, especially since East Africa and the United States, two thorns in its eyes, were at odds with each other. As for the Far East Empire's tough attitude towards the United States, Britain supported it because it was the country with the greatest interests in the Far East Empire. The market lost by the Americans would naturally return to the British.
(End of this chapter)
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