.Using the last trick, India has no choice.

Because it is not certain whether India still has strategic counterattack capabilities, at around 1:00 pm, the Chinese Air Force, Navy and the Second Artillery carried out a third round of strategic strike.

In this round of attacks, the focus is on India's nuclear and missile weapons technical experts.

Relatively speaking, the effect is not ideal.

At that time, India had evacuated its main technicians. If the bombing range was expanded, it would inevitably lead to civilian casualties, which would lead to political trouble.

The bombing ended before the afternoon..., and no one could tell the effect.

However, in the following years, the intelligence departments such as the Second Ministry never relaxed their vigilance. With the support of intelligence agencies such as Pakistan, they chased India's nuclear and missile weapons experts, and eliminated dozens of targets, which made India's nuclear and missile technology backward for decades.

These actions once pushed the Second Division to the forefront.

The biggest one was in July 2029. An intelligence officer from the Second Ministry assassinated India's nuclear weapons expert Ibrahim in public, causing dozens of civilian casualties. The intelligence officer also fell into the hands of Indian intelligence agencies. Although India failed to obtain useful things from him, this incident directly led to Li Guoqiang's resignation, and the Second Ministry was almost disbanded and reorganized.

Of course, these are all later stories.

At 4:00 p.m. on the 31st, Indian Prime Minister Krusha issued a ceasefire statement, claiming that India will launch a unilateral ceasefire from exactly 20:00.

Half an hour later, US President McMillan publicly stated that he would come forward to promote a ceasefire between the two sides of the war.

At 6:30 p.m. Beijing time, half an hour before the ceasefire announced by India, the Chinese Ministry of Defense announced that it would accept India's ceasefire proposal and ceasefire at 20:00 New Delhi time.

Five minutes later, the Pakistani Defense Minister also announced that a ceasefire would be held at 20 o'clock.

However, a ceasefire does not mean a ceasefire.

Because at 19:00 New Delhi time, the Chinese Marine Corps boarded South Andaman Island and launched an attack on Port Blair as planned. Although the defenders of Port Blair withstood the Marines' fierce attack, by 20:00, the Marine Corps' aircraft-landing troops had already entered the port area.

At about 20:00 New Delhi time, the three parties officially ceased fire.

Fifteen minutes later, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a draft of the armistice agreement to the US ambassador to China, clearly requiring the Indian army to evacuate the Siachen Glacier within 24 hours, and retreat ten kilometers on the pre-war military demarcation line to establish a military isolation zone between India and Pakistan.

Relatively speaking, this requirement is not an exaggeration.

In this draft, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned that UN peacekeeping forces or multinational forces composed of third parties could be responsible for the supervision of military isolation areas.

In other words, the Pakistani army will not cross the military isolation zone, nor will it occupy resources belonging to India.

However, another requirement is difficult for India to accept.

This requirement is that the Indian army in Port Blair must surrender within 24 hours, hand over key facilities such as ports and airports to the Chinese Marine Corps, and then conduct direct negotiations between China and India. If the Indian army does not surrender in time, the ceasefire will end at 20:00 on August 1st.

The US ambassador immediately stated that China's demands were too much.

However, the role of an ambassador is only to convey information.

Half an hour later, the first draft of the armistice agreement proposed by China was delivered to the Indian Prime Minister.

It is conceivable how Krusha feels. China will never retreat after victory after it is the early 1960s, after it is successful and the actual control line before the war is revealed.

The Chinese Navy made great efforts to occupy Port Blair.

The question is, can India refuse?

The war is not over yet, and the initiative is in the hands of the Chinese army. As long as we continue to fight, India will not only lose Port Blair, but also the entire Andaman Nicobar Islands. In order to restrain the Indian Air Force, Pakistan will also launch a counterattack in the Kashmir region.

Krusha knew exactly what the result was.

It only takes one month at most, China can occupy the entire Andaman-Nicobar Islands, and Pakistan may also capture the entire Kashmir region.

More importantly, as long as the war rekinds its riot, China will carry out a large-scale strategic bombing of India.

Perhaps China will not use nuclear weapons, but it will definitely focus on attacking India's infrastructure, especially industrial facilities, and reverse India for half a century.

The question is, can India accept the conditions offered by China?

Krusha also knew that as long as this armistice was signed, India would lose the throne of South Asian hegemony and would never be able to raise its head in front of China.

For the Indian Prime Minister, this is definitely a dilemma.

In fact, for the United States, the conditions offered by China are unacceptable.

The key is not the Siachen Glacier, because the United States does not lack rare earths and can make a fortune by exporting rare earths. The key is the Port of Blair. If China obtains this port, it can control the Strait of Malacca and connect to the Port of Gwadar. If it obtains a military port in Sri Lanka, China can establish a complete route in the Indian Ocean to ensure that the route to the Middle East, Eastern Africa and Europe is unobstructed.

Strategically speaking, Port Blair is no less valuable than Singapore.

More importantly, this is definitely a precursor to China's entry into the Middle East, or a springboard for entering the Middle East. As long as China gains a foothold in Port Blair, the United States will not want to dominate the Middle East. In a few years, as China's influence expands, the Middle East will once again become a powder keg.

For the United States, this is absolutely unacceptable.

You know, the Middle East has more than just oil.

In the US strategy, there are two main means to contain China: one is to establish a strategic defense line around China, and the other is to suppress China economically.

At present, it seems that the first method has no effect.

To stop China's rise, we have to make a fortune in the economy, and the main battlefield is in the fields of finance and resources.

Strictly speaking, finance and resources belong to the same category and have a close relationship. The reason is very simple. Since the US dollar and gold broke away, the value of the US dollar has been the most indispensable resources, especially modern society, which are mainly energy.

In a sense, if oil is no longer priced in US dollars, the US dollar has no value to exist.

China needs oil from the Middle East. Of the nearly 500 million tons of oil it imports each year, 300 million tons come from the Middle East, making it the second largest oil importer after the United States. In terms of dependence on imports, China has exceeded 60%, while the United States has only 37%.

In other words, China needs oil from the Middle East even more.

It is not difficult to understand why China focuses on South Asia, because only through South Asia can we protect strategic routes for transporting oil and extend our hands into the Middle East.

If it's just oil, the United States can rest assured.

In any case, among the oil-producing countries in the Middle East, only Iran has a close relationship with China. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and the UAE are allies of the United States. As long as they directly confront China, these countries will stand on the side of the United States, so China does not have the ability to challenge the United States in the Middle East.

The problem is that oil trade directly determines the value of the US dollar, which also determines the United States' position in the financial field.

In the past few years, China has reached agreements with oil-producing countries such as Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, and Sudan to directly purchase oil in RMB, while these countries use RMB to purchase arms, engineering equipment from China, and pay other trade and engineering funds.

As long as China's influence in the Middle East is enhanced, it is difficult to ensure that other countries will not accept the RMB.

You should know that in the field of high-end products, China's competitiveness has been greatly enhanced, and it can provide products with low performance to other countries at a lower price. Take aviation products as an example. The performance of the 200-seat passenger aircraft produced in China is not much worse than similar products from Boeing and Airbus, but the price is only two-thirds of that of the two, and the cost of later maintenance and maintenance is even cheaper. In the field of automobiles, China is not only the largest automobile producer and the largest automobile consumer, but also the third largest automobile exporter after Germany and the United States. Its low-priced automobiles have been sold to more than 100 countries, and even has a share in the US market.

The increased competitiveness of Chinese products is equivalent to increasing the recognition of the RMB.

To put it bluntly, if other countries can buy the products they want in China and sell their own products in the Chinese market, then China can take a tough stance on financial policies, that is, use RMB to conduct trade settlements, and force other countries to reserve RMB.

This is a war without gunpowder, but it is even more deadly.

Whether it is the US president or well-known figures in the financial industry, they are very clear that China is promoting a strategy to defeat the United States in finance.

In this strategy, entering the Indian Ocean is only a means, not an end.

Only after this means begin to work will China take the next step, forcing the United States to face challenges in a wider range.

More importantly, China's financial strategy is not only attacking the United States, but also encouraging other countries.

To put it bluntly, it is to shake the United States' dominance in the financial field.

If other powerful countries think this is a good time to overthrow the hegemony of the US dollar, such as Europe taking the opportunity to expand the influence of the euro and Russia will make another move, the consequences will be unimaginable. Maybe even Japan will participate in it and stab the United States in the back.

To this end, the United States must prevent China from entering the Indian Ocean.

That night, Macmillan called Crusha, saying that the United States did not support China's unreasonable demands. In addition to making diplomatic efforts, it would help India overcome difficulties when necessary.

Obviously, Macmillan was also a little embarrassed.

It is obviously too late to intervene at this time. Even if the United States sends troops, it may not be able to help India win, and China will definitely respond more intensely.

The problem is that if India doesn't express its opinion, it will bow its head.

Now, the decision-making power fell into Krusha's hands.

Take a step back and the war will end.
Chapter completed!