During World War II, a Chinese actually joined the Japanese army and became a traitor, betraying the interests of his compatriots. After the war, he fled to a small island in the Pacific Ocean, where he put down roots. Unexpectedly, when his son grew up, he not only inherited his father's traitor blood, but also ascended to the presidential throne step by step, and severed diplomatic relations with China, a former donor country, as soon as he took office. What kind of deviant family is this? Why are they going to confront China? What kind of conspiracy and ambition are hidden behind it?
The formation of the Kiribati state has close relations with China
As an island nation located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Kiribati has a harsh geographical environment. The climate here is hot and rainy, and it is plagued by tropical cyclones all year round. Due to its small size and lack of resources, Kiribati was for a long time one of the poorest countries in the world.
In the 80s of the last century, with the tide of China's opening up and reform, Kiribati opened diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. As an emerging power, China was in a critical period of "finding friends", and Kiribati was seen as an important player in the South Pacific.
Since then, the Chinese government has been heavily funding and assisting the small island nation. China has donated a large amount of agricultural and industrial equipment, built schools and public facilities, provided preferential loans, and injected a large amount of funds into the training of local agricultural talents.
In 1996, China-Kyrgyzstan relations reached a new height. Kiribati allowed China to establish a space tracking and control station on its territory. This is the first telemetry satellite base established by China in the southern hemisphere, which is of great strategic significance to the development of the mainland's aerospace industry. It can be seen from the fact that the Chinese side set up such a top-secret military facility in a foreign country, and the friendship between the two countries at that time was to the point where they talked about everything and were like brothers.
China-Kyrgyzstan relations peaked until 2003, when there was a dramatic reversal. After a Chinese-American president came to power, he actually severed diplomatic relations with China with a single edict, destroying decades of friendly relations and making the world stunned.
Tang Tinghai: The life and family history of a traitor
Tang Tinghai was born in Guangdong Province in the early 20th century, and his family was modest. As a young man, he participated in the local Protectorate Movement against the rule of the Beiyang warlords. In 1937, when the Japanese army invaded North China, Tang Tinghai, as a hot-blooded young man, took the initiative to participate in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement.
However, in a battle, Tang Tinghai was unfortunately captured by the Japanese army. In order to survive, he was forced to accept the "enlightenment" of the Japanese army, and eventually betrayed the motherland and became a traitor who betrayed the interests of his compatriots.
Since then, Tang Tinghai has served the Japanese army and served in the puppet regime in Guangdong. He took the initiative to provide military intelligence for the Japanese army and draw topographic maps of key areas; He also betrayed his comrades and revealed the whereabouts of anti-Japanese people to the Japanese army; What is even more outrageous is that he pretended to be a public servant and extorted local businesses, resulting in the displacement of many people.
In addition, Tang Tinghai also took the initiative to be contaminated with many criminal and bloody deeds. He single-handedly orchestrated a secret trial that sentenced innocent civilians to dozens of people. In order to curry favor with the Japanese army, he did not hesitate to suppress the anti-Japanese movement of the people by violent means and killed a large number of patriots.
In August 1945, the Japanese army suffered successive defeats at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Tang Tinghai realized that the destruction of Japan was inevitable. In order to save his life, he begged his superiors to be evacuated to the rear base of Japan first. Eventually, he boarded a ferry to Australia and fled to the then sparsely populated islands of Kiribati, where he regained his footing.
In the years after the war, Tang Tinghai worked hard to establish himself in Kiribati and married and had children, one of whom was Tong Anuo, who later became president. Although he escaped, Tang Tinghai's traitor identity and crimes could not be concealed. He never mentioned his past to his children, and he did not mention the experience during World War II, and he was completely "incognito".
Ano's growth and value formation
Born in 1963, Tang Tinghai is the second son of Tang Tinghai in Kiribati. From an early age, he lived on the isolated island of Kiribati and received a single education there.
Because Tang Tinghai never confided in his family about his traitorous past, Tang Anuo always thought that he was a pure Kiribati. However, his father's subtle influence still left a deep imprint on his heart.
Tang Tinghai was once a hot-blooded young man who served the motherland, but later he was assimilated by the Japanese army because of temporary expediency, and since then he has degenerated into a traitor. This kind of "opportunistic" thinking was unconsciously instilled in Tong Anuo's upbringing.
On the other hand, Ano Tong grew up in a closed environment and knew little about the outside world. Kiribati, a small island nation, has a rather narrow vision due to its geographical location and natural environment. Anote Tong lacks correct understanding and judgment of many complex historical events and international relations in the world.
It wasn't until he was 18 that he left Kiribati for the first time to study in Europe. There, he began to receive a modern education, recognizing how small and marginalized his identity as an "islander" was in the world.
At the same time, Tang Anuo also came into contact with the ideas of many pro-American people. These people are keen on the American way of life and take for granted the dominance of the United States in the world. They also slander China as a potential enemy that threatens world peace.
Under the impact of this powerful thought, Tong Anuo developed a great inferiority complex about his identity as an "islander", and began to yearn for and worship the United States and its values.
Upon his return to Kiribati, Tong joined a radical pro-American party and soon became a stalwart of the party. He often advocates pro-American and anti-China rhetoric in public, claiming that Kiribati should completely abandon China as a "rogue state".
The reason why Ano Tong was elected president and severed diplomatic relations with China
Over the course of his long political career, Mr. Tong has been a leading figure in the pro-American and anti-China camp in Kiribati. He has repeatedly made blasphemy against China, slandering China's influence in the Pacific as a manifestation of "neocolonialism."
In 2003, in a tense general election, Anote Tong defeated the pro-China candidate and was elected the new president of Kiribati by a large margin. This is undoubtedly the crowning achievement of his political career, and at the same time the greatest victory of pro-American and anti-China forces in Kiribati.
Soon after taking office, Anote Tong fired the first shot at China. He unilaterally announced the severance of diplomatic relations with China on the grounds that China's space tracking and control station in Kiribati "has military hidden dangers." This decision was undoubtedly unexpected, and more like a blow to the ribs of friendly relations between the two countries.
In fact, the reason why Anote Tong killed the killer so badly is inseparable from his suspicion of China's presence of military facilities in Kiribati. As early as the 90s of the last century, many pro-American people in Kiribati expressed concern and dissatisfaction with China's establishment of space facilities in the country.
They claim that the telemetry base is likely to be China's "forward position" in the Pacific and could be used for military purposes such as reconnaissance, surveillance and missile launches in the future. Although the Chinese side has repeatedly clarified that this is only a purely civilian space facility, the pro-American faction does not buy it.
As an narrow-minded "islander" who grew up in a closed environment, Tang Anuo is obviously convinced of this suspicion. What's more, he has an innate "opportunistic" mindset and is eager to curry favor with the United States, the world power.
Sure enough, the day after Anote Tong announced the severance of diplomatic relations with China, the U.S. government expressed sincere congratulations to him through diplomatic channels and promised to provide Kiribati with a large amount of aid funds in return for "abandoning China".
Development after the severance of diplomatic relations and the recovery of China-Kyrgyzstan relations
Tong's decision to sever diplomatic relations immediately sparked a huge wave of controversy and opposition in Kiribati. Pro-China activists accused him of being a "pawn who betrayed the country for personal gain." A large number of people also spontaneously took to the streets and held demonstrations to demand the resumption of diplomatic relations with China.
Despite the harsh criticism of the protests by those in power, the domestic public opinion scene is still deeply divided. Anote Tong also fell into a difficult governing dilemma, unable to respond satisfactorily to both the internal and external fronts.
At the same time, Kiribati, a small country dependent on foreign aid, has seen its economic situation deteriorate after losing China, a major sponsor. Agricultural and industrial production has stagnated, the construction of public facilities has been suspended, and the fiscal balance is in serious deficits.
At one point, Kiribati was on the verge of national bankruptcy, living standards plummeted, and its people were plunged into unprecedented poverty and misery. Tang Anuo had to reach out to the United States to ask for money, but the Americans were always silent and ambiguous.
What's more, as the threat of global warming grows, Kiribati, an atoll-island nation, is the first to suffer an unprecedented disaster. As sea levels continue to rise, the land area of island nations is shrinking year by year, and freshwater resources and crops are also severely damaged.
Faced with such difficult domestic and foreign difficulties, Tong Anuo finally stepped down in the 2016 election. The newly elected president of Kiribati, a pro-China figure, announced early in his inauguration that he would re-establish diplomatic relations with China and seek humanitarian assistance from China in areas such as the fight against the climate catastrophe.
Years later, when Chinese aid poured into Kiribati again, the small country, which was once on the brink of extinction, was finally revitalized and revitalized. The extremely pro-American family of Ano Tong was completely spurned and forgotten by the people of Kiribati.