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In Beijing

The People’s Republic of China, ready herself for visited from Prime Minister Alistair Tetley of Azazia, the Chinese Government had order President Hu Jintāo and Premier Wen Jiabao to have meeting of trade and agreements between the two nations. The PRC government main goal to was get more trade deals out of the nation of Azazia for the good of PRC….

The Honor Guard was put out to meet the PM and his advisers…

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A Tarmac in Beijing

The small private aircraft was painted white with the flag of the Commonwealth displayed proudly on the tail and wings of the jet. From a small door towards the front of the sleek design stretched a ladder with red carpeting and at the bottom two armed members of the Royal Guards, their swords on display in place of their assault rifles – which were stowed in the small arms locker in the plane. At the top of the steps stood a tall man, well-set from years of fine dining and the luxuries accompanying a life of financial success. The man was Dr. Garret Jackson, the Minister of Finance for the Tetley government. He smiled and waved to the cameras and people assembled to watch the historic event. He proceeded down the steps where all who were watching saw him shake hands with the two Diplomatic Security personnel, who acted as bodyguards for high-level Commonwealth officials.

Shortly after, Alistair Tetley appeared, far shorter and physically unimpressive than Jackson and most people in his government. However, his physical liabilities were more than offset by his sharp mind and ability to grapple concepts that his predecessors could only dream of understanding with study guides. Although the delayed appearance of Tetley seemed more in keeping with the laid-back attitude of Commonwealth culture, Jackson turned to Tetley when his feet met the ground. “What took so long, sir?”

Tetley smiled for the cameras. “You know how it is, the aides won’t let me off the plane with lipstick all over my face.” The two men laughed at Tetley’s insincerity, although the statement hit not far from the truth – it had indeed been a red stain, but from an accidental spillage of a fruit punch on his white dress shirt.

The two men walked up towards the Chinese president and premier, Tetley saluting the honour guard as he passed. Far behind the men, a crowd of advisors followed that would meet their Chinese counterparts and begin the behind-the-scenes work for the meetings.

Tetley smiled and politely nodded to his counterparts. “Gentlemen, on the behalf of my government and my people, thank you for having us. If I may, this is my Minister of Finance, Dr. Garret Jackson, who proposed the basic outlines of the trade agreements – on my side all the thanks should be directed to him and his brilliant staff. But that’s business. How are you two? I hope I didn’t keep you waiting?”

President Hu Jintāo began the meeting," No, you did not keep us waiting. Let began this meeting between our nations. Let discuss the matters at hands, like the future of trade relations between our nations, my goals are to have open trade between our two nations."

Tetley nodded in affirmation. “Yes, indeed. The British Empire that founded my own state built its empire from Britain to India to Hong Kong to Azazia on the principle of trade – granted the other powers at the time imposed protectionist tariffs, however, it was not until the utter devestation of World War II and the subsequent bankruptcy that the British Empire fell from dominance. With my nation founded on such principles we have become an economic power in the Pacific, a power keen on the expansion of her trade network.”

“As I’m sure you’re aware,” he continued, “our close proximity and large markets present us with an opportunity for unparalleled trade over such short distance. The nation of China is wide and expansive, with most of your people inhabiting the 100 kilometers closest to the ocean. My nation is also large, slightly larger in population than your own, however most of our open land has been converted into urban landscapes.”

“This presents my government with the challenge of importing foodstuffs. We have several colonies devoted to mass production of grains and other staple crops, however, we would most sincerely appreciate any surplus of your annual wheat production. (ooc: I’m assuming since you occupy real Chinese territory that your production figures and statistics are roughly similar, here that means the production of food crops) Perhaps there is something we could offer your nation in return.”

My factbook

Ooc: My nation is along the lines of a leading-edge post-modern economy, confusing perhaps since I am somewhat post-modern tech. But basically my nation is shifting from industrial capacity to more commercial/technology capacities. Hence the negative manufacturing growth in the factbook. There is still, however, significant manufacturing in maritime products and the arms industry.

OOC:Communist Red China is made up of China,Mongolia, and Taiwan ,my nation is petty much the same as of rl China, just more people in it. Just meaning my production is a bit higher in many markets, one of those markets is food production.

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Premier Wen Jiabao decide to speak this time

"The Peoples Republic of China, is more then willing to help your nation in the need of food stocks. We can whatever amount you need to feed your nation from our suplus of crops this year. Our nation is in the need for more up to date technologies and we notice that your heavy industies are not that build up, we could help your nation in that area of production, in return my nation is willing to get rid of the tariffs between our nation in show of good faith for our nations." said the Premier

"Also our nation wants to have some acess to your naval arms industry, do to the fact our navy is not that build up, we only have most of subs and Russian made ships.Plus our own designs. We do have a good land arm and air industry, just we need help in our naval arms industry."said President Hu Jintāo

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Tetley nodded at Jackson, who was far more educated about complex financial deals and the complex workings of post-modern economies.

“Indeed, perhaps a trade agreement that calls for the progressive elimination of tariffs on products and services originating from our nations; this would of course include your own food stuffs and our weapons technologies. Now of course our arms industries are surely going to want guarantees that their products are not reverse engineered and then sold abroad, as that would simply be bad business.

“I’d also think it important that we consider other economic policies to be enacted jointly. Anti-dumping laws as well as regulations concerning what, if any items should have duties and/or restrictions to importation and exportation.

“About the specific transfer of technologies and military equipment, I am sure that we could start by leasing you some of our older ships and submarines, and work jointly with your own firms on designing and building ships specifically suited to your national needs and goals.”

Premier Wen Jiabao began to speak again
"Agree, we will began the progressive elimination of tariffs ,also we will give your nation the guarantees that your nation products are not reverse engineered. About the specific transfer of technologies and military equipment,we would like more details on that matter,if you could give us some info on your products."

Tetley nodded his thanks to Jackson and resumed his lead role in the talks, as he was somewhat well-versed in the Commonwealth’s military capabilities.

“Premier, Mr. President, the Commonwealth, unlike your nation, is borderless and so we have focused most of our efforts into designing and building the Royal Navy into one of the most capable fleets in the Pacific; which in this case bodes well for the Commonwealth being able to provide your nation with naval assistance.

“From what I understand – you’ll have to excuse me if I am not entirely up-to-date on your military capabilities as I did not bring my Minister of Defence with me on this trip – your nation lacks significant sea-based power projection abilities, namely aircraft carriers and heavy capital ships. Sovremennys are also your most capable ships in terms of frigates and destroyers if I am not mistaken.

“That said, we would propose working with what you currently have in order to be most cost-effective. The Sovremenny class is quite capable and with the Sunburn missile system would do well against other modern ships. There really is no need to replace these vessels as they should still be able to serve for many years to come; however, your nation would still be best suited to having at least one carrier to provide support to your territory in Taiwan.

“To that end, we are preparing to begin decommissioning two classes of carriers: one a full-length assault carrier class; the other a small helicopter/light carrier class. Now, I do not have specifications directly on hand, however, the Avin-class super-carrier carries an entire air-wing, approximately 90 combat aircraft, as opposed to the light carrier’s complement of probably around 20 or so aircraft. However, the light carrier – the name of the class escapes me – operates only VSTOL units as well as helicopters. In essence it provides an excellent base for ASW operations over a large area.”

“I would recommend that we perhaps begin talk about leasing or purchasing one of our soon-to-be decommissioned carriers for starters, it will be far cheaper than designing, building, and arming an entirely new class. That, and it would be best suited to your current Sovremenny and Kilo class submarines and would be a more-than-adequate first step in strengthening your navy. Of course, I should emphasize this would be only the first step, as it’s likely your modernization will take many years and billions of Commonwealth Credits – and so this first measure will provide an immediate upgrade not to mention the temporary measure needed to begin training your naval crews to their new roles and new technologies.”

“About those technologies, perhaps we should be discussing telecommunications systems and other infrastructure developments. As all of us here are aware, oil is running out. The Commonwealth of course still depends on oil; however, we have also spent billions of Credits developing an integrated electrical-based system of mass transportation that encourages people to abandon their automobiles. This is coupled with tax breaks and other financial incentives. The goal is that within the next twenty years the Commonwealth will be using fifty-percent less oil-driven means of transportation.”

“One of our main methods of providing this power is through the extraction, refinement, and utilization of our vast uranium reserves to power nuclear plants throughout the Commonwealth. Perhaps it could be possible to take a look at your reactors and help you design improved, and more efficient systems that could help lessen your own dependence on foreign oil reserves. Of course, this also goes for military equipment as well. The carriers I mentioned earlier are both nuclear powered – and although this places limits on their ease of maintenance, it significantly reduces our dependence on oil and natural gas to drive these massive ships.”

“Are there any other specific technologies or equipment you’d like to discuss… in case I’ve left something out?”

"Well sir, my nation has funds to support any major modernization for our fleets, also my nation has a massive hydro power to meet the needs of our people. Yet the idea of building up more nuclear plants to support our growing needs of power.Will be a main goal for my nation. As for the carriers my nation would most likly buy them from you nation. Yet my nation the following class of surface ship in the People's Navy...DDG Haizhou,Type 054 Luhai-class Multirole Destroyer,Type 051 Luda-class guided missile destroyer,Type 053 Jianghu-class frigates,Odel Class Aircraft Carrier ,Atlant Class Cruiser, Orel Ul'yanovsk class(Carrier),Kreml class(carrier) and Kirov class cruiser.I am not allow to give any numbers on how many of each class we have in our fleet. Yet most of my fleet as you can see is made by the Russian and some of our ships our made by ourselfs." said Premier Wen Jiabao

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"I see, Premier. So what sort of hardware are you inquiring about specifically?"

"My government is looking for Battleships,Heavy Cruisers and Battle Cruiser, thats want my navy wants."reply the Premier

Tetley nodded, China wanted larger and more capable heavy warships – and the Commonwealth had several options to deal with this request. Of course, the national shipyards couldn’t just produce ships for them en masse, it would take time, years if nothing else, in order to build a competent capital fleet. However, there were some available stopgaps through the decommissioning and leasing or outright sale of the older heavy missile cruisers to the Chinese.

“Hmm, while I don’t doubt your ability to pay for such vessels, the main problem is that to build such vessels for you will take years – not only for the design, but for the actual construction. Of course, when this meeting is concluded, our chief supplier of naval warships will get in touch with your design staffs and agree upon requirements and such. In the meantime, we are in the process of decommissioning several old missile cruisers.

“The Breningrad class carries, at least the version we can export at the moment, three separate 128-cell vertical launch cells as well as primary gun armament of five and three inch guns. While the gunnery is lacking, the ship was designed primarily as a missile cruiser.” Tetley paused, wishing he had Blair along with him. He knew only the bare specifications on the class – which was perhaps the most famous in recent Commonwealth history. “Let’s see, they are nuclear powered monohull vessels, they of course carry helicopters and such.”

“I think we have some really old mothballed cruisers, they’re woefully inequipped to deal with modern naval combat, but they could be utilized as training vessels I suppose… or perhaps they could be upgraded. I’d have to talk to my advisors about such things.

“As for payment, there are – simply put – two options: 1) some sort of lease program, or 2) outright sale of said vessels to your government. Both these options would of course include such things as training, maintenance checks, et cetera.

“However, I think overall the best option would be to allow our naval design companies access to your navy so they can custom build warships compatible with your Russian-based systems. Unfortunately for you, our ships are entirely incompatible with such systems and to burden you with large numbers of ex-Royal Navy ships would likely be too much of a strain on your naval infrastructure.

"I complete understand what your saying on this matter, Prime Minister. I belive it would be best for our nations, to allow your naval design companies acess to our navy, so that we can get the ships we need for the future of the People's Navy."reply President Hu Jintāo

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ooc: i saw, but I don't think I'll be able to get a decent response to you until... say Saturday or so, busy tomorrow with plans. But I didn't forget...