Negotiations

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dezer said with a smile, "The East Indies Government hasn't taken any action, and the Dutch Government is already asking the British people for help, but the British people haven't given any indication yet."

Long before the Central American operation, Australasia had already reached an agreement with the United Kingdom, securing the disposal rights for the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines.

In other words, as long as current Australasia made no statement, the British people were simply impossible to risk offending Australasia just to help the Dutch people.

After all, the Netherlands was just a small country on the doorstep of the United Kingdom, while Australasia was a steadfast overseas ally of the United Kingdom. The gap between the two was simply too vast, and the British people didn't need to hesitate at all.

Arthur nodded and instructed, "Tell the British people that Australasia will help the Dutch people stabilize order."

The Dutch East Indies erupting into a rebellion by itself could be considered the best opportunity. Such a large-scale rebellion was already something the Kingdom of the Netherlands could not resolve alone, which destined that even if Australasia didn't intervene, other countries would still step in to interfere in this rebellion.

National diplomacy was just that cruel. To avoid being coveted by other countries, a nation had to constantly make itself stronger at every moment.

Even in later generations, it remained the same. Strictly speaking, there was never a single moment of peace; it was merely a matter of mutual compromise among powerful nations.

As for those small and medium-sized nations, whether they had peace or not was just a single sentence for the powerful nations.

The current Dutch East Indies could roughly be divided into three factions: the colonial government representing the Kingdom