Was he angry?
But what had he meant by that? The deputy director of the Singapore Police Station, Officer Kane, and the others were especially baffled.
They understood the latter half of his statement perfectly well. He was preparing to go after the United States again.
Would the people in the White House back down in the face of Shen Bing's threat?
Even Kane couldn't say for sure. He hadn't come here on orders from the White House, either. He had other reasons.
What confused them even more was the first half of Shen Bing's statement. What the hell was the Kra Isthmus?
While they were puzzling over it, two other men were utterly horrified.
They were Wang Zhaolong, the Secretary of Commerce, and Liang Qiusheng, the Commissioner of Customs.
Other people might not know what the Kra Isthmus was, but how could they not?
In a sense, the Kra Isthmus was Singapore's nightmare.
Everyone knew that Singapore owed its achievements and international standing to its geographical position. Controlling the Strait of Malacca was practically a license to print money!
But that geographical advantage wasn't immutable. As the Strait of Malacca grew increasingly important, people also grew concerned about its security. Some experts had proposed digging a canal through neighboring Thailand to connect the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
The ideal site for this canal was a narrow strip of land within Thailand's Chumphon Province and Ranong Province. That strip of land was called the Kra Isthmus.
It was the narrowest part of the northern Malay Peninsula, just 56 kilometers wide. It connected to the Indochinese Peninsula in the north and the Malay Peninsula in the south. The roughly 400-kilometer stretch south of the isthmus was all Thai territory, measuring just over 50 kilometers at its narrowest and about