"Perhaps, you may be dissatisfied with our conservative strategic decision back then. To put it bluntly, our choice to defend our homeland indeed allowed the entire Pacific campaign to collapse. The fall of many Pacific island countries is related to this. Many people think that if we had fought hard back then, the situation might be much better now. I don't deny that there is indeed such a possibility...."
Now over seventy, Prime Minister Song Siyuan has reappeared on the television screen.
This is not a national speech, but an internal briefing for various administrative, judicial, and military institutions of the Eastern Country.
Lu Ping'an had personally met this old man... and was somewhat surprised by the extent of his aging, the man sitting in the wheelchair with an IV drip, his lifeforce fragile and possibly fading at any moment.
