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Touzen · Jun 7, 2019

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THE EAGLE POST
Touyou's Engels Newspaper of Record

ANTI-STATE IS READY TO MAKE MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABLE TO LONG SEA AUTHORITY AHEAD OF SUMMIT

THE Long Sea Crisis, started by the reckless killing of Pohjanmaan Free Navy sailors at the hands of Aurarian forces in the wake of the piracy plot to strangle free access to the Long Sea, continues to be the number one concern for world security. Even though war has been averted for now after Aurarian acceptance of the instruments of peace issued by Dictator Hayabusa and the signaling of good will and ability to compromise of the post-delegationist alliance by the temporary withdrawal of military assets from the immediate region of the Long Sea, sent to protect free international shipping against the Auraro-Serennieren Axis, a permanent settlement of the Long Sea Crisis will be paramount to safeguard the rights of men, and peace, in one of the most important waterways of the planet.

In accordance with Hayabusa’s memorandum accepted by the Aurarian government, the next step in the peace process will be a conference between the would-be belligerent parties and relevant third parties to establish the Long Sea Authority as an independent international body tasked with regulating the affairs of the Long Sea and guaranteeing free access to it for all, regardless of origin or affiliation, states or anti-states. And while the piracy plot has been exposed as a dangerous narrative designed to prevent legitimate activities in the Long Sea, the preceding events have shown that there is indeed a need for a robust security regime to stabilize the Long Sea, if for other reasons entirely. Issues of compensation and investigation, already previously agreed upon, will also have to be considered at the summit.

Sources from within the Office of Revolutionary Defense and Foreign Affairs have indicated that they would be prepared to participate actively in the new Long Sea security framework, preparing to concede operational co-usage of Anti-State military facilities in the Hamar Sea by forces involved in Long Sea safekeeping. “We expect to play a primary role in the Authority, the national interest mandates it after these recent threats against the existential interests of the Anti-State. The key fact to be established here is guaranteed security and a final settlement of these issues, and if that means closer cooperation with those whom we entertain strenuous relations with at best, it is a step we are willing to take”, a source from within the Office stated.

With the summit to establish the Authority to be be hosted in Kashtan in the near future, peace will hopefully be put on a lasting foundation.

Touzen · Jun 24, 2019

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THE EAGLE POST
Touyou's Engels Newspaper of Record

SANCTIONS ON CROTOBALTISLAVONIA TO EXPIRE

A NUMBER of stipulations of the existing sanctions regime against the Free Canton of Crotobaltislavonia are set to expire after the Central Opera announced that it would not renew them. The move comes after months of the Free Canton seeking detente with its immediate neighbors, especially the Grand Duchy of Lars, with which the Anti-State enjoys a strategic partnership.

In particular, certain bans on trading with Crotobaltislavonia as well as travel bans on government-aligned persons not charged with war crimes are poised to be lifted. Anti-State sanctions on Crotobaltislavonia have always been less severe than on Serenierre and other state actors charged with severe human rights violations, but will now essentially be restricted to a few individuals, most of them not even associated with the current regime in the Slavian country at all. With trade with Lars already being one of the most profitable routes of business from the post-delegationist territories to extrafree territory, the Free Canton is set to profit from the expected flow of goods from the neighboring country, already having a robust infrastructure for trade with Touyou in place.

While the official announcement of the expiration of sanctions did not go into details, it is widely accepted that the internal discussion within the Hayabusa administration hang in the balance regarding the issue, and that the recent public rebuking of membership in the Rurikgrad Pact and failed Kadikistani overtures of reasserting dominance over its erstwhile puppet regime by Prime Minister Sobel tipped the scale in favor of lifting sanctions to award reform-minded members of the government in Banja Luka.

With the Corridor of Tyranny disintegrating and war in Gouw Marken severing the tendrils of red dominance, it appears as if freedom is on the resurgence, built on the prosperous foundation of Long Sea security, political independence for Gallo-Germania and Slavia and determined posturing against communist aggression. These are results that have, in no uncertain terms, been affected by the most important sanctions regime in modern times, the Anti-State having propelled the course of history towards its desired conclusion.

Touzen · Jul 10, 2019

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THE EAGLE POST
Touyou's Engels Newspaper of Record

ANTI-STATE, LARS SIGN JOINT SECURITY AGREEMENT

IN a stunning move, the Grand Duchy of Lars and the Anti-State have signed a comprehensive Joint Security Agreement which involves the establishment of a Strategic Sky Command airbase on Larsian soil, the creation of a fund for the support of Larsian democracy as well as the establishment of a permanent direct line of communication between the government of the Grand Duchy and the Central Opera, seat of the Dictator. As part of the Joint Security Agreement, the Anti-State also will be establishing a formal joint defense protocol with the statist democracy.

The move comes after increased cooperation between the Retalian Sea state and the Anti-State since the beginning of the year, when upon the order of Dictator Hayabusa radar systems and later missile defense systems were delivered to fortify Lars against the threat of a feared bomber development program in neighboring Crotobaltislavonia. While detente with the Germanian republic under the impression of the post-delegationist commitment to Lars has lead to an improvement in the security situation in the last few weeks, with economic cooperation agreements between the two countries continuing to build peaceful links of cooperation, the continued strategic challenges to democratic states in the Long Sea posed by the communist powers of the West and East continues to be a security concern for the free world. Already analysts are worrying what the long term consequences of the public humiliation of Ivar by Banja Luka, partially emancipating itself by rejecting membership in the Rurikgrad Pact, will be.

"Signing the Joint Security Agreement with the Grand Duchy is part of our continued commitment to the protection of democracy in the Long Sea and across the globe. The Anti-State, as the heartland of democracy and the vanguard of popular sovereignty against despotism, has a responsibility to protect, because it is uniquely positioned to do so. While we aware of and accepting our responsibility towards the delegationist democracies of the world, our goal is not conflict. Anti-State policy is always the preservation of peace threatened by state actors, such as it is threatened today by Kadikistani-Ostmarkian altering of the military status quo in eastern Germania, destabilizing the region in times of heightened tensions. Whereas these and other actors are recklessly endangering the lifeline of global commerce, Lars and Shinkyô aim to preserve the peace we are enjoying at the moment, while being ready to defend it against state actors or unions of actors threatening it", Officer of Revolutionary Defense and State Relations Shigeru Kato stated upon the presentation of the agreement.

Representatives of the councils welcomed the move that will be expanding the existing anti-statist security umbrella in Pohjanmaa, Aresura, the Greater Long Sea and the Silk Lines. A group of representatives from the Jurchen and White Slavian councils urged caution against what they perceive as dangerous foreign entanglement, but fell short of voicing opposition to the deal, instead suggesting that they would closely monitor it and put it's worth to the liberated territories under review in a few months' time.

Gunnland · Jul 11, 2019

Officium Legati + Regnum Marpesiae

Inviting external military assets from beyond Gallo-Germania onto the continent, especially from states with an aggressive foreign policy, is a dangerous move from the perspective of the security of the region, especially as the Burgundian theater is destabilized.

The Kingdom of Gunnland views the Grand Duchy of Lars as a partner, but hostility to the claims of the Holy Tiburian Empire, and now this drastic security realignment, are causes of great concern in the North.

A. G. MacPherson
Foreign Secretary

Pelasgia · Jul 11, 2019

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Pelasgian Empire
Throne Council of Pelasgia
Secretariat of External Affairs

ΑΣ 3478/2019 | Δημόσιον | Κανονικόν
Propontis, 11 July 2019

To whom it may concern,

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considers this military deployment by the so-called "Anti-State" of Touzen into yet another region which has little relation to its own to be a further sign of aggressive expansionism that is wholly inconsistent with the spirit of multilateralism and diplomacy. We find Lars' invitation of such malignant forces into the region to be extremely negligent and short-sighted. The Larsians might find that, out of irrational fear of one oppressor, they have invited another into their own home. We will have to reconsider our own strategic options and relations in the region, in light of this development.

Signed and sealed,

Emmanouīl Avgīros
Secretary of External Affairs
Knight of the Order of Saint Andrew
Senator ex officio

Touzen · Aug 3, 2019

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They Hate Our Freedom
by Mori Ayumu (森歩夢)

Touzen. Utter this word among polite company in vast swathes of the Old World, and you will be met with a reaction that might go something like this: Horror. Disgust. Contempt. Finally, anger.

This is no coincidence. That it is this way shows that, if anything, we are on the right path. Our society and all the many blessings that we have fought for with sweat, blood and tears, stands for everything they hate, it is a constant siren call that reminds them of the temporary nature of what they perceive to be immaculate power set into stone for a hundred generations to come. A siren that is an alluring signal to those not yet free.

Post-delegationist democracy and the family of republics it has birthed have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Post-delegationism has guaranteed unprecedentedly vast natural human rights to all under its wings, freed tens of thousands from the abject cruelty that is the yoke of slavery that rules supreme in the dominions of Engellexic 'culture', given honest work and the ability to govern themselves - to become masters of their own affairs - to people previously devastated by war and disease, left for dead in the gutters by fatally tumbling empires.

The law rules supreme in our lands. Every man or woman is guaranteed fair trial by a jury of their peers, regardless of their creed, ethnicity or other factors. Every child has a right to education, not a right to die in a mine or be crippled in a factory hall. A man speaks his conscience however he pleases, his words censored, banned and condemned in other parts of the world.

No crowned potentates, invoking the legacy of warlords a thousand years back, rule in our lands. Every man is called to contribute to his government and vote, or if he wishes, to endorse others to vote on his behalf, and withdraw this endorsement at any moment in time.

Where they send their sons to die in wars in far away countries for abstract notions of honor and Empire, every Touzen man that has died in service of his revolution has done so voluntarily, not as a conscript of suited men with stone-faced smiles, but as a free man in defense of his fellow men, invoking these old words that still resonate with us today - "As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free."

They hate Touzen, and they hate democracy, because of everything these things represent. It does not sit right with them that man would be masterless. Let the gerontocrats of the previous world hate and froth at their mouths, as long as they fear us. They would be well advised to.

Touzen · Aug 5, 2019

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Empire forces White Slavians to face Imperial Legacy
by Slavoj Čarapić

In these hours, electors of a group of conservative Tiburan Catholic nations will appoint the first Tiburan Emperor to be bestowed with that title in hundreds of years, invoking a legacy that already is under threat before being fully reborn, with forces from Westernesse invading Imperial soil in the former center of Gallian geopolitics, now a rapidly collapsing failed state, Bourgogne.

While Western Empire is being reborn and Southern Empire abolished, people in the Far East have suddenly been forced to address their own imperial legacy. The White Slavians, monarchist hideouts (or rather, their descendants) fleeing from Leninov's revolution that shook the world, have been made painfully aware of the success of the western schismatics to seat an Emperor, while after a hundred years in the steppe, Empire seems more unlikely than ever for those that followed the bravado of the likes of Elben-Neubach into a new life to the East.

White Slavians were once known for their fierce devotion to monarchism - indeed, the detailed plans of their political leadership as late as the 1960s to mount invasions into Socialist Kadikistan, the gravedigger of what they considered to be their home, are legendary. So are the assassination plots against their leadership by Ivar.

Yet, the White Slavians are a double anachronism. They refuse to yield to socialist Ivar, and by their very nature, they defy the Tsardom preceding it. The Empire they claim allegiance to died well over 200 years ago in 1789, when the Greater Slavian Empire was succeeded by rebellious nobles carving out their own imperial legacy to birth Kadikistan as an idea as we know it today. White Slavian identity was an ultra-conservative response to the rise of Leninovism in the frontier settlements, culturally, ideologically and economically detached from the western heartland. It was the romantic response of the Right towards the crushingly realistic power fielded by the Left. Compartmentalized blame was put squarely on the 'weak, degenerate' Tsars. White Slavian identity was attractive to those that never had a true home in the old Empire, did not see a home for themselves in the emerging New Order, and for other opportunists, reactionaries with a midlife crisis and the religiously disillusioned.

Today they still hide out in the remote outer areas of the Anti-State, in one of the most bizarre twists probably known to modern history, revering dead monarchs as saints of an Empire in waiting, regularly pushing monarchist and other eclectic platforms onto the political stage - they do, strangely enough, partake in the political processes of post-delegationism, and with disproportionate influence as the success of the anti-abortion campaign has shown. The question of Empire is an urgent one emerging in the zines and cafes of an all but gone Sarmatian past. Indeed, some of these thinkers have been calling for the coronation of an own Emperor, Boganovic or not, and to launch an assault - certainly, the Councils of the North dominated by the White Slavians have formidable military assets available to them, and enjoy warm relations with Strategic Sky Command of Touzen's Hayabusa. The notion is only mostly harebrained.

Yet, for all that talk, time has not stood still even in the steppes. A century on, the youth is increasingly interested in more mundane matters than what brought their great-grandparents here - education, jobs, a house for themselves, perhaps. And is their homeland really that? For almost all that are alive, Central Touyou has been the only home they have ever known, and the institutions of post-delegationist democracy the only ones they have experienced - to trade stability and mature institutions for an unknown future under a divinely ordained hereditary head of state is a hard sell for sure. Shinkyô, with its modern literature scene, its boulevards and alluring career prospects, presents a point of orientation with which 18th century paintings of an Ivar long gone have a hard time competing.

For Slavian Imperialists, this might be the last decade where they stand a chance to make their mark, before their children integrate entirely into the multi-ethnic kaleidoscope Touzen has kept together after the fall of the East's own Eternal Empire. When they do, Slavian identity is sure to disappear. Tiburan coronation is a watershed moment.

Quo vadis, Slavia?

Touzen · Aug 13, 2019

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THE EAGLE POST
Touyou's Engels Newspaper of Record

FREEDMEN CLUB CALLS ON DICTATOR TO CURTAIL EXPANSION OF SLAVERY INTO BURGUNDY

“This club believes this to be a moral, a spiritual imperative, which we implore Dictator Hayabusa to implement: That the expansion of the peculiar institution of the Human Commodity System, of slavery, into Burgundy must not be permitted.”

It was a short statement that Representative Anthony Southborn read out on behalf of the Freedmen Club, but it carried all the gravitas expected of a statement by one of the oldest political clubs in the Anti-State, presented by a man many have come to see as the very face of Abolitionism itself.

Having been born in Elephant and Castle, indentured, enslaved, branded and escaped, Representative Southborn is one of small, but influential number of Freedmen in Anti-State politics, whose first hand experiences of the conditions of slavery has earned them considerable respect with their freeborn peers. Rarely has a man spoken out against the Freedmen Club without losing his Representative status shortly thereafter.

The Freedmen Club is raising the issue after it is becoming increasingly apparent that Domain forces operating in Burgundy will be seeking to set up a government modeled on the Engellkin political systems in Ouistreham, of which the institutionalized indentured servitude known as the Human Commodity System is an uniting factor. “Engell culture is slavery plus something else. But first and foremost, it is slavery”, is one of Delegate Southborn’s most famous, if contentious, quotes that has in the past earned him charges of racism by defenders of the institution abroad.

“We respect and appreciate the input given by the Freedmen Club, one of the Free East’s preeminent moral compasses. The Dictator’s administration has been, as evidenced by the sanctions decreed by him in the beginning of the year, and continues to be opposed to the expansion of the Human Commodity System. He is a staunch abolitionist, a position he will be sure to emphasize with Domain representatives”, Officer of Revolutionary Defense and State Relations Shigeru Kato weighted in on the address while on his way to a working visit in Kashtan.

Touzen · Aug 19, 2019

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THE EAGLE POST
Touyou Engels Newspaper of Record

BREAKTHROUGH IN KASHTAN SUMMIT SECURES LONG SEA PEACE

WAR in the Long Sea has been averted after a last minute breakthrough in the international summit held in the Kashtanese capital of Shigö. After rumors had it that the emergency conference had been called in the wake of the Aurarian attack on the Free Navy ship Espoo was close to failing over a hardline stance by Gallian forces rejecting any compromise to secure peace after their unprovoked attack, when an intervention by Dictator Hayabusa averted war in the last minute.

According to a first statement released by the Office of Revolutionary Defense and State Relations after the summit, the Shigö Accord that has been signed between the Anti-State, Pohjanmaa, Auraria and Serenierre will see Auraria pay an undisclosed sum of reparations to the families of sailors that have been killed in the attack. Furthermore, both sides have agreed to freeze any further deployments of military forces in the Long Sea that would alter the status quo and would establish the Long Sea Coordination Mechanism to update each other about the whereabouts of their respective military assets in the body of water to avoid any unintentional exchange of ordinance between the two sides. Finally, both sides agreed that they would seek to explore a second summit in the near future with other Long Sea nations, to create a lasting security framework in the area with the aim of reducing the overall number of military forces deployed in the area and safeguard international commerce and traffic.

“We have achieved victory, a victory for peace. This outcome is the result of responsible leadership and prudent statesmanship by those that I had the honor of sitting with at that table. These were tough negotiations. But as the preeminent force for peace, the Anti-State and I as its chosen representative had a duty to negotiate to the utmost of our honor and ability.

I have not made friends in Shigö. I did not set out to make friends in Shigö. But I can respect those that chose peace alongside me and our glorious revolution”, a triumphant and smiling Dictator spoke from the top of the airstair to a jubilant mass of citizens upon his return to Shinkyô.

“I now call upon all Long Sea actors to fill this peace with life. All are invited to the table to forge a truly lasting network for mutual prosperity in the Long Sea. Whether they may sit in Trier, Propontis or Ivar - we are ready to speak with all to prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again.”

With world tensions rising and new maritime conflict on the horizon over the establishment of a military exclusion zone in the Engellsea, the resolution of one of the most severe crisis in recent years by means of diplomacy could not have come at a more opportune moment, allowing the world some crucial moments of breathing space as the current war threatens to engulf ever wider parts of the world in the fires of statist savagery after it has emerged that a coalition of Gallo-Germanian nations would seek to oppose Domain forces in Burgundy through a joint military intervention.

Touzen · Sep 3, 2019

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Burgundian!

The great powers have decreed your nation, your homes, your future up for grabs in a scandalous international free for all buffet! As the Domain slaveholders ravage your lands, the fat cats and noble men cry crocodile tears over your husband, your wife, your child murdered by these animals and speak of grandiose efforts to save your people while boozing up on champagne, leaving you to rot in the trenches and bombed out cities of your homeland! The bureaucrats and the revisionists likewise seek only to swoop in and chain you to new masters once your bodies have been mangled and your homes turned into rubble! Where are their tanks, their planes, where is anything but their hollow words?

Burgundian!

The imperialist great powers do not have your best interests in mind! Only the Burgundian worker can protect the unity of the fatherland for which your sons are courageously fighting! Only a Burgundy in the strong hand of the working class, united in a righteous crusade for democracy and human rights can save you now that your old so-called friends in Trier have forsaken you. Form councils, organize in the unions, and fight for a democratic future, fight for post-delegationism!

東洋労働組合ーコンビナート主義労働者連合会
Touyou Labor Union - Combinist Workers Association

Touzen · Sep 4, 2019

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THE EAGLE POST
Touyou Engels Newspaper of Record

LIMIT THE BURGUNDIAN WAR? KATO SUGGEST INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER BAN

OFFICER Kato has suggested that the possibility of an international consensus to limit the scope of the war in Burgundy should be explored, after it has emerged that the Pillau regime of the so-called People’s Republic has begun to actively seek to recruit mercenaries to its cause against the Engell Domain intervention.

With the Pillau authorities struggling against the Domain invasion of Burgundy, many international mercenaries and other criminal elements seeking new employment after their recent return from Himyari conflicts in Loago and Cabaon have been setting their sights on escalating the conflict in Western Gallia, while potentially hundreds if not thousands more of radicalized communist extremists and foreign intelligence community members are also estimated to potentially join the war for ideological reasons, if they have not done so already.

“The risk of a further escalation of the conflict is real. An influx of further non-uniformed combatants from abroad in support of an insurrectionary force can do little but stake the fires of tension that already exist in Burgundy at the present moment. It can be hoped that the Gallo-Germanian force that is now assembling will be able to lay the foundations for a ceasefire and peace negotiations to come, and the interests of destabilizing external actors and malicious briganders counteract these attempts. The Anti-State does not condone Domain operations in Burgundy, in fact it demands an end to them. We consider Burgundy to be sovereign soil of the state known as the ‘Holy Tiburan Empire’ as far as states are concerned. But it is not in the interest of peace to allow a violent internal insurgent group with such problematic foreign entanglement to be propped up either”, Kato suggested, referring to the Burgundian People’s Republic.

The minister went on to suggest that the international community should come to an agreement to prevent the departure of mercenary forces from their countries to Burgundy, and that it should be up to the emerging Empire and forces aligned to it to restore sovereignty over its territory as the immediately most humanitarian option in the absence of a truly progressive force in the area. “It is not in the interest of anyone in Charleroi, Lars, or indeed Solis to see any of their countrymen involved in prolonging a deplorable military disaster.”

Armed groups rendering their services and militias on antistatist soil are being briefed by federal agents that the Federal Government is actively discouraging them from getting involved in the Burgundian affair, and active questioning has begun at airports of individuals suspected to take flights to Western Germania to potentially become combatants, based on their destinations, luggage contents and other undisclosed factors.

Touzen · Oct 5, 2019

LIBERTY UPDATE

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Touzen · Oct 15, 2019

LIBERTY UPDATE

Import of foodstuffs from Zhorya to increase throughout Q4 and Q1 of 2020
DDI holds joint-exercises in the Northern Canal, vowing to maintain defense readiness against enemies of freedom
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Siyang Stock Exchange reacts positively to new Sylvanian business initiatives in Southern Touyou

Touzen · Oct 16, 2019

LIBERTY UPDATE

Ministerial level talks with Aresura to resume next month for inclusion of the Occidentian Republic into the world's largest free trade zone
Office of Education and Democratic Propaganda to provide funding for teaching Touzen, the language of freedom, abroad
DDI Joint Fighter Project 2030 Report sees development on track, meeting timeline and budget expectations
The Boliaturan Steppe Owl population is recovering after conservation efforts of the last decade are bearing fruit

Touzen · Oct 17, 2019

LIBERTY UPDATE

Hayabusa confident that Constitutional Committee will present proposal by middle of November
Federal councils to deliberate constitutionality of Lanur Free State public security legislation
Germanian political refugees in Touyou reveal plans for "Radio Free Germania" broadcasts
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Touzen · Oct 26, 2019

LIBERTY UPDATE

Catholics stage demonstration with over 10,000 in attendance in Walstadt to demand ban on abortions
Kashtanese drug smuggling in the Lanur Sea will be "handed decisively", administration promises
Office of State Relations calls upon "human rights of all, including those of Jewish faith" to be respected
"Long Sea Piracy" genre of fiction becoming popular, depicting an alternative timeline where the Long Sea is dominated by Pelasgian and Aurarian pirates

Touzen · Nov 5, 2019

LIBERTY UPDATE

DDI Secretary Antonio Aresu: "Responsibility to protect" remains at the core of DDI's values-based foreign policy
Siyang Stock Market opens optimistically amidst news of further lifting of trade barriers on regional products within the common market
Further settlement plans within the Exclusion Zone for 2022, 2023 announced
"Silk Tunnel - Visions of the Year 3000" exhibition begins in Shinkyô to much public interest

Touzen · Jan 26, 2020

Touzen Times
The Free East's oldest Foreign Language Newspaper Since 1850

DDI meets in Aresura for 2020 summit; talks global policy

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Axisflos 2020 has been anticipated by the security community as an important indicator about where the alliance sees itself going in the new decade now opening up. With new threats and challenges in a changing international system, it will be up to the Grande Madame of Democracy to make the case for its continuing relevance in the 21st Century.

Manholes are welded shut. Large parts of the city core are unavailable to anyone except those that can produce a certificate of residence. Armed men with submachine guns are patrolling the streets of Axiflos, unusually mild winter weather having beckoned many local residents to the streets for a stroll and a curious inspection of the unusual disruptions to the ordinarily easy-going life of the island inhabitants.

But a Democratic Defense Initiative summit is always out of the ordinary, especially so this time, with large swarms of reporters and security analysts on the scene to participate in and report on a week of debates around shared security, global responsibility and the role of democracy itself in the century that is now entering its third decade.

The at first glance surprising selection of the capital of the Republic of Aresura to host the summit of Europe's oldest democratic alliance, if you are to believe insiders, was the first signal of many to come from the summit: That as much as DDI has often in the past been seen as an affair primarily between the 'Big Three' of Shinkyô, Charleroi and Haaga, the alliance seeks to emphasize the equal footing of all members - a hard sell when Touzen and Sylvania already contribute the vast majority of defense funding of the alliance. Spending commitments and a more equal distribution of responsibilities are sure to be on the agenda for the Hayabusa administration. The Touzen leader has gone on record that he would like to see excess costs be cut by creating greater synergies between the contracting parties, including but not limited to elimination of parallel developments of weapon systems with equivalent tactical roles, standardization of small arms calibers and comparable service personnel rank structures, all topics that are sure to be matters of intensive debates.

There are not only political considerations but also, as always, economic ones: It would not be the first time in history that a move that would objectively make military sense would never see fruition because industries in important election battlegrounds might have to bear the larger share of the implications of cutting down on excess infrastructure.

For now though the Three Liberties, the traditional circle and stars banner of Europe’s oldest democracies, flutter lazily in the midday sun in front of the Alexis Congress Center. It won't be until Wednesday that these and other topics will be debated here - under the watchful eyes of the world no doubt.

Touzen · Apr 22, 2020

Touzen Times
The Free East's oldest Foreign Language Newspaper Since 1850

Hayabusa signs Decree on the Elimination of Gangsterism and Plutocracy

Dictator Hayabusa continues his anti-corruption campaign to rebuild the institutions of popular government as he hints at eventual end of state of emergency.

In a previously announced move, Dictator Hayabusa has today signed the Dictatorial Decree on the Elimination of Gangsterism and Plutocracy, aimed at preventing the return to active politics of convicted crime syndicate leaders, former representatives to the dissolved All Citizens' Congress, lobbyists and others who have been identified at being detrimental to the return of constitutional governance to the Anti-State and hostile in intention towards the constitutional, democratic government currently led by Dictator Hayabusa. Among other provisions, the Decree bans aforementioned groups from either running or being appointed to office, or to engage in their previous business activities if they have been determined by the democratic justice system to have engaged in conspiracy to commit harm against the people of Touyou.

All in all, the first wave of individuals barred from political activity targets some 12,500 individuals that have either been identified as previously having held office in the illegal delegationist institutions established in the past few decades, or have already been convicted of having engaged in racketeering, market manipulation and party-like behavior. Many more are expected to eventually be barred as cases pending in the justice system come to conclusion and the Commission for Reconciliation and Historical Assessment, installed by the Dictator to look back into previous decades to make informed recommendations how to prevent a second descend into delegationism, publishes its recommendations to the Dictator and the citizens.

After a large network of pro-cartel groups connecting organized petty crime and criminal industrialism was broken up this February, operating with impunity even almost three years after Dictator Hayabusa had taken power, calls for a stronger handling of those committed to to the bad old ways had emerged within the councils. Attempts by lobbyist groups to threaten journalists and sabotage the free press have since also been uncovered, emphasizing the continued risk posed by organized groups hostile to our Republic. It is expected for these reasons that the decree will face no difficulties when it will eventually have to be confirmed within the committees of the councils themselves. Conservative councils have also already signaled ascendance to the actions taken.

As Citizens' Militia are sweeping the countryside for remaining traces of parasitic capitalism, Dictator Hayabusa after signing the deal emphasized in the Central Opera, the seat of his government:

"The measures now taken are an important step towards the restoration of the normalcy we strive for. Our democracy is strong, our commitment to the free market of working people is strong, and we must be conscientious about any activities that would endanger these institutions. The sole authority in the Anti-State remains vested in the citizenry, represented in the councils."

While Hayabusa fell short of announcing a roadmap towards what he had previously termed 'normalization', the end of the state of emergency, it was a nod towards those that were waiting for a stronger commitment towards the eventual end of revolutionary measures meant to safeguard democracy, decried as 'authoritarian' by the Dictator's opponents. The Dictator had repeatedly announced that his mission was to restore the Anti-State to its original constitutional foundation and to establish strong safeguards against the enemies of democracy, both foreign and domestic.

Touzen · Apr 29, 2020

Touzen Times
The Free East's oldest Foreign Language Newspaper Since 1850

Kato adds intelligence responsibilities to portfolio as cabinet reshuffle rumors fall flat

Officer of Revolutionary Defense and State Relations Kato will take on a double role in the cabinet after having been announced as the first holder of the newly created cabinet-level Joint Intelligence Director position centralizing the command structure for all Anti-State foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. The announcement comes after rumors in recent days that had indicated a larger restructuring of the cabinet was imminent as part of an overall reassessment of strategic priorities.

The Central Opera announced that effective immediately, Officer of Revolutionary Defense and State Relations Shigeru Kato would also assume direct oversight over all of the Anti-State's intelligence agencies in the form of a newly created Joint Intelligence Director position. Kato, who is a career diplomat with over 20 years of service in various branches of the Anti-State's bureaucracy and one of the few people in Hayabusa's inner circle to have held power before "No Day" that ended the era of the All Citizens' Congress, will thus assume direct control over a vast network of tens of thousands of agents, coordinating the efforts of agencies such as the Democratic Central Defense Council, the Bureau for the Suppression of Counter-Revolutionary Activities and Global Signals Assessment. Centralized oversight over the multitude of agencies is unprecedented in the history of the Anti-State, which has historically had its multitude of service branches compete for influence and funding in the spirit of decentralized governance.

Yet while the move itself is already noteworthy for signaling a potential pivot towards greater government centralization, a notion historically frowned upon by the political establishment, and cutting of bureaucratic red tape, what is equally if not more noteworthy is that rumors regarding a larger reshuffle that was predicted to see Colleague Kato's retirement, originating from sources that have been considered extremely reliable in the past, have not been realized.

At this point we can only speculate about what potentially caused a 180 degrees change in the Central Opera's strategy in the past days, but it does not seem unlikely that a rumored attempt by Hayabusa to realign the Anti-States foreign policy towards a more cooperative model has been discarded. Indeed, with Kato remaining at the head of the Office of Revolutionary Defense and State Relations, Hayabusa has confirmed a man in office who stands for the hawkish faction of the new political class that is emerging under Hayabusa, having presided over Anti-State foreign policy during prior Long Sea crises. Recent developments around the formation of the Claret Sea Council are said to have deeply disturbed Dictator Hayabusa, who was allegedly prepared to dismiss Kato and seek agreements with current enemies to focus on further domestic reform projects in the wake of the uncovered plutocratic conspiracy.

Dismissing Kato and replacing him with centrists and doves like Miyamoto and Takeda, potentially even splitting the defense and diplomacy resorts between them to emphasize a new understanding of Anti-State foreign policy that would not see military means as a natural extension of diplomacy, would have been a bold move that would surely have cost Hayabusa significant political capital among a portion of his supporters. Some even went so far as to suggest that Hayabusa had been willing to recognize the "state-like nature" of the Anti-State in an unprecedented step that would have opened the federal government to diplomatic options currently denied to it for ideological reasons, while calling into question core tenets of Anti-State political identity.

Whatever the truth is, Kato remains in power, more secure than ever before, and it appears that the Hayabusa administration's brief flirt with a more conciliatory approach towards its enemies is destined to remain a historical footnote. The Dictator is scheduled to meet with Continental Navy leaders and other military representatives later today. Kato will preside over the meeting.

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