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| _{YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister} | “Japan should set a target to increase investments to US $ 1.8 Billion in Brazil by 2026, together with an increase in the number of companies. In trade, we can increase it to US $ 10-11 Billion.”

Paramountica wrote:

May 2024
_{Wasn’t Just Chevron & Texaco}

EN APPOARCH TO RIYHAD — MORNING
_{STATE DEPARTMENT C-46 AIRCRAFT}

| The C-46s were defintantly larger than the aged C-32, modified Boeing 757s to the modified Boeing 767s fleet now in service to transport the Vice President, Secretary of State and at times, other members of the Cabinet — otherwise known as the C-46s — — Enroute from a late night departure timeframe from Joint Andrews A.F.B., Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN got enough rest. There weren’t any bedding accommodations on the C-46s like there were on the larger VC-25s, modified Boeing 747s otherwise known as Air Force One, but the seating was comfortable enough. Half conference room, half standard business class seating. |

| As BLINKEN walked across the aircraft’s main hallway corridor with a cup of coffee in hand, NED PRICE, Spokesperson to the State Department soon caught up with him. |

| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “Secretary.”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “Ned, you caught me naked.”


| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “I’m sorry, sir?—”

| BLINKEN wasn’t, but he didn’t have a suit coat on, just a slacks, a blue collared shirt and tie. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “—Don’t have a coat on.”

| PRICE got the joke, but laughed half-nervously anyway as he kept his pace up with BLINKEN. |

| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “I wanted to talk to you—

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “—Before I had coffee, but go on.”

| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “Right, well Mr. Secretary, there’s a reporter—”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “Always a reporter.”

| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “Yeah haha, well they intend to draft this trip as nothing more than other exercises of quote ‘Paramerica’s oil ambitions’ and—”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “—That’ll be a method House Republicans will use to discredit the President’s green energy agenda . . . Didn’t they get the memo from that Tokyo [climate change] Summit back in March?”

| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “Apparently not, but nevertheless the Saudis weren’t too keen on green policy to begin with and—”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “—Why are you telling me this? Let them write their piece, doesn’t make much of a difference nor does it—”

| PRICE stops walking alongside, causing BLINKEN to halt too and look. |

| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “They’re on board, Mr. Secretary.”

_{PRESS CORE SEATING, EN ROUTE}

| The PRESS CORE sudden stands, as BLINKEN walks in, who waves them down with a smirk. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “Keep your seats, please keep your seats. I can assure you, I’m not Joe [Biden].”

| BLINKEN makes his way to towards a row back reporter, who was focused typing away on her laptop. PRICE follows soon behind, addressing a few reporters’ questions of the Peninsula itinerary. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “You’re Ms. Adams, right?”

| ADAMS looks up, a reporter from the LA TIMES, she’s in her mid-30s. |

| JULIANA ADAMS, _{Press Core} | “Yes, that’s correct. Juliana Adams, La Times.”

| BLINKEN smiles a bit, still standing, leaning his elbow on the seat in front of ADAMS’. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “I’ve read your work before Ms. Adams. Quite intriguing for well, the LA Times. Orange County Republicans aren’t suppose to make it far in the Times.”

| JULIANA ADAMS, _{Press Core} | “Not all of us there are born with a desire to be an Ermanist Girl Scout there, Mr. Secretary . . . On or off the record?”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “On or off, either way is fine. Since you’re here, I wanted to ask you something . . . Mr. Price tells me here that you intend to paint this trip as a display of—?”

| JULIANA ADAMS, _{Press Core} | “President Biden’s hypocrisy.”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “You said that, not me, and why’s that?”

| ADAMS gets more comfortable, almost like a challenge. Being a conservative reporter for a liberal newspaper probably didn’t need to say more. |

| JULIANA ADAMS, _{Press Core} | “I think, if the President wants to support climate change summits and push the Paramerican people to continuously buy electric vehicles at the expense of gas stations, of whom, some people’s income depends upon, the least we could do is no longer engage in countries who’s income comes from the sale of the very thing the President is looking to do away with.”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “So you’re in favor of more E.V.s?”

| JULIANA ADAMS, _{Press Core} | “That’s besides the point Mr. Secretary, I’m not in favor of hypocrisy.”

| BLINKEN took that in for a moment, as other PRESS CORE members started to notice the exchange. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “. . . I like how you say that, I like how you wrote an editorial in the Times that explained why a border wall somehow was more humanitarian . . . I like how you appeared on OAN and did very much the same thing, and even more so, denouncing immigrant children because whom they were, and now you speak of—”

| JULIANA ADAMS, _{Press Core} | “Mr. Secretary—”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “But I won’t go into that any further, as for your intended assault over ‘hypocrisy’, to some degree yes, we do require trade with our Arab partners, and to some degree yes, it has to do with oil . . . You try comparing Saudi oil to oil drilling in the middle of the Pacific and there only won’t be enough, the quality won’t even replace the quantity.”

| ADAMS just listens. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “Over half a century ago, and nearly a century, much to your displeasure another Democrat, that great F.D.R. reached out to the Arab peoples . . . Subsequent geologic analyses showed the entire focus of world oil production and supply was shifting to the Persian Gulf. It was there, it’s in everything we need today practically . . . and while yes, automobiles only make 15% of world emissions, that 15% still matters a lot. But that was only half the story.

| A Moment. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “It was also a personal mission. FDR was also seeking to persuade King Abdul Aziz to accept 10,000 Jews in the British mandate. Stalin’s forced had just liberated Auschwitz . . . Roosevelt was unable to convince His Majesty, he instead, proposed that the Germans ought to give up some territory instead.”

| NED PRICE, _{State Spokesman} | “Mr. Secretary, we’re enroute to land within half an hour.”

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “Both the King and FDR, roughly the same age, with grave responsibilities, had to some degree physical infirmities that stricken them. The President, in a wheelchair, His Majesty walked with much pain due to wounds occurred from battles of his youth uniting the peninsula.”

| BLINKEN turns and nods to PRICE, before finishing up his point. |

| ANTONY BLINKEN, _{Secretary of State} | “FDR gifted the King his wheelchair, it wasn’t Just Chevron & Texaco, Ms. Adams.”

| BLINKEN finally smiles a bit before turning back, greeting a few of the PRESS CORE members before preparing for landing. |

RIYHAD, Alzarikstan — MORNING
_{KING KHALID INT. AIRPORT}

| The C-46 made a swift and smooth descend onto the runway, painted in the ironic Paramerican BLUE/WHITE governmental paint scheme, taxing to a pre-determined location of the airport for the official arrival of the Paramerican Secretary of State to Saudi Arabia. |

Alzarikstan

Abessinienreich wrote:

_{| Erdogan looks at the view of the glimmering Ankara skyline from the window. |}

_{| President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | "I dont want to get to close in relations with you Sisi, but perhaps you are right, we might or might not have a bigger threat, but maybe we can cool down our heat a little, after all Galla has seemed to slide with you against Saudi Arabia. I remember creating the Arab-Turkic Muslim Alliance, between Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Military cooperation, intelligence sharing, armament developments, and the security of the Middle East region, with free Trade. I dont want to break this vital alliance, most of our military buildups are against Egypt, Mr Sisi, perhaps some against Saudi Arabia as Galla sees them as a threat. So in all I propose we lower down our tense, lets just keep it cold."}

Jair Bolsonaro, 38th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil: "Mr. Prime Minister, I am so overjoyed that Japan is interested in Brazil's technology sector. As you know, we recently privatized Brazil's information technology and communications companies back in 2021. Needless to say, private companies taking over has relieved some of the burden placed on the federative government. In addition, competition has lead to a boom in the sector as well as new innovations. With Japan's possible investment, it could lead to a pumping up productivity and worker skills, encouraging technical development, generating better-paying employment and boosting local businesses in the process. As for the automobile sector, I am pleased to hear that Japan wishes to invest there too."

Jair Bolsonaro, 38th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil: "Indeed, I have one last topic in mind before we can bring this meeting to a close. A cultural exchange between our two nations would be beneficial. Perhaps a student exchange program to boost already existing ties? As you know, Brazil is home to the world's largest Japanese community outside of Japan, about 1.5 million people."

Today, Iraq has announced that it will be acquiring 4 Gowind 1000 Class Corvettes from Egypt. Originally they were made in France, but Egypt got manufacturing rights and made 2 that are currently in the Egyptian navy. The total cost is 240 million. They will be made in the Alexandria Shipyard and be delivered by 2025-6

Egypt has also bought 20 T-14 Armadas from Russia, as they are one of the best tanks in the world right now.