Yu Dynasty Yingdala (4338-4636)

[Wu Han]

Yuán Cháo Meets Wu Hán's Challenge
National Chairman Yuán Cháo appears in Hazhou, Shu
HAZHOU, SHU - 17 October, 4257

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National Chairman of the National Democrats Addresses Crowd in Lingmei Square, Hazhou, Shu

Only two days following Lotus Party Chairman Wu Hán's scathing rebuke of Wu Hán's comments about him in Hazhou, Yuán Cháo has used ties within the business and political community in Hazhou to hold an emergency campaign event, in which he turned his message of internationalism to one more representative to the Shu region. Present in attendance were also local Jienist clerics, monks, and nuns who subscribe to a more traditional view of Jienism than the progressive clergy who have bolstered and largely served the agenda of the social-democratic and pacifist Lotus Party. As well, many local business leaders, including Cheng Akihi (the Chief Executive Officer of CommerceShēngēn, a large online stock-trading firm), and Manny Cheung (CEO of Cheung Chemicals, a major chemical manufacturing firm). In addition, representatives of several more liberal unions were in attendance.

Yuán Cháo, dressed crisply in a grey suit and green silk tie, gave the following statements:

As a businessman, a veteran, and a civic leader I am deeply offended by Mr. Wu's remarks about me, which imply that I am out of touch with Yingdala's workers. This is simply not true. As President of the Yingdala Aerospace and Marine Munitions Association, I lobbied successfully with the government to keep munitions factories open, to allow us to provide greater wages, and to improve the quality, cleanliness, and efficiency of technological development. Mr. Wu has never had to lobby the government as a person in the private sector in his life. He does not know how the situation, if anything, has improved. As Chief Minister, I will help Shu's industry grow to new heights! We will participate in trade deals that will enrich our economy and improve the lives of many of Hanzhou's citizens. There is opportunity here: but Mr. Wu thinks that we need to force industry that is failing. We must fight for the jobs we have and swiftly replace the ones that are dying. We will look to Luthori, Istalia, and our neighbors in the region to build up our industry. We will make trade flow more freely within the spheres of Dovani and Seleya. We will incubate strong, affordable higher education and fund incubators to give young entrepreneurs a fair shake.

Later, Mr. Yuán made appeals to patriotism and national duty:

We will grow as a country. Yingdala will once again become one of the most shiningly brilliant nations under the sun. We shall create a new Indralan Empire, based upon democracy, republicanism, equality, and fairness of opportunity for all here and all who come to these shores. We will once again become a power on the Terran stage, and we will use that position for good. My opponents, largely, with the exception of the Nationalists, want to make us a smaller people: not a larger one. Thank you.

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Originally posted by theoriginaltrotka on 17 August 2017.