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Chapter 397 Win-win! Win-win!
After Chen Yuanguang's interview was broadcast, China released more rescue footage. Previously, most of the rescue broadcasts were conducted by Chinese aerospace experts sitting in the studio and narrating to the audience, interspersed with on-site footage transmitted back by the Changkong spacecraft.

On the second day, the rescue images released by China on social media were clearer and more specific.

Like in deep space, two man-made spacecraft of similar size are connected together by a thin rope in the universe, and a group of people are struggling to move towards the Changkong along the rope, wearing slightly bloated space suits. If you ignore the non-existence of gravity and the ground, this picture is very much like humans climbing Mount Everest.

China's rescue efforts were so eye-catching and attracted so much attention around the world that no one cared about what the American astronauts on the moon did.

Even the mainstream media controlled by America still devotes the most important space to America's return to the moon project, and touts its significance to mankind.

But whether in China or overseas, the rescue of the International Space Station still received the most attention, the most broadcasts and the greatest popularity.

"After watching the video, I felt like crying. I wasn't looking at it from the perspective of humanity being saved or humans working together to escape disaster in the space age, but from the perspective of the Chinese people. This scene made me feel deeply moved.

At first I couldn't explain the inner logic of this feeling, or where it came from. It seemed to appear suddenly in my subconscious.

After thinking for a while, I realized that I wanted to cry because for a long time in the past, the protagonists of the topic of salvation were always Americans, whether in the real world or in movies. It was not until recent years that Chinese people began to save the world in our film and television works.

China is not only an inferior entity in international public opinion, but even in film and television works, if you dare to shoot a scene where Chinese people save the world, you will be criticized by some people. Even if the box office is good, just slapping you with a wolf warrior hat is like knocking you into the dust.

I have always been worried that when China becomes the loser in this competition, all of its achievements and contributions will be ignored or even stigmatized.

During the Chernobyl accident, many Russians paid the price of their lives in order to prevent further leakage of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. When the predecessor of the Great Russian collapsed, Chernobyl was completely stigmatized, and even American people made a documentary to try to put the final nail in the coffin.

The Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, which was handled much worse than the Chernobyl accident, was handled simply because they and America were in the same camp. Even though the consequences of the accident had to be borne by the entire earth, Japan is still a civilized society and the light of East Asia.

This kind of environment made me sincerely moved by the scene in the real world where Chinese people save the world. The International Space Station has nothing to do with us. It was an accident caused by themselves, and in the end it was Chinese astronauts and Chinese technological products that saved the world.

More importantly, I realized that China will not lose in this competition. We will gradually regain the lost power and the lost high ground in public opinion. I think I was deeply moved by such a beautiful ending. "

This is the comment with the highest number of likes under the rescue video released by CCTV on Bilibili. Although the entire comment is very long and you have to click to expand it to read the full text, many people have read it.

In this age of general impatience, texts with a little depth cannot be spread, which is the fundamental reason why refuting rumors is much more difficult than spreading them.

This long message stood out among the emotional comments, which shows that it really touched people's hearts.

"Really? The answer from the original poster reminded me of a poem by Yu Guangzhong. Although the original meaning of the poem is not very appropriate here, if I just extract a paragraph from it and interpret it from a different angle, I personally think it fits the current situation very well:
'Did you hear that, ding ding ding?

This annoying tone is unbearable
Unless all the winds change direction
The bells were taken down, the towers were knocked down.

For America, the only way to make the world hear no sound from China is to change the direction of all winds, take down all bells, and knock down all towers.

But can they do it? Now the wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the ringing sound is increasing from China to all over the world, and as for the tower, there is no need to say more. "

In addition, as the most influential Chinese in the world, Chen Yuanguang's reputation far exceeds that of Jack Ma in the past.

In a sense, Jack Ma is a product of the Western media's hype. Alibaba has a large amount of foreign capital behind it. Later, Ant was forcibly separated from Alibaba, and the profits were not distributed to the foreign capital behind Alibaba. Jack Ma's popularity around the world has dropped almost visibly.

Including in the Bund incident, foreign media generally gloated over the misfortune. If Jack Ma had not split up Ant, foreign media would definitely have spoken for him. Neutrality is also an attitude in many cases.

Chen Yuanguang, while being selectively ignored by foreign media, broke through the circle with the help of self-media and was regarded as the light of Asia by the people in Asia.

The influence of Asia's Light has long spread across the globe. From Tiktok to Youtube to podcasts, reports about Chen Yuanguang and Guangjia Aerospace can be seen everywhere on all content self-media.

This time is no exception.

After Chen Yuanguang's interview video was uploaded to YouTube, the number of views quickly exceeded one million.

Many professional self-media bloggers in the aerospace field made videos based on Chen Yuanguang’s interpretation.

Clips of the interview were posted all over Twitter.

And one of the aerospace bloggers’ video was forwarded by Musk:
"I think Wright attributes the problem to NASA's continued use of outdated technology, using KERMIt instead of a new material patch kit specifically developed for the current situation, which I think makes sense, but is not entirely true.

Because in 2019, after the Soyuz leak, a pressure leak accident broke out that lasted for five years. The air leakage level in the entire Zvezda service module was higher than normal for a long time, which in turn affected the overall operation of the entire International Space Station.

At that time, NASA discovered that KERMIt had gradually become ineffective, but it continued to use KERMIt. Obviously, NASA has fully evaluated the risks of KERMIt as a material. NASA experts believe that KERMIt can still be used and will continue to be used until the international space station is retired in 2030.

Let me say here that in 2024, the expected retirement date of the International Space Station has been postponed to 2030, so NASA experts made their estimates based on 2030.

Before recording this episode, I specifically consulted my classmate at NASA, and he helped me ask the experts who participated in the KERMIt material evaluation.

Their assessment at the time unanimously agreed that KERMIt would only cause a minor regional leak and would not cause the overall collapse it is experiencing.

I investigated the manufacturer of KERMIt and found a very interesting phenomenon. KERMIt is a new material invented by DuPont Chemical in the 60s. Until the pandemic in 2020, the preparation of this material was done in America. Since 2020, DuPont has begun to increase its investment in India, and the preparation of polymer compounds including KERMIt has begun to be moved to India as a whole.

From 2024 onwards, KERMit will be manufactured in India. I seriously suspect that the real reason is that DuPont's factory in India provided substandard KERMit materials, which led to the ISS crisis this time."

Well, the blame has finally come back to India, like a boomerang of the weapon of causality.

The blogger was originally just a small blogger. There have been too many videos interpreting the crisis surrounding the International Space Station in recent days. No matter whether you are a big V or a small V, everyone is making videos. His opinions are usually seen by only a few hundred people. Now that Musk has forwarded it, hundreds of millions of people know about it.

America doesn't want to take the blame, so it's you, India, who should bear the blame. Your shoddy products caused the crisis at the International Space Station.

As for DuPont’s poor quality control and NASA’s lack of supervision, are these the problems?

Boeing did a great job, but no one punished it.

After Musk's tweet was forwarded back to China, a popular scene on the simplified Chinese Internet came up. Netizens love to make fun of Indians, which is a traditional skill.

In a sense, the ecological niche of Indians in the simplified Chinese Internet is similar to the ecological niche of rednecks in the American Internet. Indians don't even have a way to make their voices heard through voting.

"As expected, Indians are good at making things happen. America likes to move its production capacity to India and likes to invest in India. First it was the iPhone, then the valve failure of Boeing's spacecraft, and this time it was the poor quality of parts. Sooner or later, America will gradually become Indianized."

"Now comes the fun. I saw a report on the Internet about DuPont's capacity transfer. It said that the production capacity was transferred from the mainland to the Asia-Pacific region. Before the transfer, DuPont's senior management had two options, one was China and the other was India. In the end, they chose India.

At that time, I was still thinking that this was not a good thing for China. These multinational giants were increasingly considering relocating their production capacity to countries such as India and Mexico, rather than China.

Now it seems that this is not a good thing for China, and it is not a good thing for them either. It is a lose-lose situation! A lose-lose situation!"

“Who said it’s a lose-lose situation? Isn’t this a win-win situation?
As an insider in the chemical industry, I would like to say that DuPont chose to build a factory in India not only because of the White House's requirements or American's preference for overall supply chain transfer, but also for cost reasons. The cost here not only refers to labor costs, but the biggest cost should be environmental protection costs.

In China, whether you are a foreign or domestic enterprise, all chemical companies need to conduct environmental impact assessments. BASF knows this, right? The European chemical giant invested 100 billion euros in Guangdong Province to build an integrated chemical production base two years ago. It was the largest investment attraction project in Guangdong Province that year, and it still had to conduct an environmental impact assessment.

The cost of environmental protection in chemical projects is generally not less than 10% of the overall project investment.

Even if India has requirements, they are certainly not comparable to those in China. DuPont saved a lot of environmental protection costs by choosing to build a factory in India. Anyway, the Ganges doesn't care about a little more pollution.

DuPont saved costs, and China got the opportunity to advertise for China Aerospace on a global scale. Isn't this a win-win situation?

India received investment, and Chinese netizens had fun, so it was a win-win for all! It was a win-win situation. "

"Didn't Musk ask 4V's suppliers to move their production capacity out of 4V before? I strongly suggest not to move it to India. America and India are naturally complementary. The complementarity is too high. America is responsible for technology research and development and finance, while India is responsible for production. It is a perfect combination.

Like Aegis, F-35, B-2 stealth bomber, as many as you want, all of them are recommended to be produced in India! "

“So Yuanguang, what we can feel is that the space age is getting closer and closer to us, whether it’s various new types of aircraft or actual developments. We are going to build a base on the moon this year, America is also returning to the moon, and the EU’s funding for the European Space Agency is increasing every year.

Everyone has various expectations for Light Mech Aerospace, do you feel any pressure?"

"External pressure is one aspect, which is relatively small. The greater pressure comes from myself. For me, the scale of Light Armor Aerospace has been expanding. Our overall scale has exceeded 5 people. If the construction of the lunar base goes smoothly this year, our scale may exceed 2030 people in 10.

Managing so many people, providing them with relatively good treatment in the city of Shenhai, assigning them interesting work, and giving them a chance for visible advancement, these are more specific pressures.

I said in an interview a few years ago that bringing everyone the next golden age can be considered a flag, and once the flag is set, it must be completed.

This pressure is at an abstract level. I am still young and have a long time to achieve it slowly. The expectations or anticipations of the outside world will not be directly transmitted to me.

As for the employees within Guangjia Aerospace, I need to be responsible for them, and this pressure is direct and tangible. "

In the cafeteria of Guangjia Aerospace, a talk show replay was playing on TV, and Chen Yuanguang's voice was transmitted through the speakers to the ears of every employee.

Sitting opposite Chen Yuanguang is Lu Qi, the head of research and development in artificial intelligence. The number of employees working on various algorithms within Guangjia Aerospace alone has exceeded 5,000, which is a very exaggerated number.

Because the requirements of Guangjia Aerospace are very high, algorithm engineers who can get in can also enter other large companies.

Considering that America has relaxed its restrictions on China, these people can find jobs around the world.

The salary of around 500,000 yuan at Guangjia Aerospace is not considered high. There are options, but Guangjia Aerospace is not listed and almost does not pay dividends, so there is no difference between having options and having nothing.

Lu Qi comforted him: "Boss, we are on the right track. It's a bit too early to worry about this now."

(End of this chapter)