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Chapter 465: The Transmission of Anxiety

Countries such as the Maple Leaf Country, New Zealand, and the Kangaroo Country have only announced that they will allow China to expand the scope of its independent imports of new energy vehicles.

Let me say a few more words here. China's new energy vehicles could have been sold to these countries a long time ago. However, before that, you had to build factories in these countries. In addition to building factories, there were also requirements for local suppliers of parts.

A new energy vehicle has tens of thousands of parts. You can't just import the parts from China in a package and assemble them locally. The jobs and GDP boost this would bring to the local area would be too small. Therefore, there is more or less a ratio requirement.

The rate for the Maple Leaf Country is 85%, and you must have 85% of your parts provided by local suppliers. The rate for the Kangaroo Country is 70%, and for New Zealand it is 50%. This ratio is determined independently by each country based on its industrial situation.

This time, all three countries have reduced the proportion to below 30%.

Taking the Kangaroo Country as an example, you can only buy the car shell made of local iron ore, and the rest can be shipped directly from China by sea.

It has greatly reduced the costs of Chinese automakers and expanded the pricing space for Chinese new energy vehicles sold in their countries.

It is true that the original "iron-clad" allies are trying to make peace with China, but the extent of the goodwill they show is very limited.

Yes, it is not just the lower-level rednecks who are bored. The upper-level academic elites are equally bored. On the contrary, it is the white elites who are still in a minority and still have a mentality of catching up with China's technological breakthroughs.

In the Oval Office of the White House owner, Columbia Broadcasting System's famous program "60 Minutes" was being broadcast. During the program, the White House Chief of Staff repeatedly came forward to ask whether it was necessary to convene a meeting of experts from major think tanks and heads of laboratories under the Department of Energy. The other party remained silent and shook their heads to refuse.

The portrait of the seventh president Andrew Jackson hanging on the wall was looking at this absurd scene in the White House. If he knew about it, he would probably lament that the great America is going to perish.

Especially the empty Diet Coke bottles scattered around the chairs.

"China's latest progress in the field of controlled nuclear fusion technology has attracted widespread attention from the international community. The breakthroughs made by Chinese scientists, led by Dr. Wright, in this cutting-edge technology have once again demonstrated the unparalleled sense of the Chinese people in cutting-edge technological breakthroughs. This has once again proven the correctness of never underestimating Wright.

Ever since China announced that it had mastered room-temperature superconducting technology, the American academic community has been repeatedly reminding the White House that breakthroughs in room-temperature superconducting technology will bring about a series of chain reactions, the most deadly of which to America is controlled nuclear fusion.

In the past, our academic, business and financial circles have been constantly trying to find out China's latest progress in controlled nuclear fusion technology during exchanges with China, so much so that China has formed the impression that room-temperature superconducting technology is only one of the prerequisite technologies for achieving breakthroughs in controlled nuclear fusion technology, and China is still a long way from the large-scale commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion.

As for whether this distance is fifty years or something else, the White House is very optimistic.”

The TV station broadcast a clip of a White House spokesperson's press conference after China's breakthrough in room-temperature superconducting technology. In this clip, the blonde spokeswoman said:

"Congratulations to our Chinese colleagues for achieving such an exciting technological breakthrough. This is a technological breakthrough worth celebrating for all mankind, but we do not think it will have a direct impact on the world in a short period of time."

"Yes, maybe four years is not a short time for the White House. The breakthrough of the space shuttle is not a direct impact, and Boeing will directly and indirectly lose more than one trillion US dollars. The breakthrough of China's aerospace industry is not a direct impact, and the Federation has lost the trust of its European and East Asian allies, and they are all hesitant to participate in the new generation of international space station plans. China's nuclear bomb reorbital plan is not a direct impact, and our position in the world has been completely overturned.

Because room-temperature superconducting technology has brought about so many impacts that if we were to discuss them one by one, today's 60-minute news would have to be extended to 600 minutes. What we need to face now is the most important and most drastic impact:
China's controlled nuclear fusion technology is now close to large-scale commercial use. The global energy market has been shaken, with the U.S. stock market alone losing more than $10 trillion in the past week.

Central Asian countries, led by Saudi Arabia, are submitting applications to the Gold Brick organization, hoping to join Gold Brick as soon as possible. In the past, America invested huge manpower and material resources in Central Asia to achieve this, but China has achieved it through just one piece of news. This has always been America's patent in the past."

"Heh~ Hiccup~" The sound that came from the Oval Office was inconsistent with the atmosphere of the entire office over the past two hundred years, but was very consistent with the atmosphere of the past four years.

From his initial ambitions to now only thinking about who he should pardon before stepping down, and watching the TV hosts criticizing this White House, he just feels empty.

I don’t even want to talk about fake news.

Only Fox can still barely maintain "objective and neutral" reporting.

“Our special guests today are

This is Professor Tom Mason, the former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for more than ten years. After his tenure at Oak Ridge, he moved to the Los Alamos Laboratory under the Department of Energy as director. He returned to the University of Toronto to teach until he was laid off last year due to the intensified conflict between America and the United States.

The other party is a PhD in physics and a condensed matter physicist of Maple Leaf Nation descent. He has unique insights into nuclear energy and is the most authoritative expert on nuclear energy ever invited on any TV show!
Professor Mears Heimer is a representative of the offensive realism school in contemporary international relations theory and a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His core ideas revolve around the nature of great power competition and he emphasizes that the anarchy of the international system will inevitably lead to power struggles among countries. His views have profoundly influenced the realism theory in the international political community.

He is also one of the few American professors in the field of social sciences who enjoys extremely high popularity and a large number of fans in China.

Before we officially start today's conversation, let's take a look at a short street interview."

The camera quickly switches to dynamic shots of investigative reporters rushing to the scene and interviewing subjects, suggesting the program's positioning of "racing against time to reveal the truth."

The most hated media in this White House is CBS, the host of "60 Minutes". After all, CBS was sued for an astronomical amount of $100 billion in compensation.

However, it is still a little short of the first place, as the first place is firmly occupied by CNN. No one can shake CNN's position in the White House's mind.

This time it was because "60 Minutes" invited these two big names, otherwise he would never have moved the TV station from Fox to CBS.

The former of the two experts was even signed off by him personally. The TV screen had already cut to the scene in Boston, and it was obvious that CBS wanted to interview the students.

To be precise, if you interview CBS, don't expect them to interview rednecks.

The entire program, from the beginning to all subsequent links, was almost all designed. Telling the American people how terrifying China's technological breakthroughs are is secondary, and the most important thing is to tell the people that this White House is a piece of shit.

"Hello, everyone. I am now on the campus of Harvard University in the Boston area. We will conduct a series of interviews to hear what students from top American universities think about China's breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion technology." The black female host held a microphone with the CBS logo and talked to the camera.

If we just look at her professional qualities, she is no less capable than the White House spokesperson, and they are even on par in terms of standard American accents.

The only difference may be the skin color.

"Hello, I'm Susan, the host of CBS's 60 Minutes. Can I ask you a few simple questions?" The first passerby the female host approached was a yellow man.

"can."

"Please briefly introduce yourself."

“My name is Alexander. I am a sophomore at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, majoring in applied science and engineering management.”

“Are you Chinese?”

"Yes, to be precise, I am Chinese, not of Chinese descent. My father got an offer from General Electric two years ago and came here. Then I followed him to go to school. I am currently on an F visa."

Why did people say that Musk was working illegally during the argument? Because the visas provided by America to these international students are all F-1 visas. If you want to work outside the campus with this type of visa, you need special approval, and even if you work at school, you cannot work more than 20 hours a week.

If you want to work in America, you have to apply for an H1B visa specifically for international students. Back then, Musk went to Silicon Valley to work with an F visa, which was strictly speaking an illegal act.

When the female host heard this, her eyes lit up. It was obvious that this was the interview subject who could be verified. His father came to America to work, and he himself was Chinese and studied at Harvard.

Apparently, CBS also selected the interviewees they found attractive from among many interviewees.

This yellow guy in front of me has all the news value buffs filled up.

"What do you think of China's technological breakthroughs in controlled nuclear fusion and a series of technological breakthroughs?"

Alexander looked slightly embarrassed: "This will profoundly reshape the global manufacturing landscape in every aspect.

The knowledge we learn now may become worthless in just a few years.

From professors to students, everyone is anxious.

Because we are in applied science, the most common employment direction is actually the energy field, which employs a large number of engineering students in America.

However, when China covers the entire earth with controlled nuclear fusion facilities, the demand for traditional energy will plummet. Combined with China's advantages in photovoltaics and new energy vehicles, the rate of decline will gradually accelerate.

Because China's nuclear fusion technology route is reconstructed based on room-temperature superconducting materials, it is a small facility and its floor space may be smaller than that of an Apple store.

This means that China does not need to reconstruct the power grid in overseas markets. All it needs to do is help these countries build nuclear fusion power stations and then help them maintain them. Both the workload and the difficulty of adaptation will be much smaller.

After solving the electricity problem, China will continue to export new energy vehicles. Oil vehicles can survive, firstly because of inertia, and secondly because many places lack the motivation to replace them.

But once you try China's new energy vehicles, you will become addicted.

Just like the Russian region introduced China's new energy vehicles on a large scale because of the war, even though their dimensions are so high, you can never go back after experiencing them. Even if manufacturers such as Toyota, Honda, and Ford can return to Russia, they can no longer compete with China's new energy vehicles.

Similar stories will continue to play out in countries around the world over the next decade.

America's energy industry will suffer a devastating blow, and the current U.S. stock market is reflecting the extremely pessimistic expectations of capital.

At this time last year, the total market value of all energy companies in the U.S. stock market was $11 trillion. Now it is only $4 trillion, a drop of 60%. This is based on the premise that China's timetable for large-scale commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion has not yet been unveiled.

Therefore, from the capital market to the actual consumer market, and then to the employment market for our students, the transmission logic of the entire chain is very clear.

After the discussion, we were all very worried. We were very worried that we would be unemployed after graduation. Even in Texas, where we wanted to go to dig for shale oil, there were no jobs for us. "

(End of this chapter)