Chapter 640: United States: We have an absolute advantage

Just when Xu Qingzhou and Klinger were meeting, in a hotel private room in the HD District of Kyoto, Omar Harikenni, a scientist from the United States, was holding a meeting with Japan and South Korea.

"Just now, I saw Klinger go out alone."

In the corner on the left, the one with the Mediterranean hairstyle was Han Bingxun, a plasma physicist from South Korea.

"Don't worry about him."

Harikenni waved his hand.

It was expected. Before coming, they had actually contacted the EU to ask for the EU's opinion. Unfortunately, the EU did not agree with the pressure plan.

"To be honest, before coming, I still maintained skepticism about the performance of the Gdirect superconducting thin film... until I saw their test data today."

Japanese physicist Junichiro Horita said with some amazement.

They also wanted to bypass the United States to negotiate with the Xia Nation directly, but they were even more uncomfortable than the EU and couldn't struggle at all, so they could only be forced to get on the United States' pirate ship.

But the problem was, now it was different from before; the United States might not necessarily have an absolute advantage to force the Xia Nation to submit.

"Everyone, we are gathered together today not to discuss how good the Xia Nation's superconducting thin film technology is, but to deal with future competition. Once this fails, within the next two years, 30% of the world's superconducting thin film market will be snatched away by the Xia Nation people."

"Well, Mr. Harikenni, what is your high opinion?" Han Bingxun asked.

Harikenni looked at Han Bingxun, "Do you remember the LK-99 room-temperature superconductivity fraud incident in your country?"

In July 2018, the team at the Quantum Energy Research Center in South Korea published two papers on the preprint platform arXiv, claiming to have discovered the world's first ambient-pressure room-temperature superconductor, "LK-99."

The whole country celebrated at the time.

Replication experiments in laboratories in many countries around the world, including China, the US, Europe, and India, showed that the resistivity of LK-99 did not return to zero, but instead showed semiconductor-like characteristics.

The University of Maryland in the United States also confirmed that LK-99 was actually a high-resistance inferior material.

Finally, even other laboratories in South Korea itself could not replicate it.

Han Bingxun's face looked a bit bad. This was indeed the shame of the Republic of Korea. This was one thing, but Harikenni bringing it up openly was another.

The other party had no scruples at all and didn't have any respect.

Ashiba!

"Superconducting thin film with 5.0×10^6 A/cm performance is not so easy to achieve. We can use the reason of 'verifying the authenticity of the technology' to let them disclose parameters for independent third-party replication."

Harikenni said.

"Hmm, this is a good way. After all, academic fraud is not uncommon."

Japan's Junichiro Horita nodded.

Hearing this sentence, Han Bingxun was silent again, as if he had been offended.

"In addition, we can cite the 'Paris Agreement' and the International Energy Agency agreement, emphasizing the contribution of superconducting technology to global power grid transformation and carbon emission reduction, and pressure them to disclose parameters on the grounds of 'promoting the universal benefit of clean energy technology'."

Harikenni paused and continued with a smile: "In the Xia Nation, there are still quite a few people who will support us in terms of carbon emissions."

"This time the Xia Nation might not be so easy to yield."

Japanese physicist Junichiro Horita frowned and said.

"Mr. Horita, don't forget, we still have the most critical advantage." Harikenni was very confident. "Equipment, a considerable part of the high-end and top-notch equipment in the Xia Nation needs to be purchased from us."

Junichiro Horita reminded: "Mr. Harikenni, if I remember correctly, regarding the sanctions on semiconductors, we have already banned what should be banned and what can be banned."

Harikenni said: "As far as I know, Zero Point Technology is purchasing a large amount of controllable nuclear fusion equipment through offshore companies in the Cayman Islands. We can start from this."

Although they were allies, as everyone knew, everyone was just wearing the same pair of pants on the surface, but things like slapping each other in the face often appeared in private. ===== CHAPTER 641 =====