Chapter 688: Suddenly had a bad premonition

In the living room, the two young people huddled together, browsing various news on the internet.

Xu Qingzhou touched his chin and said with some regret, "I was wondering why I always felt like something was missing; it turns out I forgot to share our recent situation on Weibo."

He had missed an excellent opportunity to show off, and he didn't know when the next one would be.

"Childish."

Song Yao "pfft"-ed, feeling disdain.

"Yes, you're not childish."

Xu Qingzhou pinched the girl's thigh; it was soft and supple, and he couldn't get enough no matter how many times he touched it.

"After the funds arrive, except for the experiments used for controllable nuclear fusion, can we take out a portion to do technology investment?"

Song Yao was flipping through the news and suddenly thought of investment.

"What ideas do you have?" Xu Qingzhou asked.

"Two. First, the stellarator project at Southwest Jiaotong University. According to my understanding, compared to similar projects, their funding is seriously insufficient."

The focus in the country is on tokamaks, and not much energy has been put into stellarators.

The Xia Nation's stellarator has had no progress, besides technical reasons, it's a funding issue. You have to know that researching stellarators burns more money than tokamaks.

"Second, invest in other high-end equipment manufacturing, such as Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems, Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM), etc., to build the upstream industry."

"I agree."

"Nothing else to add?"

"You know more about investment than I do."

Xu Qingzhou watched the news with Song Yao for a while. His mouth couldn't stay idle, so he reached out and picked a lychee from the table, peeled it, but still handed it to Song Yao.

"I want you to give it to me with your other hand."

"Isn't it the same?" Xu Qingzhou fed it into his own mouth, not reacting in time.

Song Yao raised her eyebrows: "That hand of yours just touched my foot..."

"..."

Xu Qingzhou's movements froze.

"Are you disgusted?"

"Shouldn't I be disgusted?"

Dusk was deep in the Xia Nation, while it was daytime in Europe. In the conference room on the second floor of the EU headquarters in Brussels, under the promotion of Becker and Simson, a meeting was held to launch an anti-dumping investigation against the Xia Nation.

Simson tapped the table lightly. "The evidence is solid! Everyone, look at the data in your hands. The price of electric vehicles from the Xia Nation is 30% lower than in Europe, relying on their government's subsidies. If taxes aren't increased, European car companies will repeat the same mistakes as the photovoltaic industry—being thoroughly destroyed by products from the Xia Nation."

He had always supported tougher policies against the Xia Nation to solve the EU's internal economic and industrial development problems.

Yes, the EU's economy would decline in the short term, but in the long run, it would be beneficial; at the very least, they wouldn't have to rely on the people of the Xia Nation forever.

"Sorry, we still do not support this resolution," the German representative spoke.

The Hungarian representative also spoke: "With all due respect, the current investigation procedure is full of loopholes. They are increasing taxes without even proving substantial damage, which clearly violates WTO rules."

Simson and Becker were not surprised at all by the Hungarian opposition. After all, the Prime Minister of Hungary had once publicly opposed trade wars.

French representative Becker: "Hi, everyone, look at this cost of BYD. Look, what competitiveness does our own industry have? The Germans only care about the profits of their own car companies, but what about us? Renault workers in France are becoming unemployed, Stellantis Group factories are closing down, and Xia Nation cars are snatching 40% of our subsidies. This is naked unfair competition!"

"Mr. Becker, a blind trade war will only invite retaliation. Think about their brandy counterattack; French wine merchants have already lost 2 billion euros!" The German representative frowned.

"What we know now is that most countries support tax increases. Once an anti-dumping investigation is conducted, it will inevitably cause a series of chain reactions. I suggest we can make supplementary clauses and continue to negotiate with the Xia Nation after the tax increase."

The Poles were more hopeful for mediation.

"The pain is only temporary. I believe you have carefully read the lithium dendrite technology report we provided... I can guarantee on behalf of France that we will unconditionally share this technology with everyone. In one year, the battery field will be our world."

"Everyone, we must admit that Europe is no longer strong. We need to unite as one and make the right choice for the future of Europe."

Becker said heavily. ===== CHAPTER 689 =====