Chapter 754: We Need to Make the Worst Plans

"There is a saying in the Xia Nation: kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred."

Lawrence drank some coffee.

Klinger fell silent. Lawrence made sense. The Xia Nation urgently needs to find new markets. If the struggle in the field of controlled nuclear fusion spreads to the battery field, the loss will outweigh the gain.

"Next, it's the negotiation game that those politicians are good at."

Lawrence shrugged.

The Xia Nation certainly won't bring out their big killers right away, but they have quite a few cards in their hands. The most likely scenario is graded pressure to maximize benefits.

69% of the world's artificial graphite and 100% of spherical graphite rely on China, and there is no alternative solution in the short term.

Most importantly, lithium is a key material for tritium breeding in controlled nuclear fusion, but 70% of lithium processing comes from the Xia Nation.

Compared to things like lithium dendrites and the shuttle effect, which have a wider scope, the Xia Nation is more likely to carry out countermeasures based on these supporting technologies.

"This is a dangerous act."

Klinger said in a deep voice. He was also amazed at the development speed of the Xia Nation in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, especially Xu Qingzhou, a terrifying opponent, but he preferred fair competition.

"It's a pity, this will be an unprecedented blockade."

Lawrence sighed.

"The US and the Xia Nation both want to compete for the world's leading position, and what we have to do is seek balance between these two super economies and recast the glory of Germany."

Kyoto, conference room of the Institute of Materials.

The main persons in charge, Ji Yunshi and others, were all present. Without beating around the bush, he said directly, "According to the news from above, the embargo might be starting. The US is taking the lead, and Europe, Japan, and South Korea should respond soon."

"Which aspects are involved?"

Zhao Shengwen frowned and asked.

"Comprehensive suppression," Ji Yunshi said heavily, "The upstream and downstream industrial chains, technology, equipment, and talent exchanges in the field of controlled nuclear fusion—none of them escaped."

"This is preparing to completely decouple from us in the fusion field." Zheng Xu said in a deep voice.

"The Americans are panicking."

Ren Nan smiled. His mentality was very good. He had experienced periods more severe than the current one and was accustomed to the behavior of the US. He firmly believed that the bigger the enemy's movements, the more it showed that their path was correct.

Xu Qingzhou received the news from the Ministry of Science and Technology first and met with Ji Yunshi. He slowly said, "Domestically, there has always been a pain point of insufficient localization of fusion equipment. From another perspective, this can also force the Xia Nation to rebuild its underlying industrial system."

"In terms of innovation, our investment has always been very large."

"But equipment localization cannot be completed by us alone."

Ren Nan was a bit helpless, "Yeah, although development has been rapid these years, in terms of high-precision equipment, it is still monopolized by Europe and the US."

"Calling everyone here today is just to communicate. We have already bought the equipment that should be bought, so the US's actions don't have much impact on us."

"However, we need to make the worst plans."

Xu Qingzhou paused and pondered again, "The US's actions might not be limited to this."

"Currently, they are only uniting with allies to contain us. I suspect they will even pressure the ITER organization to freeze the Xia Nation's access rights and block the plasma control code library."

"Finally, dragging it out for a year or a year and a half, even if our appeal is successful, our progress will be slowed down." ===== CHAPTER 755 =====