[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me-":3,"chapter-i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-754":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm Focused on Science, But You Want to Trick Me Into Love?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2333890,4563,"Chapter 754: We Must Prepare for the Worst","i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-754",754,"\u003Cp>\"There's a saying in Xia: kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred of your own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lawrence took a sip of coffee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klinger fell silent; Lawrence was right—Xia urgently needed to find new markets, and spreading the conflict in controlled nuclear fusion into the battery sector would be counterproductive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now it’s time for the politicians to play their favorite game of negotiation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lawrence shrugged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia certainly won’t unleash its strongest cards right away, but it holds many cards—likely it will apply graduated pressure to maximize its gains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Globally, 69% of artificial graphite and 100% of spherical graphite depend on China, with no short-term alternatives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, lithium is a critical material for tritium breeding in controlled nuclear fusion, and 70% of lithium processing comes from Xia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to broad issues like lithium dendrites and shuttle effects, Xia is more likely to counter through these supporting technologies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a dangerous move.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Klinger spoke in a low tone. He was also amazed by the speed of Xia’s progress in controlled nuclear fusion, especially by Xu Qingzhou—a formidable opponent, yet one who preferred fair competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Regrettably, this will be an unprecedented blockade.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lawrence sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Both the U.S. and Xia seek global dominance, and our task is to seek balance between these two super-economies, restoring Germany’s former glory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyoto, conference room of the Materials Research Institute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All key personnel under Ji Yunshi were present; no preliminaries, he said directly: \"According to higher-up intelligence, the embargo may begin soon—led by the U.S., with Europe and Japan-South Korea likely to follow quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What areas are involved?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Sheng asked, frowning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Full suppression,\" Ji Yunshi said heavily. \"Every link in the upstream and downstream industrial chain of controlled nuclear fusion—technology, equipment, personnel exchange—all have been targeted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re preparing to fully decouple from us in the fusion field,\" Zheng Xu said grimly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Americans are panicking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ren Nan smiled; his mindset was calm—he had endured even harsher times and was unfazed by U.S. actions. He firmly believed: the more frantic the enemy’s moves, the more certain he was that they were on the right path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou received the Ministry of Science and Technology’s intelligence first and met with Ji Yunshi; he said slowly: \"Domestically, we’ve long suffered from insufficient domestic production of fusion equipment—but viewed another way, this could force Xia to rebuild its foundational industrial system.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In innovation, our investment has always been substantial.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But achieving equipment domestication isn’t something we can accomplish alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ren Nan sighed: \"Yes, though development has been rapid, high-precision equipment is still monopolized by Europe and America.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I called you all here just to inform you—we’ve already purchased all the equipment we needed; the U.S. actions won’t affect us much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But we need to prepare for the worst.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou paused, then mused again: \"The U.S. actions may not stop there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Currently, they’re only uniting allies to contain us—I suspect they’ll even pressure ITER to freeze Xia’s access rights and block the plasma control code repository.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the end, even if we win our appeal, our progress will be delayed by a year or more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",514,"2026-06-20T21:06:45.888Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c6ecf23704082421d0ef31899cfea9eff217abd4cb0b435d4d84bf1fe50d9c0d","i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-755","i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-753",790,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--cover.jpg"]