These were all people in the know.
"Could Mipu... be cooperating with us on the surface while secretly working with the neighboring country?" Someone else raised a new possibility.
"That seems unlikely as well. Our exchanges with Mipu have been fairly pleasant, and Mipu should know very well that the neighboring country first approached the Red Star Republic, not them. That means they consider the Red Star Republic their best partner, not Mipu."
"Under such circumstances, they would not make a deal with the neighboring country behind our backs. Besides, from another perspective, there is not much difference between cooperating with us and cooperating with the neighboring country."
"They could not have obtained this kind of technology from Mipu. As for the Red Star Republic and the Sand Bear Federation, their chip industries are even weaker than the Mipu Republic's, roughly on par with ours."
The aide adjusted his glasses as he spoke.
"Does anyone have any new theories?"
"Have you considered that they might have made the breakthrough themselves?" Kamp, seated at the head of the table, surprisingly said something that left everyone stunned.
"It is not impossible, but isn't that far too fast?" After recovering from their shock, everyone began seriously considering the possibility. To be honest, it was not as though they had never thought of it, but if that were truly the case, the other side's pace of breakthroughs was simply too fast.
"Sometimes, a genius can indeed improve a country's strength in many ways." The chief of staff took a deep breath.
"Then Director Kaplan, do you have any recent information on Academician Jiang Ling?" Kamp turned his gaze toward the CIA director beside him, who was responsible for overseas intelligence.
Kaplan was the current director of the CIA. Hearing the president question him, he