After Levi left, Cao Feiyu came to Gao Yuan's office. Looking at the ranking list on the wall, he frowned slightly and said, "Aren't you afraid this thing will ruin your mood if you put it up on the wall?"
Gao Yuan said, "Don't worry. My mood isn't that fragile."
"No matter what, what happened has happened. What we should consider is how to solve the problem, not how to get rid of the person who raised it."
"From the perspective of East Asian Confucian culture, we are an agrarian people who value returning to our roots. Unlike the descendants of Western nomadic peoples, if the conditions were roughly equal, I believe scientists would rather stay in their hometowns and remain close to their parents."
"Don't talk about population or social competition. If there is such a massive outflow of talent, there must be problems within."
Cao Feiyu nodded repeatedly, fully agreeing with Gao Yuan. He asked why Levi had come, and Gao Yuan told him everything without holding anything back.
After hearing this, Cao Feiyu gave a bitter smile. "Levi wasn't wrong. You really are trying to stop a chariot with your arm. Even if X Fiber has drawn global attention, how many papers can you write by yourself? Three? Five? Ten? Can a few papers really break the West's academic monopoly?"
Gao Yuan said, "Of course I know that. But this isn't a simple issue. It's about attitude. As everyone knows, Huawei is under extremely harsh sanctions. Yet behind the chip foundry blockade and the ban on EDA Tools, AMD, Intel, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, and other companies were still approved to supply Huawei. Why? Wasn't Huawei supposed to be blocked?"
Cao Feiyu gently shook his head, indicating that he did not know.
Gao Yuan continued, "Because North America is clever and cunning. What they want to block is technology, not products built with technology."
"Even if Huawei can buy CPUs and hard drives and make laptops, so what? A Huawei that develops its own processors is North America's real nightmare. A Huawei that merely assembles computers is, at most, another Lenovo—no threat at all and easily replaceable at any time."
"So the essence of the trade war is actually a technology war. There is only one path before us: break free from the North America-led technological system and build our own from scratch."
After hearing Gao Yuan's words, Cao Feiyu looked enlightened. "No wonder you want to create an entirely new website. You want to plant a seed and wait for it to sprout and grow, ideally into a whole forest."
"It's a good idea, but with the little strength we have, I'm afraid it won't be enough."
Gao Yuan shrugged helplessly. "There's no other way. I can't exactly put a knife to people's throats and force them to submit papers to us, can I? We can only take it one step at a time. Once Dr. Xu Qingzhou and the others come back, I'll squeeze them a little and have them scrape together a few papers too."
Cao Feiyu rubbed his forehead. Gao Yuan undoubtedly had lofty ideals, but reality was brutally bleak. Western academic journals selected only the best papers for publication, while Gao Yuan was running around trying to gather whatever he could, just to keep the website from looking pitifully empty when it launched.
"Have the servers been arranged?" Gao Yuan asked.
Cao Feiyu said, "I had the technical department rent several cloud servers. The traffic shouldn't be too outrageous when the time comes, right?"
Gao Yuan thought for a moment. "It's not celebrity gossip. There probably won't be much traffic. I imagine only people in the chemical materials field will visit."
Cao Feiyu nodded. "Then I know what to expect. Don't worry."
Fort Belvoir, Virginia, North American Army Materiel Command, abbreviated as AMC.
Three days after meeting Gao Yuan, Levi had already returned to North America.
Although X Fiber was currently making waves in the chemical fiber industry, neither Gao Yuan nor Kunlun Company was powerful enough to alarm figures at a higher level. The mysterious big shot behind Levi was actually Breville, the head of the Army Materiel Command.
Breville was responsible for North American Army equipment research and procurement, and Kunlun Company's Silver Frost bulletproof fiber had happened to touch upon his interests.
After waiting briefly, Levi was invited into the office to meet Director Breville and report the results of his trip to China.
"If that is the case, then we can only increase the budget." Breville spoke with some reluctance. "I will notify the Army Equipment Laboratory to speed up development of the Third-generation bulletproof fiber. Once it succeeds, we will begin replacing equipment across the entire military. In any case, we absolutely cannot lose to those Huaxia people."
Much of the time, scientific research could be solved by throwing money at it. Every country was researching Third-generation bulletproof fiber, and all had settled on using PE fiber as the base material while enhancing its performance.
At present, the Army Equipment Laboratory was roughly seventy percent complete. At the normal pace, it would take at least several more years before it officially appeared.
However, because China had suddenly begun reequipping its forces and personal protective equipment based on Silver Frost bulletproof fiber had emerged out of nowhere, the North American military had no choice but to catch up as quickly as possible.
Breville thought for a moment. "You said Gao Yuan intends to publish a paper about X Fiber on his own website, entirely in Chinese? Could this pose a threat to us?"
Levi laughed and gently shook his head. "I thought about it for a long time on the flight back. Although X Fiber is excellent, Gao Yuan wants to challenge the entire existing academic system with his own strength? That is undoubtedly an enormous act of stupidity. I'm afraid even his own compatriots will not support him. In the end, he can only become a laughingstock for the whole world."
Breville froze slightly, then understood what Levi meant. He shrugged. "Yes, even his compatriots write their papers in English and submit them to our journals, while Gao Yuan insists on using Chinese. That really is foolish. I'm afraid even the Huaxia people will laugh at him."
"Why bother? It seems the young fellow who invented X Fiber is rather thick-headed as well."
Hahaha!
Levi and Breville laughed happily together.
Imperial Capital.
In the conference room, a group of elderly men in military uniforms gradually fell into deep thought after listening to Han Chang's report.
Gao Yuan had a good relationship with Han Chang. Han Chang also knew about Levi's visit and Gao Yuan's plan to publish his paper entirely in Chinese.
What Gao Yuan had never expected was that Han Chang was not the only one in the military paying attention to his every move. The sudden emergence of Silver Frost bulletproof fiber had already made him extremely famous.
"Why the hell should I care if they can't read Chinese? As long as our own people can read it, that's enough." An elderly man who looked exceptionally imposing smiled and asked, "Did Gao Yuan really say that?"
Han Chang stood behind Ding Songlin and nodded lightly. "Yes. Besides that, he said many similar things. In summary, he meant that we should hold academic leadership in our own hands. Even if we cannot seize it for the time being, we should at least try to fight for it."
Han Chang was being fairly restrained. Gao Yuan's original words had been far more radical and revealed a profound distrust of the existing academic system. Han Chang could not repeat those words directly, but he had still hinted at them enough for the big shots present to understand.
"Let's stop dithering around. One sentence: are we doing this or not?" An elderly man with a fiery temper frowned. "Are we really inferior to the owner of a clothing factory?"
Han Chang dearly wanted to remind the big shot that Gao Yuan did not run a clothing factory but worked in chemical materials, and that there was a fundamental difference between the two. Yet, seeing the sharp eyes around him, he swallowed the words.
Han Chang did not dare argue with these big shots, but there were some things he felt he had to say. It was precisely because of Gao Yuan's words that he and Ding Songlin had completely, utterly, and unconditionally thrown their support behind Gao Yuan.
After steadying his emotions slightly, Han Chang said in a deep voice, "Actually, Gao Yuan also said this."
"No army can achieve victory by holding fast to the enemy's position. The more we fight bloody battles on the enemy's ground, the more desperately we resist, the more miserably we will lose in the end."
Boom!
Han Chang's words struck like thunder, forceful and resounding, making every big shot present break out in a cold sweat as chills ran down their backs.
The enemy's position?
For many years, we had written papers in English. We had published research in Western journals. We had even ranked scientists and raised their salaries according to the number of papers they published in Western journals...
The ground we had been holding all along was the enemy's position!?
Although this chapter was not blocked, the final section was still censored, so the phrasing was revised. The meaning remained the same.
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