Gao Yuan's remarks gave everyone much to think about.
He believed that with powerful neighboring nations all around them, eyeing them like tigers, even the slightest weakness could become a weapon their opponents used against them.
"Don't think that just because North America takes the high-end route, plundering the world's wealth, technology, and top talent, we can do the same." Gao Yuan paused before continuing, "TSMC dares to cut off Huawei's supply, but give TSMC ten thousand times the courage and it still wouldn't dare cut off Apple's chips."
"That is the gap. That is hegemony! Hegemony isn't about how much money you have, but about possessing a kind of power that transcends money, business, and even the rules of the game."
"North America does not have a complete industrial chain today, yet it is still unafraid, because it knows that whatever it wants, it can obtain immediately."
"Perhaps one day, we too can shift low-end industries to Vietnam, but there must be one prerequisite: absolute control. Whenever we want them back, we must be able to take them back."
The afternoon reception ended quickly. Gao Yuan bid farewell to his partners, returned to the company, and immediately plunged back into intense work.
With time short and the task heavy, many problems still remained unresolved.
For example, the hubless integrated solid tire had been designed to meet the extreme safety requirements of aviation.
When an aircraft took off at four hundred kilometers per hour and landed at three hundred kilometers per hour, every square centimeter of its tire surface had to withstand more than a thousand newtons of pressure.
In addition, aircraft tires had to endure ultra-low temperatures of minus sixty degrees Celsius at an altitude of ten thousand meters, as well as ultra-high temperatures of one hundred and eighty