As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 390

This is a case of one move affecting the entire body. It doesn't mean that if I develop a new super fuel, the other party can use it directly.

The overall solution, including hydrogen fuel cells, also requires the body to be modified to adapt to the technology.

In 2039, both America and China built a small base on Mars.

China has three astronauts working on Mars year-round, while America has five astronauts.

The locations chosen by both sides to build their bases are very close, or in other words, very close according to the distance definition of Blue Planet.

In the 20s, America attempted to completely lock the development ceiling of China's technology industry through the silicon curtain, that is, the semiconductor industry.

Not only are they evacuating themselves, they also want to pull in Gaoli, Neon and Wanwan to form an alliance called Chip, which is the chip alliance.

The general meaning is, don't do business with China, and I will compensate for part of your losses through policy subsidies.

American semiconductor companies in China have been leaving China one after another. In just three years, they have basically withdrawn from everything from production to R&D.

Take Marvell as an example. The American semiconductor company, whose Chinese name is Marvell Electronics, was founded by three overseas Chinese.

Therefore, after entering the Chinese market in the early years, we established R&D centers in Shenhai and Shucheng respectively.

It has made huge contributions to China's semiconductor industry and is known as the Huangpu Military Academy in the development of China's semiconductor industry.

This support not only provides jobs and cultivates talents, but also includes support for semiconductor development.

After China proposed the third-generation communication technology TD-SCDMA, it was in great need of support from supporting industries. However, most internationally renowned semiconductor companies were not optimistic about it and did not follow up on technical cooperation.

However, Marvell actively supported and played a key role in China Mobile's early promotion of the TD 3G industry.

Even such a large company that supported the development of China's semiconductor industry was forced to cut most of its R&D business in China in 2022 due to policy pressure.

Most people think that the starting point for the core curtain to fall is 2018, but in fact it was determined in 2014.

After China released its semiconductor development outline in 2014, which clearly pointed out the need to increase chip self-production rate and reduce the proportion of chip imports, America's move has been expected by China.

However, China did not expect that America would suffer 800 casualties on its own in order to inflict 1,000 casualties on the enemy.

Because once I lock you in, I can sell you semiconductor products, technologies and services and make up for all your previous losses double.

This plan failed after China achieved domestic production of the entire 14nm industry chain.

Not to mention that by 2039, there will only be a slight technological gap between China's semiconductor industry and America's semiconductor industry.

This gap in the competition between giants is enough to prove the failure of the core screen plan.

Now the area of ​​competition between the two sides is not in China, but in space.

Whoever can utilize space first will have the right to speak for a long time to come.

Even though the best location for the lunar space station was occupied by China, America still found another location and built its own lunar space station and lunar base.

Currently, there is a three-way competition in space. China, America and the European Union all have scientific research bases and rocket launch bases on the moon.

Then China and America have small bases on Mars. As for the Europa Alliance, they also successfully landed on Mars in 2039.

But only two astronauts landed on Mars, sharing a Mars base with America.

"We need to take a long-term view. China has actually undergone many changes over the years.

The competition between us and China will not be decided so quickly."

This is a conversation between the American think tank team when they were formulating future strategies in 2035.

"Each place also has fertile soil for populism, presenting different choices on welfare.

China has been consciously changing over the years. They are curbing the momentum of internal nationalism and increasing welfare benefits for the middle and lower classes. "

"So China isn't special?"

"Others may not understand, but are we not? The theory of China being special was originally fabricated by the media to confuse people.

In fact, countries that have experienced rapid economic growth and achieved a certain degree of industrialization in modern times all have one common characteristic.

That is, during the process of industrialization, they maintained a certain degree of long-term stability in social order.

Even in democratic societies, their party rotation has stagnated at this stage.

For example, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party has been in power for more than 40 years.

The same is true for other Asian regions.

Including Brazil, Thailand, and Turkey, the economic foundations of these emerging markets were laid during the authoritarian era. "

“Have you ever thought about whether this is a result or a cause?
During the process of industrialization, the economy will show an upward trend, and people will have a more obvious perception that their quality of life is improving.

Under this perception, the party rotation has stagnated? In fact, the economic changes came from industrialization, but they attributed the credit to the ruling party at that time.

So let the ruling party continue to rule?"

“The problem is that only in countries and regions that have turned to truly mature democratic systems, their economies have transcended the era of basic industrialization and entered a more prosperous stage of technological development and cultural markets.

Other countries are stuck in the so-called middle-income trap.”

"Are there any exceptions?"

“Yes, Lion City.

Singapore is the only city-state that has always been a dictatorship but has developed. "

“Have you ever thought that this is because we have provided more technical and economic support to these countries after they moved to a democratic system?

Singapore is no exception. Does Singapore’s population only need the financial and service industries to escape the middle-income trap?
As for a country like Korea, we did not transfer more advanced technology to it to allow them to maintain a rapid economic development.

Goryeo's previously strong industries were all swallowed up by China.

Goryeo has fallen into the middle-income trap again.

Is it true that if it is done well, it is a model of democracy, and if it is not done well, it is immature democracy? "

"Okay, stop. Our topic today is how to strike a new balance between human welfare and human evolution.

This is the ultimate strategic goal today.

We all know a lot about Merlin.

From academia to the media, I think there are enough analytical articles about Merlin to go around the entire Blue Planet." "Zheng Li, Merlin, and the mysterious wizards in London, these are all Merlin, or the representatives of magic civilization in public.

We have Merlin and Zheng Li, and there is a deep connection between them. Although we cannot confirm that they are the same person, it doesn't matter.

They are obviously in the same camp, the lawful side.

As for the mage representatives in London, they were in chaos.

It is obvious that the other party is afraid of Merlin since Merlin dares to move around the world freely while the wizards in London only dare to operate within London.

Judging from Merlin's style of doing things, his understanding of the social system is a step further than our original universal welfare system.

The lower-class people don’t have to do anything, the country will take good care of you.

Lion City can do this, but we can’t.

Whether in terms of national management or population size, America and Singapore are simply not on the same level.

Do you think it is necessary to improve our welfare system? "

After Singapore was taken over by Zheng Li, it became the country with the best welfare benefits in the world.

Regarding the welfare benefits in Lion City, it is active on Douyin videos and WeChat public accounts.

A key step in Tencent's decline in the Internet field is that WeChat has become an application with only the function of sending and receiving text messages.

No one posts on Moments, and no one uses WeChat-based ecological services.

The same is true for QQ. Not many people are using QQ anymore.

The number of users fell below 10 million for the first time.

Back to human welfare and human progress.

“Do you really think that the improvement of welfare benefits will lead to the cessation of human progress as a whole?
I think that Merlin made this choice because in the wizard civilization, they choose communism to a certain extent.

This does not conflict with their development of a brilliant civilization and advanced technology. "

America first established a slave state modeled after the ancient Roman Republic.

Although the ancient Roman Republic was called a republic, it was only a republic for its citizens. In reality it was a slave state.

The United States, which started out as a slave plantation, began industrialization in the Northeast. After the liberation of black slaves during the Civil War, industrialization and urbanization developed rapidly, which was not different from the mercantilist style of Europe at the time.

Industrialization at that time was full of tariff barriers and internal and external conflicts. The working class in America was at the bottom of a difficult life, just like in Europe.

They also faced competition from cheap Chinese labor in China, which led to the Chinese Exclusion Act, which made blacks and Asians pariahs and only white people were citizens.

This is also very similar to ancient Greece and Rome.

Both the democracy of ancient Greece and the republic of ancient Rome were powers reserved for only a minority of citizens.

Therefore, America at that time was a completely social Darwinian economic system.

A political power system based on the former slavery and the latter caste system, a system of local autonomy and checks and balances on the power of citizens except the untouchables.

Even white citizens, as the working class, have long been living in harsh conditions, just like the workers in England and other European countries.

However, under the harsh living environment of the lower-class people, traditional industrialization and urbanization were completed rapidly, and the modern prosperous century lasted for hundreds of years.

It was not until more than a hundred years ago that European intellectuals, observing the intensification of social contradictions, gave rise to the left-wing movement in philosophical thinking, thus re-establishing the economic and political model of modern society.

War I and War II were actually the result of the development of high technology, the accumulation of wealth, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the competition and exclusion of traditional workers by emerging technologies and management methods.

Laborers who only rely on their physical strength to sell their labor cannot compete with capital, skilled workers, and machines. The emergence of the assembly line has put laborers at a low level with only a single skill set.

The intensification of this social contradiction eventually led to its resolution through war.

After the loss of a large number of human lives, the left-wing trend in post-war England and other European countries, including America and the Kangaroo Country, led to the implementation of heavy taxes such as inheritance tax, the redistribution of wealth, and the establishment of a universal welfare system. This constitutes the entire left-wing trend in Europe.

America moved towards the equal rights movement. The black-led political power and equal personal dignity emerged in the 1960s, which changed the political and cultural ecology of the United States, allowing African Americans and Asians to move from the status of outcasts to the status of citizens and gain political power.

Asians have taken advantage of this global equal rights movement and have improved their living environment by virtue of their traditionally gentle and obedient character. Even in the 21st century, the average income of Indians, Filipinos, Japanese, and Chinese has exceeded the national average.

However, the incomes of Europeans, Indians, Filipinos, etc. are still higher than those of Chinese.

Although blacks have improved their political living environment, their overall economic situation is still poor. Their overall education level, poverty level, health and crime level are the worst in America.

As a result, the black civil rights movement became increasingly fierce, and by serving as the ideological support and base of the Democratic Party, it attempted to reconstruct American culture and history.

The deconstruction of American culture and history angered conservatism, leading to the return of conservative and white supremacist ideology in 2016.

This is because American liberals have moved towards black supremacy and radical de-Americanism, which has destroyed the foundation of the American nation and made Americanism a rootless stream.

Americanism, based on the Christian Puritan spirit and Anglo-Saxon superior civilization theory, has turned into the American history of slave owners and white racism, which has made the entire founding of the United States dirty and gloomy.

This is where the counterattack of conservatism lies. It will inevitably lead to Islam fundamentalism and white supremacy, which will lead to the cultural cold war and internal division in the United States.

In order to bridge the gap between America and the United States, the American elite had to look for an external enemy to divert the irreconcilable internal contradictions - China.

Chinese people have become the target of hatred by a small number of extremists on both sides.

This is because white supremacists have reignited racism, and black people in the BLM movement are caught in a dilemma of being squeezed from both ends because Chinese Americans claim to be a superior minority and support conservatives.

In order to maintain the ideology of multiculturalism and equal rights, the Democratic government must protect Asians. Otherwise, diversity and equal rights will become a joke and completely turn into black racism, which will actually plunge the United States into a black-white racist conflict that will increasingly develop into a civil war.

But if we go back to the World War I and World War II a hundred years ago, the cause of global conflicts was actually the class hatred caused by the gap between the rich and the poor.

Regardless of ethnicity, people in the United States are actually trapped in the gap between the rich and the poor. The lower class is in a terrible living condition and has no hope of seeing the future, so they seek strong ideological confrontation.

Therefore, under the manipulation of the social media information cocoon in the Internet era, such opposing and hateful emotions have been polarized.

In the 30s, this gap in confrontation and hatred did not improve, but instead caused a huge wave.

To put it simply, the core content of this chapter should be that Zheng Li’s arrival triggered more serious conflicts.

Under such inducement, a war broke out between 2031 and 2039, sweeping across many parts of the world.

Due to some objective reasons, I can't write.

I can only write about the reasons for the previous war here in an obscure way and give you an indirect hint.

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(End of this chapter)