Tonight was destined to be sleepless. High-ranking officials in countless nations mobilized, convening emergency national meetings to redefine their policies toward Xia Country.
Meanwhile, countries on good terms with Xia Country scrambled to make close contact with its officials. Securing Xia Country’s technology would be ideal—though that was clearly a tall order—but even just participating in collaborative efforts would suffice.
This was indisputably the dawn of the Third Industrial Revolution. If they failed to secure any cooperation in areas like autonomous driving, Controlled Nuclear Fusion, room-temperature superconducting materials, or the Carbon-based Lithography Machine, they would inevitably miss out on the fruits of the third technological revolution, leaving even the most developed nations behind.
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