Chapter 167

While the Great Qing flourishes across various sectors, its superficial prosperity hides dangerous undercurrents and lurking crises. In the economic realm, the Great Qing’s artificial intelligence and new energy industries have shone brightly in the international market, rising like dazzling new stars. This success, however, has invited envy. Certain Western developed nations, having long held a dominant position in these industries, refuse to allow the Great Qing to surpass them. Consequently, they have employed various tactics to suppress the momentum of Great Qing enterprises. Technologically, they have leveraged their own long-standing advantages to impose blockades, cutting off critical supply chains and essentially pulling the rug out from under the Great Qing. Even worse, they have exploited their entrenched positions within the international patent system, launching baseless lawsuits against Great Qing firms under the guise of "patent infringement." These lawsuits act like tangled thorns, consuming precious time and vast capital, casting a dark cloud over the enterprises’ international reputations, and severely hindering their grand plans for market expansion. Simultaneously, in the invisible battlefield of the international raw materials market, certain resource-rich nations—acting like puppets under the manipulation of Western powers—have drastically hiked prices to target the Great Qing’s massive demand for key materials. This has created formidable obstacles, sig…