But this tactic might deceive people for a while, but definitely not forever.
By 2022, a journalist exposed the issue, saying that components containing neodymium iron boron magnets made in Huaxia were installed in the F35.
Now the military couldn't explain this to the public.
After all, the F35 is supposed to be the country's most advanced fighter jet, and it turns out the core components are made in Huaxia, what is this all about?
A group of congressmen keep urging the public not to use products from Huaxia, saying they would steal personal privacy.
Yet, what does it mean when your military's fighter jet uses their components?
So North America had no choice but to purchase neodymium iron boron magnets from Japan at a high price.
However, by this time North America had figured it out, the reason why Japan sold it at a high price is because if you don't buy from Huaxia, you can only buy from them.
Since that's the case, why not bring in more players?
So North America found a German company to produce neodymium iron boron magnets as well.
However, although this German company has a lot of technical reserves, key components still need to be purchased from Huaxia.
But this wasn't a problem, the military played a trick.
They allowed the German company to purchase key technical components from Huaxia, but the factory had to be located in North America, so externally, it would be North American independent production of neodymium iron boron magnets.
This maneuver is the same as the collaboration between Chen Yiyang and Beifu.
Both pretend they can produce independently.
However, for Europe and North America, this operation was necessary.
Because although this thing is very crucial, the demand in the commercial market is too low, it requires massive subsidies for anyone to be willing to produce.
This time, the German company VAC agreed to lose money to make neodymium iron boron magnets for North America because North America not only directly gave a subsidy of 330 million US dollars to VAC to build a factory in North America, but also had General Motors give VAC Group a ten-year order, ensuring VAC has a minimum annual income.
And neodymium iron boron magnets are just one inconspicuous type in the whole rare-earth permanent magnet family.
In the whole rare-earth permanent magnet family, there are more than a hundred grades just for standard commercial permanent magnets, and if you want to conquer them all, trying to bankrupt General Motors might not be enough.
Seeing the whole picture, Chen Yiyang could only pat Elder Qing's shoulder to comfort him.
It's normal for the third party to fall first in a fight between the first and the second.
Elder Qing might get used to it in the future.
However, the quality of the tycoons invited by Toyota Osamu today was quite high, all were CEOs of high-tech companies.
So Chen Yiyang heard a lot of the latest tech news and some scientific gossip from these people.
For example, scientists recently discovered a kind of plastic-eating bacteria in 80% of the world's oceans, this bacterium has evolved a special enzyme that decomposes PET plastic.
PET plastic is a common thermoplastic polyester, widely used in making beverage bottles, food containers, synthetic fibers, engineering plastics, and other products.
It's also one of the most typical human-made trash.
Earlier media reports on human pollution of the oceans often used photos of a large number of floating plastic bottle garbage.
Many environmentalists were worried about whether in the future, these bottle trash would form giant garbage patches in the ocean and obstruct ship operations with ocean currents.
But it seems now that the Earth will find its own way for the world.
"So, all those environmentalists babbling away every day were worrying unnecessarily."
A relatively young company owner directly commented, "Since humans discovered penicillin, in less than a hundred years.
Various antibiotics have developed at least a thousand kinds, but no newly invented antibiotic remains effective for more than a few years before resistant strains appear.
Now, with humans massively using plastic, bacteria capable of consuming and degrading plastic have emerged, what's so strange about that?"
Although Chen Yiyang didn't agree with part of this boss's opinion.
But Chen Yiyang thought what he said wasn't entirely wrong.
To humans, plastic is a new thing. But to nature, it's just another form of lignin.
Lignin is one of the main components of plant cell walls, widely present in plant bodies.
But initially, nature also couldn't handle lignin. Accompanied by the accumulation of a large number of ancient plant remains, the surface quickly formed fossil fuels such as coal.
However, it didn't take many years before insects and bacteria capable of decomposing lignin appeared in nature.
This is also why fossil fuels like coal are considered non-renewable resources.
Because after nature gained the ability to digest lignin, it became impossible for plant bodies to accumulate and produce coal again.
But the conversation between Chen Yiyang and these young entrepreneurs didn't last long.
Because at today's gathering, the majority of attendees were still old Japanese entrepreneurs in their sixties and seventies.
So the topic at the gathering quickly shifted to anti-aging.
An over-eighty-year-old entrepreneur, while leisurely eating a steak, said, "I really hope humanity's medical technology breaks through soon, a mere hundred years of lifespan simply isn't enough in my view. If possible, I hope I can live to around three hundred years."
"I heard you've invested several hundred billion yen in sponsorship for related scientific institutes?" someone else asked.
