After the public intellectuals and so-called objective commentators began their propaganda, Joseph Biden quickly responded.
The Dragon Country had stolen industrial software, while ordinary businesses were innocent. As long as they were willing to pay a certain fine, they could continue to use American industrial software in the Dragon Country despite a complete ban.
Following this, other countries also voiced their opinions, preparing to seize the opportunity to profit heavily from those companies that had faltered before the Dragon Country admitted defeat.
Some astute individuals realized something was amiss and spoke out: "Don't be fooled by them. This time, they are using trumped-up charges to demand fines from you. In a couple of years, when they run out of money, they will use the same excuse to continue levying fines."
"If you back down and pay this time, we will become fish on a chopping block, at their mercy!"
"Impossible!" A bootlicker, brainwashed by the West, jumped up. "The West is the epitome of integrity. Back in the day, Ans Group went bankrupt to honor their contracts. They would never fabricate charges and extort money!"
"Exactly, exactly. We were the ones who made the mistake first. They were generous enough to let us use their software, and instead of being grateful, we tried to copy it. Having made such a big mistake, it's only right to pay some compensation..."
For the past century, the Dragon Country had been weak, and global public opinion had been controlled by the West. Through movies, television, novels, and even some toxic textbooks, influenced by them collectively, many people developed an inexplicable reverence and admiration for the West.
Seeing the nonsensical ramblings of those bootlickers, Jing Mingqiu couldn't help but laugh in anger. He disregarded the fact that he had just disembarked from a private jet from Saudi Arabia and immediately pulled out a drone, initiating a live global broadcast from the airport.
There were certain things that the Dragon Country's officialdom, being concerned about face, found inconvenient to say. Although Jing Mingqiu now spoke with the highest leaders daily, he held no public office and was merely an ordinary university student. He could say whatever he pleased without any reservations!
The signal connected, and with Cang Yue's assistance, Jing Mingqiu launched exclusive live broadcast rooms on all major global streaming platforms simultaneously. These were automatically recommended, could not be blocked, and were impossible to ban. They also featured professional translation functions that translated Jing Mingqiu's words into the local official languages.
Jing Mingqiu, without bothering with pleasantries, directly confronted them, pointing at the public intellectuals and bootlickers and cursing them: "Those who talk about apologies and try to make the Dragon Country pay compensation are either stupid or malicious. The West values integrity – that is the biggest joke I have ever heard in my life!"
"If you had read even a little history and knew about the West's rise to power, you wouldn't utter such foolish words. A bunch of bandits and pirates who amassed wealth through burning, killing, plundering, and slave trading, how could they possibly value integrity."
"You may see them as gentle and refined now, but that is merely a mask of hypocrisy they wear after achieving their success. If you conduct yourself according to their rules, and they gain sufficient benefit, it might be fine."
"But once your actions infringe upon their interests, they will immediately tear off the mask of hypocrisy and proceed to devour you completely, resorting to any means necessary. Let's not even mention Afghanistan, where they fabricated weapons of mass destruction using detergent."
"Just Huawei, ZTE, and Qualcomm – these three companies alone have been fined over twenty billion US dollars by the United States on baseless pretexts."
Before Jing Mingqiu could finish, someone immediately retorted in the public chat with a huge barrage of comments: "If they did nothing wrong, why would they pay fines? If they pay fines, doesn't that mean they admit they were wrong?"
"Heh," Jing Mingqiu sneered, "they didn't want to pay the fines either. But back then, the Dragon Country's technology wasn't advanced enough, and they were choked by chips!"
"When you are under someone else's roof, you have to bow your head. For the sake of the Dragon Country's technological development, they could only endure it, wear the hat forced upon them by the United States, and send their hard-earned money to those good-for-nothings who gained wealth without effort."
"However," Jing Mingqiu paused here, his eyebrows raising, "that is all in the past now. Today, the Dragon Country's chips are the best in the world. It's now other countries' turn to beg us on their knees to sell them high-precision chips."
This topic was difficult to continue. The sudden collapse of American chip hegemony was beyond everyone's expectations. After a moment of stunned silence, those Western apologists and objective commentators simply resorted to being unreasonable.
"I don't understand what you're saying. I only know that Western countries were very generous in letting us use their self-developed industrial software. Instead of being grateful, we directly copied and produced pirated versions. This behavior is truly shameless!"
Jing Mingqiu shrugged. "Heh, the one hundred and eight industrial software products independently developed by the Dragon Country have programming methods that are entirely different from Western software. How can there be any talk of plagiarism?"
Those bootlickers stubbornly insisted: "How can programming methods be different? Aren't they all just a series of 0s and 1s?"
"Ignorant fellow," Jing Mingqiu said with disdain, shifting the camera from himself to the computer screen. He then randomly clicked on one of the densely packed icons, directly entering the programming mode.
Looking at the dense page of characters, everyone was stunned.
"What is this? Shouldn't code be a series of English letters? Why are there Chinese characters?"
"These characters look very strange. They seem more complex than the ones currently in use."
"Indeed. Could it be that it was programmed using traditional Chinese characters? Doesn't the Dragon Country's mainland use simplified characters? Could this have been transmitted from Taiwan?"
Jing Mingqiu glanced at the comments and, too lazy to explain, simply stated that it used ancient Chinese before exiting programming mode. He double-clicked the icon and opened the software named "Zaohua Wanxiang" (Creation of All Phenomena).
"This software is mainly used for testing cars. It can not only test basic attributes but also simulate scenarios and test the real reactions of cars in various emergencies."
"Coincidentally, today Beautiful Country's Ford Motor just released the specific data for its Tesla electric vehicle. We'll use that as a blueprint to test how the Tesla car will react when it encounters an unexpected situation."
Saying this, Jing Mingqiu imported the relevant data into Zaohua Wanxiang, and a black Tesla electric car appeared on the screen.
Driving in a straight line, reversing into a parking spot, parallel parking, changing lanes to overtake...
As time went on, the difficulty of the tests increased. While driving at high speed on a rainy night, a dark shadow suddenly appeared in front. The system immediately simulated a normal person's reaction speed and slammed on the brakes.
Unexpectedly, the brakes failed, the tires locked, and the Tesla car lost control, crashing violently into the nearby guardrail.
"Once might be a fluke. Let's test it again."
"Bang!" As expected, the accident happened again.
Jing Mingqiu said unhurriedly, "It seems that ordinary people can't react at all when encountering such a situation. This time, let's increase the reaction speed to that of a professional race car driver and see if the result changes."
"Bang! Bang!"
This test was even worse than the last. The professional race car driver reacted instantly, violently turning the steering wheel to try and control the Tesla.
Unexpectedly, it conflicted with the Tesla's built-in driving program, causing the steering wheel to lock directly. The car slammed head-on into the car in front, and the driver died on the spot.
Jing Mingqiu glanced at the detection report generated by the system and tutted twice: "After preliminary testing, the quality of this Tesla car produced by the Beautiful Country is not very good."
"The ABS, the electronic stability control system, and the electro-mechanical brake booster all have very serious problems."
"For such garbage, I'm too lazy to continue testing. I'll give you a friendly reminder: for your safety, it's best to stay far away from Tesla cars on the road."
"The car testing is done. Let's move on to something bigger," Jing Mingqiu looked around and his eyes suddenly lit up. "Got it, this will do!"