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and indirectly affect the Earth's environment.

However, their chemical reagent explicitly states that no harmful substances will be produced during any chemical reaction process. That's why Academician Li said that although the names are the same, the content is vastly different!

Knowing that this technology was even more advanced than that of the Lighthouse Country, the others present finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At least, in terms of energy-intensive industries, they would not fall behind others now or in the future because of this.

However, Chief Yun thought more deeply after hearing Academician Li's words.

After all, their positions were different; researchers only needed to consider matters related to research.

But he needed to consider things more comprehensively!

For example—

"The only harmless chemical reagent?"

"If this point is confirmed, then the chemical reagent injection mining method announced by the Lighthouse Country..."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but let out a cold snort.

This Lighthouse Country was actually crying 'thief' while being the thief.

Their own mining methods were harmful to the environment.

Yet they shamelessly used environmental protection as an excuse to condemn other nations!

"Old Li, the preparation of the chemical reagent and the data on energy replacement application will be handed over to your Second Research Institute."

"In addition, the platform construction blueprint has also been improved. Take it to the Infrastructure Engineering Team to upgrade our existing experimental mining platform directly into the most stable and advanced semi-permanent mining platform!"

Huaguo itself had a combustible ice mining platform, but because they didn't know much about combustible ice, it was initially built as a temporary platform.

They had planned to dismantle it within ten years at most, as many things would change with their further extraction and understanding of combustible ice.

However, this time, through Lin Bai's ability, these things were accomplished in one step.

This saved a lot of trouble in the future.

They could completely extract all the combustible ice in an area before dismantling it..."What has Huaguo been up to lately?"

The White House.

The President sat in his seat, constantly thinking about Huaguo's recent situation.

After all, things had been too bizarre lately in his view; sudden successive breakthroughs in technological blockades had put him in a very awkward position.

The Secretary came in with a report, handing it to the President while saying, "Mr. President, they seem to have been affected and are also carrying out construction on their combustible ice mining platform."

"Oh?"

As soon as the President heard this, he was delighted internally.

The more Huaguo followed their plan, the more it proved they had successfully delayed the opponent's development!

"Huaguo is a nation that cares too much about appearances. Their combustible ice technology is clearly still in the most primitive research stage, unable to even achieve basic utilization, yet they dare to directly increase extraction volume?"

"If they don't understand reasonable mining methods, the more they develop now, the more waste there will be!"

The thought of being able to significantly deplete Huaguo's manpower, material resources, and even future resources just by speaking satisfied him.

The President felt immensely satisfied.

Now, surely no one could question the correctness of his decisions and policies, right?

"Mr. President, Huaguo also seems to be making a statement internationally. Would you like to watch?"

Upon hearing this, the President said nonchalantly, "Watch it? Why not!"

"They must be lacking technology and just want to appeal internationally for us to disclose our mining technology."

"Hilarious. We are not Huaguo. We must hold tightly to what benefits us, and simply ignore what doesn't."

Anyway, this was the Lighthouse Country's consistent approach; the President cared nothing about saving face or reputation.

For them, profit was the most important thing.

As long as the profit was large enough, they wouldn't care if they instantly betrayed a decision they had just agreed upon the second before.

Soon, the TV in the room was tuned to the video of Huaguo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement.

The Huaguo diplomatic official was addressing the environmental issues brought up by the Lighthouse Country's President recently.

Initially, the President was smiling. In his view, Huaguo was completely being led by the nose.

However, at the end, the tone suddenly changed.

The diplomatic official was seen holding a microphone, sternly questioning the foreign reporters who had asked him questions:

"The Lighthouse Country, which constantly talks about environmental protection."

"Is actually destroying the marine environment using chemical reagents!"

"Is this the environmental protection advocated by the Lighthouse Country's President?!"

"Shouldn't he first give us a reasonable explanation?"

...Chapter 67: Huaguo's Tough Stance! Is it impossible to catch up to the Lighthouse Country?!

Chapter 67: Huaguo's Tough Stance! Is it impossible to catch up to the Lighthouse Country?!

"What the heck???"

"How did Huaguo know?"

The President was shocked internally.

The issue of the chemical reagent being harmful was something Professor Ganiff had only discussed with the President personally.

Even the people manufacturing the chemical reagents didn't know.

After all, they were just manufacturing according to the formula and were not conducting marine experiments, so they didn't know what problems these chemical reagents would cause when used in seawater.

Yet Huaguo stated it so confidently, directly pointing out the biggest problem with the Lighthouse Country's combustible ice extraction.

Originally, this kind of problem wasn't considered a major issue.

Just like extracting and using oil, it also affects the environment and produces harmful substances.

But everyone ignored it, and those who switched to new methods would still continue to use them.

However, this time was different.

The Lighthouse Country's excuse and reason for promoting combustible ice while restricting other countries from using old-style energy was precisely environmental protection!

If he hadn't used this excuse, everyone would have just treated it as a regular energy source.

But now it turned out that combustible ice wasn't that environmentally friendly either, and even posed a direct threat to the ocean.

Since that was the case, pot calling the kettle black, what right did they have to stop other countries from using old-style energy?

“shit, how exactly did these Huaguo people know about this issue?”

“Do we have spies in our laboratory who leaked our chemical reagent formula?”

“Otherwise, how could they state it so clearly!?”

The Secretary next to him was also somewhat incredulous, but she didn't dwell on it, merely suggesting to the President: "Mr. President, this issue isn't that big, is it? So what if it's harmful? Others can't stop us from using it."

However, for the President, if the statement he made internationally were refuted.

It would be a huge stain on his political career.

Not only would he be severely slapped in the face, but he would also be unable to refute it.

Most importantly, his strategy would fail!

He couldn't rely on this excuse to delay the development of other countries, especially Huaguo!

He had already been surpassed in the two critical fields of rare earth and 17-nanometer chips; if he couldn't even strike back in the energy sector now, his position as President would truly be unstable!

“shit!”

“We can't just let them off!”

“Anyway, they are just talking; they have no authority to investigate our actual situation!”

“As long as there's no evidence, what we are doing is perfectly correct!”

The President wasn't giving up.

After deep consideration, he even felt somewhat certain of success.

After all, whether it was harmful or not, Huaguo had no evidence and couldn't investigate it; they could only engage in international rhetoric!

On their side, as long as they firmly insisted it was harmless, delaying the issue would be enough.

After all, combustible ice itself was more environmentally friendly than oil and natural gas, and its harm to the atmosphere was far less significant. The only drawback was the impact on the ocean during the extraction process.

As long as others didn't know this, the Lighthouse Country could still use environmental protection as an excuse to delay the development of other countries.

More seriously, they could even delay the domestic industrialization of other countries.

For some smaller nations, lacking conventional energy sources like oil and natural gas, they might even be directly de-industrialized. From then on, they would pose no threat to the Lighthouse Country and would be forced to cling tightly to the Lighthouse Country's patronage!

In this way, the Lighthouse Country's sphere of influence would grow larger and larger!

Thinking this, the President decided that he absolutely could not admit anything and would even stick to his path until the very end!

...Meanwhile, at this regular press conference for foreign journalists.

Initially, Huaguo was constantly questioned by media reporters regarding the Lighthouse Country's proposal for global co-prosperity and the construction of an environmentally friendly Earth.

They were then repeatedly pressed on whether Huaguo would answer the call and whether, as a major power, it should lead by example.

They were continuously forcing Huaguo to state that they would voluntarily abandon old-style energy, thereby achieving the Lighthouse Country's main goal.

Of course, the diplomatic official was no pushover. Initially, he continuously dodged the questions, but after being pushed back several steps, he stopped pretending and directly turned to accuse the Lighthouse Country.

In any case, they had internally confirmed one hundred percent that the Lighthouse Country's chemical reagent was definitely harmful, and significantly so.