Today is probably the best day Spence has had since he arrived in this southern Chinese city.

As the new head of the U.S. intelligence agency in the city, the fate of the previous head made him very worried about his future, but the footage he saw on the live broadcast now made Spence feel a lot happier.

The main task of the US intelligence agencies in China is no longer just to collect intelligence, and the matter of causing trouble to the Chinese has surpassed intelligence collection in priority. After all, the information gathered will not be of much use except to make the country more frightened.

The United States once had the best team of scientists, filed the most patents each year, published the most papers, and had the best big science in the world. But that's all in the past now.

The big science facility was surpassed by China half a century ago, when the top scientists in the United States had to contact their Chinese counterparts in order to make an appointment to use the super science facilities in Lanzhou, Hefei, Lintong and other places, and only those Americans who were friendly to China or who had friends with Chinese scientists could be lucky enough to get about a month of use, and they had to wait in line for a year.

Spence's own playmate once wanted to be a scientist and talk about leading America to greatness again, but then he switched careers to the financial industry, because basic science would not be able to move without China's hugely invested scientific facilities.

Every time the playmate drinks with Spence at a bar, he complains that "those bankers and military-industrial scientists have ruined our future" and that "politicians who only want to please stupid voters have ruined the foundations of America while cutting down useless projects."

Spence would only nod silently in agreement. In fact, he really wanted to tell this childhood friend, tell this best friend, where the most terrible thing about China is.

Everyone in this country can mentally calculate four arithmetic numbers above three digits, and they are confident that they are correct when they say the answer. Spence didn't have that confidence, and he had to use a calculator to press it every time.

Students in this country who do well in secondary school are respected by everyone, adults and peers. In the ordinary high school of the United States, people with good grades will be excluded unless they are also rich, people who are obsessed with science will be considered freaks, and those who play football are the stars of the school.

Even in aristocratic schools that value academics, students in the United States are divided into high and low, and those who take courses in politics and finance, and are good at speaking and organizing activities, are respected by their peers, favored by alumni associations, and can rise to the top in the future. And those who are obsessed with the natural sciences are often not so lucky, and every parent will remind their children that becoming a researcher in the basic sciences means that you will have to worry about how to get research sponsorships every year after that.

But in China, where the best and brightest are sent to study science, and the competition for science in the university entrance examination is fierce every year, a person who switches from science to liberal arts is seen as a deserter and a loser by his peers who have studied science together.

The Chinese see this emphasis on reasoning as a mistake and have always wanted to correct him, but Spence believes that this is the foundation of modern China. A whole bunch of lawyers and bankers will only make things worse, and scientists and engineers are the key to a nation's strength.

Among China's top leaders, there are even mechanical and electrical engineers, water conservancy experts, chemical experts, aerospace experts (fictitious), theoretical physics experts (fictitious), and so on.

It is these people who have led the country down a completely different path than the United States.

When Spence was a child, he once listened to his great-grandfather reminisce about his experience when he accompanied President Bush on his visit to China, saying that at that time, the Federal Secret Service sent a special team of agents to China, and also airlifted bulletproof cars and accompanying vehicles, one of which also had a machine gun in it! Machine gun!

The fact that the entourage of the US president was able to carry a weapon like a machine gun to operate in China now sounds like a fantasy story.

Now the United States of America and the entire Western community – to be precise, the Western societies that survived the wave of stanification – are waiting, waiting for the conquest of the world by the emerging empires, just as they waited for the Red Bear to strike from the North.

The difference is that in the face of the red bear, the West still has the capital to resist, and now, the Westerners can only plan to die together with the invaders.

However, the Chinese did not want to rule the world at all, and after coming to work in China, Spence gradually learned this, and China's traditional culture regarded the motherland under its feet as a heavenly state, and the barbarian land was not looked down upon.

And this is the most terrible thing about this country, because once the Chinese begin to expand, it will inevitably follow the same path as the empires in history: Alexander, Napoleon, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the empire will collapse one day. However, the Chinese do not want to build empires, they just want to make their land richer day by day.

They don't want to rob someone else's stuff, they like to create everything with their own hands.

And they have learned a lesson in the last 300 years that they have missed the great Age of Discoveries – or the Age of Discovery, – by clinging too much to their homeland. Now they are determined to take the burden of extricating human boundaries firmly into their own hands.

The longer he stayed in China, the more Spence felt that the United States and Western society could no longer win, and he could not blame the younger generation of white young people for rushing to China, and he could not preach to the white youth of the Foreign Legion who were scrambling to join the Chinese in order to obtain Chinese citizenship, which was extremely difficult to obtain.

But today, Spence felt as if he saw a chance to win.

This new empire, which is looking up at the starry sky, seems to have cracks inside.

In the live broadcast screen, countless prosthetic people are singing the Internationale in unison, and from the lyrics of "Interna Schonel must be realized", Spence peeks into the opportunity of the United States.

He pressed the communication button on the table, "Trevor, come on." ”

So Spence's assistant Trevor pushed the door in: "What's wrong, sir?" ”

Spence pointed to the picture: "Tell our informant to find a way to contact the strike leaders of these workers." ”

Trevor glanced at the picture and pouted, "You mean that the last bastion of the capitalist world is to be supported...... Workers' movement? ”

"Why not, anyway, our country has long been left without workers, only financial crooks and arms dealers."