Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 702 Thinking and Fighting

Walking and walking, Qin Yuanqing came to a piece of grass, and lay down on the grass, looking at the bright moon in the sky.

No one would have thought that this celestial body with a diameter of only one-fourth of the earth and a mass of only one-eightyth of the earth is not even a planet, but a natural satellite of the earth. It is actually a huge treasure that will support The earth has stepped out of the cradle of life and entered the vast universe.

As China increases its exploration of the moon, it naturally learns more about the moon. For example, in terms of the moon's mineral deposits, according to the existing detection data, the content of helium 3 on the moon has reached 3000 million tons, which is the first Forty times the amount of detection, which means that it can continuously provide fusion fuel, enough to allow China's space planes to fly across the entire solar system, and the entire human race will not be able to use it up in millions of years.There is also iron storage, which has reached hundreds of trillion tons.Titanium, which is not abundant on the earth, has 200 trillion tons on the moon.

Titanium is a silver-white transitional metal, characterized by light weight, high strength, metallic luster, and resistance to wet chlorine gas corrosion.On Earth, titanium is a rare metal because it is dispersed in nature and difficult to extract.Of course, this is not to say that the storage of titanium is low, on the contrary, the storage of titanium on the earth is still relatively high, and it is not uncommon for the world's reserves to exceed 1000 million tons of titanium ore.

All along, so far, titanium has been a considerable strategic material, and its output is extremely low. So far, the output of titanium in the world is extremely limited, and China's titanium output exceeds half.It is widely used in national defense, aerospace and aviation fields.For example, titanium is not magnetic, and nuclear submarines built with titanium do not have to worry about magnetic mine attacks.Titanium also replaces steel in a large number of rockets and missiles. For example, China's aerospace aircraft uses titanium for many components to reduce its weight.

The titanium submarine built by Huaxia in recent years, the submarine can sail in the deep sea as deep as 4500 meters, and the lithium-air battery gives it a nearly unlimited voyage, making Huaxia's latest titanium nuclear submarine jump to the top of the submarine list .

For every ton of helium 3 extracted from Huaxia's current factory on the 'Moon Base', 6300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen, 1600 tons of carbon, and a large amount of resources such as iron and titanium have been obtained at the same time.

"I don't know when, I can go to the space station and the moon base!" Qin Yuanqing looked at the bright moon in the sky and muttered to himself.

To be honest, he was actually very envious of those astronauts, because these astronauts could go to space, go to the moon, and walk out of the earth, but he could only stay on the earth honestly, and it was impossible to sit in space for a short time. The space shuttle goes to space, enters the space station, or goes to the moon to see the moon base built by Huaxia itself.

Even after so many years of practice, the safety and stability of the aerospace plane has been verified, but he still cannot go in his capacity.According to what a certain person said, it’s fine to be on the earth, but space is still too dangerous. If you want to experience it, you can enter the metaverse and dimensional space to experience it.

But to know these virtual reality things, maybe for ordinary people, the things in virtual reality can be confused with the real, but for Qin Yuanqing, the fake is fake, it is not real, where is this kind of experience? In space, looking back at the blue planet is so real, how can it be so real to observe the universe in space?

Looking at the starry sky, Qin Yuanqing's thoughts couldn't help drifting away. His eyes looked at the bright stars and the dark space in the middle. Looking up at the starry sky, his mind was full of curiosity and thinking about the starry sky.

On the third day of Qin Yuanqing's return to his hometown, it was very lively here, because an academic forum on international political economy was held here. International political economics was born in the middle and late 20th century, in response to the globalization and The specific requirements of profound changes in international political and economic relations.The collapse of the Bretton Woods system, the European unification and regional integration movement, and the first oil crisis in 20 constitute the realistic basis for the birth of international political economy.From the development of classical political economy, modern economics, international politics and international relations theory, international political economy has gained important sources of thought and theoretical support.

Even today, international political economics is still very popular, and with the revival of China, it has injected new vitality and vitality into this subject.

Qin Yuanqing took Qin Zheng and Qin Shiman to listen to relevant lectures with great interest, and there were some photos of famous scholars in related fields in the hall, such as Shen Yi, Boston Round Face, etc. that Qin Yuanqing once knew well.

There was such a forum, which was about an important branch of international political economics theory - the theory of hegemony stability. Qin Yuanqing watched several scholars on the stage talk about it, and listened with gusto.

The founders and perfecters of the theory of hegemony stability are Professor Gilpin and Charles Kindelberger. The main contents of this theory include: hegemony brings about the stability of world political economy, hegemony sacrifices itself, hegemony must decline, and the loss of hegemony leads to world political economic instability.

An open and free world economy needs a hegemon or dominant power; a very important reason why World War II broke out was that the hegemony of the empire on which the sun never sets was weakening, and the empire on which the sun never set was no longer able to guarantee the international settlement system, while the United States was in Reluctant to take over this responsibility from the British until 1936.Since World War II, especially in the past 20 years, the rapid development of the global economy seems to have confirmed the theories of these two professors from the side!It is precisely because a hegemon like the United States has led the establishment of an international free economic order with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the International Monetary Fund as the main body, the international community generally enjoys security and peace, a free international economic order and The international monetary system basically functioned normally, and the world economy expanded extremely smoothly.

But this theory also believes that there are three major reasons that will lead to the inevitable decline of the hegemony. First of all, hegemony is based on the overwhelming military, economic and technological strength of the hegemony, but it is not the existing production capacity that determines the economic development of a country. It's the economy's ability to transform itself!At this point the overlord is not dominant!

Secondly, maintaining hegemony requires huge costs. The aircraft carrier formations of the United States all over the world are the best example!In order to pay the cost of maintaining hegemony, the economic surplus of the hegemonic country is gradually reduced or even exhausted!
In the end, in order to maintain the hegemony, some free riders will appear, and these free riders will weaken the strength of the hegemonic country!For example, in order to maintain a free world economy, the United States subordinated many of its narrow economic interests to those of its allies, and endured discrimination against American exports by Europe and Japan.As a result, the U.S. economy suffered a lot, while Europe and Japan rose rapidly and became challengers for U.S. hegemony.

In 2020, topics related to witnessing the twilight of hegemony became popular, and the development of the past 16 years seems to have witnessed that everyone has truly witnessed the twilight of hegemony.

And now, is a new hegemony born?Is the current hegemonic stability theory also suitable for this era?
Several scholars do not have much disagreement about what has happened in the past, but they have great disagreements on whether a new hegemony is born now, and whether the current hegemony stability theory is also suitable for this era.

Shen Yi believes that now is not the birth of a new hegemony. Hegemony belongs to before the 21st century. To be precise, it belongs to the uniqueness of Western civilization. Occupying the world's leading power, especially China is the X factor. Since ancient times, China has not been interested in the king's hegemony. What it pursues is common development. The "sage outside and king inside" has always run through the development of Chinese civilization, and it is no exception now.The absence of a new world war so far proves this.

And there are other scholars who believe that now is the birth of a new hegemony, no matter how good the superficial whitewashing is, the birth of hegemony is an indisputable fact. It cannot be judged by whether there is a world war or whether it is hegemonic and dominates the world. In terms of influence, the most important thing for an economy or a country is that the economy must be productive. A hegemony changes from being strong to being weak, that is, from being productive to being unproductive. This is pointed out in "Economic Hegemony 1550-1990".However, the hegemonic stability theory is still applicable to this era, and international political economy is also applicable to this era and the future, there is no doubt about it.

Of course, some scholars do not agree with these two views, but believe that the times are developing, and each era has its own particularity, so some theories are applicable, and some are no longer applicable. These can be obtained from the works of relevant scholars. Reflected.

The confrontation between several scholars made Qin Yuanqing listen with gusto. This kind of academic topic discussion is also a collision of sparks of wisdom.

The world not only has science, but also social sciences, which are equally important. International affairs, politics, and economics are all important parts of the world, and studying them is very useful.Often through research, they can discover problems and give suggestions to solve them.

For example, is it the birth of a new hegemony? This is a very hot topic. In the past ten years, there have been heated discussions on this issue, but until now there is still no conclusion, and the academic community has not been able to reach a relatively unified one. Opinion.

During the three-day forum, Qin Yuanqing kept a low profile. He was an ordinary audience, listening to each scholar's point of view and thinking.

However, it is obvious that Qin Zheng and Qin Shiman are not interested in this at all. Except for the first topic, they will never listen to Qin Yuanqing in the next few sessions. According to their words, this kind of academic exchange is very boring. Playing a game of table tennis, or learning about aerospace is very interesting.

(End of this chapter)