Chapter 492 - 491
Su Yang frowned, "What patents, what projects? How did this involve the Japanese?"
"It’s about those recent projects..." Lin Dingkun said, "Some research equipment that we don’t have here domestically, which we borrowed from a Japanese corporation. I don’t know how they found out about these projects, but they specifically sent someone over this time, forcing us to share the projects with them, or else they’ll pull out the equipment. This equipment is patented by only that Japanese company, and once they take it back, our projects won’t be able to continue!"
"Why were they borrowed?" Su Yang asked in surprise, "Why didn’t we just buy them outright initially?"
"We had no choice!" Lin Dingkun said, "This Japanese company has always been exceptionally restrictive towards us in Huaxia Country. They never sell us the core technology equipment, only lending it to us, and the rent is very high. Moreover, they monitor our research progress; once they see our research is valuable, they will force us to share our research results, or they’ll pull out their equipment, disrupting our research."
"This company has tricked more than twenty of our Huaxia companies using this method. Everyone is extremely angry about it, but there’s nothing we can do since they hold the core technology—technology not even America has!"
"Would they use the same forceful tactics on America?" Su Yang frowned.
"They wouldn’t dare!" Lin Dingkun said, "They only target Asian countries. With white people, they wouldn’t dare do such a thing. However, you also know, these shorties are in cahoots with Americans. They sell their equipment to America, but America won’t allow us to use it. Therefore, we have always been constrained by them on this issue!"
"These people are truly shameless!" Su Yang frowned and said, "Can’t we find another way to replace it?"
"There’s really no other way for large-scale research; that’s the most troublesome part." Lin Dingkun said, "Without these specific items, the research can’t continue. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have to bow to them at all."
"For something this important, haven’t we developed it ourselves?" Su Yang asked again.
"These kinds of patents can’t be developed overnight, especially patents related to medical science, which require a prolonged period of testing. It took them a full seventy years to develop these few patents. We started late; within the coming decade, it will be very difficult to overcome these technological challenges!"