Chapter 937 - Heated Verbal Exchanges (1/2)

Heated verbal exchanges.

That was the only impression in Jiang Chen’s mind of this UN summit.

Canberra, the capital of Australia, was located in the open valley of the Australian mountain range. The city didn’t have a large population but possessed beautiful scenery, it was chosen as the location for the UN Outer Space Summit. The Australian government attached great importance to the convening of this summit, because many heads of state and high-level representatives from the five permanent members would be present, the importance of this meeting was easy to imagine.

As early as the three days prior to the meeting, access to the vicinity of the venue was restricted, stores were closed, factories were shutdown, and all the streets of Canberra West were emptied.

The meeting was successfully held without any twists and turns.

Usually at such a summit attended by many heads of state, more than one topics would be discussed and it would not be limited to the topic of outer space development. Additionally, the important issue of the summit were often not discussed in the beginning.

The first topic to be discussed was not the space elevator, but the North Korea nuclear issue. Just two months ago, North Korea launched a missile suspected to be a ballistic missile, with the capability to mount a nuclear warhead. How did this relate to the Outer Space Summit? Of course, it was related. The use of outer space for peaceful purposes has always been the consensus of the international community.

Although the lean-looking representative was impassioned during his speech, Jiang Chen, who was sitting next to Zhang Yaping, couldn’t stop yawning.

Problems like this couldn’t get solved at all, it was a waste of time regardless of the length of the discussion.

To summarize, the individuals who spoke were North Korea representative and the UA Secretary of State Kerry, and the contents of the two sides could be summarized in four sentences.

“You are not allowed to launch missiles!”

“Launching missiles is within my power!”

“I dare you to launch one.”

“Oh, I did.”

War?

They would have gone to war already if they could.

But war was never something that could be determined by one or two missiles and a pat on the head. International issues were never resolved by a click of a button. It was not as easy as simply “destroying the enemy’s base.”

People often seeked reasons to persuade themselves for what has happened, or use their own logic to combine the limited information avaliable to derive their own truth out of necessity. The only real conclusion behind all the mental gymnastics was nothing but the fact that people are often wrong.

People will always repeated the same tragedy, and humans will always make the same mistakes.

Because Jiang Chen firmly believed this point, he could sit hear without fear. NASA Director Bolden even caught him yawning when he looked to his side. However, after glancing at the nearest camera and estimating that it could not capture anything below the table, he took out his phone and started to play games produced by Future Technology.

Even if the space elevator was placed right in front of them, even if they knew the true value of this technology, they could only watch him leave if they could not pay the price.

Zhang Yaping glanced at Jiang Chen next to him and whispered.

“Your mentality is not bad.”

“It’s okay. The space elevator is after three more issues, you don’t have to be so nervous now.” Jiang Chen did not look up as his eyes were still staring at the screen.

Zhang Yaping paused for a second and touched his face with an odd expression.

“I seem nervous?”

“It may be my illusion.”

As Jiang Chen expected, the North Korea nuclear issue did not yield any results. But looking at Kerry’s indifferent expression, he probably didn’t think anything material would come out of this meeting.