In the past, the other side of the ocean was a country sitting on wheels.
But now on the other side of the ocean, it is a country that is literally lying on the Internet.
The four giants FAAG (Fight to Die, Amazon, Fruit, and Bone Song) are conquering all directions.
Weiruan, Intel, Caitong, Sike, IBM, Oracle and other small companies are showing off their teeth and claws, and continue to export their influence through Internet.
Which technology is the biggest contributor to the successful transformation of the other side of the ocean from "isolationism" to "interventionism"...
It definitely has to be Internet!
It is not only a tool for exporting values and institutional models, but also a tool for intelligence collection.
The equipment and software are all mine, so entering or leaving other people's homes is not the same as leaving your own back garden?
The eight extraordinary meridians of the body have been opened, and the tentacles are spread all over the world. With such an "innate posture", the CIA usually carries out its work with ease.
When he was bored during afternoon tea, he picked up a Bluetooth headset, and Najib could hear the whispers between the German Iron Lady and her husband...
Just ask who else in the world?!
Coupled with the full support of the other four underlings of the "Five Eyes Alliance", the CIA's harvesting of intelligence is as if it were unparalleled, not much more difficult than cutting leeks.
But I don’t know since when, times have changed...
A "comprehensive communication technology solution provider" named Juchang emerged halfway!
They range from communication base stations and submarine optical cables to smart wearables and mobile phone chips!
This communications company, which gradually rose from obscurity, has become an existence that even the world police cannot ignore.
Ranked first in communication infrastructure technology and first in the number of communication patent applications.
Carrier business and enterprise business, No. 1 in the world.
Recently, it has made great efforts in consumer business, and even the fruit company, which is invincible in the world, has been beaten badly.
In the first quarter of 2018 alone, fruit machine sales in China fell by 20%.
According to a recent intelligence report by the CIA, in the Q3 quarter of this year, Juchang's global mobile phone business will most likely surpass that of Fruit.
There was only one Sanxin left in front of him, shivering...
Najib doesn't care about Fruit's performance report this year. What he cares about is that the other party is constantly encroaching on their intelligence back garden at a speed visible to the naked eye!
They still have considerable advantages in the 4G era, but once 5G technology is implemented in a year or two, the world will set off a new wave of communication infrastructure upgrades...
The CIA has held several internal meetings to evaluate this matter.
The assessment unanimously believes that if it is not curbed, the existence of this company will greatly increase the difficulty of obtaining global intelligence in the future!
Taking advantage of the "tax increase incident" a while ago, he suggested to the president that he try his best with another communications giant, Xingzhong Communications.
On the surface, it is a means of pressure before negotiations, but it is also a preliminary test to observe China's reaction and to crack down on the hard nut of Juchang.
The result made Najib very satisfied.
Faced with the threat of supply interruption, Xingzhong, which was unable to achieve self-sufficiency, finally chose to compromise.
Whether it was a huge fine of US$2 billion, the placement of its own observers, or even an extremely excessive change of management... Xingzhong gritted his teeth and agreed.
This was an extremely successful trial and gave Najib the confidence to repeat his old tricks.
He is from the MAGA party (Make Americ Great Again).
Heretics like Juchang who hinder MAGA must be resolutely suppressed and eliminated!
"Inform all senior management to hold a meeting in the afternoon, focusing on how to suppress the crazy expansion of Juchang.
Before the 5G plan is implemented, we must draft a comprehensive blockade plan and submit it to the president!"
"Yes, Director!"
"By the way, has the other party made any new moves recently?"
"There is nothing particularly noteworthy, except that the other party has recently suddenly increased its purchase of raw materials, and the purchase volume of some parts has even doubled.
In addition, we have contacted several domestic suppliers and plan to expand production capacity on a large scale..."
"Expanding production capacity? It seems that we are quite confident about future sales...
Huh! Let them be proud for a while longer. The higher they climb, the harder they fall!"
Najib sneered.
No one would think otherwise about Juchang's increased purchasing efforts.
In the eyes of Najib and others, the other party is just an ordinary private enterprise and not a professional intelligence agency.
They may be quite good at business competition, but it would be too bizarre to predict their strategic decisions on the other side of the ocean from across the Pacific Ocean.
This is just like Fuso's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. There were warning signs, but no one believed them...
After writing his own opinions on the information at hand, Najib opened the next piece of information again.
[The Aili armed group of the permafrost organization was almost wiped out in the outer suburbs of Damascus, and there were small groups of unidentified Asian government troops in the surrounding area...]
Ai Li? It seems that it was a group that he supported some time ago. There should be more than a hundred people in it. They were wiped out right away?
After reading the battle report, Najib was even more confused.
They were all wiped out by the crowd, and they didn’t even know who their opponents were.
Do the government forces have such an elite special operations team?
Could it be that the Eastern Kingdom took action?
However, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and even the soldiers have not capsized the boat. This may be an accidental event.
What a pity... I originally wanted to support this armed group as a destabilizing factor in the northwest, but now the fruit is about to mature...
Now years of upfront investment are in vain.
Fortunately, they still have several spare tires, but they have to spend another sum of money...
Najib wrote down his handling opinions, then sandwiched a written funding application form with this information and placed it in the pile of documents to be processed aside.
Well... the funds were overstated by 20%, so this month's department team building expenses will be paid out...
He took a comfortable sip of coffee and began to process the next piece of information.
[Shui Mu University, China’s top university, suddenly discovered three major mathematical problems of the century, which vaguely point to the ultimate artificial intelligence? 】
"Pfft!" A mouthful of coffee spurted out.
"Snapped!"
Najib threw the information in his hand on the table with a slap and looked at the deputy with a dark face.
"I said, when did our current intelligence officers learn to use the media to make headlines? It's outrageous!"
What are you doing? Come up with this title.
Even if the focus of our work in recent times is Chinese intelligence, then there is no need to rely on traffic and popularity, right?
And it’s still very popular for science fiction!
Isn't this a hard move?
"Who wrote this report? Why, the news in the Lunmin Daily is not enough, and we have to find gossip in the three-page tabloid to complete this month's performance?"
"Ahem! Director, this report... I wrote it..." the deputy said with an embarrassed look on his face.
Najib: “…”
He was about to get angry when he saw his chief, so the deputy quickly explained.
"Director, please calm down. This is really not my headline, but a joint guess made by several top mathematicians and computer experts from my country's top universities.
This... of course, it cannot be ruled out that these scientific researchers are exaggerating.
You know, these people who study mathematics, if you draw a line for them, they can write a book and talk about it all the way to the end of the universe..."
"Our country's top mathematicians and computer experts..."
Seemingly swayed by the name of the expert, Nagy patiently read the report.
Although he was a top student at West Point Military Academy, the large number of dazzling strings still made him a little confused.
After struggling for a while and finally giving up on understanding what these three questions wanted to ask, he jumped directly to the final conclusion of the report.
"Suspected mathematical problems in the computer modeling process... vaguely pointing to advanced algorithms in the field of ultimate artificial intelligence... alarmed top mathematicians around the world... No one has been able to answer any of the questions..."
He frowned deeply.
He doesn't care when new mathematical problems appear in the world. After all, one is solved every few years.
It seems to be pointing to the field of ultimate artificial intelligence, and he is slightly concerned about it. After all, it is one of the main competition tracks among major powers.
But what concerned him the most was that these so-called "three world-class problems" that were so impressive... actually appeared in China again!
Shuimu University, the top university in China...
Does this mean that someone in China is once again ahead of us on the artificial intelligence track?
This is super bad news!
"Are these three questions really so difficult?"
"At least several top mathematicians believe that no one will be able to solve it within three to five years."
"But I read from the intelligence that one case has been solved?"
"Yes, but the mysterious publisher did not announce the answer, but simply disappeared.
Even the principal of Mizuki personally sent a message and set out the conditions for inviting him to be a visiting professor, but he didn't get any reply from the other party.
Some hackers also tried to find the identity of the other party, but found that the social account was just a zombie account..."
"Is that so... It seems that the other party is deliberately concealing his identity..."
Najib looked at the information in his hand, and his eyes finally landed on a name that was specially highlighted in bold...
“Open-source Emperor Meng Chang Jun”
The open source emperor?
What a weird name?
"'Meng Chang Jun'? Is this a person's name?"
Najib is obviously not very proficient in Chinese culture.
"I know this!" The deputy saw the opportunity to show off.
"Mengchang Jun was one of the four most famous lords during the Warring States Period of China. His real name was Tian Wen.
This person is especially famous for maintaining a large number of 'men'...
Oh! At that time, "menke" probably meant "death warrior".
Because his given name is "Meng" and his territory is in a place called "Chang", after inheriting his father's fiefdom, everyone respectfully calls each other "Mengchang Lord"."
This deputy explained the meaning of "Mengchang Jun" in detail.
"Oh~" Najib nodded clearly.
“As expected of Huaguotong, I specially selected it. That’s why I understand.
Then tell me...could this weird name hide the other party's true identity?
For example, a certain high-ranking official named Tian from China?"
"This... is just a pseudonym, but it is difficult to determine the identity of the other party.
On the Chinese Internet, there are eight hundred or even one thousand people named ‘Mengchang Jun’.
But what is certain is that there is definitely a team behind the other party that is working on artificial intelligence, and the research progress may be in the world's leading position...
I think there is a high probability that the other party is blocked in the research field, so they have to throw out the difficult problem, hoping to use external forces to get top mathematicians from various countries to help solve it.
You know, China’s mathematics community simply cannot produce many top talents.”
"Hmm..." Najib nodded.
"Then...is there an official background behind this Mr. Mengchang?"
This is what worries him most.
"This matter...doesn't seem to be the official style of China.
And according to the intelligence we have at hand, the other party is even lagging behind our country in the field of artificial intelligence, and it is unlikely that it will suddenly advance by leaps and bounds.
The strange thing is that it is simply unrealistic to hide a research and development project like this that requires extremely large-scale capital investment.
However, the other party seemed to appear out of nowhere without any warning...
Either they achieved extremely accidental results, or the other party is well-organized and does a very good job of keeping secrets," the deputy analyzed.
"Hmm..." Najib touched his chin.
He suddenly appeared on the Internet without any warning, dropped an extremely advanced math problem and then disappeared... Why does it feel like déjà vu?
He couldn't help but think of someone.
If we say who is the most mysterious person in the history of the Internet, it must be the man who emerged decades ago and ushered in the era of digital currency...
Satoshi Nakamoto!
The CIA spent years trying to find each other...
After all, as the creator, the other party is likely to control an amount of Bitcoin that is enough to shake the entire cryptocurrency market.
That is definitely an amazing wealth!
However, the investigation yielded no results.
Satoshi Nakamoto mysteriously appeared and disappeared ten years ago.
Today's Lord Mengchang appears and disappears mysteriously like this.
A left-behind mathematical problem has changed today's global financial landscape.
Another mathematical question left behind vaguely points to the future of artificial intelligence...
Is there any connection between these two people?
Najib shook his head, getting rid of this idea that seemed a bit absurd to him.
It's probably just a coincidence...
Return your gaze to the information in your hands.
"Well...it doesn't rule out that forces from other countries want to put the blame on China and then fish in troubled waters...
After all, by spreading the problem in one's top universities, doesn't it clearly tell everyone that this is the work of the Chinese?
Doing this would be like leaving three hundred taels of silver in this place..."
"Huh? The director woke up the dreamer with a few words! You are becoming more and more proficient in Chinese allusions!"
The deputy immediately smiled and flattered him.
When Najib heard this, he didn't feel that he was being photographed at all. Instead, he sighed helplessly.
I just learned Chinese allusions when I had nothing to do, and even the CIA had to recruit a large number of Hua Guotong...
Although this is to cope with the increasing threats from the Eastern countries, we have to recruit more relevant talents.
But this undoubtedly shows from the side that China's influence is growing day by day.
I heard that the space station that the other party is about to start building will be all in Chinese...
What is this? This is a cultural invasion!
Looking at his work today, it is obviously the compilation and compilation of recent intelligence, but there is no way around this country.
Is the content of your work today "Chinese Special Topic"?
From Alzheimer's disease to mobile phone unlocking, from 5G communications to artificial intelligence...
Just look at this information and you will know that the pressure from China is simply all-round!
The longer you stay in this position, the more powerless you will feel.
In the face of competition, the once powerful lighthouse nation has gradually become unable to meet its expectations and has become somewhat inattentive.
No! We can’t continue to let the other party develop like this!
"How's the mission to Lamberts (Longhorn) going?" He looked at his deputy.
"Reporting to the director, we have reached an agreement with APT28 in the North Country and can take action at any time!"
"Great, tomorrow, I'm going to see what I want entered into our database!"
"Yes! Director!"
After the deputy went out and gave the order, he turned the boss's chair to face the background wall behind him.
And on the wall is written the organizational program left by the previous CIA director "Pinocchio"——