On the 24th, when the Police Department officially restricted the departure of aerospace engineers from the Island Country, over thirty engineers had already successfully defected to China and obtained legal status.
Zhang Chuanyong's speech and the treatment that the engineers from the Island Country received in China led public opinion in the Island Country in a strange direction: Asian co-prosperity.
Of course, this was also one of the popular public sentiments originally, but now it had become mainstream with the exodus crisis.
With the media adding fuel to the fire, more and more people believed that China was now the world's leading industrial power, with steel production that outclassed the rest of the world, and an educated population so large it was hard to believe, just like an America on the eve of its rise—plus an invincible enhanced version!