Coincidence or storytelling? Just after China's oblique detonation shockwave engine was officially announced, the US version moved from PowerPoint to reality.

In late February, Hong Kong media reported that China had achieved a major breakthrough in the field of oblique detonation engines, ensuring the engineering application of the world's first oblique detonation engine driven by aviation kerosene. Less than a month later, the US announced significant progress in the same field. According to a March 20 report by The New York Times, the US defense giant Pratt & Whitney announced the successful testing of a rotating detonation engine, bringing it closer to engineering application.

Previously, most of the US research on detonation engines remained at the PowerPoint stage. However, less than a month after China's breakthrough, the US results quickly moved into reality. This is indeed too fast. Is this a coincidence, or is the US deliberately telling a story? There are indeed such doubts outside. American tech companies are most skilled at storytelling because US companies are influenced by the stock market. Only by telling a good story can they support the stock market well. For example, Musk, who is best at storytelling, faced a stock market crash and severe crisis when he could no longer tell his story.

It cannot be denied that the US still has certain advantages in high-tech fields. However, whether the advantage in scientific and technological R&D can quickly be converted into product advantages is another issue. The distance between the US laboratory and the production workshop is now becoming increasingly distant. Severe hollowing out has eroded US manufacturing, leading to insufficient competitiveness and innovation strength of US products. Many innovative concepts in the US remain at the PowerPoint stage, while our products have already appeared on a large scale. This is the basic reason why the US dares not and is unwilling to compete with China.

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