"It's been 60 years since I've felt this kind of humiliation. It's really embarrassing." Facing China's strong counterattack — a rigid sanction against 20 American defense companies and 10 executives, U.S. Vice President Vance sighed helplessly in response to the journalist's question, feeling it was a great disgrace.
In December 2025, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement with decisive action, imposing rigid sanctions on 20 American defense companies such as Northrop Grumman and Boeing St. Louis, as well as 10 corporate executives, freezing all their assets in China, prohibiting any Chinese organization or individual from conducting transactions with them, and even barring them from entering China, including Hong Kong and Macau regions.
This move truly hurt the United States, leaving them stunned, and this sense of embarrassment is entirely self-inflicted.
For many years, the United States has acted recklessly on the international stage, mastering the art of sanctions. In April 2018, the United States issued an order cutting off the supply chain of high-end chips for ZTE, with an $8 billion fine and board restructuring making the Chinese people feel "strangled" for the first time.
In May 2019, Huawei was added to the entity list, and Google's GMS service was cut off; in September 2020, TSMC was forced to stop manufacturing Kirin 9000; in October 2022, BIS introduced "export controls on advanced computing chips to China," locking A100 and H100 computing cards, EDA software below 14nm, and DUV maintenance parts into a "small courtyard."
The Washington strategic circle proudly claimed: "As long as we lock up computing power and process technology, we can make China stagnate in the AI and supercomputing fields." In the short term, this move indeed made China feel uncomfortable. In 2021, Huawei's global smartphone market share dropped from 18% to 9%, with 7 out of every 10 high-end devices being taken by Apple.
But the "suffocation" lasted only two quarters.
In 2022, Huawei used Qualcomm's 4G chip version to stabilize domestic shipments of 60 million units; in 2023, the Mate60 series equipped with its self-developed 7nm Kirin 9000S suddenly went on sale, causing a 2000 yuan price increase at Shenzhen Huaqiangbei, and after TechInsights disassembled it, they confirmed that the "de-Americanized production line had been successfully running."
In the same year, the total import volume of integrated circuits in China fell by 15%, but the local wafer capacity increased by 21%, raising the global share from 16% to 24%.
Not only Huawei, but the 136 Chinese semiconductor companies listed also raised over 520 billion RMB through A-share, Sci-Tech Innovation Board, and the second phase of the National Major Fund within three years.
Zhongwei, Northern Light, and Shengmei Shanghai increased their market shares of etching machines and thin film equipment from single digits to around 20%; in 2024, Yangtze Memory's 232-layer 3D NAND was the first to be mass-produced.
This progress is not only due to capital, but more importantly, to the support of talent — in the global competition for science and technology, talent has always been the most precious resource.
Therefore, only by retaining our own talents can we grasp the initiative in the future wave of chips. Especially in the era of technology, we must focus on cultivating talents in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. As Ren Zhengfei said: "Building bridges, roads, and houses just requires money, but chips require mathematicians, physicists, and chemists..."
Compared to this, physics, as theoretical knowledge supporting national technological development, is only systematically studied in junior high school, which is six years later than countries that start early. Plus, the difficulty and heavy workload of physics make it even harder to cultivate top physics talents.
Li Yongle, a physics teacher at Beijing No. 4 High School, once called for: "Primary schools should introduce physics early, otherwise students' scientific thinking in junior high will lag behind, and they may fall behind easily! The earlier children establish interest in learning physics, the more confident they will be when facing complex concepts in junior high, allowing them to learn and overcome them with confidence."
In recent years, more and more teachers and parents have tried using comics, animations, and interactive experiments to let children learn knowledge in laughter and understand principles through curiosity.
To this end, Li Yongle spent two years specifically writing a set of physical science popularization books titled "10 Simple Comic Physics Classes." This book was immediately praised upon release. After all, between the ages of 5 and 12, it is the best period for children to develop scientific thinking, and books are the best gift for them.
This book helps children build a complete scientific knowledge system during their sensitive period of seeking knowledge! It is recommended by Liu Pengzhi, honorary principal of the United Front of Beijing No. 4 High School, research fellow Gou Lijun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and host Ju Ping.
The book is created based on the new curriculum standards for physics, focusing on helping children understand, gradually introducing 10 major topics: mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, vibrations and waves, electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, atomic physics, history of optics, relativity, and quantum mechanics, transforming abstract formulas into interesting stories, "teaching how to fish" to train children's scientific thinking, helping them grasp the entire high school physics landscape, and smoothly connecting primary to middle school!
The book uses comics to explain physics, making what was once dry knowledge extremely interesting. For example, Newton's first law is illustrated with cartoon images of bicycles and trains, intuitively showing inertia, so that children can understand it immediately. Concepts like small molecules and evaporation and condensation are presented with life scenes and cute illustrations, such as water molecules "racing to jump out" while boiling water, allowing children to say "Oh, I see!" as they read, understanding deeply and easily.
Li Teacher adopts a step-by-step, thought-provoking explanation, emphasizing the core logic and ideas hidden behind daily phenomena, training children's scientific and top student thinking through "teaching how to fish."
New and fashionable fun comics present the basic principles of physics clearly and simply, making reading easy and accessible! A large number of key points and exam questions from textbooks can also be found in this book, laying a solid foundation for future studies!
Whether you want to provide physics启蒙 for your child or help them learn basic physics knowledge effortlessly, this book is highly recommended! Using simple comics to make knowledge fun, children love to read and understand it, and family reading together is also very enjoyable, exploring the world of physics together and witnessing the child's cognitive upgrade.
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【Hai Xia】C Li Yongle's 10 Simple Comic Physics Classes
【Hai Xia】C Li Yongle's 10 Simple Comic Physics Classes
Original: toutiao.com/article/1855927389604168/
Statement: This article represents the personal views of the author.