1980: I Empty Europe's Entire Industrial Base

1980.

Some said, "It's better to buy than to build." Others argued, "We should import the technology first."

Su Chen stayed out of the debate.

He simply spent ten years in the shadow of the Berlin Wall doing one thing:

carving a path through the technological blockade Europe had welded shut.

When his country's industrial backbone finally stood tall, he retired after completing his mission, leaving behind just one line:

"I'm just a middleman, except what I traded was the entire Western industrial system."