Literally has tons of the same kind or reactor, and Europe is working on one that might actually do practical things.

Living in the UK I suspect you have the same problem we have. Plenty of people capable of doing all the impressive shit China is doing (science, infastructure, whatever) and all of them being starved of funding as all the money dissapears into gigantic blackholes of backroom deals where huge amounts of money are spent on vague things that never seem to materialize or even be adequately explained; but whatever they are they sure do generate enormous profits for the cronies of whoevers currently in power.

Anyone here calls paste glue?... Yup, wrong country. And now we got a word that we can use to detect AI.