After China announced its withdrawal from ITER, it was like a brick was thrown in the quiet pond, setting off an uproar in the international community.
Various major media outlets reported on this incident and made different analyses as well as comments on the whole situation.
The secretary of the United States Department of Energy and spokesperson of the European Union Energy Department had repeatedly emphasized that this wouldn't affect ITER's progress and that all of the remaining country members were still focusing on energy development. However, the academic community and media outlets had a negative view of this situation.
Some even commented that this was the starting point of ITER's collapse.
This rumor was floating around both in China and around the world.
Even though this piece of news was only a tiny segment in the news broadcast, it still attracted a lot of attention.
