If you combine this reactor with the Sobots, well, we're goners.

First the Koreans, now the Chinese, what next? The Russians sending men to Mars?

The oil-businesses do far to well in America. If anyone comes along with an alternative to oil, and it works, then the oil companies will lose business and therefor a lot of money. Naturally they want to keep their empires for as long as they can. You'll probably find that in China oil-businesses don't mean as much as they do in America. And you guys get oil dirt cheap anyway, why pay for something more expensive?