One thing that confuses me is how China doesn't possess the advanced alloys for ballpoint pen nibs? It's just an osmium alloy, not that difficult to do. They've

One thing that confuses me is how China doesn't possess the advanced alloys for ballpoint pen nibs? It's just an osmium alloy, not that difficult to do. They've got osmium out the yin-yang (no pun intended) and should have had alloys of that long, long ago.