That’s not a problem I’ll just go ask one of my historical trade partnohnoholyfuckwhatdidijustdo.
Never fight a trade war
on two frontsagainst every country simultaneously.In the wise words of Londo Mollari
Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
he is repeating history, starting trade wars to trigger world war.
The MIC already worked a solution since last time China restricted exports; both Cali and Australia would pick up production.
The problem with rare earth isn’t that it’s rare, it’s that they only exist in low concentrations, and the total lack of labor and environmental laws in China means that there is no room for external competitors to compete on price… Our modern neoliberal governments refuse to do anything that does not enrich or empower the oligarchy; not even for “national security”.
Unfortunately, this means Australia might have just jumped to the top of the nazi parties annexation list.
Yup, it is processing of the ores that china is good at. Rare earth is not that rare.
The “cheap Chinese labor and lax laws” thing is not exactly the issue, at least not these days. The thing is that Chinese industry has spent decades working out how to refine these minerals, and they’re the only ones who are now able to do it at scale. So other countries that extract and process rare earths (which as noted aren’t actually that rare) often ship semi-processed ore to China for final processing.
Sure, other countries can replicate these capabilities if they’re willing to put in the effort. It’s like China’s challenge with EUV lithography, but in reverse. It will take significant time. Also, building up a rare earths processing industry probably involves not just spending capital, but also major environmental risks while you’re doing your trials.
Bet the US is suddenly going to buy these minerals out of Russia. Bet one of Trump’s children or in-laws indirectly owns a exporting company in Russia.
“But look at this picture of Hunter Biden’s magnum dong. I mean, just look at it. Its so…magnum.” - Margarine BattleToad Greene.
Greenland, Ukraine, Canada: all of Trump’s actions make sense if you consider that he wants to secure rare earth minerals for… someone
Trump & Putin are committed to DESTROYING the hated EU between a pincer of Putin + butchered-Eastern-Europe & Trump + butchered Canada & Greenland.
THEN they get to be the only “kings” ruling the remains of the West, until they die.
They’re narcissist-nihilists, as all “mass shooters” are: they’re just committing their “mass shooting” through legislations, & hitting entire populations with what they’re firing, legislatively.
Pay attention to the fact that the woke EU is competing against both of them for world-significance AND doing-so with anti-Putin/Trump values.
Canada & Greenland stand in the way, that is all, except for the wealth that Trump would gain, through claiming it as his new-possession of the US.
Destroying the EU, though, that’d be “priceless” to them…
No more competitor!!
Also, China is going to give the finger to US companies and Trump and make even more counterfeit stuff.
Companies complaining about Chinese IP ain’t seen nothing, yet.
Wasn’t respecting US patents also one of the parts of the US-Canada agreement as well which they now technically don’t have to do anymore, as not having tariffs was one of the requirements?
Everyone is pretty much selling every stock right now, but sell NYSE: DIS ?
I actually don’t care about IP copying. I just wish China would publish what they copied.
The era of Geoeconomics has begun.
Human nature is geoeconomical ):
If China stops exporting these to the US that should influence the trade deficit in the way Trump is looking for, right? Isn’t that what this was supposed to do according to Trump? So he should be happy about this, right? Because it’ll bring the manufacturing of the minerals home? /s
Haven’t you heard? China are already on the phone with Trump saying they are going to move the production of terbium to the US. Basically they’ll use these very big drills to mine Chinese minerals right from Wyoming.
I drink your milkshake.
It’s one milkshake, is it worth five dollars?
Cant take more than 2-3 months to move Terbium mining to Ohio.
What if we took China’s factories and PUSHED THEM somewhere ELSE
“Yep, that’s how it works, I saw it in a cartoon once.” - MAGA Scientific expert.
I mean Scientologist. That’s the same thing, right?
I mean… who knows what he wants, maybe he wants to crash the economy.
I mean, he seems to be hinting at that now, but he can’t really do anything else. “Whoops. Didn’t think this button I pushed would do that” is just not something he is able to say, even if it might be true. Then again it would be difficult doing something this extreme accidentally I would think.
Yep, new us mines will open any day now. Any day
Good fuck everyone here
I despise the fucking CCP and PLA, but shoving this move up Krasnov’s ass is a good one.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but thankyou, CCP.
All this instability has me direly worried about what will happen if China invades Taiwan. Like, if we think it’s bad now, an invasion of Taiwan would grind our systems to a halt.
Bro I’m just wondering if it will be a Kurdish style diplomatic capitulation or a Ukrainian style meatgrinder. The moral of the story is that if you’re a US ally you get fucked. The question is simply how hard
What US allies are left?
Russia and North-Korea.
Pikachu O face
I think we’re in stage 2 now: find out
Part of me hopes that other countries that have also had some populist fascist groups making waves recently would see how bad we’ve fucked up and not go down the same path. But we sure as hell didn’t seem to learn anything from Brexit about isolationism
Canada has an election coming up. It looked like a sure thing that the right wing party would win, now things are swinging in favour of the left wing because we’re afraid of Trump
The liberals are not left wing by most measures. They are probably best described as slightly right. You get the usual Neo liberal economics but you don’t get the regressive social issues.
But we sure as hell didn’t seem to learn anything from Brexit about isolationism
“Oh that could never happen here!”
This is the FO part of the American Exceptionalism FA.
I quite literally remember having teachers in elementary school teaching about the holocaust/hitler and asking the class if if they could foresee this happening in the US. Every kid shoot their head and chuckled assuredly, how absurd to even consider.
I still remember the look on Mrs. Begasto’s face of “oh yeah? so confident, I know something you don’t, I know the world in a way you are entirely naive to.” I didn’t understand why she felt that way, but I could tell she was certain about something I didn’t get. The closer we edge to a fearful, uneducated public thinking a bully king is what would be good for the country and the world the more I find myself thinking about Mrs. Begasto’s worried smirk.
Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and others like them weren’t super fortune tellers or anything. They just studied humankind enough to know what could happen. And we Americans by-and-extra-large are too arrogant to learn those lessons.
It’s cool, trump is getting his so who cares about literally anything else?
- signed, MAGA
/s
- And don’t forget to say thank you.
Genuinely never thought I’d join the war on China on the side of China.
It still explains why this is happening. You can’t rely on Cina to build your military systems if they are for a war on China.
It’s increadible that the comments are about Trump’s stupidity and not about the consequences of that war.
Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.
Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war.
To be fair, that didn’t work with Russia.
Didn’t it ? Russia started imposing tariffs on Ukraine in 2012.
Trade breakdown is a clear precursor to armed conflict.
Fair enough… I meant more in the lines of Europe appeasing (germany in particular) appeasing Russia, but then again, Russia is not directly at war with Germany.
Russia realized that if you just steal shit, you don’t have to pay for it anymore.
China has shown incredible patience over the years. Why risk a hot war when you can innocently watch your potential enemy destroy themselves?
It will be interesting to see if Canada allies with China
Much like how Vietnam was allied with the US because of the giant military on their doorstep
Canada’s entire standard of living is the US.
Was the US. That mistake is being rectified.
We can’t replicate what we had, pipelines don’t cross the ocean.
