China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
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You know how has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.
The U.S. has a surprising amount of known rare earth deposits but the deposits aren’t really being explored extensively, much less mined because of economic reasons. The U.S. has the 4th largest lithium deposits, for example, but to mine it wouldn’t be competitive.
A mean, a year ago, I would have said, it’s just cheaper to buy them on global markets than mine them in California. But we’ll see how broke these tariffs make us. We might all have lithium lung and be paid in company scrip again in 15 years.
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Trump isn't stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he's shooting Uncle Sam's foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He's a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again.
When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he's doing a good job.
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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.
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You know how has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.
If you've been to Greenland it you'll realize how inaccessible these mineral deposits are. And with no roads connecting towns it becomes a logistical nightmare. Oh and the place is covered in thick ice and snow for 10 months of the year. There have been mining companies dying there for the last 50 years, 1. Because of legislation and 2 because it's virtually impossible to mine.
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He's evidently working to destroy the USA and its alliances, which serves Russia's interests. But it's hard to know whether he's doing so deliberately or unwittingly.
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Tungston and indium (at least) from those mentioned in the article. Plus graphite, rare earths, and nickle.
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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?
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Doesn't the US have plenty of these materials, it's just too expensive to mine it because of environmental protection legislation, wages, missing infrastructure for it and so on? This wouldn't change in Canada/Greenland.
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It's not even about stupidity, he literally can't admit he made a mistake and work to fix it. Triple down if you have to, never show "weakness". What a fucking putz.
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The era of Geoeconomics has begun.
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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?
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.
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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.
Cant take more than 2-3 months to move Terbium mining to Ohio.
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It’s not a big deal. Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare.
It’s the refining of rare earth minerals which is energy intensive and causes a great deal of pollution.
It was nice that China was destroying their own environment and spending the capital to build power plants. Now we will have to invest the capital to do it ourselves.
they are not rare, but they are not concentrated enough to make mining worthwhile. that will change when the price starts approaching infinity, but it takes years to ramp up production. and while you are sifting through huge volumes of stone and rock for meager results, the rest of the world runs in circles around you.
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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.
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If you've been to Greenland it you'll realize how inaccessible these mineral deposits are. And with no roads connecting towns it becomes a logistical nightmare. Oh and the place is covered in thick ice and snow for 10 months of the year. There have been mining companies dying there for the last 50 years, 1. Because of legislation and 2 because it's virtually impossible to mine.
I've seen jokes(?) that they're aiming high, as in, aiming for high global temperatures to handle the ice. Stupidity wouldn't describe it, it'd be insanity... But isn't that what this administration is all about?
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Prisoners and people in RFKs health re-education camps. Just like Russia.
Rfks goauld had slave miners
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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?
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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.
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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?
I mean.. who knows what he wants, maybe he wants to crash the economy.
