I explained what China was doing, you asked for elaboration, I elaborated, and then you responded “but but but what about all those other countries?”

That’s off topic.

A bit off topic about who is supposed to handle it, but tbh I don’t expect trade relations can get any worse with China even as a result of them banning exports of these. Certainly isn’t going to get better.

LMAO, China has been playing games with currency values and undercutting electronics manufacturers for decades.

FYI we don’t do this btw

In 1979, President Carter proposed a Trade Agreement that changed China to favored trader status with much lower tariffs across the board, and in return China agreed to a cap on textile output so as not to flood the market with cheaper goods than the USA was producing.

The 1980s saw even more favorable deals in exchange for similar restrictions as Reagan was eager to work with China.

Trade broke down in the 1990s over China committing crimes against their own people, broadcasted live across the entire world.

In 2000 President Clinton helped China enter the WTO to renew trade again.

And in return they spent the last 24 years shitting the bed, doing everything in their power to mess with any market they can, like sharks drawn to blood.

Previously, Beijing already started enforcing a ban on exports of REE and related technology exports.

The new regulations include a strict database on REEs outlining when and where they were extracted all the way to where they’re exported. The laws stipulate that “no organization or person may encroach on or destroy rare-earth resources.”

What is best for China is peaceful coexistence and small concessions to incentivize trade and development of the world.

What China is doing is maliciously taking everything they can get their hands on until every bridge is burned, and by the looks of it they’re ramping up military production to cross the river and keep taking.

Exactly the sort of shortsighted belligerent actions you would expect from a dictatorship.

You’re right mb, I was confusing it with another element starting with P, like Pr or Pm, lol

Sales aren’t everything. China has ~44M Metric Tons of REE reserves, Vietnam 22M, Russia 21M, Brazil 21M, India 6.9M, Australia 4.2M, USA 2.4M, Greenland 1.5M.

However, specific metals out of the 17 have wildly different graphs, such as Palladium commonly used in military armored plating being produced mostly in Russia and South Africa. USA produces many times over as much Palladium as China reports.

If China’s domestic use concerns are actually for military use then that’s troublesome because the metals they have are more useful for automation and electronics than anything else.

Well, China hasn’t been the only producer in recent decades.

Yeah all the mass of the photons being propelled out has a real kick. /sarcasm

No offence to you, at all, but the fact that your comment is a 3:1 ratio makes me sad for the future of humanity.

This effectively makes all minerals the state’s property and prevents commerce with other nations who specialize in heavy machinery or electronics including: USA, UK, EU, SK, and Japan.

Don’t hesitate, fuck em. They want to remove competition by selling at a cost? They can go ahead and sell to India.

I’m afraid China hasn’t been playing fairly in the markets by producing certain goods at a cost to remove competition. It’s going to get even worse after the state just declared all mineral rights belong solely to the nation.

TBF the cost justification of added machinery weight to operate under many conditions is still better than needing to restart completely when it failed.

Your fallout experience also tells you lasers have recoil, so I wouldn’t place any value in that.

Biden didn’t sell classified documents to the Saudis. The Saudis didn’t purchase an entire floor in Biden Tower.

Got it, so what I said stands uncontested. Beam weapons do not work that way.

Well the former presidency will leave office after January 20th regardless of if the election takes place, but there is a solid chance a new candidate doesn’t obtain enough delegates for that party to put them on the ballot and that the election does in fact take place.

A lot of discussion on Lemmy forgets that a very large number of people actually support that Piece of Shit Donald Trump. Tens of Millions. Some of them are begging for a civil war. Killing Trump publicly would be a spark to a great flame.

Saudi Arabia bad idea, Trump has allies in that nation.

I asked a question and I’m legitimately curious, got some sources?