So i guess you agree China shouldn't have diplomatic power over such crucial materials.
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China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense
China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense
China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense
The thing is, rare earths got their name because they are barely ever found purely on their own, they have to be separated from other metals which is a difficult and expensive proces. If I understand correctly rare earths are basically everywhere but you want to find a site with a high concentration in order to make it financially feasible.
China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense
So then why exactly would it be better if China monopolise rare earth instead of selling it to other countries? Have you even read the article and my comment or are you just spilling your hate for the usa here? I mean be my guest but you're not really countering my point of me disliking China having diplomatic power over rare earths, just that you don't want the US to have it.
I agree with starving the war machine is exactly what needs to be done right now for the sake of everyone and everything on this planet. But this is beyond the scope of the argument, rare earths are mainly used in technology and the technology in weapons is mainly silicon based and China is not a big player in the global semi-conductor trade. They are a big player in the steel business, as far as I know they sell that to everyone as well including the US and Israel. So if it would be about withholding critical materials they would stop selling steel as well.
I don't really feel like you're actually trying to make a point here, except sharing your view of the world. Which is fine by me, but then why not write a post about that or something?
Also by saying stuff like 'the US is the bloodiest and most brutal empire ever seen' you come across (at least to me) as biased and people will not likely want to argue with you. I mean, haven't you had history in high school? There are a lot of massive empires in the history of mankind and the most powerful weren't the nicest per se.
Heating and cooling buildings both cost immense amounts of energy, but in places where spaces are heated the global rise in temperature generally means less energy is needed for heating because it is less cold. I don't have the experience that discussions about this favour the ones living in colder climates over the ones living in warmer climates, but if you feel this is personal let me say that you shouldn't sit in scorching heat just because the world fucked up and shouldn't feel bad about using an airconditioning. Spending a long time in high temperatures actually kills people. I was not in any way saying the people who right now don't have airconditioning should not get one, just that it is better for the global temperature a lot of people don't have one.
China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense
When all countries can access important raw materials all countries use them to make things and all countries can develop new technologies, when a certain country in this case China would try to monopolise access to these materials the power imbalance can easily shift from working together to achieve common goals to working against each other using violence to make sure they don't end up as the weakest party. Look at how much wars have been waged the last 100 years because of oil.
China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense
After Trump unveiled his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, China retaliated on April 4 with its own duties as well as export controls on several rare earth minerals and magnets made from them.
So far, those export controls have translated to a halt across the board, cutting off the US and other countries, according to the New York Times.
That’s because any exports of the minerals and magnets now require special licenses, but Beijing has yet to fully establish a system for issuing them, the report said.
The last line is also in the post, but I think it's worth stressing that they don't necessarily intend to halt all exports to everywhere. Although I don't like the Chinese having such diplomatic power over core industrial materials.
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I think in a direct sense you are right, but they will also have to spin the economic consequences and they might be able to spin the story but they don't get to choose about everything. He might only be able to solve this by starting another war somewhere else, which they could also spin to be believable but they can't decide wether they will win that war either. Also I think the reasons the war was started are very different to why they are continued.
In the case of the war of Ukraine i understand Amnesty International isn't really a friend to Ukrainians, which seems weird because they are the one targeted by an aggressor. But I think it is fair they remain critical, while I also think it is unfair when they don't criticise all parties in the same way. But I do hope you see truth in the saying that an imperfect ally is not the same as your enemy. They aren't on Russia's side on this, generally they are not on anyone's side and they don't want to be. Not saying what they're doing is always fair, but them putting in effort to get the EU to pressure Bhutan should not be discouraged because of what they say and do in another conflict. What you're doing is unfair to the political prisoners Amnesty is speaking out for.
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