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"Deep concern" among Trump aids over China's rare earth embargo - link
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Date: April 24th, 2025 10:33 AM Author: grizzly crackhouse *aides
https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1915382411023561051
I'll take "things you should have thought of before launching a trade war" for $400, Alex! |
Date: April 24th, 2025 10:38 AM Author: Flickering windowlicker Don't we have other sources for these? Isn't this exactly the kind of thing we shouldn't rely on China for? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48876744) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 10:42 AM Author: coiffed hall the USA has lots of lots of rare earth metals and we have the strongest environmental laws in the world. if you want a future that includes smart phones, you would want the USA and not China to be the world's leading source of rare earth metals. (which, btw, would be great for working class jobs in the USA.)
but a strong, sustained consensus of Republicans and Democrats have pursued a strategy of leaving those resources to be exploited only by the Chinese and leaving the USA to be vulnerable. fact. |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 11:01 AM Author: grizzly crackhouse I read it takes 30 years to get an rare earth factory going. Even assuming that is exaggerated, no near term fix is available. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48876819) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 1:09 PM Author: coiffed hall i concede that no short term fix works. but that makes our inaction all the worse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48877204) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 2:27 PM Author: Titillating well-lubricated roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48877429) |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 9:00 PM Author: Cream Hairy Legs Toilet Seat found this from 2023 "Starting up a new mine and processing facility can cost up to $1 billion and take more than a decade." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48886099) |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 2:10 AM Author: flushed water buffalo We just need to import the right Africans and set them loose in California (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48926082) |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 5:35 AM Author: racy fighting messiness karate This is why we should have been pushing this 10 years ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48926187) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 1:12 PM Author: contagious resort mexican if I were advising China I’d tell them to ignore Trump completely and wait for him to beg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48877213) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 1:23 PM Author: Apoplectic brilliant yarmulke area https://youtu.be/XMV1bwXyi54&t=60
China is like Shatner here "okay that's how you want it? Sounds good, let's do it your way I insist" |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 2:22 PM Author: coiffed hall that's pretty damn funny (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48877419) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: contagious resort mexican China here is more like Sonny in A Bronx Tale and Trump is the bikers
“Now yous can’t reave.” |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 8:29 PM Author: irradiated costumed library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48886064) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 2:55 PM Author: green talented skinny woman i think this is the move. they can afford to pull back for a few years if it means killing off MAGA for good and the next admin will be begging to suck their cock. also buys time for them to strengthen their ties with the rest of the world while trump alienates us from our allies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48877497) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 1:17 PM Author: Apoplectic brilliant yarmulke area There should be some mechanism to prevent a solitary dumbass boomer from wrecking the economy because he ascribes to a crackpot theory of economics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5715540&forum_id=2:#48877235) |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 8:41 PM Author: thirsty razzle-dazzle lodge You would've thought the Framers would've built something into the constitution to do something like that.
A balance system of some sort. |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 8:26 PM Author: coiffed hall Bad News for China: Rare Earth Elements Aren’t That Rare China is limiting US access to critical minerals in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but the move isn’t as devastating as Beijing wants it to be.
https://www.wired.com/story/rare-earth-minerals-china-tariffs/
it's a situation where our media just isn't doing their job at all. |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 8:44 PM Author: thirsty razzle-dazzle lodge This article is stupid.
"Well...maybe if this goes on for too long, US can open their own rare earth mines and then...sorta.....maybe...ya know, US companies could just buy domestically" |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 8:56 PM Author: coiffed hall cr point.
there is no fucking excuse, none at all, for the USA not starting immediately to exploit its holdings of REM. |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 9:34 PM Author: Disrespectful Peach Rehab They’re actively promoting Chinese propaganda, just like the Shareblue bots ITT.
China is fucked. |