Everyone in the corporate press is framing China’s rare earth controls as just another trade war escalation. They’re missing the point entirely, probably on purpose. China is directly dismantling the US war machine’s supply chain.
The US has been burning through its weapons stockpiles in proxy wars for years. Now, just as the Pentagon desperately needs to rebuild, China moves to restrict the very materials needed to make advanced weapons like F-35 jets, missiles, drones, you name it. China controls over 90% of the global supply for this stuff, and restricting output is a strategic move to defang the imperial core.
And the beautiful part is how they’re doing it. They’re using the US’s own playbook of “national security” export controls, highlighting the blatant hypocrisy. They’re not even doing a full ban, just forcing licenses that will block military use. So all the hand-wringing in Washington is pure theater. They’re angry because their ability to produce weapons for future interventions in Venezuela or Iran is being critically hampered.
We’re seeing a fundamental shift here. China insulated its own supply chains first, and is now using its economic sovereignty to challenge US military dominance at its weakest point. They’re actively constraining the empire’s capacity for violence. This is a win for global peace, and the panic in the imperial press proves it.
Which country benefits from this the most? Russia. Which country suffers the most? Ukraine.
That said, if China wants the US to become a rare earths giant, this is the way. The oil crisis of the 1970’s and 1980’s created the economic conditions needed for American oil to become a dominating industry.
Imagine thinking that a dysfunctional state that’s on a brink of a civil war is going to become anything giant. 🤣
Good of you to admit that Ukraine is a US proxy that needs a constant flow of weapons to keep fighting.
You watch too much social media.
Ukraine relies on US, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Canada, and a bunch of other countries to survive and repel the unjust invader Russia. China doesn’t want Russia to lose but also doesn’t want them to win. Too much money to be made by Chinese businesses profiting by the unjust invasion. Plus, it’ll be terribly convenient for them if the US is distracted when China invades Taiwan.
Good job listing US vassals there kiddo. What China actually doesn’t want is for NATO to turn Russia into China’s Ukraine and start surrounding China from the west. Also, not sure how China would invade a province of China there champ. the days of wasps playing world police are over.
Yes, because we are going to cross 11 time zones to setup in western China when the logistics of that area make trade between Russia & China difficult when they are on good terms. Before anything else, the US military is a logistics organization and your fantasy is quite unrealistic. I doubt China fears any such thing, knowing that what you suggest is entirely unrealistic.
You’re such an utter ignoramus. Here are all the Burger Reich bases that are already surrounding China. Everybody with even a minimally functioning brain understands that you chuds would do exactly the same in Russia if you got your way.
Meanwhile, RAND literally publishes policy papers on how you chuds plan to attack China.
I doubt China fears the imbecile empire, but they’re certainly not going to let it continue surrounding them from the west.
The projection lol. Check out western defense stocks since 2022
I am not sure your point? Virtually all of them under-performed the S&P500.
jesus christ western imperialists are so brainwashed