US-China Trade: Rare Earths, Silver, and Supply Chain Realities
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Explore the intricate and often misunderstood trade relationship between the US and China, especially concerning critical minerals. While China restricts rare earth exports vital for US military tech, a deeper dive reveals a complex web of mutual dependency often overlooked in trade war narratives.
Discover how China's reliance on US silver and other minerals creates a symbiotic dynamic, making a complete trade cut-off nearly impossible. This analysis highlights why global supply chains are far more intertwined than often perceived, challenging conventional views on economic warfare and government policy.
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China has restrictions on some but not all. Some of the restrictions are temporary, uh some could be made permanent if things get crazy in terms of trade wars between the US and China. But Trump obviously panicked a little while ago realizing that we can't build a lot of our military equipment without Chinese rare earths and that extraction technology, and that know-how and and then the infrastructure, right? So then then Trump announced, we're going to have domestic rare earths, but you and I know that's going to be a tiny tiny percentage and it's going to take 10 years, it's not going to cover what we need. So, what's what's the rare earths factor going to look like in the next couple years in your view? I think uh China's concern, like you said is that um US the US government is going to take some of these uh Chinese rare earths and uh to use to be used uh within the military industrial complex to build um, you know, new cruise missiles uh jet fighters, etc. China doesn't obviously doesn't want that. So there there's that component right there, but there's also another component where um ...
