Epoch Times Print Edition (@EpochTimesPrintEdition)
Beijing’s Critical Minerals Ban Signals Rising Trade Tensions.US leaders consider China’s dominance in critical mineral production a national security risk as the two economic juggernauts brace for a potential trade war.
The TS article from Epoch Times is concerned about the rare earth minerals being cut off. We have tons of food coming to this country from China, we had parts for military machinery coming from China.
Only fools destroy their own production capability by allowing a foreign source to drive their industries into the dirt. This has been done by design.
It was. China offered to produce parts, food, and equipment at rates U.S Workers/Companies couldn’t hope to match. Often subsidizing their companies to further drive down their companies costs allowing them to further undermine U.S Companies.
Because U.S Workers want things like Work-Life-Balance. Insurance and Health Benefits. Livable wages etc. Meanwhile the Chinese get paid peanuts in comparison. Have fewer benefits and work longer hours. So U.S Companies flocked to do Business in China.
Also helpful is the Chinese have a fraction of the Environmental Laws. So it’s comparatively easy to dispose of Industrial Waste. And Mine for Metals. Both of which can be environmentally destructive. Especially when done with efficiency of extraction in mine. Versus preservation of health and the environment.
Which contributes to saving U.S Companies very large sums of money. Money that pad earnings reports for shareholders and ends up in CEO Bonuses. Which eventually ends up in political campaign funds. Which fund candidates in support of more outsourcing and overseas trade. So the Shareholders, CEOs, and Corporate Management can continue to make piles of money.
The Chinese are also in part funding Woke. Their heavy investments in tech companies, and seeming rise of woke, and other seemingly inane political ideologies on both sides of the aisle aren’t complete coincidences. Sew Discord, Distrust and uncertainty in your opposition is a sensible strategy. And it happens to benefit our own political elite so they aren’t going to take serious action. Even if they use it rhetorically in political speeches.
I’ve been told that it’s the “Free Market” at work. And we should copy the Chinese if we want to stay competitive. And that taking action to stop Chinese Companies for undermining the U.S Economy is horrible, uncompetitive, and an assault on Freedom.
To put it another way. The U.S and West opened up to China because we thought we could repeat the fall of the USSR and Warsaw pact. The Chinese however decided to settle in for the long game. To undermine the West. Out of Malice and perhaps revenge as well. For several centuries of embarrassment, territorial concessions and abuse.
China always plays the long game
child slavery is the bottom line with China.
Bill and Hill Clinton opened China to the US via Walmart first. They even took down the made in America flags inside the stores. Then Hilldog sent Military blueprints and it just goes on and on, until somebody stops it. The FIRST thing Obummer signed was the 1000 Talents Program to bring Chinese into all our DOD labs and College SLAC and Labs. Confuscious Program also. This is a way late to the party story.
It started with Nixon and Kissinger
right...
these sickening people are getting wayyy too old for justice on this earth. when is it gonna be time for us to see and hold 'them' accountable.
let them die with a wrinkled flag? that is not justice.
They have been doing that in the military for years. They let the enemy in the camp to feed the troops, take out the trash, clean the barracks. Deliver fresh food items made locally. Talk about moronic.
Quite a few stories from Vietnam of Soldiers recognizing Locals who worked around the Camps and Bases. Among the dead of Viet Cong fighters who would raid them during the night.
heart and minds stuff
Then start with Nixon and Kissinger
both dead.
Yup, but that's where it started. I remember how the warning bells sounded, but everyone was making mad money and didn't want to rock the boat.
Have a look at Ports America
The perk of doing business with a corrupt government is endless kickbacks.
Communists hate America.
Communists = Bad.
Yet they manufacturer steel for our military subs, manufacturer most of our consumables, own our farm land, own our food and production, allow them to influence and teach our children (like tiktok), they've invaded most of our government, stolen tons of our IP, actively use slave labor.
And we give them money to do all this to us and think that they have our best interests in mind. I was just reading how we get most of our garlic from China and they grow it in human sewage.
While trade delvalues our labor allowing legal immigration is even worse