The USA and the West needs to produce weapons, having
exhausted even their stockpiles fueling the needs of Ukraine and Israel.
There is also the impending conflict in East Asia that needs vast
number of weapons. Talk about Russia exhausting its weapons
manufacturing propaganda, when Russia has all the essential critical
materials at its disposal.
Essential materials for weapons like
gallium, germanium and antimony, are dominated by China, which is the
main source of supplies. The USA had tried to overcome the shortages by
trying to extract rare earth elements in Outer Mongolia, which failed
due to China's refusal to allow shipments using its Tianjin port. China
is not that stupid to allow that to happen. China could have done even
worse to Mongolia by allowing Tianjin Port to be used by Mongolia by
first luring it to set up its extraction facilities and then sabotaging
Mongolia later with disallowing Tianjin ports to be used. Now Outer
Mongolia, knowing its frailty in playing geopolitics, is trying to be
chummy once again towards China.
Vietnam is another rich source
of rare earth elements which the USA tried to exploit. Which is why the
USA is trying to be chummy with the Vietnamese, a country the USA tried
to destroy earlier. Are the Vietnamese really that stupid like the
Europeans?
Rare earth is abundant worldwide, but extracting and
setting up refining outlets is a very costly affair and takes a long
time. Australia, itself a rich source of rare earth, but is trying to
export its toxic refining regime to other countries, like Malaysia,
which created radioactive problems in the country.
The situation
is so dire for the USA that it was reported earlier that the USA is
setting up recycling facilities to extract those essential elements from
washing machines, discarded electronic devices and solar panels. How
that is progressing is unknown and at what cost.
Anonymous
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China should ban all rare earths sales to weapon manufacturing countries. Then only can we see the beginning of peace on earth. I'm sure there are many other items in the manufacture of weapons that can be controlled and restricted.
Coupled with dedollarisation, weapons manufacturing can be stopped. China should call these bans as sanctions. Give them a dose of their own medicine.
Ever wonder why Ukraine is willing to talk about a peace deal with Russia? And Israel willing to take part in a ceasefire deal with Lebanon, that is already fractured by Israel? The answer is the shortage of ammunition. Genocidist Netanyahu would never agree to a ceasefire otherwise.
China should and must stop supplying all the essential materials for making weapons and not indirectly be a part of the genocides in Gaza by allowing the essential materials to make weapons in the West. Had the USA or the West not dependent of China's rare earth elements to make weapons, I think China would be blamed to high heaven by now for being a party to the genocides by association.
China should not allow its essential rare earth minerals to be used for weapons by exporting them. It is a wasted item used for destruction just once only, while using them to make consumer products like computers, semiconductors, EVs, solar panels can last for years and benefit millions.
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