The USA can never tolerate any country rising to compete against it. Not the Japanese. Not the Germans. Not the Soviet Union. And certainly not the Chinese. Can we expect the leopard to change its spots to become another animal?
Taking down Japan and Germany were easy, as they do not have the critical mass of a market and population to carry on a battle against the mighty USA. Denial of the USA market was alone enough to snuff them out and they had to eat humble pie when stepped upon. The Soviet Union did not have the economic muscle to sustain a headlong military capacity to take on the USA. Moreover, Soviet Union was not on very good terms with China at that time. The Soviet Union had to close shop, with its satellite states breaking up to go their separate ways, leaving the Russian Federation to run the country.
Now, China is no piece of cake that the USA can take at will. China has the economic muscle, the military capacity, the population critical mass, the massive domestic market, the hunger of the people to move forward for a better life and the Chinese citizen's capacity for hard work to overcome difficult circumstances for a better future. This all work well to fulfil the dreams of Chinese leaders to move the country forward, all working in tandem.
China must never be in a position to sacrifice what it has achieved by being involved in any too good to be true agreement that may come back to destroy its future. The USA and the West are discreetly trying to set China up for dismantling like the Soviet Union. They have tried that in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet.
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A day that the USA does not make a fool of itself is a day lost. The same applies to the EU. Ironically, it is the job of clowns to fool around. And sadly, only clowns running the country can do all that.
Do audiences complain about clowns fooling around? Of course not.
The fun is going to start soon, a week from now. USA consumers will be lucky to find stuff in stores, and their main worry is not having them, not the price increases.
So many countries are now talking about their rare earth resources and how it will change the global landscape. The Philippines is currently the talk of the town with its discovery of rare earth resources inside the country. China must be rattled, right? Truth be told, rare earth raw materials are plentiful, not at all rare. What is really rare is the processing logistics needed to make them into useful elements. And who has the world's largest processing logistics for all rare earth elements? China of course and no escaping from it.
It is fruitless to talk of how much rare earth raw materials a country has under its feet when there has to be a need to build up the mining and processing logistics that will take decades to come to fruition. Even the USA needs China to do the refining for its rare earth raw materials, so what is the hullaballoo all about? All that talk about mining rare earth under the sea, on the moon and on Mars are just delusional science fiction. With rare earth in abundance in Australia, Vietnam, Mongolia among others, why go to such extreme to mine them and at what costs? Who in the end is going to refine them, which against points to China. Let us not be delusional and swallow all the propaganda that solves nothing. It all boils down to doing it from start to finish to be effective, which no country has the logistical capacity to undertake. Keep the rare earth dream going.
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