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115 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 24 Oct \ on: Rare Earths Reality Disproves Libertarians Free Markets Fix Everything Bullshit. econ
Cope, this is literally the only lever China has which is why you keep harping on it, poorly trained bot. It's not even a particularly good one.
Without US consumption China is broke
China is wholly reliant on the US navy allowing them to import for their own needs, including other raw materials they need to leverage their manufacturing base.
Even if they could break the island chain, which I'd say is 50/50 odds at this point, they're completely at US mercy in the next domain: space
China started it the second they were allowed into the WTO, the very reason the US doesn't have refining up to par is because the CCP subsidized the industry it to crush competition abroad, a good strategy on their part, that's industrial policy- not free markets.
This was identified long ago, the fake pandemic was a practice de-coupling, companies like MP Materials, Albemarle, and new startups broke ground on refining ops years ago... US will be self-sufficient on RE refining within a year.
China must beg for aircraft engines, chips, food... the list goes on.
You deride libertarians and trade policy in the same breath, dissonance, dumb bot.
Yes Libertarians are retarded when it comes to international systems created by globalists, but that's a separate issue, sane people installed economic nationalists to defend themselves in this "trade war" (that is really a currency war)
Tell your handlers the time to move on CIAwan was yesterday, their window is slipping away.
SILENCE?!
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