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Greer, Bessent blast China's rare earths curbs, urge Beijing not to implement them
(www.reuters.com)
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Note the expansion impacts the US ability to build more weapons.
China announced their intent to cease exports of rare-earths at least a decade before they began implimenting it, from what I've read..
The West refuses to govern responsibly in the context it exists/lives, & wants crybaby-ing to fix things when China does exactly what it TOLD US it would do, decades-ago??
The US has rare-earth mineral-resources, they just refused to develop them, until too-late.
Mismanagement deserves consequences.
I've ZERO sympathy for pretend-responsibility authorities.
May they reap what they have sown, to use the Christian phrase.
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So they don't want to escalate the conflict - by raising the tariffs by 100%. Are they really that dumb that they do not see how stupid this sounds?