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Plays stupid games, win stupid prizes as the saying goes.
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Common PRC W
It’s kind of hilarious how US has been trying to find all kinds of ways to screw China over economically, and China just flexes by restricting a couple of items surgically causing panic in US. It’s such an elegant way to let Americans know that China can fuck over their whole economy overnight.
Sometimes China didn’t even need to do anything.
Toilet paper, for example.
Indeed, US is already a house of cards, so not exactly in the best position to fight an economic war with China of all places.
Seems silly. China is doing almost all the refining but they don’t have a monopoly of the extraction of the originating mineral. There’s a lot of it in Australia, and the US could pivot to doing its own refinement at any time.
The thing is that it’s going to take a significant amount of time to create refining facilities, train workers, and so on. During that time, Chinese companies will have a huge market advantage over western ones.
Love how they have a bunch of suggestions that don’t include “de-escalate the trade war.”
From 2005 to 2015 alone, China’s production of low-purity gallium exploded from 22 metric tons to 444 metric tons.
It is always staggering to think how much China has developed technologically within just the last 20 years. I’m not even old but still remember when “Chinese” tech was popularly synonymous with “bootleg.” Now it’s all so good that the USA has to ban it while they play catch-up. They got beat at their own game.
Yeah, the progress in China is absolutely stunning and it looks to be accelerating too. Next decade will be incredible to watch.
Their train stations look like something out of science fiction.
What all of the wonders of modern technology and none of the “efficiency” of capitalism does to a mf
Lots of people in the west still think that China is just stealing their tech and can’t produce anything original of their own. The fact that most westerners are afraid to even visit China makes the work of western propagandists pretty easy. They can just make up stuff and rely on latent racism to do the rest of the work.
