China just halted exports of key rare earths to the US, slapping export controls on seven categories of critical metals and magnets used in everything from EVs and smartphones to fighter jets, missiles, and drones, delivering a surgical strike to the spinal cord of America’s supply chain. Welcome to the new trade war: geoeconomic strangulation, without firing a shot.
to completely block certain minerals from reaching specific US companies.
[...] You want to slap 145% tariffs on our
goods? Fine. But good luck assembling a single Javelin, F-35, or iPhone
without our dysprosium, terbium, and neodymium. China controls over 90%
of global rare earth production. Washington just remembered that the
hard way. This isn’t just a tit-for-tat move. It’s strategic economic
warfare, targeting the soft underbelly of US dominance: the illusion
that it can wage hybrid war without being vulnerable itself.
» Dumber than a sack of bricks. «
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