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Everyone in the corporate press is framing China's rare earth controls as just another trade war escalation. They're missing the point entirely, probably on purpose. China is directly dismantling the US war machine's supply chain.
The US has been burning through its weapons stockpiles in proxy wars for years. Now, just as the Pentagon desperately needs to rebuild, China moves to restrict the very materials needed to make advanced weapons like F-35 jets, missiles, drones, you name it. China controls over 90% of the global supply for this stuff, and restricting output is a strategic move to defang the imperial core.
And the beautiful part is how they're doing it. They're using the US's own playbook of "national security" export controls, highlighting the blatant hypocrisy. They're not even doing a full ban, just forcing licenses that will block military use. So all the hand-wringing in Washington is pure theater. They're angry because their ability to produce weapons for future interventions in Venezuela or Iran is being critically hampered.
We're seeing a fundamental shift here. China insulated its own supply chains first, and is now using its economic sovereignty to challenge US military dominance at its weakest point. They're actively constraining the empire's capacity for violence. This is a win for global peace, and the panic in the imperial press proves it.
We're seeing a fundamental shift here. China insulated its own supply chains first, and is now using its economic sovereignty to challenge US military dominance at its weakest point. They're actively constraining the empire's capacity for violence. This is a win for global peace, and the panic in the imperial press proves it.
Let's hope they follow through and deliver. I'm not confident they won't accept some trade concessions and withdraw these export controls.
Expanding on the Finnish President's remarks at the UN General Assembly, this is one way China is seeking to gain greater leverage as the next world order takes shape within the next 10-20 years or so.
Which country benefits from this the most? Russia. Which country suffers the most? Ukraine.
That said, if China wants the US to become a rare earths giant, this is the way. The oil crisis of the 1970's and 1980's created the economic conditions needed for American oil to become a dominating industry.
Imagine thinking that a dysfunctional state that's on a brink of a civil war is going to become anything giant. 🤣
Good of you to admit that Ukraine is a US proxy that needs a constant flow of weapons to keep fighting.
You watch too much social media.
Ukraine relies on US, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Canada, and a bunch of other countries to survive and repel the unjust invader Russia. China doesn't want Russia to lose but also doesn't want them to win. Too much money to be made by Chinese businesses profiting by the unjust invasion. Plus, it'll be terribly convenient for them if the US is distracted when China invades Taiwan.
Good job listing US vassals there kiddo. What China actually doesn't want is for NATO to turn Russia into China's Ukraine and start surrounding China from the west. Also, not sure how China would invade a province of China there champ. the days of wasps playing world police are over.
Yes, because we are going to cross 11 time zones to setup in western China when the logistics of that area make trade between Russia & China difficult when they are on good terms. Before anything else, the US military is a logistics organization and your fantasy is quite unrealistic. I doubt China fears any such thing, knowing that what you suggest is entirely unrealistic.
You're such an utter ignoramus. Here are all the Burger Reich bases that are already surrounding China. Everybody with even a minimally functioning brain understands that you chuds would do exactly the same in Russia if you got your way.
Meanwhile, RAND literally publishes policy papers on how you chuds plan to attack China.
I doubt China fears the imbecile empire, but they're certainly not going to let it continue surrounding them from the west.
You may have noticed that all these military bases are easily supplied through naval support. My prior comment was about supply lines. You are never going to get reliable supply lines for American military through 11 time zones of difficult to transit Russian territory. Your map is also a bit bogus. There's no military base in Pakistan. A small one operated until 2017, to support troops in Afghanistan, but was not sustainable. There's never been a US military base inside India.
Yes, China has the geopolitical challenge of US bases in the Pacific. These are easily resupplied and support supply chains. It should also be noted that US military presence does not harm China's ability to conduct trade, execute domestic policy, or retain her sovereignty. China gripes about US "freedom of seas" navigations, because China has naval claims nobody else recognizes, but that's not a problem any other nation on the globe cares about.
You may have noticed that if Russia was balkanized as this RAND paper suggests, then the military bases in the new puppet states could be easily supplied through Europe. Claiming that supplying bases across the ocean is easier than across land is the height of idiocy by the way.
Also, weird how China is geopolitical challenge for the Burger Reich half way across the world from the Burger Reich. Maybe you chuds should just stay home and mind your own fucking business. It is also obvious that the US wants to have the ability blockade China's trade and has openly written policy papers detailing that.
The original point was that China will not allow Russia to fall because they know full well what you fuckheadsd want, and you're not gonna get it.
Do you bother reading the links you post? Or are you just trying to weaponize time against an ideological opponent? The paper does not address Russian balkanization or the setup of bases in a post-Russian landscape.
The US does not want the collapse of the Russian state and balkanization because the US believes that China would use the opportunity to grab resource rich land from Russia. US's interests is in Russia being whole, powerful enough to prevent a vacuum, but not so powerful as to be a threat to neighbors. The US does not want Russian land to become Chinese land. And that's probably what would happen if Russia balkanized.
Yeah I did bother reading the links I post. I also have sufficient reading comprehension to understand what the link actually says. The US does not want Russia to fall into China's sphere of influence, which the US actions are currently accomplishing, but they certainly would have no problem balkanizing Russia under western run color revolutions.
I gather that English is probably a second language for you, so I assume you have confused terms. Balkanization is not a color revolution. Balkanization is when a larger country breaks apart into several smaller countries. For example, if a political crisis resulted in a power vacuum within Russia sufficient for the Buryats to declare an independent republic, along with the Yakuts and several others. That would be Balkanization. These new nations would be weak and would be vulnerable to political or military capture by China. The US does not want that. A color revolution, on the other hand, could be a number of things, but most likely a change in the leadership in Moscow without producing a plethora of fracturing states. If the current political regime in Moscow was replaced by one more friendly to liberal, democratic, and market-oriented institutions, that's one the US would favor, especially if it prevented Balkanization.
Plus, it'll be terribly convenient for them if the US is distracted when China invades Taiwan.
Too much money to be made by Chinese businesses profiting by the unjust invasion
The projection lol. Check out western defense stocks since 2022
I am not sure your point? Virtually all of them under-performed the S&P500.
I'm saying western capital made a fuckton of money with the proxy war in Ukraine. NATO is a very profitable market for weapons producers. And in fact since 2022 Rheinmetall, palantir, etc exploded in stock price because the EU is spending 100s of billions of Eur on defense.
The money that you claim that Chinese Business make in order to draw a apparently their interest in the war is just projection. Actually it's in Chinas interest to stop the war because China is both Russias and Ukraines biggest trading partner and it's disrupting trade.
The weapons producers are tiny companies in comparison. If a senator got a call from Apple and from Rheinmetall at the same time, he would 100% take the Apple call first. China wants the US to be bogged down with Ukraine when China invades Taiwan. Keeping this war going is the cover they desire to pull off their upcoming territorial expansion which will not be limited to Taiwan.
The weapons producers are tiny companies in comparison. If a senator got a call from Apple and from Rheinmetall at the same time, he would 100% take the Apple call first
Don't talk about subjects you have no clue about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex
. China wants the US to be bogged down with Ukraine when China invades Taiwan.
It's the other way around. It's the US interests to stop a peaceful Chinese reunification. Even ghouls like mearsheimer acknowledge this
If you sincerely believe there's a military industrial complex, you should read these reports and watch the accompanying video: Link.
If the people of Taiwan held a legitimate referendum to unify with China, there's nothing the US could do to stop it. What the US can help stop is a violent invasion and the Chinese military has been readying for exactly that mission. China's peak ability to do so will be 2027 or 2028 after which most analysts agree that their ability will diminish due to internal demographic & economic issues, US & Taiwan preparedness, and a changing in technology that increasingly favors defense.
There was a time that peaceful unification was possible. That was before China destroyed Hong Kong's system of democratic rule. The people of Taiwan watched what happened and decided right then that promises given prior to unification would never last under Chinese rule.