US-China chip war heats up as Beijing bans export of key minerals • FRANCE 24 English

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1. I repeat this statement as many time as it is needed: the US and free world did fine without China before the fall of the Berlin wall and will continue to do fine without China for years to come!!!

2. Take a steel water bottle, fill it with rare earth minerals

   Smuggle it out of China

   ????

   Profit

3. US now become a jokes nation

4. First of all, China controls the vast majority of minerals, and secondly, it masters most of the refining technology. Even other countries have to ship their products to China for production. Also, gallium is a by-product of electrolytic aluminum and cannot be produced directly, so you have to produce as much aluminum as China does. Where does your aluminum go? According to data, China consumed 500 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to produce aluminum in 2021. How do you think the United States, which has experienced several nationwide blackouts, will make up for this energy gap? You have to find or purchase mining areas, establish supply chains, factory power plants, refining plants… So, whether it is the environmental, energy, and infrastructure problems brought about by the storage, mining, and refining of raw materials, which one can the United States solve now? If so, how long will it take to solve it? 4years or decades

5. You won't sell me bread? so I don't wheat flower to you to make them. I will try to make bread myself.

6. World future is in Africa,what?

7. Jaguar is an Indian company

8. The US CPU chip has spy function built in like Intel, AMD. This has been known for a long time.

9. I wonder who is coughing 😅… Really difficult to guess 😂

10. What a joke, now usa is interested in Africa. When in us, we are being called African American. Since china 🇨🇳 interference in Africa suddenly Africa is interested agian. Africa should ebody the strategy of unity. Among nation, stop allowing those deep pockets from feeding of you

11. Settlers of Catan, 2024 edition

12. America plays silly games, China wins them.

13. Wow don’t know Myanmar flag looks like that😂

14. Nobody cares

15. Ummm all thoes export bands are byproducts of materials the U.S. already produces. If needed we can set up production to refine all of it in 6 months to a year. Ty China more normal jobs in the U.S.

16. if you want dominance in tech, you compete and innovate. not ban

17. How is this different from the Cold War? I don't like history repeating itself, boring, stupid political leaders

18. Things are different from what you imagine. Even if you have a large amount of aluminum ore, it is difficult to produce this element because there is no professional production line for it. Gallium is a metallic element, silver white in color, and soft in texture. Used as raw materials for optical glass, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, etc., China produces 41 million tons of aluminum annually, accounting for more than half of the global aluminum production. When producing this aluminum, China extracts gallium from waste materials. If you want to produce this element in large quantities, you must build a large-scale aluminum metal refining factory

19. Let the tariffs happen. america will pay more for daily life and will isolate themselves.

20. american dollar is useless with that 36 trillion dollar DEBT.

21. This is now a fair game. China can only maintain equilibrium by responding with impunity.

22. All western countries stop buying from china for 6months. Their attitude will change. China NEEDS our money to survive.

23. Spruce Pine quartz is used around the world to manufacture the equipment needed to make the silicon chips that underpin all our digital devices, Vince Beiser, author of “The World in a Grain,” said in an email. “To make silicon chips, you need to first melt down a highly-purified material called polysilicon. USA controls 90% of world supply of pure quartz

24. None of these materials are rare or hard to manufacture, but they are time consuming, dirty and China has been subsidizing the manufacture of rare earth elements.

25. America's all investment must be pull out in China

26. China is asking for war and the US will give what it asked for

27. rights of defense.

28. "All in for Africa", what a BS!

29. BIG difference! US blocked hi-tech; China blocked nature. KKKKKKKKKKKK. Nature is abundant elsewhere.

30. China is only banning the export of key materials now because China has made a breakthrough in chip manufacturing technology. China can already manufacture most chips by itself. Since hostile countries have banned China from importing high-end chips, you can forget about getting key materials. You don't have to manufacture chips yourself. Countries in the world that are friendly to China can buy cheaper chips from China. This should be China's strategy.

31. Australia started a trade war with China before. They have'nt reovered till today.
    America is welcome to try.
    They better pray China stops here. If China bans medical supply, there will be a civil war there 🤣🤭

32. US will begin scalping for minerals and digging ground with hands.

33. Do not worry. Vietnam will replace China as a supplier of rare earths to the United States

34. China is now more advanced than any other country of the world. I have been there recently. I was shocked by its modernization, safty, convenience, and cleaness. People are super friendly there.

35. Start making the chips here and make them better.

36. Obviously what China CCP's abuse of Japanese and South Korean companies leaving Xi's paradise wasn't a sign of things coming?😅

37. fair. 🙂 Don't worry. USA has a plan for everything…a lot of America hater and dollar lover. 🙂

38. Bully is done. Authoritarian mentality is no more valid.

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