China just turned off US supplies of minerals critical for defense & clean tech. China has spent decades building its dominance over these supply chains, while the US was busy outsourcing, divesting, and cheerfully ignoring every report.

China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech



by The_Weekend_Baker

28 comments

  4. And why again might China, or any other country cut the U.S. off? Seems a bit rage batey even if it wasn’t intended to be.

    Edit. Minor.

  5. From indispensable, to irreplaceable, to irrelevant USA USA!!!

  7. During this trade war I’m still waiting for china to actually register a loss🤔. Actually no I forgot about tik tok. Wait no we extended another 75 days because china ain’t doing no deals. 😬

  8. The article is flatly wrong. Dysprosium that it claims China quote:

    >China controls essentially the entire supply of dysprosium, and no, there is no magical mine in Wyoming or Quebec waiting in the wings. If dysprosium doesn’t come out of China, it doesn’t come out at all.

    Dysprosium is produced at Mountain Pass in California and the Round Top deposit in Texas. Dysprosium is found in carbonatite and hydrothermal deposits, such as Sheep Creek and Snowbird in Montana where exploration for it is ongoing.

    There are active mines for it in Australia and South Africa.

    It is not that the resource doesn’t exist outside of Chinese control. If they had such a complete stranglehold we might as well just give them Taiwan now.

  9. China has been in the business of business, and America has been in the business of making billionaires rich. They did this to themselves.

  10. So the shareholders were wrong to chase short term gains?

  11. As an American I’m happy to see us go up in flames. We need taught a lesson.

    1/3 of US you get what you deserve for voting for Trump. 1/3 of America who didn’t vote. You get what you deserve for not voting. 1/3 of Americans who voted for Kamala Harris. Sorry you live amongst idiots

  12. All right children, you’re in 6th grade now so that means you’re ready to learn how to use your very own Trump brand coal pick axe to make America great and glorious again!

  13. This is just another sign on the downward spiral of America.

    They’re losing their place as the #1 superpower in the world 🌍!

  14. Good job Jack Welch. I know he’s looking up with pride; may that greed pig rest in piss

  15. US defense industry is also very relient on 5 major contractors. Those contractors care more about profit than delivering quality work. China already has their own version of the F-35 that cost a fraction and is more reliable.

  16. No problem right we’ll just dig up the National Parks.

  18. More ignorant lefty crisis scaremongering.
    Simple fix.
    All of these mineral resources exist elsewhere in economic amounts.

  19. Jokes on them, the US doesn’t care about EVs and wind turbines or green tech. Suckers got played!

    /s obviously, but we live in the stupid times

  21. To be fair, no one saw Trump II coming. The established order was to remain in place, so why would you seek to develop your own resources?

  22. Critical minerals aren’t just about tech, they’re about sovereignty.

  26. Well, this makes an invasion of Greenland even more likely.

  27. Aside from everything else, the biggest threat to America right now is that China have educated adults in charge and America is governed by complete morons.

  28. Time for the US to do what they do best and start another war in the name of “national security”

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