China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/business/china-rare-earths-exports.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

24 comments

  1. It appears that Vance’s peasants have more backbone than Congress and more brains than our “mentally stable genius”.

  4. The old saying, “Don’t bite the hand that feed you” sure does apply. Unless US can find alternative source, this alone can create major headache for US weapons industries.

  7. So not only did America folded on the electronic tariff, but they are now locked out of rare earth minerals. Soooo much winning…

  8. Although trump started it. But china is not coming slow with their own aggressive posture. Trump didn’t realize tariff beyond 145 and then exempted semiconductor, iphones and few other electronics.
    Remains to see if trump comply. I hope better sense will prevail on both sides.

  9. Ukraine has metals US can have, if they say thank you and Trump come crawling back.

  10. And there it is. China’s actual final warning. Without those materials, we won’t be able to actually build anything. I give it less than a week before Trump caves. The techbros are going to freak right the fuck out.

  11. Proving the point that the US and the world has been too dependent on China

  13. Man. I’m going to need all of the electrolytes after all of this winning.

  15. Hehe…Americans are fucked. Tomorrow is going to be fun, looking forward to what the “stable genius” would do tomorrow.

  17. Next thing we know, the US will have developed power armour, they will nuke each other, and we’ll be living in Fallout.

  18. ​​If the US attacks Iran, China will immediately attack Taiwan and take it. That’s what I’d do. It’ll be too late to do anything about it. Then I would seize 80% of the world’s processor chip production… and no-one would be able to run a refrigerator without my permission.

  19. That’s OK, apparently the USA can stand on its own and be completely self-sufficient. /s

  20. I hate that people are now saying “rare earth” as though that’s a normal thing. It’s *rare earth minerals.* The only reason Trump said it that way is that he’s a demented idiot.

  21. LOL it seems like JD Vance will have to apologize to China before anything changes. He is about to find out what kissing the ring feels like.

  23. Just wondering but which of these restrictions are globally and which are limited to exports to the US? I am a bit surprised that China seems to widen their response to other countries.

  24. The ‘rare earth’ wars have officially begun!

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