You know, I really do not get it.
They wanted decoupling, so finally the PRC had enough, here's your decoupling.
Now they are not happy.
Actually, I got no idea where this is going.
Seems like there is still no rush to find rare earth products sourced outside from China.
Western companies have to redesign their products.
Typical modern Anglo mentality of wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
Modern western leaders are without exception silver-spoon spoilt brats that have only experienced the world in their privileged bubbles where their family’s wealth and influence means they could get away with basically anything.
This is the world where the elite jokes that laws that only impose a fine are really activities that are legal for a price. And even when they break laws that carry actual prison time if convicted, they can afford top lawyers who can get them off so long as the evidence isn’t ridiculously overwhelming.
Indeed, dragging out court cases that he could not possibly win on merits until the other party is bankrupted and cannot continue litigation is a favoured ‘business strategy’ of Trump throughout his life.
When people like this who have managed to bend and break rules at will all their lives without suffering real consequence gets into position of power, their sense of right and wrong is so warped that they honestly don’t see what the problem is when they demand that they can hit (sanction) you, but you can’t hit (sanction) them back in response.
And it’s not just Trump. Almost all past US presidents that have used US military force abroad applied basically the same logic, where the Americans can go and bomb people all over the world in their homes and it’s how the world works, but it’s terrorism when the people they bombed strike them back where they live. And it’s not just 9/11, when Al-Q attacked the USS Cole, a US warship, the Americans still called that terrorism. So it’s clear the Americans make zero distinctions if it’s their military or civilian targets that gets hit, if anyone hits American targets, it’s automatically terrorism.
The only true distinction between Trump and his predecessors is that he is a lot more open and honest about his application of American exceptionalism, and he is more universal in its application where he dares to go after allies and China, while past US presidents only went after 3rd world minnow powers.
