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On paper it looks like a disadvantage for China, but I don't think it actually works to China's advantage. One of the problems in working with power blocs is that it highly favors the established powers. It's just too politically costly for smaller countries to shift to the emerging power's power bloc because it can mean getting cut out from the markets of the other power bloc. If China were to form a formal power bloc, it's hard to see countries like Indonesia or Chile joining it. And yet these countries have China as the largest trading partner and their politics are likely to favor the Chinese viewpoint as opposed to the American one. Moreover, it also allows China to remain unengaged if these countries find themselves in conflicts with other powers.
Chinese rare earth producers shouldn't be suffering much. Currently China's industry consumes so much that there won't be much surplus production, and what surplus there is can be drawn into China's strategic stockpiles. Overall, the dollar value of the entire rare earth industry is very small - only a few billion per year. This is so little that it's easy for China to forgo the revenue yet it's utterly critical for a large host of industries so it's effectively the world's strongest bargaining chip.
This girl has more guts than the entire Chinese government. Only a few decades ago, it was the Chinese people who were being killed, starved, raped and experimented on, just like the Palestinian people today. Where is the Chinese navy flotilla delivering food to Gaza?
Ask Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan to do it first.
The F should they care about Palestine?
Why quote from 古墓派's book in 2025? That's some real reverse-racism shit.
When China wins they should hire a Caucasian incel to draft a book called “The Ugly Anglos” that explains how ritualistic pedophaelia by the Western ruling elite led to the downfall of their empire.
Sources on RE: (from Reuters)
Sources on Harvard student visas: (from WSJ, and CCTV)
So, what's not real? Tomorrow there'll be a meeting in London to negotiate further trade deals. But by now, it's an exchange of the two sides. Though both operations, no matter issuing licenses or opening student visas, can be rolled back in a sec if one side is not happy in the coming days. However, students are not as strategically significant as rare earth. Also, RE is out of control from China once it's abroad, but visas of several insignificant Chinese students are always in US' control.
This has been talked about already and you need to read more than the headlines, this instance is China giving permit for Chinese RE exporters to start review and submit purchase applications by US automakers, they still need to pass review. The squeeze to date wasnt from a ban, it was due to 2/3 of applications being held up over sanction compliance.
China's export control system was set up to prevent sanctioned entities, i.e. western military from getting anything, but also to prevent stockpiling. The system require buyers to provide tracing and procedures to prove where each magnet will end up, if destination is stockpile or suspecious motors it'll be rejected, if destination is specific vechile with VIN provided it will be aporoved.
Export control isnt a ban, anyone who can prove compliance will and has been given approval, the hold up has been from western companies who struggle to prove compliance, due to either time or they actually do stockpiling. The only thing China said it'll do here is to priortize review of US applications, theres no change in export control requirements.
If anything this system killed off the entire RE stockpilling business