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Iracundus

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AssassinsMace said:
The problem with China's policy on retaliation is exemplified here. The West thinks China's rare earths restrictions are unprovoked when it should've happened earlier like when the US put sanction on semiconductors being sold to China.
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This is what Chinese don't get about Westerners where if you don't "retaliate" in kind immediately, the status quo to them become the norm and if you try to change it later, you're the criminal.
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I think the mentality is the "poker" game mentality like Jeffrey Sachs said. The US thinks it has won the round when there is no immediate reaction or retaliation. Then later when there is a reaction, they are shocked and act the victim because to them it seems like China is starting a new round, when actually the old never really finished.
 
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enroger

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bsdnf said:
I’m no longer believe anything he says. Even if He meet with Xi, he will turn against Xi in no time. Just look at his relationship with Putin, over and over again
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There is no need for trust or negotiation. At this point the best way to deal with America is just to unitarily impose our policy and then just wait and see, if US retract some of their policy then we may or may not retract some of ours. No need to waste time on negotiation, no need to waste papers and ink for signing useless documents.

The same way you train a rabid animal, you can't talk to it because it doesn't understand human language. You just impose reward and punishment and let Pavlov's law change it's behavior, and if that doesn't work you just euthanize it.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
I don't buy that bull that it was because China didn't have helium. It's not stopping China when they're saying China has a quartz supply problem that the US can exploit. Nothing has change from back then except that countries like Japan are actually less dependent on China for rare earth magnets. China still holds a commanding control of the supply. This is what Chinese don't get about Westerners where if you don't "retaliate" in kind immediately, the status quo to them become the norm and if you try to change it later, you're the criminal.
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Yeah, exactly, I don't buy that either, it is not about some kind of helium or whatever.

And this is not retaliation, this seems more like an attack. That Dutch thing is more like tit for tat.

That is what I believe at the moment, provided this is an economic attack, and with offensives, got to keep the momentum going, have to expect something else to happen, to sustain the offensive.

What could be that something else coming next, got no idea.

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