China Thread

[marcusluvsvols]

Nice. Just thought you would find it interesting man. I have been painting a lot lately and gotta keep the podcasts rolling to keep my mind sharp (somewhat anyway ). Fortunately I had fallen behind on these 2 great pods to nerd out on, Smarter Everyday and Veritasium. I recently discovered Engineering Explained and its good as well. Worthwhile to subscribe to them on youtibe IMO. Great stuff to listen to while driving, doing yard work, or building things.

 

[rekinhavoc]

Breitbart Business Digest: We Must Decouple from China on Rare Earths Now

It is essential to decouple from China on rare earths. The hard work should have started more than a decade ago. It must start today.

www.breitbart.com

"Our hypocrisy factor makes matters even more complicated for Americans because the same people on the political left who impose these strict regulations on American industries are perfectly comfortable with Communist China harvesting and manufacturing these same materials without any concern for the environment whatsoever. It is a meticulous and expensive endeavor to mine rare earths, and there will inevitably be a permitting process to minimize environmental impact, but surely there is a greener way of getting these materials than entrusting rare earths to China.

What’s more, we knew that China was capable of withholding rare earths for leverage because they had done so to Japan in 2010 over a minor political dispute.

We should have been prepared for this.

Perhaps now, we’ll finally have the reset we should have had many years ago.

“At the moment, the only light rare earth mining and processing facility in the Western Hemisphere is located in Mountain Pass, California. It reached a new high in 2024 by producing 45,000 metric tons of rare earth oxides. China produced about 270,000 metric tons of oxide in the same year,” Breitbart’s John Hayward noted in an article today. This stat is deeply concerning. We are not even trying to compete."