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[enroger]

For those that speculate US can appropriate the RE they got in their civ industry and provide their MIC. Do note that China is not exporting raw RE but products/parts made with RE (ie magnets), those parts are made with precise specs and composition. If US MIC wants to make use of those civilian parts they pretty much has to melt the thing and isolate and purify the RE element all over again. This is not a whole lot better than getting RE from Chinese washing machines is it?

Also not every RE are the same, some RE has majority civilian use, so even if MIC toke their portion it is hardly noticeable (niobium, gallium, germanium....etc). But some are primarily military use (samarium), if MIC toke their portion the civ sector will not have enough to keep production.

 

[BillRamengod]

No i can't, three fking clowns. LMFAO

 

[vincent]

I don't understand something, while US dominates China's ethane import, can't Russia replace it?

Ethane is a cheaper alternative to naphtha. China has plenty of production capacity.

 

[vincent]

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No i can't, three fking clowns. LMFAO

Yes China can. Where does Bessent want the missiles deliver to? The White House or the Pentagon?

 

[siegecrossbow]

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No i can't, three fking clowns. LMFAO

With or without nuclear warhead?

 

[tygyg1111]

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No i can't, three fking clowns. LMFAO

The answer should have been "As long as we do the delivery"

 

[BillRamengod]

With or without nuclear warhead?

 

[siegecrossbow]

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[Phead128]

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No i can't, three fking clowns. LMFAO

Where is the original full linked article you post this from? Always share the original full source so people can read the full context please.

 

[AlexYe]

US has literally been trying to do that for the past 15 years, ever since the first rare earth cutoff in 2010. Industrial policy is not a magic wand, and it is entirely possible to squander enormous resources making little to no progress. Not even mentioning the extra idiocy of Trump unwinding Biden's efforts. Aligning government policies with investor incentives is a painful balancing act, always has been. The difference is that China at least has lots of recent practice (and no shortage of failures) to learn from. US doesn't.

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The Way Us does these things is to rely on private industry/investors more, they try giving grants/subsidies but thats never enough for private industry to move not when they still have other alternatives they ha

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Lmao Brilliant

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Why does it look like something NorthKorea made in the 70-80's