It’s been around a week since the blanket ban has been announced. Has any media outlet in Japan covered the true extent of the sanctions or are they still burying their heads in the sand still?
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plawolf
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They will suppress the news until shelves start emptying and factories stop production. And even then they will probably invent all sorts of reasons to avoid having to admit the truth.
The Japanese love to look down on their fellow Asians in general and Chinese in particular.
For the Japanese public to know the true extent of their reliance on China would cause a government toppling crisis of faith.
This is why Japanese reporting and protests have all been around RE. Not because they are literally illiterate and cannot read China’s announcement. It’s because RE is the western approved super niche field where they can tolerate admitting China has a stranglehold on world supply. And even then it’s hyper distorted where the reporting frames it as a highly polluting and toxic extraction and refining process, implying or outright claiming China only has its monopoly of supply because its willing to take the massive environment damage that the west won’t tolerate on their own lands. But this line of propaganda is getting toned down of late as the west tries to establish its own alternative RE supply chain.
The Japanese general public loves to cling to their imaginary world view that China is the land of cheap tat and low quality goods that is no match for Japanese craftsmanship and traditional values to justify their place as Asian+ honorary whites. It would literally crush them to realise how much of their hyped superior manufacturing quality is just assembling Chinese components these days.
It’s kinda hilarious seeing them trapped between the rock of Chinese sanctions and the hard place of their own manufactured reality and not being able to even properly articulate, never mind complain about the world of economic and industrial hurt China has unleashed on them.
Did you know that Sweden back in the Cold War era had its own nuclear weapons program until the Americans sabotaged them and forced them to depend on the U.S. nuclear umbrella? And this was when Sweden was officially neutral between the Anglos and the Rus. Truth was, the Swedes cooperated more with the Anglos than they dare to admit.
so its with my own amusement that the Swedish broadsheet is now discussing the Nordics having their own nuclear arsenal the way the Arab world has Pakistan as its nuclear arsenal.
The link is in Swedish but the google translation is below:
Joining nato was a mistake but merely officiating what was already a de facto practice of sweden carrying water for the Anglos as all the Nordic countries did, hell they’ve even lionised the pen used to sign away Sweden‘s neutrality in joining NATO, you can actually see it in their army museum in Stockholm
so its with my own amusement that the Swedish broadsheet is now discussing the Nordics having their own nuclear arsenal the way the Arab world has Pakistan as its nuclear arsenal.
The link is in Swedish but the google translation is below:
Joining nato was a mistake but merely officiating what was already a de facto practice of sweden carrying water for the Anglos as all the Nordic countries did, hell they’ve even lionised the pen used to sign away Sweden‘s neutrality in joining NATO, you can actually see it in their army museum in Stockholm
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I live in Japan. There’s been absolutely no coverage from any mainstream media, not even a faint hint, about restrictions beyond rare earths. It’s as if those 167 pages of documents simply don’t exist.
Also, Minister of State for Economic Security, Minister Onoda, seems not to even understand what rare earths elements are.
And on top of that, news about an experimental research vessel heading to “Minamitorishima,” about 2,000 km from Tokyo and in 6,000-meter deep waters, to attempt a trial RE extraction from the seabed has been pushed very widely, as if it’s some miracle cure that will solve Japan’s rare-earth shortage by next month.
There is one very competitive product that they can produce without any Chinese components and I hope for the sake of gooners everywhere that production is not impacted in any way shape or form.
Actually most of lubricant used during filming are either made in China or used raw chemical materials from China..
Its funny how Europe gets loads of crap for just doing regulations and fines but not India. At least Europe still produces something for the rest of us once in a while. The same cannot be said of India.
It's actually even more damaging than that. Someone pointed out that Japan has several companies that are parts suppliers for F-35, parts that will require RE to produce. If those parts production are impacted than F-35 production overall will be impacted.
Another example would be Australia's purchase of Mogami frigates.
plawolf
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Please please do this India! India accidentally purging the internet of Jai Hind Trolls and scammers by overplaying their hand with global smartphone makers where everyone just stops selling smartphones to India will be a godsend since the overwhelming majority of Indians access the internet only through phones.