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.