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horse

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Rolling back rare earth export controls should be delayed and carefully considered.

China has (half-)played an economic trump card. By taking it back on its hand immediately, it risks exposing this weakness widely to the US public/private sector who will rush to remedy that (even if long term)

Seriously doubt that will happen now.

Once the rare earth card is played, that is like going pass a point of no return.

So far it is only licensing, so Tesla will get its order.

Others, who knows.
 

Thecore

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Seriously doubt that will happen now.

Once the rare earth card is played, that is like going pass a point of no return.

So far it is only licensing, so Tesla will get its order.

Others, who knows.
Trump will nationalize Tesla and order the military to tear apart all Teslas to extract the minerals (to the best of their ability). Maybe even privately owned Teslas will all be confiscated and harvested. Westoids want to make fun of Mao for forcing everyone to melt down pot metal in the 50s and 60s? Wait until Trump orders them to tear apart their toasters to extract the miniscule amounts of mineral material from the circuit boards.
 

iewgnem

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Rolling back rare earth export controls should be delayed and carefully considered.

China has (half-)played an economic trump card. By taking it back on its hand immediately, it risks exposing this weakness widely to the US public/private sector who will rush to remedy that (even if long term)

So China has to carefully consider game theory and balance of expected damage inflicted

IMO much more damage to the US should be inflicted and at most only partial rare earth bans withdrawal unless US totally capitulates and pays a strategic economic price.

Game theory. Don't let the US comes out of this on the cheap. When you play your cards, play them strongly, get sizeable gains, and quickly fully withdraw the card to preserve usage for future scenarios
You don't activate secondary sanctions for the first time ever if you plan on ever allowing America to obtain those resources.

It doesn't matter what America does at this point, so long as US military poses a threat to China, even if US sign an unequal treaty and unilaterally open their market to China, China still won't let them obtain rare earth.
 

BillRamengod

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Both Russia and Ukraine have mercenaries from various countries. Damn it, there are even American mercenaries fighting for Russia (and some Western-wannabe Chinese for Ukraine)—why isn't Zelensky making a big deal about that? He's just exploiting the window of Trump's trade war with China to create bargaining chips for gaining attention from Trump (and certain anti-China Western nations).
This is what I meant.
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According to media reports, Michael Gloss, the 21-year-old son of Julian Gloss, Deputy Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was killed in action on the front lines in Donetsk Oblast on April 4, 2024. However, his funeral was not held until December 21 of the same year.
Michael Gloss joined the Russian military on September 5, 2023, and served in the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 106th Guards Airborne Division.
His father, Larry Gloss, is a U.S. Navy veteran who fought in the Iraq War and currently oversees a software development project for NATO. His mother, Juliane J. Gallina, has been working in intelligence for over 30 years and was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA for digital innovation in February 2024.
Michael’s family described him as an activist with a passion for ecology and travel. He helped rebuild houses after the earthquake in Turkey, constructed homes in Honduras, and had publicly expressed support for Ukraine. However, by 2023, his views shifted, and he became disillusioned with the American system. That same year, he began traveling the world, learning languages including Russian, and visited Russian-occupied Crimea to attend a hippie festival. He obtained a Russian visa and developed an interest in Soviet symbols, including the Soviet flag.
On September 5, 2023, Michael signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense. Along with other recruited foreigners, he stayed at the "Avangard" training center in Moscow Oblast before being assigned to a military unit in Ryazan two weeks later. He was later stationed with the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 106th Guards Airborne Division and deployed to the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine war.
On social media, he had expressed his desire to obtain Russian citizenship and develop agricultural projects.
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Juliane Gallina​

Deputy Director, Directorate of Digital Innovation
CIA

Ms. Juliane J. Gallina is the Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation (DD/DI). Ms. Gallina brings experience from leadership positions in the public and private sectors.
Prior to her current role, Ms. Gallina served as the Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation (ADD/DI), and the Agency’s Chief Information Officer and Director of the Information Technology Enterprise. Ms. Gallina also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of IBM’s US Federal Key Accounts.
Before joining IBM, Ms. Gallina served as a CIA Directorate of Science and Technology officer assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office.
Juliane was commissioned as a naval officer at the US Naval Academy, and retired as a reserve officer in 2013. She holds a Master of Science in both Space Systems and Electrical Engineering. While at the US Naval Academy, Juliane was the first woman to lead the brigade of midshipmen since its founding in 1846.
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Come on Zelensky, where’s your condemnation of the CIA sending personnel to fight for Russia against Ukraine?
 
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India, Pakistan trade gunfire as tensions rise over deadly Kashmir attack​

Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire along the Line of Control (LOC) separating the two countries as the UN calls for “maximum restraint” amid warnings of a wider military escalation following the latest deadly attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam town.

Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, with both claiming the territory in full but governing separate portions of it, leading to lingering tensions that have devolved into violence over the years.

Indian army sources told Al Jazeera on Friday that the Pakistani side initiated the shooting. A government official in Pakistan-administered Kashmir also confirmed to the AFP news agency on Friday that troops exchanged fire, but did not say who started the exchange.

“There was no firing on the civilian population,” Syed Ashfaq Gilani, the Pakistani official, told AFP.

It was unclear which area along the LOC the exchange of fire took place in, but Al Jazeera’s Umar Mehraj, reporting from Indian-administered Kashmir, said two people were also wounded in a separate encounter in Bandipora.

On Tuesday, suspected rebels killed at least 26 people at a resort in Pahalgam, in the deadliest such attack in a quarter-century in Indian-administered Kashmir.

A statement issued in the name of The Resistance Front (TRF), which is believed to be an offshoot of the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Indian police has offered a two-million-rupee ($23,500) reward for information leading to the arrest of the three suspects belonging to the group, a UN-designated “terrorist organisation”.

The deadly incident has since prompted a significant diplomatic spat between New Delhi and Islamabad, with India’s withdrawal from the Indus Waters Treaty, and Pakistan pausing a canal irrigation project and shutting its airspace to Indian airlines in retaliation to accusations that it was involved in the attack.

The tit-for-tat announcements took relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who have fought three wars, to the lowest level in years.
 
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