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plawolf said:

The more I think about it the more genius and powerful the RE and secondary sanctions cards China just played.

Firstly, we need to correctly understand their context and purpose. These control measures are not meant to put a death choke on western high tech industry. At least not at this stage.

These export restrictions are first and foremost a massive data gathering and foreign supply chain mapping exercise, where all major western users of RE are required to tell China in great detail what they are using those RE for, which parts and components they go into, as well as who the main buyers of those parts and finished goods are and where they are located.

Once complete, this will provide China with an unprecedented centralised database of how RE feeds into every aspect of western industrial inputs as well as, to a large extent, what the end users of those parts and finished goods are.

This will give China incredible precise tools for targeted sanctions and export restrictions to precision strike exactly the industries and potentially even products they want to hit and minimise collateral damage to other industries and nations.

This leads nicely to the second aspect of these restrictions, which is to find the fault lines within western nations, industries, companies and even key grouindividuals and shatter their internal cohesion and turn them against each other.

If you are the board of a large European manufacturing conglomerate, do you sacrifice your entire manufacturing operation just to help American arms makers violate Chinese sanctions? If you are that kind of retarded, then it’s right that China singles you and your business interests out for target economic obliteration. If not, then you need to proactively draw a line in the sand in terms of not having any direct dealings with US MIC or even other commercial companies that does business with US MIC. You will also need to use what political capital you have to try and rein in politicians in your country, and replace them with more reasonable ones if not. Basically, the western business world can have its own civil war between the pro and anti-China camps, where China will support the pro-China camp with key inputs, or China will nuke your entire manufacturing economy if it’s all pro-American. Scalpel or tactical nuke, it’s China’s choice which tool to use to carve out America MIC supply chains from the rest of the world, but host countries and companies also get a vote in how co-operative they are with China’s efforts to go after its true targets. Indeed, it would not actually be outside the realms of possibility for Chinese sanctions enforcement planes to be doing patrols in places like the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Baltic as part of deals with friendly local nations for continued access to Chinese RE supplies.

This ruthless focus on killing America’s MIC supply chains will also serve more pressing and immediate real world strategic goals of hard countering America’s current plan of destroying Chinese allies and key suppliers around the world piecemeal with direct military attacks.

It started with Russia, extended to Iran, tried and failed with Pakistan, and now America is eying Venezuela for direct military action. It was a sound strategy capitalising on the fact that Chinese military power is overwhelmingly based in its home region and that it does not yet have the means of fighting the U.S. head to head outside of Asia on an even footing.

While none of these US efforts have been fully successful, China cannot simply sit back and watch as America systematically goes after all of its allies and friends around the world.

Playing the RE card like this is a neat and highly effective way to check US application of its military power around the world without needing to be able to directly take on American forces far from home. Because with the RE card played, China could choke off U.S. MIC access to RE any time it wants. But to do so as a direct consequence of the U.S. launching unilateral military attacks against a sovereign state like Venezuela or Iran would be hard for even America and its lackies to criticise, never mind counter.

Now American military choices carry exponentially greater additional economic and industrial costs, as not only would every bomb and missile used be one less from US inventories that will be hard or even impossible to replace. Chinese sanctions could potentially also cripple all U.S. military procurement projects and even R&D programmes.

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siegecrossbow said:

The best time to surrender to China was yesterday, the next best time is today.

Every year between now and capitulation will add one hour of mandatory XJP Thought study to the capitalist leeches political and corporate elites who’d rather hide in fallout bunkers instead of relinquishing their power.

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plawolf said:

You keep saying XJP thought will be imposed on western corpo titans like it’s a massive punishment. But have you considered the possibility that western business leaders are already frantically getting it translated to cram even now as a way to try to avoid getting bitchslapped by inadvertently crossing China?

You might find that when you thump a fresh copy of XJP Thoughts down on the desk in front of a western leader, he can already recite it back to you.

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plawolf said:

The more I think about it the more genius and powerful the RE and secondary sanctions cards China just played.

Firstly, we need to correctly understand their context and purpose. These control measures are not meant to put a death choke on western high tech industry. At least not at this stage.

These export restrictions are first and foremost a massive data gathering and foreign supply chain mapping exercise, where all major western users of RE are required to tell China in great detail what they are using those RE for, which parts and components they go into, as well as who the main buyers of those parts and finished goods are and where they are located.

Once complete, this will provide China with an unprecedented centralised database of how RE feeds into every aspect of western industrial inputs as well as, to a large extent, what the end users of those parts and finished goods are.

This will give China incredible precise tools for targeted sanctions and export restrictions to precision strike exactly the industries and potentially even products they want to hit and minimise collateral damage to other industries and nations.

This leads nicely to the second aspect of these restrictions, which is to find the fault lines within western nations, industries, companies and even key grouindividuals and shatter their internal cohesion and turn them against each other.

If you are the board of a large European manufacturing conglomerate, do you sacrifice your entire manufacturing operation just to help American arms makers violate Chinese sanctions? If you are that kind of retarded, then it’s right that China singles you and your business interests out for target economic obliteration. If not, then you need to proactively draw a line in the sand in terms of not having any direct dealings with US MIC or even other commercial companies that does business with US MIC. You will also need to use what political capital you have to try and rein in politicians in your country, and replace them with more reasonable ones if not. Basically, the western business world can have its own civil war between the pro and anti-China camps, where China will support the pro-China camp with key inputs, or China will nuke your entire manufacturing economy if it’s all pro-American. Scalpel or tactical nuke, it’s China’s choice which tool to use to carve out America MIC supply chains from the rest of the world, but host countries and companies also get a vote in how co-operative they are with China’s efforts to go after its true targets. Indeed, it would not actually be outside the realms of possibility for Chinese sanctions enforcement planes to be doing patrols in places like the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Baltic as part of deals with friendly local nations for continued access to Chinese RE supplies.

This ruthless focus on killing America’s MIC supply chains will also serve more pressing and immediate real world strategic goals of hard countering America’s current plan of destroying Chinese allies and key suppliers around the world piecemeal with direct military attacks.

It started with Russia, extended to Iran, tried and failed with Pakistan, and now America is eying Venezuela for direct military action. It was a sound strategy capitalising on the fact that Chinese military power is overwhelmingly based in its home region and that it does not yet have the means of fighting the U.S. head to head outside of Asia on an even footing.

While none of these US efforts have been fully successful, China cannot simply sit back and watch as America systematically goes after all of its allies and friends around the world.

Playing the RE card like this is a neat and highly effective way to check US application of its military power around the world without needing to be able to directly take on American forces far from home. Because with the RE card played, China could choke off U.S. MIC access to RE any time it wants. But to do so as a direct consequence of the U.S. launching unilateral military attacks against a sovereign state like Venezuela or Iran would be hard for even America and its lackies to criticise, never mind counter.

Now American military choices carry exponentially greater additional economic and industrial costs, as not only would every bomb and missile used be one less from US inventories that will be hard or even impossible to replace. Chinese sanctions could potentially also cripple all U.S. military procurement projects and even R&D programmes.

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Chevalier said:

Effectively, PRC just became what the Anglo Americans have always wanted: the ultimate power and authority to decide who gets what in terms of trade goods and who is allowed to have high technology. Without Chinese approval of rare earths, you’re back to 1980.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1977007625092190496

Theres a reason western elites make their kids study and speak mandarin, and that include the Trump children

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siegecrossbow said:

The best time to surrender to China was yesterday, the next best time is today.

Every year between now and capitulation will add one hour of mandatory XJP Thought study to the capitalist leeches political and corporate elites who’d rather hide in fallout bunkers instead of relinquishing their power.

Click to expand...

plawolf said:

You keep saying XJP thought will be imposed on western corpo titans like it’s a massive punishment. But have you considered the possibility that western business leaders are already frantically getting it translated to cram even now as a way to try to avoid getting bitchslapped by inadvertently crossing China?

You might find that when you thump a fresh copy of XJP Thoughts down on the desk in front of a western leader, he can already recite it back to you.

Click to expand...