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Shenyi had some good points on this. If you look at all the RE efforts since the REE card with Trump, they're mostly concentrated into two types:
1. Mining, which this pulling up mud from 6000m under the ocean falls into as well
2. Turning the refined RE powder into finished products like magnets

Those two steps China are dominant in but not overwhelmingly. The key step between those two where China is actually overwhelmingly dominant in is turning the ore into refined (the #N stuff) powder. There doesn't seem to be much serious effort going on here, only small experimental scale projects.

If you think about all the pitfall of this extracting mud from ocean floor business:
1. This is an experimental ship doing an exploratory thing, it's very far from actual commercial scale mining
2. Can you actually mine REE rich mud from 6000m under the ocean, what is the point when REE mines elsewhere already exist and on land?
3. Once you pull this mud up to the surface, it's at best 0.7% rare earth, how are you going to concentrate it?
4. Even if you do solve the above 3 problems, how would you protect this technology from US who will surely try to take it for themselves with any means, up to using kidnapping
I think China is still overwhelmingly dominant in the processing of heavy rare earth elements, which are indispensable for high-performance permanent magnets in electric vehicles and wind turbines, among many other uses.

Mathematics with western characteristics:

Good question.

You can't make this sh*t up. The article in question is from the New York Times.

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution​

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
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Temstar

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I think China is still overwhelmingly dominant in the processing of heavy rare earth elements, which are indispensable for high-performance permanent magnets in electric vehicles and wind turbines, among many other uses.



Good question.

You can't make this sh*t up. The article in question is from the New York Times.

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That kill line article is on NYT front page I think:
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Alex in Seattle who triggered this has enough sense to know he's now being used as a tool for beatdown from both sides of the political divide so he immediately pack up shop and left for China to avoid the heat.
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GulfLander

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That kill line article is on NYT front page I think:
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Alex in Seattle who triggered this has enough sense to know he's now being used as a tool for beatdown from both sides of the political divide so he immediately pack up shop and left for China to avoid the heat.
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whats this "kill line"? is this like the "lie flat" obsession they had on CN before?
 

Puss in Boots

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whats this "kill line"? is this like the "lie flat" obsession they had on CN before?
This is a concise, generalized description from a Chinese international student in the US about the phenomenon of downward class mobility in America:
An ordinary person can lose their job due to an unexpected event like a car accident, then lose their housing, then become unable to find any decent work again, turn into a homeless person, then resort to drugs and selling blood/plasma, and finally die.
The core meaning is that average Americans have extremely weak resilience against risks—a single sudden setback can make it impossible for them to ever return to a stable, secure life.
 

valysre

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The core meaning is that average Americans have extremely weak resilience against risks—a single sudden setback can make it impossible for them to ever return to a stable, secure life.
One in three Americans has no emergency savings set aside, according to a new survey from Empower.
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Among the 37 percent of adults who would not have covered a $400 expense completely with cash or its equivalent, most would pay some other way, although some said that they would be unable to pay the expense at all. For those who could cover the expenses another way, the most common approach was to use a credit card and then carry a balance, and many indicated they would use multiple approaches. However, 13 percent of all adults said they would be unable to pay the expense by any means (
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), unchanged from 2022 and 2023 but up from 11 percent in 2021.
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