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China Hits Back At Trump, Risking New Escalation Phase
World peace. That's why China had to institute new, sweeping controls on exports of rare earths and
Autocracies use a substantial percentage of their communications to promote themselves to their own constituencies knowingly using outright lies, disinformation etc. The White House communications group does this daily as do ‘independent’ news outlets like Fox News. It’s then easy for them to convince the un and under informed that everything else is Fake News. At that point it’s hard for factual reporting to make a dent in public opinion. Under those circumstances what’s the right communication strategy for any opposition.
It staggers me that US companies didn’t lay in stockpiles of RE magnets etc. The amount they use is tiny. In 2023 the entire value of RE imports to the US was $190MM.
Japanese companies learned from China’s previous RE embargos, and stockpiled.
As long as we can watch TikTok 24/7, why worry ??
CCP officials may be unrivaled in saying ridiculous things with a straight face, but only because Trump says equally ridiculous things with an angry orange emoji face.
Trump seems to be in the process of chickening out. Classic.
Yeah, 48 hours ago Xi was a “sinister” monopolist “lying in wait” to undermine America. Now he’s a “highly respected” guy who just had “a bad moment.”
Yeah, the TACO trade used to be one humans could do. It’s getting so only the machines can keep up 🙂