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2010-10-19 China-Japan-Koreas

China Is Said to Halt Exports to U.S. of Some Key Minerals

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Posted by tipper 2010-10-19 17:12|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Having sold them the noose, we should not be surprised when it begins to tighten.

Get used to this sort of thing, you'll be seeing it a lot from China. Pro TIP: Bowing will help you to get to the front of the line of supplicants.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-19 17:30|| 2010-10-19 17:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The US has these minerals; we just shut the mines down because it was cheaper and more expedient to get them from China. But if China won't sell, we can re-open the mines. We'll have to; not even Obama's EPA can stop that.

Posted by Steve White 2010-10-19 18:46|| 2010-10-19 18:46|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how many other vulnerabilities we have created because it was cheaper to outsource to China.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-19 19:31|| 2010-10-19 19:31|| Front Page Top

#4 But the thingmabob that does the job is
bippity-boppity-boo

Posted by PrivateEye 2010-10-19 19:32|| 2010-10-19 19:32|| Front Page Top

#5 See also FREEREPUBLIC > BUSINESS INSIDER > THE GREAT GAME: CURRENCY WAR IS [only]THE START OF A 21st CENTURY STRUGGLE FOR RESOUIRCES, espec between the US + China.

ARTIC = RISING CHINA'S only real leverage at this time vee the US is its RARE-EARTH MINERAL RESERVES. GRAPH OF US-VS-CHINA OIL CONSUMPTION + IMPORTS indics that the Years 2017-2021 time frame may mark the beginning of a LT PERIOD/WAVE OF US-CHINA GEOPOL CONFRONTATION POSSIBLY INCLUDING MIL CLASHES OR WARS???

Lest we fergit, VARIOUS NET = CHINA itself says it RARE-EARTH RESERVES MAY RUN OUT IN CIRCA 15-20 YEARS [2025-2030] AT CURRENT PRODUCTION RATES.

IOW, RISING CHINA = akin to sovereign independent REPUBLIC OF NAURU [Pacific Island State] that is starting to run low on PHOSPHATE [aka BIRD, BAT GUANO/FERTILIZER]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-19 20:41|| NA 2010-10-19 20:41|| Front Page Top

#6 ION SINA, CHINESE MIL FORUM > TAIWAN'S LI DENG HUI: DAOYUTAI ISLAND [JAPAN Senkakus = CHIN DAOYUS = Taiwan DAOYUTAI] BELONG TO JAPAN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-19 20:44|| 2010-10-19 20:44|| Front Page Top

#7 If technology can get 33 miners plus six rescuers up 600 meters from below the ground, out in a remote desert - technology should be able to get a rare earth mine back into production fairly quickly, if the government works to make it possible, instead of working against it.

Unfortunately, our government exists to inhibit, not to enable. Sad state of affairs.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2010-10-19 21:35|| 2010-10-19 21:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Dig here, Dig now.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-10-19 21:57|| 2010-10-19 21:57|| Front Page Top

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