Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies.
Submitted 11 months ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Shortstack@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Holy hell, thank you for posting that
I’ve never seen that one before. My sides hurt
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait until you hear about a little game called Fallout…
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Holy shit.
Life imitates art.
Usually it’s the other way around.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Wow!
That’s good world building.
qx128@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s what Xi said.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
From what I understand, China’s exports of rare earths have been largely a part of finished components and that’s not been suspended.
Kroxx@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Work in an industry that uses raw RE oxides to produce medical equipment.
We are fucking toast if these tariffs and restrictions are kept.
You literally can’t get some of these REs anywhere else in the world as in the natural abundance is literally only in china.
What you said is correct I imagine but some of the REs are utilized in a raw format in us based plants.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
True, but this changes the world dynamic much more than we’d think.
Before China would sell materials and other countries would have factories to produce products from them.
Now, China can move the production into their own country, selling their products without the middleman, but still keep the prices up.
Factories shut down in the rest of the world and open in China. They now control the full product from material to the sale.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I could be wrong but my impression was that this is how it already is for goods containing rare earths. That they are already manufactured largely in China and China exports them and that there’s no ban on finished products containing rare earths.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 months ago
More like “Fart and Then Squeal” amirite?
MisterMoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Donald Trump is a self-inflicted wound.