China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/business/china-rare-earths-exports.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U4.qAf3.yMmUPpTuOpSL&referringSource=articleShare

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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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I WANT OFF MR BONES WILD RIDE

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- andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Wow!
  
  That’s good world building.
  
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- llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  For the lucky 10,000:
  
  Part 1: Image
  
  Part 2: Image
  
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  - Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Holy hell, thank you for posting that
    
    I’ve never seen that one before. My sides hurt
    
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- TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Holy shit.
  
  Life imitates art.
  
  Usually it’s the other way around.
  
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- CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Wait until you hear about a little game called Fallout…
  
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qx128@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s what Xi said.

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MisterMoo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Donald Trump is a self-inflicted wound.

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52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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- themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
  
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  - 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
    
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- Kroxx@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
  
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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
More like “Fart and Then Squeal” amirite?

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