Everyone in the corporate press is framing China’s rare earth controls as just another trade war escalation. They’re missing the point entirely, probably on purpose. China is directly dismantling the US war machine’s supply chain.
The US has been burning through its weapons stockpiles in proxy wars for years. Now, just as the Pentagon desperately needs to rebuild, China moves to restrict the very materials needed to make advanced weapons like F-35 jets, missiles, drones, you name it. China controls over 90% of the global supply for this stuff, and restricting output is a strategic move to defang the imperial core.
And the beautiful part is how they’re doing it. They’re using the US’s own playbook of “national security” export controls, highlighting the blatant hypocrisy. They’re not even doing a full ban, just forcing licenses that will block military use. So all the hand-wringing in Washington is pure theater. They’re angry because their ability to produce weapons for future interventions in Venezuela or Iran is being critically hampered.
We’re seeing a fundamental shift here. China insulated its own supply chains first, and is now using its economic sovereignty to challenge US military dominance at its weakest point. They’re actively constraining the empire’s capacity for violence. This is a win for global peace, and the panic in the imperial press proves it.
Yes, because we are going to cross 11 time zones to setup in western China when the logistics of that area make trade between Russia & China difficult when they are on good terms. Before anything else, the US military is a logistics organization and your fantasy is quite unrealistic. I doubt China fears any such thing, knowing that what you suggest is entirely unrealistic.
You’re such an utter ignoramus. Here are all the Burger Reich bases that are already surrounding China. Everybody with even a minimally functioning brain understands that you chuds would do exactly the same in Russia if you got your way.
Meanwhile, RAND literally publishes policy papers on how you chuds plan to attack China.
I doubt China fears the imbecile empire, but they’re certainly not going to let it continue surrounding them from the west.
You may have noticed that all these military bases are easily supplied through naval support. My prior comment was about supply lines. You are never going to get reliable supply lines for American military through 11 time zones of difficult to transit Russian territory. Your map is also a bit bogus. There’s no military base in Pakistan. A small one operated until 2017, to support troops in Afghanistan, but was not sustainable. There’s never been a US military base inside India.
Yes, China has the geopolitical challenge of US bases in the Pacific. These are easily resupplied and support supply chains. It should also be noted that US military presence does not harm China’s ability to conduct trade, execute domestic policy, or retain her sovereignty. China gripes about US “freedom of seas” navigations, because China has naval claims nobody else recognizes, but that’s not a problem any other nation on the globe cares about.
You may have noticed that if Russia was balkanized as this RAND paper suggests, then the military bases in the new puppet states could be easily supplied through Europe. Claiming that supplying bases across the ocean is easier than across land is the height of idiocy by the way.
Also, weird how China is geopolitical challenge for the Burger Reich half way across the world from the Burger Reich. Maybe you chuds should just stay home and mind your own fucking business. It is also obvious that the US wants to have the ability blockade China’s trade and has openly written policy papers detailing that.
The original point was that China will not allow Russia to fall because they know full well what you fuckheadsd want, and you’re not gonna get it.