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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Critical minerals give China an edge in trade negotiations
By SIMINA MISTREANU GANZHOU, China©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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HopeSpringsEternal
Hard to say, as minerals are not so rare in reality, just difficult to mine and process, very dirty with low margins
Given China's rare earth supply chain threats, availability from others, including US, soon will be far greater and their leverage will rapidly disappear. Meanwhile China's destroyed their business goodwill across the world.
Desert Tortoise
The US also has resources China needs and the that the US has restricted from them, ethane and natural gas liquids. China needs these for their plastics industry and if the US cuts them off China's plastics industry and industries in China that use plastics will suffer greatly. For the US these materials can be processed into natural gas. They are not as valuable this way as they are sold to China but it is less of a loss to the US than it is to China.
buchailldana
Going up against this bunch of amateur card bluffers is so easy for the Chinese government
WoodyLee
Mother earth never disappoints it sons.
GuruMick
Trump at the other end of the table "gives China an edge in trade negotiations "
Bankrupted how many times ?
6 I Believe......oooh....what a negotiator.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The West has only itself to blame as anyone can produce these things with the right effort.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Fairly certain this was known during Trump 1.
Peter Neil
Contrary to Trump announcing there is a deal, there is no deal. Only a framework was agreed on and just because Trump says he agrees doesn’t mean China has agreed on it.
TokyoLiving
The days of the US as a global hegemon are coming to an end. It can no longer do anything to stop the unstoppable rise of the new global power in progress. The Century of the Chinese Dragon is about to begin.
New world order coming !!..
The future will be RED !!!..
fallaffel
Sounds like the script for a B-movie villain. Lol.
Wesley
An overgrown lizard that should be sprayed with insecticide.
To Japan: In an age of Dragons, raise Dragon-Slayers.
nickybutt
China's population is over 11 times more than Japan.
China's army has 2,000,000 in it. Japan's has 230,000.
China's military budget is over four times more than Japan's.
China has nuclear weapons, Japan does not.
China's economy is much bigger than Japan's.
Japan has no chance!
Wasabi
Who has the cards now? trump small hands are empty....
Wasabi
The deal agreed by trump is that the US citizen will pay 55% more taxes. A win for CN.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Japan's gdp per capita is 2x that of China and Japan hasn't already sputtered out with no jobs.
ian
Article just prepping people for eventual deal?
Peter14
Red with all the blood shed from "might is right" policy and basic anarchy.
But democracies will never follow China's CCP as leaders, will not bow to China or its belligerence they will simply band together and continue to do their own thing.
This imagined "new world order" wont turn out like you think it will. And you wont like it at all. So much so you will long for the "good old days" of rules and order that have supported China's growth and prosperity all funded by the west's investments. Those days are coming to an end.
GuruMick
Peter....democracies are one thing....individual capital movements are another.
Money moves to where the profit is, not on who is a good democracy or who isnt.
P_C
The Defense Department has committed $439 million to building domestic rare earth supply chains, but building a complete mining and processing industrial chain like China's could take decades.
Wait a minute, let's shake our heads and clear our eyes. The 2025 GOP spending bill provides $300M to pay for Trump’s golf trips.
The United States of Waste is rudderless.