Great article - many thanks! But let's reopen our resources safely and responsibly - it's not a zero-sum between rare-earth independence and the EPA keeping poisons out of our water supply. If we want policies that make these industries come back home, we can also require that they not destroy that home in the process. Isn't this why China is such a bad trading partner - because they trash their environment to undercut the international market?
The US Environmental Protection Agency is a strategic ally of the elite club that rules the Chinese Empire from the Forbidden City.
There exists excellent dysprosium resource near the confluence of the Ohio & Mississippi rivers. We will know Warp Speed is happening when both mine and processing plant construction begin there.
Long term, the flexing of China's muscles in this area is likely going to hurt them. They're demonstrating a power that no one in the world wants them to have.
However, we use our reserve currency status the same way, as a vehicle for advancing our interests. The seizure of the Afghan and Russian central bank reserves has had huge ripple effects in that area.
There's a saying... "There was a time when the law and the consent of the governed clothes European monarchs in unimaginable power. But the wise ones rarely if ever made use of it." Our (and China's) governing class could use a reminder of this.
Great article - many thanks! But let's reopen our resources safely and responsibly - it's not a zero-sum between rare-earth independence and the EPA keeping poisons out of our water supply. If we want policies that make these industries come back home, we can also require that they not destroy that home in the process. Isn't this why China is such a bad trading partner - because they trash their environment to undercut the international market?
Excellent article. It's great to see the issue being taken much more seriously in the US.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is a strategic ally of the elite club that rules the Chinese Empire from the Forbidden City.
There exists excellent dysprosium resource near the confluence of the Ohio & Mississippi rivers. We will know Warp Speed is happening when both mine and processing plant construction begin there.
Let's get the EPA out of the way as well.
Long term, the flexing of China's muscles in this area is likely going to hurt them. They're demonstrating a power that no one in the world wants them to have.
However, we use our reserve currency status the same way, as a vehicle for advancing our interests. The seizure of the Afghan and Russian central bank reserves has had huge ripple effects in that area.
There's a saying... "There was a time when the law and the consent of the governed clothes European monarchs in unimaginable power. But the wise ones rarely if ever made use of it." Our (and China's) governing class could use a reminder of this.