Jump to content

Meanwhile in China


RPM

Recommended Posts

On 5/24/2023 at 7:06 AM, Hate said:

Wait a minute…racism exists outside of the US????

 

On 5/24/2023 at 7:13 AM, JesusSweatDuck said:

Unpossible, America is the great Satan and the only country with issues

The issue isn't racism vel non. 

The issue is applied racism, specifically as applied to people of African American descent.  Due to slavery within our national borders (as opposed to far-flung colonies like the rest of the world), we had a much larger population of blacks, the vast majority of whom were here unwillingly (as opposed to immigrants).

Upon emancipation, we proceeded to oppress them de jure and de facto for the next 100 years (largely eliminating the de jure) and to the present (de facto).

The US is no more racist than any other nation.  Due to the circumstances of slavery (so self-inflicted), we probably have one of the worst records of racism expressed as racial oppression than anyone, except maybe China and Japan.

Everyone else got to gradually integrate minorities, which works out much better and is why other racial minorities in the US have fared better (that and they voluntarily immigrated for the most part instead of just being stuck here).

  • Hook 'Em 4
  • Like 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites

47 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Why didn't they build a oil pipeline and gas pipeline to Russia 30 years ago.  I know it's a long way across Europe, and the topography to get there is very bad.  But come on.  It coulda been done.

I don't believe Russia really wants to be overly dependent on China. Now they're being forced in that direction.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

(No CR)

He talks about about how President Biden "accidentally" calls Taiwan a real country, only for his people to walk it back.  But the interval between the faux pas and apology is getting longer and longer.  If that's all on purpose, it's high-tier diplomatic trolling.

  • Hook 'Em 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I don't believe Russia really wants to be overly dependent on China. Now they're being forced in that direction.

The Russians hate the Chinese with a deep seated cultural fear of them. Goes back to the Mongol invasions. Russians hate the “yellow horde” and will never trust them. Any current dependence is strictly a neccessary situation.
Link to comment
Share on other sites


The Russians hate the Chinese with a deep seated cultural fear of them. Goes back to the Mongol invasions. Russians hate the “yellow horde” and will never trust them. Any current dependence is strictly a neccessary situation.

Russia may not have a choice. Their FAFO consequence may be that China bends them over in 1,000 different ways.
  • Hook 'Em 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Russia + China fit together well from a trade point of view. Russia is a huge exporter of food/energy, China is a huge importer, they also can shit that stuff over their land border so no navy can interfere. Seems like a perfect match.

It is. Except today, Russia needs China’s cash and tech more than China needs Russia’s resources. Asymmetrical power = a smooth buttfucking for Russia.
  • Hook 'Em 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

i know a guy who won the lottery and married a Chinese woman who is the daughter of some high ranking CCP official. Many years ago during the construction boom, she "started" a company which sold electrical supplies to all of the skyscraper builders for all the major cities. Basically her dad got her all of the supplier contracts.

A few years after marrying her, he went home to France for Christmas. He gave his mom $2M Euros for a Christmas present.

They are uber rich but my understanding is that they are peasants compared to mega rich. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yeah, not a cool move. Asian driver joke must be here somewhere. 
 
 
Whatever -- that happens 500 times on Lake Travis on any given Saturday.  Some bro was at the wheel of the Chinese ship, hammered off of Coronas.
Also, any of y'all follow the "Chinese police secretly set up shop in places around the world where Chinese citizens are concentrated to monitor them" stories?  The boy is at the University of Glasgow, which has a LARGE Chinese student population (like 30% of the total enrollment.  So he just sent us this:

98aa84801d3aafc7a76ed2e46567f73d.png

 
He's run around with a few of the Chinese students, and according to them, when they go back to China they are tested for EVERYTHING.  Even a trace of any kind of drug, and they're in deep shit.  Super fun way to live.
  • Hook 'Em 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 6/5/2023 at 11:41 AM, crash_davis said:

i know a guy who won the lottery and married a Chinese woman who is the daughter of some high ranking CCP official. Many years ago during the construction boom, she "started" a company which sold electrical supplies to all of the skyscraper builders for all the major cities. Basically her dad got her all of the supplier contracts.

A few years after marrying her, he went home to France for Christmas. He gave his mom $2M Euros for a Christmas present.

They are uber rich but my understanding is that they are peasants compared to mega rich. 

Sounds kinda like he married into the mob.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Another war game simulation about a cross strait invasion of Taiwan by China, this one put "most-favorable" conditions in place for China.  The goal here wasn't to see if the PRC could succeed, but rather what time window would the PRC need to capture Taipei before U.S. intervention arrived?  Prior war games have shown that once the US shows up, the best case for the PRC is a horrible stalemate where they destroy Taiwan's economy while lose tens to hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the bulk of their navy, air, and missile forces.  But that picture for the US is not much better, in an all-out, we'd lose a shit-ton of AF assets (mostly on the ground due to missiles).  

As someone (can't remember who) has pointed out multiple times up-thread, amphibious operations are really hard, prone to failure, the PRC has never done it, and their troop transports are "the size of cruise ships" with a radar cross section to match which makes them vulnerable to anti-ship missiles.  Those are all bad for the PLAN especially vs. the US, even though we are critically under resourced on anti-ship missiles with standoff range (see prior war game upthread).  But what happens if the PLA/N is able to get Taipai before our politicians decide to engage our military in response?  The window is shorter than you might think...

First, ROC navy is gone on day 1.  Out of the picture, destroyed by missiles.  Second, 90% of their air force is gone too, same story.

Quote

Similarly, as other studies have found, most of the ROCAF will be destroyed either on the ground or in the air after during the bombardment. It is important to note that this can be done with an estimated 60 – 200 Short Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs).16 With an assessed SRBM inventory of roughly 1,000 missiles, this estimated expenditure is extreme reasonable even if as much as 50 percent of PLA missiles are kept in reserve for a possible counter-U.S. intervention operation.17

ROC does have anti-ship missiles on land-based mobile launchers:

Quote

In recent years, Taiwan has significantly increased both its quantity of anti-ship missiles (ASMs) as well as diversified their firing units from ground-based launchers to air- and sea-launched systems. Amongst its ground-based forces, it had roughly 20 Hsiung Feng III missile launchers in 2020, with plans for 70 more in 2023. For this scenario, the ROC fields half of the new launchers by the time of invasion. This brings total ASM launchers to 55. With an average of 490 missiles built a year by 2023, there will be no shortage of munitions to target a PLA invasion fleet.13 Additionally, Taiwan just purchased 100 Harpoon Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles (ASCM) launchers with 400 missiles, bringing the total number of ground-based platforms for the PLA to target up to 155 launchers.14

However as soon as they fire they can be located and attrited.  And we have no idea about how experienced these teams are, same questions for the PLA/N also apply here.  But with the limited # of ASMs, the limited experience of the crews, and them being under constant fire, what if the "troop transports the size of cruise ships" are able to get through...?

Quote

...the above modeling shows the practical window for U.S. intervention in a Taiwan invasion prior to the seizure of Taipei and the displacement, dissolution, or capitulation of the ROC government effectively closes 31 days after the initial landings. In the scenario, this is 46 days after the start of the JFSO and 76 days after the “invasion likely” assessment, though both of those times were based on educated assumptions vice data-backed models. As stated, this analysis is based on a best-case-scenario timelines for the PLA, in which the Taiwanese resistance they encounter is more akin to that demonstrated by the beleaguered 2014 version of the Ukrainian military vice its more successful 2022 descendant. U.S. policy in the short run must be focused on ensuring Taiwan’s military is not the overwhelmed, underequipped, and unprepared former, but rather the well-equipped, well trained, and motivated latter.

I could easily see politicians debating intervention for 30+ days, easily.  And that assumes we are pre-positioned with everything we need to intervene, which is probably not true, there will be travel time, logistics, etc.

Oh on top of all that, Taiwanese aren't super motivated to defend themselves:

Quote

...a survey conducted by the Ministry of National Defense found that only 73 percent of Taiwanese would be willing to fight if Taiwan was invaded.37

Again this isn't an assessment of how likely the PRC is to attempt invasion, which is a political decision.  This war game was about could they get it done before we move in, and it looks like the answer could be yes based on Taiwan's assets and willingness to fight.

A discussion of should the US intervene is also a political decision, but we need to get our shit straight on that ASAP one way or the other so we don't vacillate in the moment.  I'm on the intervene side, which is a whole other discussion but you can make a case for either.

 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Quote

“It is a handful of oatmeal mixed with low-fat yoghurt, with half an apple and a carrot. If such a meal is to extend life, what is the meaning of life?”

Says the guy probably tucking into his lunch of living bird embryo with a side of sheep penis and chicken testicles. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
  • Haha 6
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Xi Jinping’s new world order is collapsing before our eyes

A tipping point is rapidly approaching that the West can use to its advantage

Matthew Henderson 15 June 2023 • 8:00am Matthew Henderson
China's President Xi Jinping speaks during the introduction of members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee
China's faltering economic poses a fresh headache for president Xi Jinping Credit: NOEL CELIS/AFP

While the UK and US, each embroiled in democracy’s perverse consequences, struggle to thwart Putin’s mad ambitions in Ukraine, their respective China strategies face forceful challenge from Beijing. Xi Jinping is pushing brinkmanship to the edge in the Taiwan Straits and doubling down, as in Honduras, on its global efforts to isolate Taiwan.

Meanwhile, leading Western technology companies, alarmed by geopolitical uncertainty and facing hostile data “legislation,” are marching out of China in droves. Microsoft has already taken LinkedIn out and is moving an expert AI team to Canada to avoid local pressure on them.

Sub-par performance by the best-known Chinese stocks are compelling some seasoned Western asset managers to cut their exposure. Where is this debacle leading, and where might it end?

Risk has been defined as exposure to hostile intentions and capabilities. This dictum omits one vital issue: whether the party at risk is aware of what is going on. Arguably much of the “free” world is either ignorant, or in denial, about Xi Jinping’s policy drivers, intentions and capabilities.

This in itself is acutely risky. A tipping point in China Risk is rapidly approaching, and with it an opportunity to turn this to the West’s advantage.

Xi Jinping is forging ahead with plans for a revisionist New Era in which China becomes the sole super-power in an authoritarian, post-democratic world order. His immediate tactics include expedient alliances with other enemies of the West to defeat sanctions and other preemptive counter-measures short of military conflict.

He is striving to exploit Western political and economic division and disarray, not least through his tacit support for Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. His spuriously neutral Ukraine peace initiative lacks substance – indeed, this may be deliberate – but it symbolises his ultimate aspiration to global authority.

However, Xi is still a long way from achieving this. Though propaganda trumpets China’s triumph over the Covid virus and prospects for renewed growth, part of Xi’s aggressive haste stems from the realisation that the Chinese Communist Party state remains riddled with vulnerabilities.

China rapidly globalised its economic influence by exploiting the West’s illusion that, once admitted to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), it would engage in trade according to WTO rules and norms. But from the outset it denied foreign businesses free and fair access to its domestic market and used massive state subsidies to capture market dominance for its own products and systems across the world.

From 2018, the US has led a de facto trade war against this, while remaining uncomfortably tied to the Chinese economy by enduring debt and supply-chain dependencies.

Subsequent geopolitical and economic tensions have progressively worsened due to China’s human rights abuses, political interference, cyber espionage and IP theft, mistrust and sourcing disruption caused by the pandemic, alignment with Russia, and threats to Taiwan.

This has led to an accelerating exodus of major Western companies from China to more reliable regional bases in South-East Asia, India and Bangladesh. The low cost of factory labour in China, formerly a major draw for FDI, no longer applies. Factory wages in South China are now around three times higher than in equivalent South Asian industries.

The Chinese economy has long been struggling under Xi Jinping’s Marxist ideological chokehold. Covid lockdown early in the pandemic was a kneejerk CCP crisis management response to potential social disturbance. Imposed disastrously late, it slowed transmission but failed to boost immunity. 

“Zero Covid” proved powerless against the omicron variant but was not abandoned until the export-led national economy had been badly damaged by needlessly-prolonged coercive lockdowns.

Unsurprisingly, promised recovery has not been realised. Exports are depressed and the property market is in disarray, with more and more major players being delisted on the Shanghai stock exchange. The tech sector remains traumatised by Xi’s politically-motivated crackdown in 2021, which has wiped out many jobs for educated young workers at a time of serious youth unemployment.

Debt remains toxic, demographics are intractable (despite a huge surge in mortality among the under-immunised elderly soon after Zero Covid rules were abruptly relaxed). Environmental stresses, particularly water security, are worsening.

Seemingly ignoring these headwinds, Xi Jinping’s model for economic resurgence is a distinctly ideological formula called the Dual Cycle economy. The idea is to stimulate domestic technical innovation and production, leveraging this to give China a lead in global markets for cutting-edge technologies, while concurrently driving down dependency on technical cooperation with the West.

This construct ties in existing nationalist, anti-market measures and a protectionist, sanction-proofing subtext, sitting badly with claims that China is now open to the world for “business as usual”.  Recent use of arbitrary data-protection legislation to seize records, detain staff and freeze important ESG and other compliance work done by foreign consultancies in Shanghai and elsewhere also undermines this claim.

Xi is hoarding gold, securing energy supplies and building up China’s military capabilities, in particular those used to threaten Taiwan. To argue that he will not, for some time at least, invade Taiwan for fear of the economic consequences misses the real point.

Xi would prefer to annex Taiwan without a fight, but he needs to be able to flex enough military muscle to undermine US support to the point that the Taiwanese lose faith in it and accept the inevitable. But this will not pay for itself, and scaring off FDI won’t fill any coffers.

Xi shows little capacity to tackle the fundamental unsustainability of the Chinese economy.  Failure to do so could sweep away his dreams of a revisionist New Era. There has been much talk lately of “de-risking” from China. This is a two-way process; it should entail renewed, concerted economic pressure, including enhanced sanctions, against a regime that is already far more of a global threat than Russia.

As an Indian commentator has observed, the imperative is to reinforce national power and work in step with China’s sole global “balancer,” the US. The “Atlantic Declaration” is welcome; now it needs to grow some teeth.

  • Hook 'Em 4
  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Xi Jinping’s new world order is collapsing before our eyes

A tipping point is rapidly approaching that the West can use to its advantage
Matthew Henderson 15 June 2023 • 8:00am 317725395__Matthew%20Henderson-xlarge.png?imwidth=100 TELEMMGLPICT000339253611_16868364452490_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq97D7d2jGIfN4x7Ol52oFVwTLC5srwn8atgZ405HyX8I.jpeg?imwidth=680 China's faltering economic poses a fresh headache for president Xi Jinping Credit: NOEL CELIS/AFP While the UK and US, each embroiled in democracy’s perverse consequences, struggle to thwart Putin’s mad ambitions in Ukraine, their respective China strategies face forceful challenge from Beijing. Xi Jinping is pushing brinkmanship to the edge in the Taiwan Straits and doubling down, as in Honduras, on its global efforts to isolate Taiwan.
Meanwhile, leading Western technology companies, alarmed by geopolitical uncertainty and facing hostile data “legislation,” are marching out of China in droves. Microsoft has already taken LinkedIn out and is moving an expert AI team to Canada to avoid local pressure on them.
Sub-par performance by the best-known Chinese stocks are compelling some seasoned Western asset managers to cut their exposure. Where is this debacle leading, and where might it end?
Risk has been defined as exposure to hostile intentions and capabilities. This dictum omits one vital issue: whether the party at risk is aware of what is going on. Arguably much of the “free” world is either ignorant, or in denial, about Xi Jinping’s policy drivers, intentions and capabilities.
This in itself is acutely risky. A tipping point in China Risk is rapidly approaching, and with it an opportunity to turn this to the West’s advantage.
Xi Jinping is forging ahead with plans for a revisionist New Era in which China becomes the sole super-power in an authoritarian, post-democratic world order. His immediate tactics include expedient alliances with other enemies of the West to defeat sanctions and other preemptive counter-measures short of military conflict.
He is striving to exploit Western political and economic division and disarray, not least through his tacit support for Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. His spuriously neutral Ukraine peace initiative lacks substance – indeed, this may be deliberate – but it symbolises his ultimate aspiration to global authority.
However, Xi is still a long way from achieving this. Though propaganda trumpets China’s triumph over the Covid virus and prospects for renewed growth, part of Xi’s aggressive haste stems from the realisation that the Chinese Communist Party state remains riddled with vulnerabilities.
China rapidly globalised its economic influence by exploiting the West’s illusion that, once admitted to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), it would engage in trade according to WTO rules and norms. But from the outset it denied foreign businesses free and fair access to its domestic market and used massive state subsidies to capture market dominance for its own products and systems across the world.
From 2018, the US has led a de facto trade war against this, while remaining uncomfortably tied to the Chinese economy by enduring debt and supply-chain dependencies.
Subsequent geopolitical and economic tensions have progressively worsened due to China’s human rights abuses, political interference, cyber espionage and IP theft, mistrust and sourcing disruption caused by the pandemic, alignment with Russia, and threats to Taiwan.
This has led to an accelerating exodus of major Western companies from China to more reliable regional bases in South-East Asia, India and Bangladesh. The low cost of factory labour in China, formerly a major draw for FDI, no longer applies. Factory wages in South China are now around three times higher than in equivalent South Asian industries.
The Chinese economy has long been struggling under Xi Jinping’s Marxist ideological chokehold. Covid lockdown early in the pandemic was a kneejerk CCP crisis management response to potential social disturbance. Imposed disastrously late, it slowed transmission but failed to boost immunity. 
“Zero Covid” proved powerless against the omicron variant but was not abandoned until the export-led national economy had been badly damaged by needlessly-prolonged coercive lockdowns.
Unsurprisingly, promised recovery has not been realised. Exports are depressed and the property market is in disarray, with more and more major players being delisted on the Shanghai stock exchange. The tech sector remains traumatised by Xi’s politically-motivated crackdown in 2021, which has wiped out many jobs for educated young workers at a time of serious youth unemployment.
Debt remains toxic, demographics are intractable (despite a huge surge in mortality among the under-immunised elderly soon after Zero Covid rules were abruptly relaxed). Environmental stresses, particularly water security, are worsening.
Seemingly ignoring these headwinds, Xi Jinping’s model for economic resurgence is a distinctly ideological formula called the Dual Cycle economy. The idea is to stimulate domestic technical innovation and production, leveraging this to give China a lead in global markets for cutting-edge technologies, while concurrently driving down dependency on technical cooperation with the West.
This construct ties in existing nationalist, anti-market measures and a protectionist, sanction-proofing subtext, sitting badly with claims that China is now open to the world for “business as usual”.  Recent use of arbitrary data-protection legislation to seize records, detain staff and freeze important ESG and other compliance work done by foreign consultancies in Shanghai and elsewhere also undermines this claim.
Xi is hoarding gold, securing energy supplies and building up China’s military capabilities, in particular those used to threaten Taiwan. To argue that he will not, for some time at least, invade Taiwan for fear of the economic consequences misses the real point.
Xi would prefer to annex Taiwan without a fight, but he needs to be able to flex enough military muscle to undermine US support to the point that the Taiwanese lose faith in it and accept the inevitable. But this will not pay for itself, and scaring off FDI won’t fill any coffers.
Xi shows little capacity to tackle the fundamental unsustainability of the Chinese economy.  Failure to do so could sweep away his dreams of a revisionist New Era. There has been much talk lately of “de-risking” from China. This is a two-way process; it should entail renewed, concerted economic pressure, including enhanced sanctions, against a regime that is already far more of a global threat than Russia.
As an Indian commentator has observed, the imperative is to reinforce national power and work in step with China’s sole global “balancer,” the US. The “Atlantic Declaration” is welcome; now it needs to grow some teeth.

Great piece.
To me, the wildcard is whether China can exploit Russia’s weakness to extract economic/resource concessions that are significant enough to truly alter China’s global position.
The opportunity is there, and China is taking SOME advantage of it, but from what I can tell, not nearly enough.
China in the past decade has not been thinking nearly long-term strategically enough. My working hypothesis is that China is showing that it’s not immune to the “strong man weakness” - when a country is ruled by one man, especially when that lasts for a significant period of time, they end up stuck with one man’s unquestioned thinking instead of a strategy that is developed by considering multiple inputs and ideas. Nobody questions Xi, so his worst ideas continue unchallenged. If a strategy isn’t working, many countries come around to that and pivot. Under a strongman, they can’t, because to acknowledge that a strategy isn’t working is a judgment that the strongman was wrong, and that cannot happen: vulnerability/fallibility it is the one thing a strongman can never admit.
  • Hook 'Em 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

He should be learning something from Putin’s example.

That’s the point: he can’t. The “strongman strategy” is an all-in proposition. It’s foundation is that the leader is infallible. Thus, positions and strategies are nearly impossible to change, because to change to path B is an admission that path A was. It the best choice…and the leader only makes the best choices.
  • Hook 'Em 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, KeysPhoneWallet said:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1292985.shtml


Article on how boring white people food is and how awesome Chinese food is.

I remember the first day of my Freshman year Eastern Civ I class. The first thing my professor said was, "the Chinese will eat anything that doesn't eat them first."

CHIEF

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

This week I had some hot ass Chinese girl contact me on linked in. Her name was “Laura Cox” and she messaged me about her Corp to see if we could “discuss”. I knew it was bullshit but I was on a conf call so I looked up the company and didn’t see anything that was active - no website or anything. I responded with “what do you want to discuss” and she said “I don’t know” then she asked if I could share my WeChat or whatever info and I said “what’s your Instagram?” And she said “what’s that” lolz.

I checked today and she had already deleted the profile. So this hits close to home.
  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

So a guy that literally used to cook Chinese food for the ‘Stable Genius’ ruler so respected by our dear leader is helping organize a coup that will likely disrupt energy supply to China, and we are not living in a simulation?   This is going to be fantastic.  Dibs on Movie rights. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
5 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Begun, the gallium wars have.

We’ll see how far it goes. Both sides have a lot of weapons at their disposal. 

I’m all in favor for as much of a decoupling from China as we can manage, but I have no confidence the American people are ready for the pain that will involve. People have been sounding the alarm on this stuff for over 20 years, to no real avail. 

But make no mistake. China sees it as their destiny to replace the US at the top of the world’s pyramid. They see us as lazy, decadent, soft, and tired of the responsibility of being a world superpower. They’re ready to step in and remake the economic order to their advantage. They’ve done a great job of establishing an industrial base to do just that, but the problem with using weapons is that once you do, the other side starts coming up with counters. My hope is that Chiba overextended their hand and helps the west overcome their addiction to Chinese market incentives. 

Here’s a decent WaPo article on how we got here. Not exhaustive by any means. Many books have been written on the subject. But a decent quick overview. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/07/03/why-the-fight-for-critical-minerals-is-heating-up/5e9959b6-19b2-11ee-be41-a036f4b098ec_story.html

  • Hook 'Em 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

5 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

We’ll see how far it goes. Both sides have a lot of weapons at their disposal. 

I’m all in favor for as much of a decoupling from China as we can manage, but I have no confidence the American people are ready for the pain that will involve. People have been sounding the alarm on this stuff for over 20 years, to no real avail. 

But make no mistake. China sees it as their destiny to replace the US at the top of the world’s pyramid. They see us as lazy, decadent, soft, and tired of the responsibility of being a world superpower. They’re ready to step in and remake the economic order to their advantage. They’ve done a great job of establishing an industrial base to do just that, but the problem with using weapons is that once you do, the other side starts coming up with counters. My hope is that Chiba overextended their hand and helps the west overcome their addiction to Chinese market incentives. 

Here’s a decent WaPo article on how we got here. Not exhaustive by any means. Many books have been written on the subject. But a decent quick overview. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/07/03/why-the-fight-for-critical-minerals-is-heating-up/5e9959b6-19b2-11ee-be41-a036f4b098ec_story.html

How we got here;

Greed and slave labor (sort of how we operated for a long time)

  • Hook 'Em 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



×
×
  • Create New...