• Bunbury@feddit.nl
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    14 days ago

    If China stops exporting these to the US that should influence the trade deficit in the way Trump is looking for, right? Isn’t that what this was supposed to do according to Trump? So he should be happy about this, right? Because it’ll bring the manufacturing of the rare earth minerals home?

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      14 days ago

      Haven’t you heard? China are already on the phone with Trump saying they are going to move the production of terbium to the US. Basically they’ll use these very big drills to mine Chinese minerals right from Wyoming.

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      14 days ago

      I mean… who knows what he wants, maybe he wants to crash the economy.