Trump tried to stop China from controlling needed minerals, but Biden dropped the ball

While President Trump was in office, he was alerted to the fact that China had control of refining almost all the necessary chemicals for modern technology. He acted by issuing an executive order to combat this problem, but the Biden administration has ignored these concerns. This is a way that China is currently waging economic warfare and they are winning. TikTok is barely a concern, nor is the uranium situation. The major need for any nation in the modern world is for rare earths and similar minerals.

Needed Minerals

Few people are aware of rare earths, but they are in everything from cell phones to needed military systems, which means all of this is currently reliant on China. While China does have the largest minable reserves, it also holds the biggest capabilities for refining the minerals into a useful form. They could cripple entire nations just by their refusing to sell the necessary minerals. On top of this, they are working hard to gain control of access to these minerals in Africa and other locations.

Economic Warfare

The idea of China not shipping minerals is not a nightmare scenario, as they have done this. They did this to Japan in 2010, while also threatening other nations since then. The United States relies on the technology they ship in from China, but they do make some products here that need them. Almost all the military equipment is made here, which means this would be shut down if there is a sales ban. Look at the countries that have high manufacturing and China can disable them.

Needed Action

President Trump was told what was a problem and acted. The biggest need that the US has is to have the ability to refine what is mined, which requires government approval to open. Even sadder is the fact that the largest refining capability the US had years ago was sold to China. The biggest headache is that he was not able to see this through, which left it to the Biden administration. They are giving lip service to the issue and sending money to their donors, but there has barely been any momentum.

You are reading this on a computer, cell phone, or tablet, which means you are reading it on something that needs rare earths. You need to wash your clothes, drive somewhere, or run a microwave. This means you are using products with rare earths in them. It is time that the US quits allowing government bureaucrats to give China a win and show what America can do.

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