Loading ...China Dominates The Supply Of US Critical Minerals List
Currently there are 50 entries on this list and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that China is the leading producer for 30 of them. From USGS data, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualizes China’s share of U.S. imports for 10 critical minerals.
The USGS estimates that China could potentially disrupt the global rare earth oxide supply by cutting off 40–50% production, impacting suppliers of advanced components used in U.S. defense systems.
China’s controls were seen as a retaliation against the U.S. which has restricted the supply of chips, chip design software, and lithography machines to Chinese companies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-dominates-supply-us-critical-minerals-list
Without imports from China the US would be out of business. That’s why I don’t think they would do much to stop China from reintegrating Taiwan. It would be dumb as hell. Taiwan is China! Then again, Crimea and the Donbas is Russia. It’s difficult to understand unless you see these issues through the filter of “The Rules Based Order”.
Rule #1…the US gets to do whatever it wants.
Rule #2…All countries have to do whatever the US wants.
Wouldn’t doubt that the USA has all the critical minerals, but are prevented from mining them.
So Africa used to have them all.