ALERT | China is forcing German manufacturers to hand over sensitive industrial data, including blueprints and supply-chain details, to get licenses for rare earth exports. Companies say if they refuse, China can choke off the materials they need.
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Western Showdown With China Over Rare Earths
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ALERT | China is forcing German manufacturers to hand over sensitive industrial data, including blueprints and supply-chain details, to get licenses for rare earth exports. Companies say if they refuse, China can choke off the materials they need.
German FM to meet India's FM, NATO's response after postponing China trip over rare earth restrictions tensions.
Germany faces a record trade deficit with China.
CMC Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia met Serbia’s defense minister in Beijing, highlighting high level defence ties and ongoing cooperation.
China & U.K Friction Widens:MI5 has issued a new “espionage alert” to UK MPs and members of the House of Lords warning that Chinese state actors are actively targeting Parliament.
According to the alert, individuals acting on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security are:
Using LinkedIn and other professional networking platforms to approach MPs, peers, staffers, officials and think-tank researchers.Posing as headhunters, consultants or recruiters offering paid advisory or board roles.Seeking non public political, security and policy insight and cultivating long term influence relationships around Westminster.Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle and his Lords counterpart circulated the MI5 warning inside Parliament, and ministers say this activity fits a wider pattern of foreign state efforts to infiltrate UK democratic institutions via social media, recruitment intermediaries and covert donations.
Chinese officials have previously rejected similar allegations, describing them as politically motivated and harmful to UK & China relations.
China MOFCOM announces provisional countervailing measures on certain EU dairy imports starting Dec 23. Deposit rates vary by company, 21.9% to 42.7%. This is a direct EU sector pressure move inside the wider EU & China trade escalation cycle.
Ryabkov says Russia will define “concrete parameters” for responding to Western deployments of ground based short and medium range missiles, citing planned US Dark Eagle deployments in Europe. He says Russia has scrapped its unilateral moratorium on such deployments.
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And everyone wonders why the US is so interested in South America and Greenland?
China is an invasive threat to almost all nations. They pirate technology and patents. Encourage the export of precursor chemicals for drugs and fentanyl. While aggressively seeking out bi-lateral ties with smaller nations for resources. For the Chinese it’s payback time for the European colonists actions 200-300 years ago.
China is free to do this but other nations are equally free to respond and act accordingly.
There should be no surprise or disdain about escalating competition and tensions between east and west.
One can talk all around it and frame it however you like.
This is asymmetrical warfare in its initial phases - that it’s not kinetic is irrelevant. It’s still a fight for resources, markets and eventually supremacy.
Who’s side you want to be on is the only question to answered
this is as old as hunter gather cultures.
I’m willing to admit that I want my nation and culture, no matter how flawed it is, to be the winner or at least be on the winning side.
It’s basic survival systems 101.
China is an invasive threat to almost all nations. They pirate technology and patents. Encourage the export of precursor chemicals for drugs and fentanyl. While aggressively seeking out bi-lateral ties with smaller nations for resources. For the Chinese it’s payback time for the European colonists actions 200-300 years ago.
China is free to do this but other nations are equally free to respond and act accordingly.
There should be no surprise or disdain about escalating competition and tensions between east and west.
One can talk all around it and frame it however you like.
This is asymmetrical warfare in its initial phases - that it’s not kinetic is irrelevant. It’s still a fight for resources, markets and eventually supremacy.
Who’s side you want to be on is the only question to answered
this is as old as hunter gather cultures.
I’m willing to admit that I want my nation and culture, no matter how flawed it is, to be the winner or at least be on the winning side.
It’s basic survival systems 101.
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Europe has its own "Rare Earths" as does the US, but they are either outsourcing it or have not developed the areas. Because its cheaper to have China do the, "leaching, solvent extractioned, ion exchanged" and it causes enviromental dmg. Problem is its not something you can build up in months it will take many years. And thats what China is using as a leverage.
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The way things are going, there's no real risk of that happening. And if America tries to annex peaceful countries against their will, I'll start adding "fortunately" to the preceding sentence.
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Agreed and that is why long term determined actions are required.
Like not out sourcing. Or developing domestic extraction processes. To securing mineral rights in previously uncontested markets.
This is not a quick fix, but it’s also not a leverage we want to allow China to continue to have over us
Keep the politics out of this thread. Please.
Portugal's Lifthium Energy has been awarded a 180 million euro ($210 million) government grant to build a lithium refinery in the country's north for the fast growing electric vehicle battery market.
With 60,000 metric tons of reserves, Portugal is Europe's top lithium producer, supplying mainly the ceramics industry. It has only recently sought to produce battery-grade lithium.
Poland reports Chinese cars barred from some Polish military bases over sensor/data collection concerns. The Defense Ministry said it’s working on broader restrictions and referenced guidance tied to the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW). China’s MFA spokesman warned Poland against “abusing” national security framing.
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The U.S. Just Took a Giant Step in The Rare Earth Race With China
For more than a decade, the United States has treated rare earth independence as a mining problem. But the real vulnerability is further downstream. That’s where rare earths are turned into metals and become a part of the American military machine and its industrial backbone. That capability largely disappeared from North America, and rebuilding it is far more complicated than reopening a mine.
The U.S. Just Took a Giant Step in The Rare Earth Race With China | OilPrice.com
America’s rare earth weakness isn’t about digging minerals out of the ground; it’s about rebuilding the complex processing and magnet-making capabilities that power everything from fighter jets to electric vehicles.
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- The U.S. is 100% import-reliant for 11 critical minerals, including graphite, gallium, and rare elements like scandium and yttrium.
- China remains the dominant supplier for several key materials, including rare earths, graphite, tantalum, and antimony.
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Pentagon sought fresh supply of 13 critical minerals day before Iran attack
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From missiles to minerals: The strategic meaning behind the Iran strike
From missiles to minerals: The strategic meaning behind the Iran strike
How coordinated strikes on Iran reflect America's new strategy integrating technological dominance, energy routes and critical mineral supply chains.
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China’s Trillion-Dollar Rare Resource Axis Is At Stake in Iran War
China’s Trillion-Dollar Rare Resource Axis Is At Stake in Iran War | OilPrice.com
Confronted with a dependence on China and an escalating war with Iran, the Pentagon is now putting money behind domestic metallization and processing of rare earths, hoping to build the capacity at home before the 2027 clock hits zero.
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