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Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling

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Re: Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling

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Post by yadaeno »

ta20240528 wrote: post #9
goalieca wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because China has stated they will take Taiwan, they have been threatening Philippines sovereignty too. Japan and others are on edge too. China currently has been behaving very adversarial and has a huge fraction of the minerals under their control that this article is posting about. I think sovereignty is a good thing. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.

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reflect on what? both things can be true at the same time.

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Post by ceejayoz »

yadaeno wrote: post #11
ta20240528 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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reflect on what? both things can be true at the same time.

When both are true at the same time, one might reflect on why "because China" is given as the pat answer.

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Post by GlickWick »

ta20240528 wrote: post #9
goalieca wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because China has stated they will take Taiwan, they have been threatening Philippines sovereignty too. Japan and others are on edge too. China currently has been behaving very adversarial and has a huge fraction of the minerals under their control that this article is posting about. I think sovereignty is a good thing. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.

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While true, China's threat has been going on for a long time and they've been running repeated exercises on how to do it, how to take US warships out, etc.

Additionally, US support for taking Greenland is virtually zero. Chinese support for taking Taiwan is frighteningly high.

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Post by robotnikman »

seydor wrote: post #5

Why is everyone preparing for war so hard

I hope its less because of war and more because its better to not be so dependent on other countries, similar to how Europe is trying to rely less on the US for digital infrastructure.

I also feel like the boomers offshoring everything to China in the 70's is one of the reasons things are worse off nowadays, but I digress.

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Post by lardosaurusrex »

goalieca wrote: post #8
seydor wrote: post #5

Why is everyone preparing for war so hard

Because China has stated they will take Taiwan, they have been threatening Philippines sovereignty too. Japan and others are on edge too. China currently has been behaving very adversarial and has a huge fraction of the minerals under their control that this article is posting about. I think sovereignty is a good thing. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.

The USA keeps threatening my country; Canada.

I can say with a reasonable amount of confidence that going "but china" isn't going to help the US much going forward.

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Post by amykhar »

goalieca wrote: post #8
seydor wrote: post #5

Why is everyone preparing for war so hard

Because China has stated they will take Taiwan, they have been threatening Philippines sovereignty too. Japan and others are on edge too. China currently has been behaving very adversarial and has a huge fraction of the minerals under their control that this article is posting about. I think sovereignty is a good thing. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.

And yet all sorts of people are advocating for using Chinese LLMs because they are less expensive. It seems like a very risky move to save a few dollars.

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Post by idiotsecant »

GlickWick wrote: post #14
ta20240528 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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While true, China's threat has been going on for a long time and they've been running repeated exercises on how to do it, how to take US warships out, etc. Additionally, US support for taking Greenland is virtually zero. Chinese support for taking Taiwan is frighteningly high.

China is not an irrational actor. They know that the most effective way to take Taiwan is slowly, through soft power and political subterfuge.

There is no need or advantage to a full frontal assault.

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