China halts 'rare earth' mineral shipments to Japan: NYT

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by ASusilovic, Sep 23, 2010.

  1. 377OHMS

    377OHMS

    Japan should reconstitute its military and develop thermonuclear weapons, oh wait, they already did.

    Why else would they run a breeder reactor?
     
    #21     Sep 23, 2010
  2. I know it can be difficult with Americas short attention span culture, but let's try to think long term,( 50 yrs down the road) like the Chinese do. China does not want to do anything to upset it's exports to US and Europe. The Chinese consumers can't absorb all of China's production, yet, so they need other markets to demand their goods.

    China is going through some difficult growing pains. So, an occasional incident with the Chinese people's favorite, most reliable bad guy, Japan, is good to shift the population's eyes away from growing internal problems. As Japan is a big market for Chinese products also, I expect this to die down and de-escalate once Japan has held the Captain long enough to save face, and not be seen as backing down to China. They will probably release him near the end of the month.
     
    #22     Sep 23, 2010
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  3. There is a shit load of things that come from china. Things like chips and other things required for our defense and of course the critical rare earths that we stopped producing.
     
    #23     Sep 23, 2010
  4. Some known issues in Indian society

    Zero social mobility
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
    One of the most corruption nation in the world
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India
    836 million people live on 20 rupees a day
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India
    Pakistan is a better nation to do business than India & China
    http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/
    Indians among most corrupt while doing business abroad
    http://business.rediff.com/report/2...-most-corrupt-while-doing-business-abroad.htm
     
    #24     Sep 24, 2010
  5. sumfuka

    sumfuka

    How do you "MOVE"? I'm assuming you don't have any industrial experience, but it is not as easy as it sounds. A lot of factors come into play.
     
    #25     Sep 24, 2010
  6. Newxii

    Newxii

    they never admit such things
     
    #26     Sep 28, 2010
  7. maxinger

    maxinger

    US is a major rare earth importer.
    China is the biggest rare earth exporter.

    And US failed to find alternative source of rare earth before launching trade war.

    So trade war will stop / freeze very soon?
     
    #27     May 29, 2019
  8. ironchef

    ironchef

    Easy, a lot of stuff we buy we don't need.

    I don't need another pair of pants, another shirt, another iPhone, another flatscreen TV another MacBook Pro another car... for at least a few more years.:)
     
    #28     May 30, 2019
  9. bone

    bone

    "Chinese customs data show that the United States bought only 3.8 percent of China’s exports of rare-earth metals last year, far less than Japan, and also less than India, Italy or Spain."

    "The dilemma for Beijing lies in whether to jeopardize its central role in global supply chains by halting exports of crucial components to the West. Trade hawks in the Trump administration have been quietly expressing hope that China will do just that. They see such an interruption as the best way to persuade global companies to shift manufacturing permanently out of China to the United States or to American allies, a long-term goal known as decoupling in trade circles."

    China’s Supply of Minerals for iPhones and Missiles Could Be a Risky Trade Weapon
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/...=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article&region=Footer
     
    #29     May 30, 2019
  10. ironchef

    ironchef

    Because the US hardly manufactures anything these days. If you don't manufacture, you don't need to import rare earth base materials.

    Also, the US has something called the strategic reserves:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_National_Stockpile_Center
     
    #30     May 30, 2019