Sweden finds huge deposit of rare earth minerals

evince said:
Sweden is an ally and a Democracy you shitty Russo bot hole
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"Half a century ago, the U.S. Mountain Pass Mine was the leading producer of rare earths. But concerns around environmental costs associated with radioactive waste disposal related to REE production pushed a lot of production to China, where companies enjoyed lax environmental regulations. In addition, Beijing had focused on developing the rare earth industry since the 1950s with Baotou processing site for materials coming from the Obo mine being a flagship of Sino-Soviet cooperation."

https://thediplomat.com/2022/09/can-the-west-shake-its-dependence-on-chinas-rare-earths/
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Na....they are leveraging so that they can make the best deal they can with the new master of the universe.
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The craziest thing I heard about is Vietnam offering us a navy base in Vietnam... And we turned it down. It was like 40 years after the Vietnam War, but the leaders of Vietnam still remember the Vietnam War.

But they also remember the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, and the more recent maritime attacks from China.
 
Walt said:
The craziest thing I heard about is Vietnam offering us a navy base in Vietnam... And we turned it down. It was like 40 years after the Vietnam War, but the leaders of Vietnam still remember the Vietnam War.

But they also remember the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, and the more recent maritime attacks from China.
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Popular sentiment in Vietnam may favor expanded ties with the United States, but party leaders in Hanoi, all too aware of their country’s geographic proximity to, and economic dependence on, China, worry about blowback from Beijing if they get too close to Washington. They also have doubts about Washington’s long-term commitment to allies and partners in the region. And so Hanoi, seeking to balance China without provoking it, pursues a “multidirectional” foreign policy rooted in “four no’s”: no foreign troops on Vietnamese soil, no allying with one country to counter another, no military alliances with foreign powers, and no using force or threatening to use force in international relations.

In recent months, rising U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan have only intensified Vietnam’s efforts to triangulate between Washington and Beijing. This hedging behavior was on display in late October when Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong paid an official visit to Beijing. Trong was the first foreign leader to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping after China’s 20th Party Congress, telling him that Vietnam gives “top priority” to “developing its comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China.” This party-to-party visit was not, in fact, unusual from a historical perspective, and it probably says more about China’s calculations than Vietnam’s, with Xi pointedly reminding Trong that both countries should “never let anyone interfere” with their progress.

Hanoi’s caution is understandable from an economic perspective. Although Vietnam has emerged as Asia’s growth leader, with annual growth expected to reach 8% in 2022, its economy has become increasingly dependent on China since 2012, when Xi became China’s paramount leader. Vietnam is by far China’s largest trading partner in ASEAN. Trade between the two countries surpassed $165 billion in 2021, more than quadruple the figure from 2012. Last year, nearly a fifth of Vietnam’s exports went to China, which, in turn, contributed a third of Vietnam’s imports. These imports are indispensable to Vietnam’s manufacturing supply chain..
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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/orde...-opportunity-to-upgrade-us-vietnam-relations/
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am warning, trying to wake people up to reality, not cheering.
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sorry, that flag doesn't fly.......

but this one does.....

passengers-take-photos-with-a-flag-of-the-communist-party-of-china-at-the-nantong-railway.jpg
 
PostmodernProphet said:
sorry, that flag doesn't fly.......

but this one does.....
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You make the common Modern Moron Mistake of assuming inappropriately that when someone tells you that something you dont like is going on that they want this "bad" thing to happen.

Your ancestors were generally more intelligent.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
You make the common Modern Moron Mistake of assuming inappropriately that when someone tells you that something you dont like is going on that they want this "bad" thing to happen.

Your ancestors were generally more intelligent.
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you want it to happen so you can be right.

being right is important to you.

the great reset has been cancelled.

:truestory:
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The other option is that you are one of the people Peter Hitchens talks about who are so poorly educated that you never learned how to think, which would make you a lost cause....you cant help.
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another option is that I don't share your goals.......I would prefer that we don't surrender to Xi....
 
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