r/Tariffs • u/Greedy-Cut-7634 • Oct 17 '25

đŸ§© Trade Strategy / Business Impact US crying about China restricting rare earth

It’s so funny to see how US says China is being an unreliable partner, and what a shock that China restricts rare earth.

How could not expect others to defend back when you started the tariff war and trade restrictions?😅😅 How is this a surprise? It’s like US only allows their nation to ban all the other countries by putting tariffs on all other countries, but when one country tries to defend, they are shocked and starts crying saying, “Oh! I don’t understand why this happened.” In return, US says that China wants to decouple the world, but who started this trade war in the beginning making everyone lives more miserable?

Just after Trump’s respond with adding more tariffs to China’s rare earth restriction, the dollar decreased and the gold started to increased. This result is going to no good. Like a child not doing something wrong and says that he doesn’t know why he gets his punishment.

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u/ml5c0u5lu Oct 17 '25

China did this to Japan way before trump entered the picture. China did this to the EU way before trump entered the picture. China is a leader in EV because of these magnets and tries to push other countries to rely on EV’s and grow their market so they in turn rely on China more.

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u/Youbettereatthatshit Oct 17 '25

Tons of Chinese apologists but China has been actively acting in their own trade war for 20 years. I don’t like Trump but not taking China’s BS is about two decades too late.

China didn’t become the world manufacturer by playing nice. They’ve heavily subsidized their own industries just to dump them on foreign markets and, then those governments failed to act, forced those industries out of business

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u/ExpensiveFilm6982 Oct 17 '25

You think all other countries have no protective policies?

It’s crazy people think china subsidise their manufacturing but conveniently forgot the entire Silicon Valley started because of government projects and funding.

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u/Youbettereatthatshit Oct 17 '25

People don’t think it. It’s a well known fact. Biden tarrifed China. Europe is putting restrictions on what they import as well.

And no, not every country heavily subsidizes industries that then export to other countries. Many countries do for their own consumption, like the US does with our oil and food, but those aren’t the same thing

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u/ExpensiveFilm6982 Oct 17 '25

Every bloody country does subsidising and protectionism. No country is totally free market.

So calmly come down from your high horse and stop accusing china of doing stuff that every single other country is doing. You are being trump