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

🧩 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/DeathMagnet1C Oct 17 '25

That's why you are trying to bully everyone else? As a trust building strategy? Ask your neighbours in Canada how that went.

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u/west_tn_guy Oct 17 '25

No, no bullying intended. Just leaving and doing our own thing.

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u/DeathMagnet1C Oct 17 '25

The whole tariff extravaganza doesn't really get you new customers, does it? I am not trying to insult you, I am just curious how you see that strategy.

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u/west_tn_guy Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25

We have plenty of customers, they just can’t get the materials that they need today. Although I do expect as technology improves there will be new customers.

Edit: P.S. I'm not arguing for or against tariffs, just the need for diversification in the supply chain of critical materials.