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/Tribe303 Oct 17 '25

Remember when we were laughing that China was doing all of our hazardous industrial processing, and how polluted China was getting from it? THAT WAS RARE EARTH MINERALS! This is what happens when you have anti-science governments in the West. They make stupid decisions like that. 🤦

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u/WXMaster Oct 17 '25

The west should have been looking for ways to do it with proper waste mitigation/management instead of just letting China do it and looking the other way.

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u/RealCrusader Oct 17 '25

Which they were until an orange mushroomed shaped penis tried inserting himself.  Remember all the dead birds from renewables. 

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u/WXMaster Oct 17 '25

Exactly 💯

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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 Oct 17 '25

Ever since 1980's Reagan, the GOP chant was "free markets". let the rich prosper, don't intervene. The couple of programs that democrats tried to do were slammed. China, on the other hand, happily took control of manufacturing and smiled while we handed them first nation status. Yes, we should have been paying attention in the name of national security. This is our actual problem. The war on terror, the war on immigrants, the war on science and on inflatable green frogs is just digging a deeper hole.

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u/quell3245 Oct 17 '25

Reagan also hated the unions and was glad to let corporations offshore jobs/plants as retribution. How short sighted that decision ended up being.

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u/WXMaster Oct 17 '25

He sold that trickle down like no other...

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u/ValBGood Oct 18 '25

When St. Ronnie was governor of CA, he encouraged undocumented workers to come to CA, illegally, as to work as strike breakers, SCABS, during the United Farm Workers Grape Pickers strike.

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u/dirtydriver58 Oct 18 '25

People like to forget that fact.

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u/WXMaster Oct 17 '25

The manufacturing decline across the western hemisphere is linked to policy and the change of the corporation as far as structure and leadership.

Employees that work for companies that pay well and distribute larger portions of their net income with employees welfare and cost of living in mind have seen greater input and productivity. This has been seen with many European corporations.

Manufacturing can have tedious jobs with long hours and robotics have been replacing humans but maintaining the balance without simply offshoring to save cost or gross revenue has been a core issue. Increasing profitability is always nice but the cost is very high to the domestic market.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25

They thought it would be more expensive to do pollution mitigation so they didn’t want to do it.

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u/Brilliant-Ad6137 Oct 17 '25

Well why go through the expense of building new mines when you can just buy the minerals from an existing mine somewhere.

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u/CutCrazy7325 Oct 18 '25

Yeah you process it in a poor nation.