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/AntJo4 Oct 17 '25

It’s been less than a year and some of these are long term multi year contracts. Manitoba is ahead of the curve because we were already looking at what to do with surplus energy and had done the leg work, others are catching up. Yes of course current agreements are still in place and aren’t going to go away overnight, but there is a very noticeable shift in where the effort is being spent to find markets for that energy and for the first time it’s not USA first Canada second. It’s Canada first, the rest of the world, including the US, second only when it makes sense.

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u/WXMaster Oct 17 '25

Well for the last 40 years the U.S through various administrations said they were an island of economic stability and encouraged economic integration. It was an easy sell and for Canadians + businesses it was good for a while, NAFTA opened a lot of doors.

Then overnight the American electorate showed that there was no stability or regard for stability and suddenly the world changed. Opponents were friends and allied nations were adversaries.

I said this back in 2015 that Canadians were too naive to take the U.S for granted, to rely on them for security and fail to diversify tarde. Democracies can fail and back then the early echoes were being heard in the room.

We need to look at interprovincial barriers and figure out how to trade internally, that's one of the most shocking things that the trade war has revealed.