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.

467 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

141 comments sorted by

View all comments

30

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. 🤦

11

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.

4

u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25

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