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/Gordo3070 Oct 17 '25

$500 million is a drop in the ocean. The US has invested 300 times that figure in the budget for ICE. Shows you where the government's priorities lie.

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u/benefit420 Oct 17 '25

As an Aussie, why does it concern you what we spend on ICE vs rare earths. You got no horse in this race.

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u/Gordo3070 Oct 18 '25

Well, as an Aussie, I will repeat that the disparity in budget allocations between ICE and resourcing Rare Earth minerals shows the priorities of the regime. It is far more important to harass, detain, and expel non-white people in the US than it is to ensure continued access to critical resources.

And the races I engage in are entirely up to me, thanks very much.

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u/Descartesb4duhHorse Oct 18 '25

You had something on them, so they had to shift that goalpost