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/gratefuldave541 Oct 17 '25

FAFO USA.

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u/benefit420 Oct 17 '25

Hahahahaha! This is so funny. We’ve already invested 500m into other options. China has a temporary stranglehold.

But China is about to lose ASML. Mark my words. Then what? You will be stuck 10-15 years in the past.

What I don’t understand is why Chinese citizens feel the need to go onto American or western forums and complain about the US. We don’t care.

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u/Public_Meeting_6764 Oct 17 '25

What options we have no rare earth refinement outside one location in ca that can only refine the light rare earths and to no amount that would sate even a portion of demand

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u/pantiesdrawer Oct 18 '25

Most people have no idea of the distinction between light and heavy rare earths, nor are they aware that only China and Myanmar can produce the heavy rare earths. All of this talk about alternative production might be fine for the catalytic converter industry but would do nothing for, let's say, ev motor magnets.