China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense

NinjaZ · 3 days ago

China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense

@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

tell that to someone who lives in an EU country where corrupt politicians are building out surveillance systems with chinese tech, and bringing the country into other large chinese projects from even larger chinese loans, along with chinese battery factories that are polluting our environment!

to someone, like me.

a neighboring country is also neck deep in this shit

NoneOfUrBusiness · 2 days ago

I mean that’s not what I’m talking about though, and in the first place does it really matter if the surveillance systems are Chinese or American/Israeli?

@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

does it really matter if the surveillance systems are Chinese or American/Israeli?

what matters here is that chinese influence initiated the project