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Biden Admin Charts Path of No Return with China - What Was Once Considered 'Unthinkable' Is Now Reality
The Western Journal ^ | October 15, 2022 at 12:52pm | Jared Miller

Posted on 10/16/2022 4:18:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The United States has a history of putting rivals on the world stage in a corner economically, obligating them to make the first moves to war.

One of the most famous examples of this strategy came on July 26, 1941.

On that date, President Franklin Roosevelt introduced sweeping economic sanctions and asset seizures against Japan.

As a result of those sanctions, “Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil,” according to History.

Needing oil to maintain its military might, Japan had little choice but to declare war on the West and mobilize its imperial fleet against the United States less than five months later. According to CNBC, the United States now appears to be utilizing the same strategy against China in the form of heavily restricting chip and semiconductor exports to the country.

While access to petroleum was crucial to militaries in the 1940s, access to semiconductors is crucial for any modern military to maintain its formidability on the global stage. According to CNBC, the U.S. Department of Commerce recently introduced strict rules and licensing requirements for chip exportation to China with the apparent goal of cutting the country off from access to chips used in supercomputers.

CNBC implied that the justification for these sweeping regulations relies heavily on the belief that semiconductors can and will be used for “advanced military capabilities.”

Abishur Prakash, co-founder of the Center for Innovating the Future, told CNBC, “With the latest action, the chasm between the U.S. and China has now expanded to the point of no return.”

“The latest chip rules are a sign that Washington is not trying to rebuild relations with Beijing. Instead, the U.S. is making it clear...”

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To: catnipman

I thought the sanctions of that July 1941 were due to the Japanese army occupation of French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) and the French, under Vichy, could not defend the territory.

Respectfully to the author in the main article, the US was having talks with the Imperial government over this issue, with some mixed signals that Japan would not move their military into Indochina.

The British government imposed sanctions, too. So did the Independent Dutch in the East Indies. Both the British Malaya and the Indies, rich with oil, were made extremely vulnerable with the Japanese so close.

The sanctions were a response to direct Japanese aggression and invasion.


61 posted on 10/17/2022 6:11:16 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
China hasn't built fabrication plants for the highest-end chips yet because they haven't been forced to - such chips have been readily available on the open market. Now, they will steal whatever processes they need to build those plants from companies in Taiwan/South Korea/Singapore that their agents have already infiltrated and start producing their own.

Stopping exports might at most cause a delay of a few years in China's plans, but it isn't going to cut them off permanently.

62 posted on 10/17/2022 6:37:14 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope the global warming jackasses that voted for senile Joe are happy now,a few megaton bombs will do wonders for the enviorment


63 posted on 10/17/2022 9:04:23 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: GingisK

Thus he was one of the many so called causes of World War II. We did not cause World War II. Furthermore our cause in World War II was just and essential. Sorry if you have any problem with that.


64 posted on 10/17/2022 11:58:59 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams
Furthermore our cause in World War II was just and essential.

No I don't have problems with that concept. You must get your exercise only by jumping to conclusions.

Why to you attack people like that? Are you emulating Jesus?

65 posted on 10/17/2022 12:27:51 PM PDT by GingisK
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