[Liaison]

I wonder if the Chinese are gleefully watching the US stock pile go down in support of UKR which would lessen the weapons and ammunition we can transfer to support Taiwan in case of a PLA attack on the island?

[yuleeyahoo]

I wonder if the Chinese are gleefully watching the US stock pile go down in support of UKR which would lessen the weapons and ammunition we can transfer to support Taiwan in case of a PLA attack on the island?

Absolutely, we will have to buy the materials to rebuild our weapon stockpiles from them.

The United States imports about 80 percent of its rare earth requirements from China, compared to a high of 23 percent of imported oil from the Middle East[1] in 2001

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/china-and-the-rare-earth-supply-chain-policy-brief/