Posted on 04/24/2020 6:14:52 AM PDT by Hamiltonian
The U.S. remains 100% dependent for fluorspar, graphite and rare earths. China remains the world’s top supplier. And while the dependency has eased a bit for germanium, tin and tungsten, the U.S. remains more than 50% import dependent for each, while China’s role as global provider stands unchanged."BeijingAnd this, despite the fact that the U.S. hosts known resources for all six, but simply fails to make mining, refining and recovering them a policy priority....
In any case, the warning could hardly be more clear. The U.S. has a choice: It can take immediate steps to reduce its dangerous dependency on a Chinese supply chain for critical technology metals.
Or we can hope COVID 2.0 will not disrupt supply in a second global shut-down – or that Beijing won’t one day decide to curtail access to these critical materials in time of crisis."
We are in that crisis now and China is doing just that.
If we cannot mine the material we need on our land, we must get them from friendly countries that have them.
I push comes to shove, we must go into China and commandeer what ever we need.
And we need to keep our knowledge that if China sends us any PPE at all that it may be defective or corrupted with a Chinese virus, if not the present Wuhan virus, but a different one.
China had more viruses than the Codid-19 in labs including the one in Wuhan.
The threats from China are the most dangerous we have ever encountered.
Yes, and YES!
To fail to close the borders by February 1 was criminally irresponsible (and they’re still not closed, although it no longer matters). None of this needed to happen.
That the Senate would have removed Trump on February 5 had he done so is an excuse.
I had a teacher in ninth grade whose favorite phrase was “that is not an excuse, that is a reason for failure”.
What Hillary would have done is irrelevant. She’s not the President.
My husband and I talk about this problem all the time. We were led to believe the “mega transformers” are made in South Korea and take months to make and we have no spares on hand.
2.2 Trillion and not one dime put toward an EMP attack by a enemy or naturally occurring, where millions would die within months.
bkmk
Problem is, there are a gazillion SECRET/NOFORN documents, it’s not like higher ups are likely to see it unless interpreted as immediately serious by some low-to mid level bureaucrat
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