A second one is currently under negotiations with Beijing but won’t be ready for years. Western sanctions would also prevent Russia from building and maintaining some of the needed export infrastructure, including pipelines and turbines, analysts said.
Russia has been injecting more gas into storage sites and shutting some production, analysts said. According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, Gazprom’s production is down more than 35% year-over-year for the first half of July."
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China held control of world’s supply of “rare earths*.” That was, until they decided to use their overwhelming control as a political hammer. Suddenly, mines around the planet that were not economically viable while the Chinese kept the prices artificially low with subsidies, were economically viable again. “Poof!” Economic weapon vanished.
* Rare earths are not rare. The problem with them is that, in order to concentrate them, they must be “washed” in very toxic chemicals. The Western nations said, “Not in my back yard you don’t!” But China said, “We’ll just flush the overflow down river.”
Trump husbanded a mine in, I think California. But by the time it was ready to begin operations with certified processes, he left office. I don’t know what happened since then but would not be surprised if it was shut down as there was huge opposition by the anti-technology in the free world people.
This has been a process for western globalists for years. The rest of the world is just getting the heads up. BRICS is expanding rapidly and in the two most critical areas, food and energy production (new members Argentina and Iran). The two areas the west is aggressively DEemphasing! Soon the rest of the world will be able to totally control the suicidal west. They control the export of food and energy, the west, climate lies and perversions. Who’ll dominate?
Winter is coming......natty gas doubles in a year
China, India and South Africa are paying a small fraction of what they paid before for Russian oil (at 1:08:55 in the following). After the end of this year, they’ll probably pay far less than they are now.
https://youtu.be/qeF6uanPnTI?t=4135