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China Halts Rare Earth Exports to U.S., Threatening Supply Chains for Cars, Semiconductors, and Aerospace Industries
Gateway Pundit ^ | April 13, 2025 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 04/13/2025 4:39:51 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

China has halted exports of seven critical rare earth elements to the United States, a move that threatens to disrupt supply chains across key American industries, including automotive, semiconductor, and aerospace sectors.

China’s Ministry of Commerce recently added seven rare earth elements—including dysprosium, terbium, and lutetium—to its restricted export list.

These elements are essential for manufacturing high-performance magnets used in electric vehicles, advanced weaponry, and consumer electronics.

NY Times reported:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4dchess; artofthedeal; china; chinahasthecards; gopisdone; losing; maga; minerals; rareearth; supplychains; tariffs; tariffsaretaxes; tradewar; trumptariffs; trumptariffwars; trusttheplan; watchandlearn
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Let's cut a deal with Russia and be done with China. Russia already controls the Ukraine territory with a lot of rare earth elements/minerals. Cut Zelenskyy off and conquer Greenland for their minerals. It's a win win in order to make America great again.
1 posted on 04/13/2025 4:39:51 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

This could be good news. All we have to do is scrap the EPA regs that effectively forced manufacturers to use computer control of the fuel mixture and use all those wonderful sensors that set off your check engine light.

Muscle cars return!


2 posted on 04/13/2025 4:46:16 PM PDT by fruser1
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(Muscle cars return!)

That’s right 👍 Time to return to going back to carburetors and adjusting the floats with fine tuning the jets and air flow/fuel mixture.


3 posted on 04/13/2025 4:49:40 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Great! we’re dependent upon China for our weaponry. how stupid can we be? Don’t answer that.


4 posted on 04/13/2025 4:50:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

We always have a reliable supplier operating out of Afghanistan - in some alternate universe. One in which Afghanistan was not surrendered to the Taliban and the US bugged out most ignominiously. Just one more reason to charge the entire Biden regime with treason.

When are the “green” environmentalists ever going to understand that the Biden/Obama regime was an experiment undertaken to test our gullibility? Even they were taken in.


5 posted on 04/13/2025 4:52:36 PM PDT by alloysteel ( Divergence is not at all the same thing as diversity.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

IIRC, Clinton created Escalante National Monument in Utah to lock up rare earth minerals for the benefit of the Riyadh’s. Perhaps we can mine what we need from there.


6 posted on 04/13/2025 4:52:39 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Jim Robinson

(Great! we’re dependent upon China for our weaponry. how stupid can we be? Don’t answer that.)

Let’s ask Bill Clinton!


7 posted on 04/13/2025 4:54:02 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: fruser1

“Muscle cars return!”

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I get your point. Cars with simple engines were easy and cheap to maintain. let’s bring back cars that are affordable and fun to drive. You could keep the old GM engines running forever and didn’t have to take out a loan to pay for routine auto maintenance.


8 posted on 04/13/2025 4:57:09 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“Time to return to going back to carburetors and adjusting the floats with fine tuning the jets and air flow/fuel mixture.”

Do you do that as you drive up and down the mountains?


9 posted on 04/13/2025 5:00:13 PM PDT by Paladin2 ( )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“China’s Ministry of Commerce recently added seven rare earth elements—including dysprosium, terbium, and lutetium—to its restricted export list.” I don’t have any of that here?


10 posted on 04/13/2025 5:00:51 PM PDT by kawhill ( )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I’ve owned several boats with inboard engines (GM blocks). Only had to rebuild a carburetor once, and that was because a previous owner didn’t keep moisture from accumulating in the tank.


11 posted on 04/13/2025 5:02:27 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Paladin2

No, because I don’t live in the mountains but I know people who have that had to adjust their carburators due to power loss in high altitudes. Of course this was back in the 70s.


12 posted on 04/13/2025 5:03:10 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Oh no!

Democrats won’t get their bribes!


13 posted on 04/13/2025 5:04:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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14 posted on 04/13/2025 5:04:57 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

You all note that we are talking to Russia more and not Europa/Zoocryane.

We have about isolated China with trade issue.

Now, strike a deal with Russia to get into eastern Siberia since our focus has to be our hemisphere and the Pacific Rim.
Zoocryane made a back stabbing deal with the Brits for minerals for the next 100 years. Three days before Trump was sworn in.

Its easier, and safer, to ship minerals cross the Pacific to the USA from Siberia than ship cross the Black Sea, through the Bosphorus straits, cross the Med and to our east coast.

Drive a wedge between Russia and China.
Pull out of Europa. They aint worth the trouble.


15 posted on 04/13/2025 5:06:27 PM PDT by crz
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Google NIOCORP


16 posted on 04/13/2025 5:12:22 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Which is exactly why we should never be dependent on China for anything at all.


17 posted on 04/13/2025 5:12:58 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

It is dumb to act like what Zelensky wants matters at all.

America needs to make a deal with Russia:

America recognizes all of Eastern Ukraine being Russian in return for America getting a 50% ownership stake in the natural resources of Eastern Ukraine, including rare earth.

Huge win for America.

The war ends.

Everybody is happy except for Zelensky cheerleaders.


18 posted on 04/13/2025 5:14:39 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Antoninus

American politicians sold out America to China.


19 posted on 04/13/2025 5:15:31 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Mean Daddy

I just did. Thanks for the suggestion. This is alarming.

China Launches New Precision Strike Against Pentagon Rare Earth Supply Chains

https://www.niocorp.com/china-launches-new-precision-strike-against-pentagon-rare-earth-supply-chains/


20 posted on 04/13/2025 5:19:41 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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