America's Last Stand: China's Smart Battery Dominance

Watt's Up With That ^ | 16 April 2025 | Andrew King

[zeestephen]

China accounts for approximately 69% of global rare earth ore production and processes about 90% of rare earth minerals globally...For critical minerals like Neodymium (precision-guided missiles), Gallium (semiconductors), Terbium (sonar), and Graphene (advanced sensors), China's dominance approaches absolute - between 95% and 99%...These minerals underpin every advanced American weapons system, from F-35 fighters and submarines to guided missiles and drones.

[zeestephen]

The posted article is actually focused on the fact that Bank of America and JPMorgan are investing in and marketing the IPO (Initial Public Offering) of a Chinese Communist Party corporation that will consolidate the international sales of all these minerals.

[GaltAdonis]

Thank the good Lord that we don’t mine these rare minerals in the USA.
A snail or rat might get injured, or something. That would be horrid! /SARC

[sauropod]

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[Macoozie]

We don’t need to wreck our economy to make phooookin batteries. Let the ChiComs swallow it all.

Nuke Energy gives us all the power we need.
If the energy is low enough cost, the storage doesn’t phooookin matter.

[daniel1212]

A substantial warning. Might even by picked up by the MSM.

[jimpick]

“””A snail or rat might get injured,”””

Oh, come on! It is a rare butterfly only found in these 50 million acres.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

America was hollowed out in the 1980s my Ivy League MBAs, Wall Street sharpsters, and con artists. The leveraged buyout frenzy destroyed small American parts suppliers and jobbers and sent their equipment and business to CHINA.

What was left were jobless skilled workers, and empty rust belt machine shops and factories. They had been stripped of anything of value and left as rotting shells for the municipalities to deal with.

[FirstFlaBn]

The unions asked for it - and they got it. Long overdue for their corrupt stranglehold on the U.S. economy to dissipate.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The supply chain was an amalgam of many small business specialty fabricators
and factories
employing no more than a dozen to three dozen workers. Blaming it on unions is
ridiculous. It was Wall Street parasites who destroyed American suppliers.

[ckilmer]

Agree. But the US is in year 0 a vast industrial revolution on the scale of the late 19th century industrial revolution. All the industries/jobs exported overseas are going to come roaring back.

The stockmarket is currently telegraphing what’s going to happen next year or year 1.