Posted on 06/05/2025 8:00:10 AM PDT by hardspunned
The call lasted approximately one and a half hours, and resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries. There should no longer be any questions respecting the complexity of Rare Earth products. Our respective teams will be meeting shortly at a location to be determined. We will be represented by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and United States Trade Representative, Ambassador JamiesonGreer. During the conversation, President Xi graciously invited the First Lady and me to visit China, and I reciprocated. As Presidents of two Great Nations, this is something that we both look forward to doing. The conversation was focused almost entirely on TRADE. Nothing was discussed concerning Russia/Ukraine, or Iran. We will inform the Media as to scheduling and location of the soon to be meeting.
do this now or we willingly be destroyed from within, oh Stable Genius
Chicom students/professors are spies?!? That can’t be. Why would we let 300,000 in?
He says Trade Deal but it sounds like they just agreed to let their teams meet and discuss. We will see where this one goes.
Guys, wake up.
This is not about Rare Earth Metals. That phrase is used to distract from the reality that it is all about ONE rare earth metal — neodymium. Those magnets are in every motor and alternator. Every AC compressor. Every fan. Everything.
China knows this. They don’t care about pieces of printed paper from the US Treasury. They care about defining society, which they will do with neodymium. Vast swaths of US industry will shut down, just totally shut down, because there are no new electric motors or generators.
“He says Trade Deal but it sounds like they just agreed to let their teams meet and discuss.”
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Vagueness = not a whole lot of progress, otherwise he would be a bit more expansive about it. Besides, deals with China are about as firm as JELL-O.
Can neodymium be re-cycled?
Not saying this is the solution to shortages, just wondering if that might be economically possible.
Pretty wild claim you got there, cowboy.
Can you name one place where China has invaded or regime changed a country to remake society?
Sure. It happens, but there is a country that comes to mind that does -- and it ain't China.
History? Neodynium arrived to define cordless drills only what . . . 20 years ago? It’s all about the B field, measured in gauss or webers.
If you get so many newton meters of torque in the spinning motor using an iron magnet. The ratio is something like 14000 gauss to 100 gauss for iron. You would burn out and melt the copper in coils if you tried to raise amperage by that ratio in an air conditioning compressor to achieve what neodymium achieved.
Can the US make its own. Yes. Of course. In about 10-15 yrs. If I were the Chinese making a deal, I would allow limited flow of neodymium in return for a X1000 on current price as well as absolute prohibition of making your own production of neodymium. So it would be our choice. Endure the 15 yrs of no motors of any kind in return to have neodymium 15 yrs from now, vs agree to their terms and accept perpetual monopoly by the Chinese.
Recycling should be possible. Call it 3 years to build the facilities.
Trump says he’s honored to have their student-spies over here!
That's one leverage point the Chinese have, and I'm pretty sure they fully understand that.
I would guess that there are other trading/tariff issues they dislike in the new trade deal and are ready to use neodymium leverage to get trading much more to their liking.
I can imagine the CEO of Walmart on the phone with Xi helping him better understand what to ask for :-).
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