Its not really about China or any other country, its about shutting down US Natural Resource Harvesting albeit mining, timber, fishing, farming to conform with the wacko environmentalists idea of human perfection - its for your own good.
And sometimes its the really big industries paying those same wackos to attack in order to drive their industry commodity prices higher.
This article actually peers behind the curtain of the issues involved and asks the right questions:
Lithium is far from the only problem that makes electric vehicle conversion plans a total fantasy.
Electricity production would have to vastly increase, and solar or wind just can’t provide that kind of power. So, how are we going to provide these increase power demand?
Burn more coal? Natural gas? Nuclear power?
How about those new factories to build those cars and batteries?
The whole program is a giant fraud that can never be accomplished. The environmental toll for all those mines, power stations, transmission lines and factories is so huge that they will never be permitted. Then, there is whole issue of disposing of those toxic batteries when they reach the end of the useful lives.
I don’t give a rat’s behind about electric vehicles.
Not a fan of EVs, but this is all about not allowing the US to be energy independent.