[Sacajaweau]

We’ve put ourselves in a blackmail position with this climate cr**.

[MMusson]

90% of all the chip grade silicon in the world comes from a single open pit mine in the Spruce Pine area of North Carolina.

The Chinese are totally dependent upon that mine.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "We've put ourselves in a blackmail position with this climate cr**."

Remember those nice Democrats -- Obama, Clinton, Holder, et al -- who signed the Uranium One deal to a Canadian group connected to a Moscow group?

Source for some info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One

For the last decades, US politicians have encouraged the leasing of US assets to non-US entities. Money makes the political world go 'round.