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| | *[[Prof. Robert Pape]]: [https://escalationtrap.substack.com/p/with-china-its-getting-late-early With China, It’s Getting Late Early]. ''What [[American]]s Are Suddenly Seeing From [[Trump]]’s [[Beijing]] Trip — And What I Saw Touring [[China]]’s Advanced Industries.'' | | *[[Prof. Robert Pape]]: [https://escalationtrap.substack.com/p/with-china-its-getting-late-early With China, It’s Getting Late Early]. ''What [[American]]s Are Suddenly Seeing From [[Trump]]’s [[Beijing]] Trip — And What I Saw Touring [[China]]’s Advanced Industries.'' |
| | :"At a Xiaomi electric vehicle facility outside [[Beijing], the production line barely resembled a traditional [[factory]]. [[Robot]]s dominated the assembly process. [[Human]] workers mostly monitored systems through tablets and control stations. Executives told me the plant could produce one vehicle every 67 seconds." | | :"At a Xiaomi electric vehicle facility outside [[Beijing], the production line barely resembled a traditional [[factory]]. [[Robot]]s dominated the assembly process. [[Human]] workers mostly monitored systems through tablets and control stations. Executives told me the plant could produce one vehicle every 67 seconds." |
| | + | :*[https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/2054855204055683478 Megatron]: |
| | + | {{quotebox-float|'''Why did all these powerful people go with [[Trump]] to kneel in [[China]]?''' |
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| | + | '''The answer is access to [[rare earths|rare materials]].''' |
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| | + | '''The [[reality]] is that [[Tesla]], [[Apple]], [[Boeing]], [[GE Aerospace]], and all the others desperately need China, while [[Beijing]] structurally needs them less and less.''' |
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| | + | China controls 70% of global extraction, 85% of refining, 90% of permanent magnets, and 99% of dysprosium and terbium, without which no [[F-35]] fighter jet takes off, no [[MRI]] machine works, and no [[iPhone]] starts up. |
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| | + | '''And the card with which the [[US]] could [[blackmail]] China - [[semiconductor]]s - is already completely exhausted.''' SMIC produces 7nm chips using DUV multipatterning, [[Huawei]]’s Ascend competes with [[Nvidia]] on [[AI]] inference, QiMeng designs RISC-V chips via AI, and SMEE has announced its first domestic EUV machine for 2027. |
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| | + | '''The US is now totally dependent on China and its military machine without China will completely fail.'''}} |
| | + | ::*Comment: This is by [[User:Conservative]]'s [[trolling]] [[claptrap]] is a bunch of [[crap]]: |
| | + | :::(A) [[Robot]]ics replacing human [[labor productivity]]; |
| | + | :::(B) [[Labor productivity]] needs raw materials to work on. |
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| | *[https://citizenwatchreport.com/trump-xi-final-round-can-a-grand-bargain-stop-the-4-inflation-wave/ Trump-Xi Final Round: Can a “Grand Bargain” stop the 4% inflation wave?] | | *[https://citizenwatchreport.com/trump-xi-final-round-can-a-grand-bargain-stop-the-4-inflation-wave/ Trump-Xi Final Round: Can a “Grand Bargain” stop the 4% inflation wave?] |
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