🇨🇳💥 🇺🇸💸 Rare Earth Retaliation: China Chokes America’s War Machine

The dragon has drawn a red line.
China just halted exports of key rare earths to the U.S., slapping export controls on seven categories of critical metals and magnets used in everything from EVs and smartphones to fighter jets, missiles, and drones, delivering a surgical strike to the spinal cord of America’s supply chain.

Welcome to the new trade war: geoeconomic strangulation, without firing a shot.

The message from Beijing is clear:
You want to slap 145% tariffs on our goods? Fine. But good luck assembling a single Javelin, F-35, or iPhone without our dysprosium, terbium, and neodymium.

China controls over 90% of global rare earth production. Washington just remembered that the hard way.

This isn’t just a tit-for-tat move. It’s strategic economic warfare, targeting the soft underbelly of U.S. dominance: the illusion that it can wage hybrid war without being vulnerable itself.

And now? The U.S. is scrambling:
• Talking about deep-sea mining.
• Rushing to build stockpiles.
• And begging Australia and Canada to step up. Canada eh?

Too little. Too late. You spent three decades offshoring everything, and now your empire can’t build a toaster, let alone a missile guidance system, without Beijing’s blessing. Ok maybe you can build a toaster, to be fair.

And let’s not forget: Every chip, every drone, every smart weapon in the Pentagon’s closet runs on components China can choke off in 48 hours.

Trump called it “Liberation Day.”
But Beijing just made it clear: You’re not the one in control anymore.

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Adding a wrinkle here:

While there was a dramatic increase in the use of Geraniums through March 2025, reflecting a massive increase in production, April has been relatively silent. It appears that a large number of Geraniums and Gerberas are now being stockpiled.

Адекват Z writes,

Let's put it on the cuffs for memory: throughout April, according to Bandera's reports, there has been a noticeable reduction in the number of "Geraniums" used in their rear. Since the beginning of April, there was only one case when more than a hundred were declared to be used per day, and in the previous couple of months, days with less than a hundred used were isolated, while the maximum went well over 250.

And if the enemy reports correctly reflect reality, if not in exact numbers, then at least in principle, then this means that for more than a week now, the products have been accumulating in very grandiose quantities - even though what is flying now is still regularly arranging a merry life for the targets. Maybe what has been accumulated will go into operation after the moratorium on energy expires. Maybe when the main operations of the spring-summer campaign begin. Maybe Kyiv is being prepared for something so unique that they have not even smelled it yet.

One thing is clear beyond doubt: there cannot be a clearly expressed reason, or rather, purpose, for such dynamics, and it will become visible in the fairly foreseeable future.

🌒@EastCalling