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🚨 🇺🇸🇨🇳 BREAKING: TRUMP STRIKES 1-YEAR RARE EARTH DEAL WITH CHINA
Trump just secured America's critical mineral supply chain in exchange for tariff cuts.
The catch? This "deal" gets renegotiated every single year.
China controls 90% of rare earth processing needed for everything from smartphones to F-35s.
Trump's betting annual negotiations give leverage while securing immediate supply.
Remember when permanent deals were a thing?
Now we're on subscription plans for national security minerals.
Source: NBC
❗Trump has departed Tokyo aboard Air Force One HEADED for South Korea/APEC also meeting XI
Trump signed a major trade deal
Locking in 15% tariffs and $550 billion in Japanese investments
🇨🇳💥 China holds the Rare Earth cards and the U.S. just realised it. 🪨
The Trump administration is scrambling to “escape” China’s grip on rare earths, the minerals that power everything from EVs and fighter jets to AI data centres and missile guidance systems.
Here’s the cold reality:
🔹 China mines 70% of the world’s rare earths.
🔹 It refines 90% of global supply.
🔹 And now it’s tightening the screws, with new export licensing laws that control shipments of any product containing as little as 0.1% Chinese-origin rare earths.
That means?
Even if the U.S. sources minerals elsewhere, it’s still trapped by China’s refining tech, machinery and patents.
So what’s Washington doing?
🔸 Buying stakes in risky mining startups.
🔸 Talking about “strategic reserves”.
🔸 Slapping on tariffs and subsidies.
🔸 Signing flashy deals, like the new “rare earth alliance” with Australia, to pretend there’s a Plan B.
But let’s be honest:
You can’t rebuild decades of supply-chain dominance overnight. China spent 40 years building this. The West ignored it, now it’s panicking.
The U.S. strategy?
Throw money, pray it works and blame China when it doesn’t.
Meanwhile in Beijing, calm, composed and in control, China just weaponised the one thing every Western tech giant depends on.
This isn’t just about minerals.
It’s about leverage.
And China has all of it.
Have you noticed a pattern in every country the U.S. is warmongering against?
They are all rich in rare earth minerals.
Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone editor-in-chief, explains how conflicts over rare earths are increasingly replacing those over oil.
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Imagine when Trump, Elon, Xi, Putin, and various other world leaders discuss Rare Earth Minerals
You're just early
Trump stated that Rare Earth Minerals will reach $2. US and AUS signed a deal worth $8.5B yesterday. At current levels to reach $2 we would see a 40,000x increase. At 8.5B $REM would be worth about $8.50; marking a 160,000x upside from here. Basically, you're early.
EU and China agree to hold urgent talks in Brussels after Brussels warned that Beijing’s new export controls on rare-earth minerals are harming European industries and require immediate resolution #Geopolitics#CriticalMinerals
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China controls over 90% of the world’s processed rare earth minerals.
Our dependence on Communist China is a crisis for every American.
If we don’t pivot towards independence from the CCP, we risk giving Beijing control over our way of life.