Shocking. I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
They’d better not cut off supplies of fried rice and crab rangoon! We’ll have a REAL problem if they do that!
My local oriental market has their business up for sale…
Looks like coal’s back on the menu, boys! (Ugh.)
Ha ha, but for real. They’ll just turn people’s power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.
Team Orange let’s no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.
It’s interesting to see that the circle of profiteers gets smaller and smaller each iteration, since everybody else is losing footing in the process.
less competition
capitalism as predicted by Jack Lennon in the book that inspired 1984
The Iron Heel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
The main premise of the book is the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States – strong enough to have a real chance of winning national elections, getting to power, and implementing a radical socialist regime. Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal dictatorship in order to avert it.
It also inspired the national socialist party of Germany to “redefine socialism” as fascist oligarchism.
I am surprised I’ve never heard of this book. Will need to check it out.
it stays with you… or should I say it haunts you
If only we had an ally who we could help get their territories back who would be more than happy to play for our team hmmm
You joke, but Russia is a better replacement for China than Ukraine. The territory is bigger, which means more resources, and instead of giving them aid USA can buy raw material cheap because they need money.
At least that’s the strategy I’d expect from your current administration, since everything is laser-focused on very short term profit.
You joke, but Russia is a better replacement for China than Ukraine.
Our glorious Elven Nation would never stoop so low as to ally with the vile, savage Orks. We are perfect and beautiful and clean, noble in mind and spirit, and accomplished in the High Arts. They are cruel and stupid and traitorous, incapable of speaking the Enlightened Tongue or understanding the Noble Truths. I would sooner slice off my own wrist than extend a hand to the insidious, pig-like beasts of the Slavic Kingdom.
The only path forward is one of undisputable supremacy. We must turn to the ancient weapons and unleash the hellfires on Ork and Chinese Fantasy Race alike.
The fact I read this in the voice of an high elf speaks volumes of the old tongue.
Damn! First it was higher tariffs now this? How will MAGA ever get their swag gear?
Trump really got them.
His bluff didn’t work this time. He wants to play another hand. His shifty eyes are betraying his poker face. He’ll win the next hand! Who cares anyway, he’s not playing with his money.
If the stock market wasn’t such a shitshow maybe we’d finally see SBSW taking off. They’re the only Platinum and Palladium producers in North America who can compete with Russian producers.
Just wait until the Chinese cut off basic industrial inputs like chemicals, screws, nails, electronic parts.
Luckily Europe is one step ahead:
Access to clean energy and rare earths is critical for the EU as it seeks to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and boost its autonomy in strategic sectors.
But sizeable shares of the global mining, processing and recycling of some of the critical raw materials, like lithium, that are indispensable to the development of renewable energy, everyday items as well as defence systems, are controlled by China, from which the EU wants to ‘decouple’ due to its aggressive and protectionist trade and foreign policy practices.
Central Asia holds large deposits, including 38.6% of the world’s manganese ore, 30.07% of chromium, 20% of lead, 12.6% of zinc, and 8.7% of titanium.
“These raw materials are the lifeblood of the future global economy. Yet they are also a honeypot for global players. Some are only interested in exploiting and extracting,” von der Leyen told Central Asian leaders.
“Europe’s offer is different. We also want to be your partners in developing your local industries. The added value has to be local. Our track record speaks for itself,” she added.
Europe also tries their best to improve the situations in the other mines (some are so awful they’re basically off-limit for western companies because of child slavery and such stuff) and find new patches for example in Scandinavia or middle- and south America which could then be extracted with the respective countries.
Brussel does a lot of bullshit, sometimes phenomenally so (in the end it’s just politics as well), but in this case they really seem to try.
Seems simple - just put a big tariff on war so nobody can afford it!
But have we learned from our mistakes? No.
It’s okay! We have “clean” coal! 🥲
Good, make them suffer.
way to go trumpsky.
There is just too much political post in this channel. Where is the tech?
“Let’s not make this political”… the calling card of the embarrassed conservative.
That may apply to some/lot of people, but i’m pretty liberal. Probably this post wasn’t the best one to react to, I’m just tired of consuming political stuffs, which can’t be changed (instantly) by myself and it just makes me angry.
Where is the tech?
We won’t have any
This is a tech/manufacturing challenge issue.
Fair enough
Where is the tech?
In China.
Politics affects everything, including tech.
Hmm good point. Okay my bad then.
Tech or precisely it’s real world applications affect everything, including politics.
In the source’s url
Im normally the one wishing for less politics on Lemmy, but at some point you have to draw a line and define what you actually mean by “too political.” Of course, then you’d need to have someone curate media just for you that adheres to that standard… because simple keywords aint gonna cut it. Orrrr, I guess you could just cut off ALL new media.
This isnt some petty political scuffle. This is a trade war that is currently crashing the global economy. China cutting off minerals isn’t really “politics”, per se, at least in the way most people mean it. It is war: An economic war that looks increasingly likely to end up in the shooting kind.
as they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Also, FAFO
