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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 75 points 1 week ago

Why won't China give the USA the means and materials to harm them in the future? thats-why-im-confused

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 75 points 1 week ago

Should have kept a tight lid on gunpowder, too. Thanks Temujin, now the cumskins have guns. Are you happy?

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[-] dead@hexbear.net 72 points 1 week ago

after 5 years, why is hexbear still posting screenshots of headlines without linking the article?

https://fortune.com/2025/10/12/china-rare-earth-export-controls-trump-tariffs-us-trade-war/

[-] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

It's literally the same user doing it. How we triumph over this evil, I don't know.

[-] abc@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

thank you, you get me

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago

I've predicted it before, and every news story has me more convinced- the US is heading towards a military coup, probably after Trump makes himself a dictator and we lose a war with Iran. America's Caesar/Napoleon will be a liberal driller type who makes moderate wokeness and abundance the national religion, but reindustrializes the country like Stalin.

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

reindustrializes the country like Stalin

That simply will not happen. Capitalism without central planning doesn't fully industrialize in that manner or at that speed.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm predicting that Liberal Caesar will introduce central planning, realizing it's the only way to make the US a world power again. I said "like Stalin" as a joke, but they'll make the US into a State Capitalist mixed economy where the commanding heights are under effective state control in order to reindustrialize.

[-] juniper@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

they'll make the US into a State Capitalist mixed economy where the commanding heights are under effective state control in order to reindustrialize

I can't tell if this is a bit.

The US will absolutely not reindustrialize to any meaningful degree. They are still in the process of stealing the copper wire, and you think they'll aquiesce to state control?

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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but reindustrializes the country like Stalin.

This is not going to happen:

  1. The Wall Street finance capital will not allow it
  2. The US spent decades killing trade union movements by de-industrializing itself, it’s not going to want to have to deal with labor movements once again
  3. Trump has no industrial policy, is cutting federal government funding on key sectors especially academia and sciences, and mass laying off federal employees

Does this look like re-industrialization to you?

What is happening with Trump’s global tariffs is becoming clear though:

The US is leveraging China’s vast industrial capacity to destroy the European economy. Have you noticed that European car manufacturers and green tech sector are being destroyed by China’s vastly cheaper and superior products?

Yeah, good luck dealing with that. The EU economy is cooked, and what’s going to happen is a massive harvest by US finance capitalism as they did to the USSR 30 years ago.

Perhaps it will be like what Varoufakis says, the EU will be coerced into de-industrializing itself and import from the US manufacturers, swapping the role with the US to prop up whatever is left of the US industrial base.

Meanwhile, Trump’s tariff is forcing China to dump its surplus export goods on the rest of the Global South. The latest trade numbers on China’s export shows that its export has grown 8.3% yoy in September!

What this means is that we’re about to see a full blown mercantilist fight in the Global South as many exporter countries find their domestic industries unable to compete with the cheap Chinese goods flooding their countries, so they have to either make a deal with the US, or be forced to take IMF/foreign loans to bail out their failing economy. And by doing so, the US reshapes the global supply chain through its finance capital as we see a bailing out through IMF/foreign loans on a scale never seen before (Argentina is taking a lead on that).

The above is only made possible because:

  1. The Ukraine war has destroyed Europe’s energy sovereignty and negated their ability to expand the EU consumer market to replace those of the US
  2. Covid pandemic has stalled China’s attempt to transition into a domestic consumption led economy, and with the investment-led property bubble bursting, forcing it to return to relying even more on exporting EVs and solar panels to make up for the drop in GDP growth

The only way out of this is for China to abandon the neoliberal export-led growth model, run up its fiscal deficit (by giving jobs guarantee) to offset the loss in export and investment to drive up a 1.4 billion consumer market that capable of absorbing the global surplus capacities.

This will stop the exporter countries’ reliance on selling to the US, and when countries no longer have to run a trade surplus against America, the dollar becomes useless. This is how you properly de-dollarize.

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Did you even read their comment? It doesn't say Trump will reindustrialize, it says the person that coups him will

[-] juniper@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

It is delusional regardless. The Burgerreich is not getting couped, and if it did, reindustrialization would be the last thing to happen

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There is no coup. The bourgeois establishment doesn’t lose their influence simply because Trump is now the president. There are different strains of bourgeoisie but long-standing establishment like Wall Street simply isn’t going to go away.

The current is already set in motion back in 2015 when electoral populism began to emerge under the flags of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. The contradictions of long-term deindustrialization could no longer be ignored. What you are seeing right now is nothing more than an extension of the first Trump presidency that started in 2016 and the first US-China trade war that began in 2018 - all of which was set in motion in order to escape the heightened contradictions that will eventually befell American capitalism.

What became problematic back then was the EU could become a kingmaker if the US and China went at each other. So the Europe problem had to be dealt with first. The opportunity arose when Nord Stream 2 was about to become operational in 2021. This happened under the Biden administration.

Same with China. The Covid pandemic couldn’t have given the US a better opportunity to start its aggression when China is struggling to transition into a domestic consumption economy. This was also why Biden started to sanction Chinese EVs back in early 2024, because the only other place the bulk of those EVs could be sold to is Europe!

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Right, so, I'm not sure you understand the concept of a "Caesar."

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Please see my comment to another user above. There is no coup. What you’re seeing is simply the logical extension from Trump I.

The constraints facing US re-industrialization is just like what constrained the KMT from doing land reform in mainland China - their deeply entrenched class relations with the feudal landlords meant that the KMT was destined to lose the ideological war in the mainland. They could only initiate their own land reform after they had retreated to a small island called Taiwan where such class relations did not exist.

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[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago

I also predict this. Yanquis love the fucking milliary so much they would gladly lick the boots of a "reasonable" junta. I've pitched it to libs in real life just to get a sense of their acceptance and like half are like "ooh what a good idea!" like it doesn't undermine the very foundations of their precious constitutional governance. Worse part is it probably would be better than the sham democracy we have, but they simply do not understand what life under a milliary regime is like.

Would be pretty ironic though considering the history if US backed coups. At least Latin Americans could get a good laugh in.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Lmao libs that won’t arrest Trump for trying to overthrow the government because it will “undermine democracy” will acquiesce to the Beautiful Generals taking control to restore “the norms”

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

It does kinda feel like we're due for an FDR 2.0 to take the pressure off if America isn't gonna go full fascism, but things are gonna have to get a lot worse for that to happen. Life is mediocre now but we're not close to Great Depression levels yet

[-] miz@hexbear.net 60 points 1 week ago
[-] jack@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

xi PLS PLZZ XI!!!

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

lol, I guess Hegseth et al. are investing a trillion dollars in board-with-a-nail-through-it technology? Less F-35c, more Fe-2x4

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

Hope China removed Israel from the modern economy.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

Any second now

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[-] CommCat@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

when US-NATO keeps openly talking about a future confrontation with China, it will a good idea to permanently ban these heavy rare earths exports that are vital to advanced weapons.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

yeah. however, historically, if you threaten a fascist with not being able to make an even bigger war in the future, they might just immediately go start the biggest war they possibly can right now....

see germany looking at the soviet union and realising they might not be able to take them if they wait and let it get stronger. see japan looking at how much oil they have left after the embargo, realising it's not a lot and doing a pearl harbor.

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 week ago

Looks like USA is doing its best to spread itself thin with Ukraine, Palestine, and Venezuela already. We can hope that war with China has already become impossible.

[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

China achieves world peace with this one weird trick

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This has actually been the case for quite some time, and the west just kind of walked right into it because no central planning. I posted about it a while ago when China declared all rare earth minerals belonged to the state. The situation is not at all akin to the fossil fuel industry where Russia or Saudi Arabia or Venezuela control massive reserves, but are still just one of many major producers. China wields an effective monopolistic share over several critical rare earth mineral resources to the point that ramping up production anywhere else in the world is not even feasible without direct state intervention to subsidize the industry in order to circumvent long long LONG term unprofitability, and even then China also has a monopoly on actually processing these materials.

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago
[-] loaExMachina@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

Please Xi, do a pro gamer move.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Unlike the US which never does worse using financial tricks.

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago
[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Xi striking the we-are-not-the-same pose

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago
[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago
[-] icdmize@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

It's a good thing we're not angering them with 200% tariffs or anything... oh wait.

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Na'vi's rare earth controls can 'forbid any country on Earth from participating in the modern economy', former Marine officer warns

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago
[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

Just found out that most rare earth minerals aren't even that rare, it's just that China has built up the only major capacity to refine them. Very cool!

[-] Staines@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

China is ending war, but at what cost?

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[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

China is finally boycotting Israel (and Ukraine) while they are at it.

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