Can US defence industries keep manufacturing without rrare erth minerals from China?
When will the US have its own rare earth metals for use? Five years? Fifteen years?
China could reach out to Taiwan and offer them guaranteed neutrality like Switzerland as long as theydisarm, remove all weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/china-imposes-sanctions-on-us-defence-firms-over-taiwan-arms-deal
China’s foreign ministry has hit US defence companies including Boeing with sanctions after Donald Trump approved a large package of arms sales to Taiwan.
The ministry said on Friday that the measures – against 10 individuals and 20 US firms including Boeing’s production hub at St Louis in Missouri – would freeze any assets the companies and individuals hold in China and bar domestic organisations and individuals from doing business with them.
It comes after the Trump administration last week announced a package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10bn, including medium-range missiles and drones. It was the largest weapons sale in the history of the bilateral relationship.
China’s stance on Taiwan, which is that it must merge with the People’s Republic of China – something that the democratically governed Taipei rejects – has been a pinch point in its relations with the US, already worn thin over trade and tariff issues.
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