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      Building on that but on a more serious front, what third world countries in the world have more exploitable galium production that could get democratically expropriated by the international community?

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        None so far, except ukraine has found some gallium ores. But those minerals lie in the Donetsk region, so it can’t be exploited. And ukraine will never get Donetsk so right now the west is completely starved of this resource.

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          So you’re saying NATO is going to defensively first-strike nuke Russia to protect USA “national security” of foreign resources? \s

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      It’s kind of hilarious how US has been trying to find all kinds of ways to screw China over economically, and China just flexes by restricting a couple of items surgically causing panic in US. It’s such an elegant way to let Americans know that China can fuck over their whole economy overnight.

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    Love how they have a bunch of suggestions that don’t include “de-escalate the trade war.”

    From 2005 to 2015 alone, China’s production of low-purity gallium exploded from 22 metric tons to 444 metric tons.

    It is always staggering to think how much China has developed technologically within just the last 20 years. I’m not even old but still remember when “Chinese” tech was popularly synonymous with “bootleg.” Now it’s all so good that the USA has to ban it while they play catch-up. They got beat at their own game.

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      Yeah, the progress in China is absolutely stunning and it looks to be accelerating too. Next decade will be incredible to watch.

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            Lots of people in the west still think that China is just stealing their tech and can’t produce anything original of their own. The fact that most westerners are afraid to even visit China makes the work of western propagandists pretty easy. They can just make up stuff and rely on latent racism to do the rest of the work.

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      My father always says that the difference in being in China in 2000 to now feels like being in a different planet

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    Seems silly. China is doing almost all the refining but they don’t have a monopoly of the extraction of the originating mineral. There’s a lot of it in Australia, and the US could pivot to doing its own refinement at any time.

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      The thing is that it’s going to take a significant amount of time to create refining facilities, train workers, and so on. During that time, Chinese companies will have a huge market advantage over western ones.