Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Tech Companies Depend on China for Rare Earths. Can That Change? | WSJ" video.

  1. ROFL, sure, gotta start somewhere I guess. But only those who truly understand how much is being done in China or by chinese companies will know the gargantuan task that is being proposed there. Mining is barely a whiff on the top of the iceberg. Try competing in terms of logistics, processing, mass production of end products and a bunch of other stuff. Let me tell the rest of the script for those curious right here. We either make peace and agree to disagree on ideological terms and keep business going, and then the US can keep going on long term plans of recouping decades of offshoring all these jobs, tech and production to China, or if this trade war keeps escalating we'll have a major global economic breakdown. It doesn't matter how rich and powerful a country is, it won't be able to just easily replicate what China did in the past few decades overnight. And also, let me just put this out - lax regulations, horrible labor practices, borderline slavery conditions for workers, massive industrial pollution - sure the chinese government had a hand in it. But most likely, the main culprit responsible for all of those are mostly western companies, private corporations. They offshored all the work, jobs and whatnot several decades ago so they could keep exploiting everything possible to mass produce cheap products for their own markets, and that's the ugly truth whether you like it or not. The horrible practices from the early years of industrial revolution never really ended, it just got offshored with the industries themselves. They offshored the jobs and industries, yes, but also poor labor practices, exploitive industrial practices, pollution, even garbage up until very recently. China learned how to deal with it somehow over the years. You think western countries will be able to do the same? After all these decades of leisurely shifting not only the work and bad consequences, but also the blame? Kinda laughable, really.
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