Comments by "E Dennis" (@edennis8578) on "The US wants to buy Chinese graphite again to make cars. But now China doesn't want to sell." video.

  1. ​ @seraph3761 How short-sighted of you. China has rare minerals that are necessary for our everyday lives. For electronics, for example. Even Russia, with all of their natural resources, buys rare minerals from China. Imagine not being able to replace your cell phone or computer, just to start with.
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  2. ​ @abcxyz3028 What does any of that have to do with punishing your trading partners and then finding out that you need their minerals, but they won't sell them to you? We need China's minerals in order to function on a daily basis. Our electronics, for instance. What do you think will happen when the US can no longer buy and maintain batteries, cell phones, or computers in mass quantities? I expect that we're going to have to do a lot of groveling to avoid that scenario.
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  3. ​ @brianliew5901 That isn't even accounting for the other minerals we need from China, on a daily basis. Even Russia, with all of their resources, buys certain minerals from China. If China refuses to sell those minerals to us, we'll break down a lot sooner than ten years. Two or three years, max.
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  4. ​ @dertythegrower There are other minerals that we need from China. Even Russia, with all of their mineral resources, needs certain minerals from China. And we need them on a daily basis, like for electronics. Maybe we can pay them enough to overcome their reluctance, but if you think that inflation is bad now, you haven't seen anything yet.
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  5. Graphite is just the tip of the iceberg. China has rare minerals that even Russia needs, in spite of their abundant natural resources.
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  6. You have to know better than that.
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  7. The US government only cares about big corporations and special interest groups. It doesn't give a rat's patooty about the general population.
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  8. That's not entirely true. China has rare minerals that even Russia, with all of their natural resources, has to buy from China. Rare minerals that we need for electronics, for example. Sure, we could go a circuitous route and buy them from an intermediate source, but do you think that China wouldn't be wise to that? China could refuse to sell to them, too.
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  9. You can't "make" rare earth minerals. China has them, we don't. It takes some of those rare earth minerals to make cell phones and computers. I wonder if we refuse to buy Chinese products and they refuse to sell us minerals, who would fold first?
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  10. No, it's graphite. According to the CSIS.
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