I feel like China is not going to lift the restrictions on trading rare earth minerals regardless. Trump did irrevocable damage to the US economy because he decided to fuck around.
It’s not beneficial to China for the US to stop blockimg tens or hundreds of millions of relatively wealthy consumers from purchasing Chinese high-tech products like cars and phones?
Indeed, the whole trade war gave a perfect pretext for China to choke off US military, and there’s no sense in letting them keep arming against China going forward.
I feel like China is not going to lift the restrictions on trading rare earth minerals regardless. Trump did irrevocable damage to the US economy because he decided to fuck around.
They could use the opportunity to negotiate lifting a lot of other sanctions, maybe.
Trump started a trade war and lost. Now the winner names the terms of the surrender
It’s not beneficial for them to do that though. More US sanctions means more trade for China.
It’s not beneficial to China for the US to stop blockimg tens or hundreds of millions of relatively wealthy consumers from purchasing Chinese high-tech products like cars and phones?
Indeed, the whole trade war gave a perfect pretext for China to choke off US military, and there’s no sense in letting them keep arming against China going forward.