OT: Score: China 2 Japan 0

[KIBU]

Escalating frictions

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-27/yuan-legislation-in-u-s-congress-may-prompt-retaliation-businesses-say.html

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-sets-duties-on-copper-from-china-mexico-2010-09-27?reflink=MW_news_stmp

[faterikcartman]

China threatened to cut off rare earth elements essential to modern industry so Japan let the captain go. If China threatened us in the same way we would also capitulate. We don’t mine these materials here. Rich deposits are believed to be in Afghanistan but if Iraq is any guide we will fall over backwards to avoid criticism and do nothing to ensure we recoup our losses there or secure rights to these materials.

[faterikcartman]

China threatened to cut off rare earth elements essential to modern industry so Japan let the captain go. If China threatened us in the same way we would also capitulate. We don’t mine these materials here. Rich deposits are believed to be in Afghanistan but if Iraq is any guide we will fall over backwards to avoid criticism and do nothing to ensure we recoup our losses there or secure rights to these materials.

[faterikcartman]

China threatened to cut off rare earth elements essential to modern industry so Japan let the captain go. If China threatened us in the same way we would also capitulate. We don’t mine these materials here. Rich deposits are believed to be in Afghanistan but if Iraq is any guide we will fall over backwards to avoid criticism and do nothing to ensure we recoup our losses there or secure rights to these materials.

[faterikcartman]

China threatened to cut off rare earth elements essential to modern industry so Japan let the captain go. If China threatened us in the same way we would also capitulate. We don’t mine these materials here. Rich deposits are believed to be in Afghanistan but if Iraq is any guide we will fall over backwards to avoid criticism and do nothing to ensure we recoup our losses there or secure rights to these materials.

[faterikcartman]

China threatened to cut off rare earth elements essential to modern industry so Japan let the captain go. If China threatened us in the same way we would also capitulate. We don’t mine these materials here. Rich deposits are believed to be in Afghanistan but if Iraq is any guide we will fall over backwards to avoid criticism and do nothing to ensure we recoup our losses there or secure rights to these materials.

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
(Who else in asia can they sell all the used military equipment too? 🙂
[/quote]
Oddly, I know of one instance where the US did a foreign sale on military equipment that was better than what the US was getting. Can’t get too specific, but I would say the capability was somewhat more than 2x what was being bought by the US.. but then that contractor had the ear(s) of some people up the chain of command.

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
(Who else in asia can they sell all the used military equipment too? 🙂
[/quote]
Oddly, I know of one instance where the US did a foreign sale on military equipment that was better than what the US was getting. Can’t get too specific, but I would say the capability was somewhat more than 2x what was being bought by the US.. but then that contractor had the ear(s) of some people up the chain of command.

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
(Who else in asia can they sell all the used military equipment too? 🙂
[/quote]
Oddly, I know of one instance where the US did a foreign sale on military equipment that was better than what the US was getting. Can’t get too specific, but I would say the capability was somewhat more than 2x what was being bought by the US.. but then that contractor had the ear(s) of some people up the chain of command.

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
(Who else in asia can they sell all the used military equipment too? 🙂
[/quote]
Oddly, I know of one instance where the US did a foreign sale on military equipment that was better than what the US was getting. Can’t get too specific, but I would say the capability was somewhat more than 2x what was being bought by the US.. but then that contractor had the ear(s) of some people up the chain of command.

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]
(Who else in asia can they sell all the used military equipment too? 🙂
[/quote]
Oddly, I know of one instance where the US did a foreign sale on military equipment that was better than what the US was getting. Can’t get too specific, but I would say the capability was somewhat more than 2x what was being bought by the US.. but then that contractor had the ear(s) of some people up the chain of command.

[outtamojo]

“rare earth” metals are not actually rare, they are just messy to mine. China captured the market with
cheap labor and lax environmental controls. There are plenty of rare earth metals right here in the USA, it’s just that mines have been shuttered in the recent past but can and are being re-opened with the time lag driving up prices and scarcity.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/177940-rare-earths-jack-lifton-on-safeguarding-future-supply

[outtamojo]

“rare earth” metals are not actually rare, they are just messy to mine. China captured the market with
cheap labor and lax environmental controls. There are plenty of rare earth metals right here in the USA, it’s just that mines have been shuttered in the recent past but can and are being re-opened with the time lag driving up prices and scarcity.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/177940-rare-earths-jack-lifton-on-safeguarding-future-supply

[outtamojo]

“rare earth” metals are not actually rare, they are just messy to mine. China captured the market with
cheap labor and lax environmental controls. There are plenty of rare earth metals right here in the USA, it’s just that mines have been shuttered in the recent past but can and are being re-opened with the time lag driving up prices and scarcity.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/177940-rare-earths-jack-lifton-on-safeguarding-future-supply

[outtamojo]

“rare earth” metals are not actually rare, they are just messy to mine. China captured the market with
cheap labor and lax environmental controls. There are plenty of rare earth metals right here in the USA, it’s just that mines have been shuttered in the recent past but can and are being re-opened with the time lag driving up prices and scarcity.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/177940-rare-earths-jack-lifton-on-safeguarding-future-supply

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