What if China corners the cobalt market?

Re:What if China corners the cobalt market? by adventured on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:49PM (#16691006)

I believe we're all actually very deep into realizing the problem, across North America-Europe-Asia. The context now is what to do about China's economic protectionism and their refusal after two decades of false pledges to actually do what they said they would to gain admittance into the WTO.

France for example is trying to get everyone to focus on banding up against China's dumping practices (the US should be working with the EU on this, Trump is half going about the trade war wrong of course). Germany & others are looking at rejecting the aggressive technology transfers / acquisitions that China is making or trying to make.

India is into overdrive about China's military plans across the Indian Ocean and greater region.

China's neighbors have been sweating for years about what's coming next out of them militarily, beyond their territory acquisitions in the South China Sea.

The US has entirely frozen China's ability to buy US companies and is reciprocating on behavior by increasingly locking out several of China's big companies.

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Re:What if China corners the cobalt market? by galieos_ghost on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:00PM (#16693613)

Trump tariffed the EU and Canada because they allow China to buy companies in their countries to avoid direct tariffs from the US. It wouldn't have been necessary if our 'allies' valued our relationship more than making billions from the Chinese in exchange for stabbing us in the back.

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Re:What if China corners the cobalt market? by RobertRoberts on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:43PM (#16692064)

Not to mention that China is buying land in seemingly every other country through loopholes in local laws and will eventually have the ability to disable economies all over the planet:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2018/03/e...

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