China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech

Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by throwawaymaths on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:50AM (#35464639)

Eh, economic engagement with unfree countries got us south korea, Taiwan, probably more in eastern Europe: Albania comes to mind. Afaict disengagement only worked with south Africa.

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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by SkyMarshal on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:43AM (#35465011)

There’s roughly three levels free vs unfree:

1. Democratic countries that mostly abide by international law and the rules-based order.

2. Non-democratic countries that also mostly abide by international law and the rules-based order, because they benefit from it more than not doing so.

3. Non-democratic countries that reject international law and the rules-based order.

The US trades with #1 and #2, and was hoping to make China into #2. But unfortunately it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen, China is in the grey area between #2 and #3 and probably trending toward #3.

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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by throwawaymaths on Thursday April 06, 2023 @09:47AM (#35468253)

Beautifully said.

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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by jacquesm on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:33AM (#35478395)

2 works for small countries, if countries are large enough they can afford themselves to be a 3, which otherwise is reserved for failed states and outright dictatorships.

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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by pfannkuchen on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:20PM (#35471492)

My goal wouldn’t be to get them to change. We just shouldn’t get involved.

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