"Here, take a 'free' hydrodam on your river and we will just take some land and electricity."
It isn't military because neither of those two countries have any sort of way to defend themselves against China, but it might as well be military, because China.
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> "Here, take a 'free' hydrodam on your river and we will just take some land and electricity."
So which is it? They will 'take it' or they will trade for it?
That's the problem with anti-chinese propaganda. It makes no sense and is full of contradictions.
To be fair to China, corrupt locals allowed it to happen.
Sure it is. As long as it wasn't coerced.
> To be fair to China, corrupt locals allowed it to happen.
I have a feeling that any trade with china or anything that helps poor countries progress is 'corrupt' to you. But then again, you push so much ant-china shilling, I recognize you just from your username.
If china is taking so much for so little, why isn't europe or the US swooping in and offering a better deal? Perhpas because china is giving them the best deal?
By definition, it was coerced.
[1] https://americanbatterytechnology.com/lithium-costs-a-lot-of...
[2] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42417327/li...
> In 2024, a quarter million aging electric vehicles will be ready for dismantling and recycling. That could be more than a 30% jump from 2023 — and Redwood Materials, which aims to be the country's leading EV battery recycler, is ramping up its operations to prepare for the coming onslaught.
> The company created by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, which also makes components for new batteries from materials it recovers from old ones, expects some 250,000 aging Tesla Model S sedans, Nissan Leaf hatchbacks, Toyota Priuses, Prius plug-ins and other hybrids, to turn up at dismantler lots in 2024 — with more coming every year after. That’s up from between 150,000 to 200,000 this year. To ensure it gets as many of those old batteries as possible, it’s launched a web portal to quickly give auto dismantlers purchase offers and schedule trucks to haul them away for recycling.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/redwood-inks-long-term... ("Redwood inks long-term EV battery materials supply deal with Toyota")
Redwood Materials is currently operational, processing the waste stream. Ford and Volvo are also partners. They'll also accept EV packs that are damaged, defective or recalled (DDR) on an ad hoc basis if you open a ticket with their team.
https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/auto-recyclers-battery-port...
(have shipped them old Leaf and Tesla packs)
They are essentially a lithium mine that's using a very high quality ore, ground-up batteries.
There are other companies doing this as well. [3]
1. https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/
2. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/battery-recycling-redwood-mater...
It's already 95% efficient.
No fundamental scientific advances are needed.
It's already being scaled commercially.
One example:
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_political_cris...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Bolivian_general_electi...
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Arce
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/bolivia-govern...
More recently we've been supporting leftist elected candidates against right-wing coups.
We don't care Bolivia has lithium. We get lithium from Australia.
Third worldist leftists have many dumb ideas, but among them is the idea that wars are for resources or that we're exploiting third world countries by taking their resources. It's almost the opposite - they are poor because we aren't trading with them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/12/bernardo-are...
And Guyana against invasion by Venezuela.
Do you think clandestine services pursue their goals by declaring war on countries?
[1] https://lithiumfuture.org/map.html