Was China's rare earth export ban a retaliation against Trump's tariffs or a strategic timing to enact the ban? (lemmygrad.ml)

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If Trump's tariffs hadn't happened, would China have found other ways to implement the ban?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

the CPC was pressured against the wall and forced to use the rare earth ban for leverage.

That's a... pretty interesting claim, since at this stage China and the US are basically on equal footing, and we've already seen that China has done ample preparing for a potential trade war, with them basically being unaffected. If any side is the desperate one, it's the US.

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