Building on that but on a more serious front, what third world countries in the world have more exploitable galium production that could get democratically expropriated by the international community?

It's kind of hilarious how US has been trying to find all kinds of ways to screw China over economically, and China just flexes by restricting a couple of items surgically causing panic in US. It's such an elegant way to let Americans know that China can fuck over their whole economy overnight.

Yeah, the progress in China is absolutely stunning and it looks to be accelerating too. Next decade will be incredible to watch.

It's the same with everything. Look at this: China built more 5G base stations in 3 months than US did in 2 years. Staggering. The PRC puts it's mind to something and there's nothing that will get in it's way. The may be delays. There may be hiccups. But the progress gets made.

We can't even provide 3G in some places in my country and it's supposed to be a 'developed' one.

The thing is that it's going to take a significant amount of time to create refining facilities, train workers, and so on. During that time, Chinese companies will have a huge market advantage over western ones.

I expect that libs are going to be getting increasingly unhinged as they see their whole world unravel. We're still in the denial stages right now where they can still ignore the facts, but it's getting harder and harder to do their mental gymnastics to pretend that everything's going great for their ideology.