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I wrote my senior biochemistry thesis at Colorado State University on bioremediation and microbial mining of thorium, then moved to California in hopes of working on Mountain Pass Mine owned by Molycorp (which was headquartered in Colorado). Microbial mining produces a not insignificant amount of world copper output and I wanted to apply green mining technology to rare earths with a focus on thorium and uranium refining. If you want to read my thesis it's publicly available through Colorado State. I cited a number of Chinese and Australian researchers, unfortunately I don't speak Vietnamese.
To bad you didn't study Economics Christopher English. Then I would told you that China is high depend on west for food, and natural gas. It need oil, from Russia, and the middle east. That why sanction are hurting China badly, even now "Seed Bank" across China are all going bankrupt and their starting have great unrest in the country. Their happen rolling blacks of electricity because they can't get enough coal.
@@fufu1327 Lithotrophic bacteria at the Antofagasta mine in Chile produces 372,100 metric tons of copper (which is almost 2% of world output from that one mine, which uses the bacteria in a leachate system). So, it can scale.
@@potatonoodlebear8035 yep. Look at the facts. How many non western countries been invaded by western countries and vice versa. The results are obvious to rest of the world
China used its own cheap labor and no environmental laws to grow - Western powers used free labor (slavery) and the racial/religious superiority as a justification to subjugate others to maximise their profits - theres no comparison but the likes of the BBC and other western media tend to want to make that argument - arent you worried about China's dominance? look at their human rights? all there companies are state-led and involved in espionage? whilst China has been exploited by the West for so many years - starting from the 8 nation alliance which forced China to open its trade - flooding the Chinese market with opium and destroying the lives of millions - affecting every facet of society to now - still trying to bully China into submission but the world is a lot of clued up than the West thinks - just stop reading BBC for a week and start watching RT or Al-Jazera instead and let me know what you notice - 'someone being murdered' and 'a life was lost' describes the same thing but to the viewer it completely changes the narrative! truth is...most corporate conglomerates are the ones blackmailing us - from tax evasion to designing closed systems so you can't customise or update and have to upgrade at their whim - Chinese companies too - the Chinese government backed local Didi (cab hailing service) instead of Uber and effectively kicked them out of the country - countries in general are just trying to protects its people and interest - people in power just want to stay in power by making themselves look good but the focus of concern is the large corporate conglomerates and not geopolitics (smokescreen) i.e. what I really want to know is which company holds the market share for rare metals or semi conductors and why I cant get myself a PS5!
greenland: has rare earth minerals china: "chinese people were there in 10000 bc, so greenland is legitime chinese land that danemark is opressing" united states: " gess Danemark is needing some freedom"
I think they are everywhere but in most places there isn't enough of them in one area for it to be profitable and mining it is really bad for the environment.
What i love about the Chinese is their ability to see the future and their total discipline to plan ahead of it. A trait all African countries are seriously lacking sadly.
We're sort of lacking it in the West as well. In America, we're very focused on short term profits and never ending elections cycles - for example US Congressional elections take place every 2 years, which means they only do like a year of actual work (holidays, campaigning, etc). Political infighting and cultural issues also take the focus away of prepping for the future in an ever changing world.
Cannot blackmail west Maurice. It need large amounts of food, oil, natural gas, oil, and coal to sustain itself. In order for that to happen it need the help of western countries for food, natural gas, and oil. Need's Australia for coal, Chairman Xi is like Africa he has not thought his plan for China very well.
@@dr.winner2516 Actually, the US has a much larger prison population than that of China, and yes that includes the million or so in Xinjiang. The US prison numbers still lead the world, by far. And keep in mind that this is despite that the US only has a quarter of China's total population. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
@@dr.winner2516 You missed the part where your response to that was...vacuous? Go talk to some black people about how the criminal justice system treats them. Many do spend large parts of their lives in prison.
It's not just chinese but big businesses wanting to exploit the low wages and lax environmental laws that gave rise to chinese monopoly. What they're mostling doing trying to retool poorer countries to continue the same. In anyways something good is also there, as it does help those poor countries to pull some people out of poverty
@Nova Flares environmentalists don't understand where these "green technologies" like solar panels/wind turbines/electric cars are coming from. They wanted to reduce carbon emissions, but in order to do so, we have to mine for rare earths or import it from a country that has it. If we lose access to these rare earths, we have no choice but to go back to fossil fuels.
@@samueljss8713 The problem is not the tech, it's the environmental damage, which can be solved by throwing billions at the problem. The tech itself is not difficult.
@Andrew S LOL what a joke.. We all know the most rare earth minerals were hidden in Chinese under soil, they are rich with minerals (North Korea) promethium and thulium in example only found in China with massive amount
Geographically, geopolitically and historically, China and Russia are natural enemies. It is only a matter of time when China asks Russia to return Outer Manchuria back to China. And China won't ask twice.
@@clementl.9566 EU and US may have slowly growing differences but they are certainly not on the level that we can say US vs EU and won't be for a few decades at least
Russia is always on guard, including against China. Last time Russia was caught off guard 20 million Russians died. Russia is ready for commi China and Nazi-USA.
I am appalled at the fact that the United States has not opened up factories to refine Rare Earth minerals and instead send them over to China where they basically give china a monopoly on these minerals, I'm also appalled at the fact that no government decided to keep even a small amount of their Rare Earth mines open with subsidies as a security concern; that's like shutting down all your oil fields because someone else has better prices and then when that person declares war on you ya just don't have oil to power your tanks and ships.
The Mountain Pass Mine in CA recently reopened after renovations that fixed its earlier pollution issues, and within two years went from 0 to 15% of the world's output. Next year its refinery should be fully operational, cutting China out of the loop for ore processing and giving the world a new cleaner alternative for rare earth elements.
"I am appalled at..." - are you like one of those people who often sends in letters to the editor of your local newspaper? Cos you certainly sound like one of those types... I hope you're not on Twitter.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn no I have never done that nor will I ever, I'm just dumbfounded that my country would let one of it's enemies gain basically a monopoly on a vital resource for military hardware. With how aggressive China and Russia has been, you'd think making sure you have a reliable source of resources to defend yourself with would be common sense. you on the other hand are clearly one of those people who go around looking for people to insult or fights to pick on the internet so fuck you.
@@nerdlingeeksly5192 Lol, a nationalist eh? Funny thing about being aggressive - the US has launched several wars in the last few decades, Russia 1 and China none. This doesn't require listening to any Chinese propaganda to see. Here's what the rest of the world thinks of who's the most aggressive - brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-peace/ And I wouldn't worry about the US defence. They're pretty much the safest nation on Earth, what with two massive oceans plus two weak neighbours surrounding you. Neither China nor Russia has any capacity to seriously attack America, short of the nukes flying. What whatever military leverage they do have might afford them is simply insurance against the US sending its military closer to THEIR territory, not the reverse. Which the US has long shown is quite willing to do, all over the world.
the moment you said chinese vessels entered Japan's territory, I lost the interest of watching it further. the territory is disputed. both countries claims it as their own. Giving reports must be neutral. remember that.
Also, Japan found a way to both reduce the use of 'rare earth' minerals AND recycle them for use. China forced Japan to actually adapt and it helped Japan.
Hey VisualpolitikEN have you been to China yet? I'm sure that you can definitely afford it with 1.06 million subs. It would make sense to see it for yourself if you are constantly going to judge China right? Or will that just get in the way of a good story?
@@frankcrosby6222 Oh wait! You must have been to China to know us Chinese so well? I doubted though! You must Google China's Mega cities and 22nd century infrastructures and see how ruined China is and tell me which of your cities even comes close in comparisons.
We can disagree with china's politics but they are doing the same thing western countries have done & would be doing if it benefits.. time for everyone to eat humble pie & come to the table
Lynas produce 15 to 20 percent of refined NdPr. Lynas by 2025 will double its output through its new operations in West Australia and in Texas. Lynas Malaysia is currently running at 75% capacity. Strange how you used so much footage from Lynas's operations and only mentioned them twice.
Chinese government intentionally created and spreaded the virus to the world and got out from the trade war. During the pandemic, china made billions selling medical supplies to the world and buying assets all over the world at historical low price. China won the war without fire a shot. If things don't go china way, china will release covid 2.0 to the world again.
Why do you call China's GOVERNMENT a regime. In the USA 1 in 7 voting age citizens ARE NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE. and this does not even include Guam etc. FOR CREDIBILITY KEEP THE DIALOGUE NEUTRAL !
The Chinese found most of the rare earth from waste products leftovers in the mines left in a big pile unoticed, unprocessed, until the R&D stepped in.
Australia has the world's sixth-largest reserves of rare-earth minerals, though they remain largely untapped with only two mines producing them. The largest by far is the mine at Mt Weld in Western Australia.
China doesn’t need play rare earth elements as a chess piece, as it’s got plenty of other tricks up its sleeves in dealings with these lightweight opponents. VisualPolitics, you need to reduce your dependency on China as well, as you pretty much live off of China
Another laughable tool. The only thing China has is communist control over its people. Take that away and china would collapse into a pile of rubbish. Again laughable
@@kevinstevens2120 rare earth is a laughable tool? Is that something you just said out of frustration, or out of ignorance. I hope it’s the former, but my experience dealing with guys like you tells me it’s most likely the latter
"[China's] rare earth refining industry buys a large part of this raw material from foreign countries thus preventing them from becoming supplier to the west." Idk. 1.Myanmar Malaysia and Vietnam can sell the raw material to whoever they want for the right price if you offered. 2.you said the west didn't have the ability to refine the raw materials, so even if you bought the raw materials, you wouldn't be able to process them anyway. How is that China's fault when the west doesn't buy the raw material for the element they can't refine?
*But Beijing’s bullying has consequences, especially in democracies that must respond to public opinion, unlike China’s ruling Communist Party. The world is better when investment flows without political interference.*
Actually, it's not their rarity, it's their difficulty separating them that is the problem. Scandium is nearly twice as abundant than lithium, and Yttrium over 3x as abundant as platinum. Only a couple on the list are less abundant than silver, most being more abundant than gold, lead and tungsten. Scandium (the most abundant rare earth) is around 500x more abundant than silver.
It can often work out well when communities work together to preservere through adverse conditions and unforeseen natural disasters. Like my sun theory, that the sun is a big magnet, pulling planets with more metallic properties and elements into closer orbit. And wonder about even higher priorities in harnessing more electricity and things from outer space, or taking metals from mercury and venus to mars or titan, more often than earth.
Any form of dominance should be challenged. China''s control over rare earth metals, OPEC's control on oil (though no longer the case), the U.S.'s domination on semi-conductors manufacturing, competition is good, it drives innovation.
There's no reason not to do both; co-operate where possible and have your own production; that's the most secure and beneficial. Can't ignore the economic law of supply and demand.
I disagree with the usage of the word "regime" in describing the Chinese government. While it also means government in the general sense, it imbues a sense of illegitimacy with its modern usage in mainstream media. How would the US feel if we call your government a regime?
@@timsuniverse9364 Yeah, they really think people are dumb and would believe it don't they. The US hegemony is the pinnacle of authoritarian in the history of mankind. Invading / over-throwing / infiltrating / meddling other countries to serve self-interests with made up righteous excuses.
Well sue to West negligence, rare earth extraction and refinements are mainly concentrated in China, but these past 2 years, the West started the trend of self-reliance in these things. We will see the change in focus and the world learn to have a more diversified supply chain.
A country needs to control more food, energy, water, and salt by mass the nation that produce the most, has the most, had the most power over them. Its like the power of the purse supply and demand runs like a river runs dry.🛤
If u are more than happy to export your pollution, why complain about it, when the producer takes control? Are they supposed to take the pollution but give US the control?
China can't put economic pressure over rich countries especially the US. since Chinese economy is highly dependent on US, the fall of the US economy is also theirs
this video serves also a catalyst for trade war. Note, so long as US and China doesn't get along - the rest of the world suffers. We could have much better technological advancements, but sanctions, tech war, supply chain cut off, isnt helping that. Instead of "How could CHINA BLACKMAIL THE WEST?", why not "How could China cooperate with the West?"
We could be producing all the rare earths needed for the whole world here in Canada as a byproduct of our gold, copper, uranium, iron and nickle mines. Like you said rare earths are not rare, they are abundant everywhere. Surely tailings from our other metal extractions can be used to also extract and stockpile rare earths as well. The rest of the processing to finished products could happen here, in the US, Europe or Japan... No need to let China hold all the cards
Remember the rare earth ban on Japan? How did that work out for China though?! 😂 I wish they would ban rare earth exports to the West because Vietnam, Brazil and even Canada for that matter have huge reserves of rare earths. That would mean a diversification of the market and much needed investments flowing into these countries' economies.
They have huge deposits but no extracting, processing and refining machinery and equipment. U.s is 40 years behind China in rare earth refining and processing. The mountain pass spot stopped producing rare earths since the 1980s.
@@robman2095 they can try, but a true Maple syrup liver will taste the difference. Just like when some Turkish honey was labeled as honey, but it was blended with glucose . Test will be performed and the fakes will come out.
Indian vaccine diplomacy has brought the country nothing but disaster. I’m wondering which country is benefiting this vaccine diplomacy certainly not India.
@@CB-bl8sp india completely ignored social distancing in favor of religious traditions and election season and is bearing the consequences of such actions.
@@christonngoveni8438 even human rights abuses doesn't seem like a problem when compare to the US's police killing and unregulated civil violence. The US, which ironically is the one that sets itself on moral high ground and starts all the accusing to China about "human right issue".
The strategic planning and forwarded thinking aspects of China are amazing and we should be doing that everywhere else, just a shame it comes with no rights, invading other countries and massive human rights abuses
@@ryangrange938 China Hasn't invaded or attacked any Nation since the border war with Vietnam in 1979. You must be thinking of the USA which is responsible for numerous military interventions since 1979 causing over 1 Million Civilliam Death. As for Human Rights Police in China just do not shoot ethnic minority citizens down in the streets or imprison them at the level of the USA public satisfaction surveys carried out by Harvard University report popular support of China's Government running at 90% Approval. Living Standards are rising absolute poverty ended and in 2019 130 Million Chinese travelled abroad as Tourists - All of them went home many of reporting suprise at the visible squalor and Decline of Western Cities in Contrast to China's rapidly improving Urban Centres. Of Course China proved how it protects the most important human right - the right to life with only 5000 Covid19 Deaths compared to the USA's 600,000 and rising.
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The title is funny considering that the West has been blackmailing China and the rest of the world for centuries!
This videos going to get demonized
"China has oil?! Something like oil?! It looks like China needs freedom!"
I think Western Countries should continue to work together on finding rare earth metals to stop China from controlling the economic markets !!!
Please Make vedio on kasmir conflict
I wrote my senior biochemistry thesis at Colorado State University on bioremediation and microbial mining of thorium, then moved to California in hopes of working on Mountain Pass Mine owned by Molycorp (which was headquartered in Colorado). Microbial mining produces a not insignificant amount of world copper output and I wanted to apply green mining technology to rare earths with a focus on thorium and uranium refining. If you want to read my thesis it's publicly available through Colorado State. I cited a number of Chinese and Australian researchers, unfortunately I don't speak Vietnamese.
I can't find the paper, could you share a doi link/number?
Seems interesting would Like to know more especialy is it doable in scale and efficient
To bad you didn't study Economics Christopher English. Then I would told you that China is high depend on west for food, and natural gas. It need oil, from Russia, and the middle east. That why sanction are hurting China badly, even now "Seed Bank" across China are all going bankrupt and their starting have great unrest in the country. Their happen rolling blacks of electricity because they can't get enough coal.
@@fufu1327 Lithotrophic bacteria at the Antofagasta mine in Chile produces 372,100 metric tons of copper (which is almost 2% of world output from that one mine, which uses the bacteria in a leachate system). So, it can scale.
@@lucasvandenbroeck3239 Unfortunately I can't post links for some reason, but find me on linked in and it'll be my last post.
How could CHINA BLACKMAIL THE WEST?
wait a minute, who's blackmailing whom again??
I don’t know. Western people do fantasize stuffs quite often.
@@potatonoodlebear8035 yep. Look at the facts. How many non western countries been invaded by western countries and vice versa. The results are obvious to rest of the world
China used its own cheap labor and no environmental laws to grow - Western powers used free labor (slavery) and the racial/religious superiority as a justification to subjugate others to maximise their profits - theres no comparison but the likes of the BBC and other western media tend to want to make that argument - arent you worried about China's dominance? look at their human rights? all there companies are state-led and involved in espionage? whilst China has been exploited by the West for so many years - starting from the 8 nation alliance which forced China to open its trade - flooding the Chinese market with opium and destroying the lives of millions - affecting every facet of society to now - still trying to bully China into submission but the world is a lot of clued up than the West thinks - just stop reading BBC for a week and start watching RT or Al-Jazera instead and let me know what you notice - 'someone being murdered' and 'a life was lost' describes the same thing but to the viewer it completely changes the narrative! truth is...most corporate conglomerates are the ones blackmailing us - from tax evasion to designing closed systems so you can't customise or update and have to upgrade at their whim - Chinese companies too - the Chinese government backed local Didi (cab hailing service) instead of Uber and effectively kicked them out of the country - countries in general are just trying to protects its people and interest - people in power just want to stay in power by making themselves look good but the focus of concern is the large corporate conglomerates and not geopolitics (smokescreen) i.e. what I really want to know is which company holds the market share for rare metals or semi conductors and why I cant get myself a PS5!
greenland: has rare earth minerals
china: "chinese people were there in 10000 bc, so greenland is legitime chinese land that danemark is opressing"
united states: " gess Danemark is needing some freedom"
Sad but close.
Accurate
US propaganda warrior
@@gonzalos4379 he literally made fun of both superpowers.... he didn't toke side..that's why it was funny.
@@gonzalos4379 Wumao
_It's more like the US wants to exhaust Chinese strategic rare earth minerals, USA has plenty of rare earth minerals but is preserving it._
I dog always eat from the table first before going to its own bowl.
There are probably a lot of rare earth elements in space.
U got any paper links?
I think they are everywhere but in most places there isn't enough of them in one area for it to be profitable and mining it is really bad for the environment.
@@garykaplan7728 wouldn't they b rare "space" elements 🤣
What i love about the Chinese is their ability to see the future and their total discipline to plan ahead of it. A trait all African countries are seriously lacking sadly.
We're sort of lacking it in the West as well. In America, we're very focused on short term profits and never ending elections cycles - for example US Congressional elections take place every 2 years, which means they only do like a year of actual work (holidays, campaigning, etc). Political infighting and cultural issues also take the focus away of prepping for the future in an ever changing world.
Except when the Chinese did not see how if they don't wash their hands after eating a bat, it would become a world wide epidemice.
@@miroslavhoudek7085 The mistake was hosting the Military World Games and letting the Usa in.
@@gthreesix 😂 lol that's a nice joke! 10 rmb credited to your account 🤣
Cannot blackmail west Maurice. It need large amounts of food, oil, natural gas, oil, and coal to sustain itself. In order for that to happen it need the help of western countries for food, natural gas, and oil. Need's Australia for coal, Chairman Xi is like Africa he has not thought his plan for China very well.
China and Russia are facing an avengers level threat: An old guy with an advanced understanding of geopolitics.
@Ti Klim
You mistyped China
@@dr.winner2516 Actually, the US has a much larger prison population than that of China, and yes that includes the million or so in Xinjiang. The US prison numbers still lead the world, by far. And keep in mind that this is despite that the US only has a quarter of China's total population. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
@@ArawnOfAnnwn
You missed the part where the person said life sentences for petty crimes
@@dr.winner2516 You missed the part where your response to that was...vacuous? Go talk to some black people about how the criminal justice system treats them. Many do spend large parts of their lives in prison.
Dr winner - winner in trolling and dumbest person
It's not just chinese but big businesses wanting to exploit the low wages and lax environmental laws that gave rise to chinese monopoly. What they're mostling doing trying to retool poorer countries to continue the same. In anyways something good is also there, as it does help those poor countries to pull some people out of poverty
According to Google, Brazil and Vietnam also have huge rare earth resources. So the US and Europe can trade with those countries instead
Not if China signs deals with Brazil and Vietnam first.
@@nomanor7987 Vietnam hates China
@@sonneh86 vietnam hates china but loves chinese money in their communist backyard.
@Nova Flares environmentalists don't understand where these "green technologies" like solar panels/wind turbines/electric cars are coming from. They wanted to reduce carbon emissions, but in order to do so, we have to mine for rare earths or import it from a country that has it. If we lose access to these rare earths, we have no choice but to go back to fossil fuels.
They do not have the refining technology😂🤣🤣🤣
There is a rare earth production facility being built in Canada right now.
Canada doesn't have the capacity or technology.
@@samueljss8713 The problem is not the tech, it's the environmental damage, which can be solved by throwing billions at the problem. The tech itself is not difficult.
@Andrew S LOL what a joke.. We all know the most rare earth minerals were hidden in Chinese under soil, they are rich with minerals (North Korea) promethium and thulium in example only found in China with massive amount
@@irritatedanglosaxon1705 Asia will be the new Europe
@@modernsage8132 good
Cold War I: USA VS USSR
Cold War II: US AND EU VS RUSSIA AND CHINA.
Geographically, geopolitically and historically, China and Russia are natural enemies. It is only a matter of time when China asks Russia to return Outer Manchuria back to China. And China won't ask twice.
Actually it's more like US VS EU VS RUSSIA VS CHINA
Pointing & laughing at those who think the "Cold" War ever stopped.
@@clementl.9566 EU and US may have slowly growing differences but they are certainly not on the level that we can say US vs EU and won't be for a few decades at least
Russia is always on guard, including against China. Last time Russia was caught off guard 20 million Russians died. Russia is ready for commi China and Nazi-USA.
I am appalled at the fact that the United States has not opened up factories to refine Rare Earth minerals and instead send them over to China where they basically give china a monopoly on these minerals, I'm also appalled at the fact that no government decided to keep even a small amount of their Rare Earth mines open with subsidies as a security concern; that's like shutting down all your oil fields because someone else has better prices and then when that person declares war on you ya just don't have oil to power your tanks and ships.
The Mountain Pass Mine in CA recently reopened after renovations that fixed its earlier pollution issues, and within two years went from 0 to 15% of the world's output. Next year its refinery should be fully operational, cutting China out of the loop for ore processing and giving the world a new cleaner alternative for rare earth elements.
"I am appalled at..." - are you like one of those people who often sends in letters to the editor of your local newspaper? Cos you certainly sound like one of those types... I hope you're not on Twitter.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn no I have never done that nor will I ever, I'm just dumbfounded that my country would let one of it's enemies gain basically a monopoly on a vital resource for military hardware.
With how aggressive China and Russia has been, you'd think making sure you have a reliable source of resources to defend yourself with would be common sense.
you on the other hand are clearly one of those people who go around looking for people to insult or fights to pick on the internet so fuck you.
@@nerdlingeeksly5192 Lol, a nationalist eh? Funny thing about being aggressive - the US has launched several wars in the last few decades, Russia 1 and China none. This doesn't require listening to any Chinese propaganda to see. Here's what the rest of the world thinks of who's the most aggressive - brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-peace/
And I wouldn't worry about the US defence. They're pretty much the safest nation on Earth, what with two massive oceans plus two weak neighbours surrounding you. Neither China nor Russia has any capacity to seriously attack America, short of the nukes flying. What whatever military leverage they do have might afford them is simply insurance against the US sending its military closer to THEIR territory, not the reverse. Which the US has long shown is quite willing to do, all over the world.
one word: NIMBY
the moment you said chinese vessels entered Japan's territory, I lost the interest of watching it further. the territory is disputed. both countries claims it as their own. Giving reports must be neutral. remember that.
It is Japan's from ancient times !
@@linmal2242 Senkaku Island belong to the Ryukyu Kingdom in ancient times not Japan.
As far as I know, this island has never been chinese, why is it even disputed if not for Chinese expansionism?
Also, Japan found a way to both reduce the use of 'rare earth' minerals AND recycle them for use. China forced Japan to actually adapt and it helped Japan.
Conclusion: this video is biased. Period.
"What on earth could be done ?" Good one lol
"RARE Earth"!
@@xres1329 Yes there is one EARTH so now let's not destroy it.
I suppose this means western countries will get a sudden interest in the Congo ?
Congo only has Cobalt
Hey VisualpolitikEN have you been to China yet? I'm sure that you can definitely afford it with 1.06 million subs. It would make sense to see it for yourself if you are constantly going to judge China right? Or will that just get in the way of a good story?
@@frankcrosby6222 if you say so.
@@frankcrosby6222 At least you are a proud racist and not pretending.
@@frankcrosby6222 A bit uneducated and delusional but no one is perfect right?
@@frankcrosby6222 Oh wait! You must have been to China to know us Chinese so well? I doubted though! You must Google China's Mega cities and 22nd century infrastructures and see how ruined China is and tell me which of your cities even comes close in comparisons.
Hello? Are you still there?
And this is how we Get the future of Seaquest DSV. Gotta get them rare earth minerals.
You've gotten rounder, man😁🖤
😂😂😂
We can disagree with china's politics but they are doing the same thing western countries have done & would be doing if it benefits.. time for everyone to eat humble pie & come to the table
Yeah, it is called capitalism.
PSA : these terrible voice-over transitions must stop
The UK is not the West , The West has 40 countries not all of them share the same views on China.
we need a "national thorium bank" to put all the thorium that is a byproduct of rare earth refining in a nice safe desert area.
We need to use the thorium in thorium reactors to produce electricity and stop polluting the earth with all those fossil fuels.
Lynas produce 15 to 20 percent of refined NdPr. Lynas by 2025 will double its output through its new operations in West Australia and in Texas. Lynas Malaysia is currently running at 75% capacity. Strange how you used so much footage from Lynas's operations and only mentioned them twice.
The Chinese people are lucky to have such a smart aggressive Government. They are play ing chess and the west is playing checkers
Chinese government intentionally created and spreaded the virus to the world and got out from the trade war. During the pandemic, china made billions selling medical supplies to the world and buying assets all over the world at historical low price. China won the war without fire a shot.
If things don't go china way, china will release covid 2.0 to the world again.
@@kylengkyleng Turned out to be a great idea for them😂😂 now countries are begging for their vaccine and help
@@kylengkyleng nonsense. China lost a lot of GDP last year
@@kylengkyleng US funded the making of the virus in China, US big Tech made billions in e-commerce and big Pharm made billions in producing vaccines.
@@胡志劝 Everybody else had negative GDP last year.
It's sickening everytime when he refers to China, he has to replace it with xxx regime, communist party blah blah blah.
Why do you call China's GOVERNMENT a regime. In the USA 1 in 7 voting age citizens ARE NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE. and this does not even include Guam etc. FOR CREDIBILITY KEEP THE DIALOGUE NEUTRAL !
Thanks! Good one!
And it’s all in Xinjang... guess they have to get rid of any ethnic groups that they see as “troublesome”
Learned from america, canada, australia
@@stvdmc2011 they didn’t lie about it and cover it up though.
Maybe that's why the US is so interested in the area now. Cuz we all know US don't really care about Muslims 😆
Ah speaking of those native americans, they seem to be living good lives. Oh wait !
there is no genocide or mass atrocity in xinjiang. its western lies to get us to hate china. search "grayzone xinjiang" on youtube or google.
I'd like to see another video about Argentina please. It's been days since you release one about them.
I need a break from Argentina, the US, and China. There has to be other countries out there with stories.
@@badluck5647 they're already colonised and licking American boots, nothing to propagandise about here.
That´s why I am heavily invested in MP materials. hehe
Ah! thank you
Australia Lynas started a mine in Msia. It persisted despite protest. As usual Greenpeace is nowhere to be found?!
The Chinese found most of the rare earth from waste products leftovers in the mines left in a big pile unoticed, unprocessed, until the R&D stepped in.
Australia has the world's sixth-largest reserves of rare-earth minerals, though they remain largely untapped with only two mines producing them. The largest by far is the mine at Mt Weld in Western Australia.
@Jonathan Watson
Oz is avoiding production in its own soil by shifting polluted production in Malaysia.
China doesn’t need play rare earth elements as a chess piece, as it’s got plenty of other tricks up its sleeves in dealings with these lightweight opponents. VisualPolitics, you need to reduce your dependency on China as well, as you pretty much live off of China
Another laughable tool. The only thing China has is communist control over its people. Take that away and china would collapse into a pile of rubbish. Again laughable
@@kevinstevens2120 rare earth is a laughable tool? Is that something you just said out of frustration, or out of ignorance. I hope it’s the former, but my experience dealing with guys like you tells me it’s most likely the latter
The reason why america is in Afghanistan
Still hunting bin ladens ghost
Right after 911 baby Bush declared: "proof will be given within a month about afghan complicity in the WTC attacks"...He forgot, I am still waiting!
This is a great topic and a great explanation, thanks!
"[China's] rare earth refining industry buys a large part of this raw material from foreign countries thus preventing them from becoming supplier to the west." Idk. 1.Myanmar Malaysia and Vietnam can sell the raw material to whoever they want for the right price if you offered. 2.you said the west didn't have the ability to refine the raw materials, so even if you bought the raw materials, you wouldn't be able to process them anyway. How is that China's fault when the west doesn't buy the raw material for the element they can't refine?
*But Beijing’s bullying has consequences, especially in democracies that must respond to public opinion, unlike China’s ruling Communist Party. The world is better when investment flows without political interference.*
Just found this channel, really good work and really interesting. Thanks
Actually, it's not their rarity, it's their difficulty separating them that is the problem. Scandium is nearly twice as abundant than lithium, and Yttrium over 3x as abundant as platinum. Only a couple on the list are less abundant than silver, most being more abundant than gold, lead and tungsten. Scandium (the most abundant rare earth) is around 500x more abundant than silver.
everyone wants rare earth, but no one wants the residue/deposit of cleaning those rare earth
It can often work out well when communities work together to preservere through adverse conditions and unforeseen natural disasters. Like my sun theory, that the sun is a big magnet, pulling planets with more metallic properties and elements into closer orbit. And wonder about even higher priorities in harnessing more electricity and things from outer space, or taking metals from mercury and venus to mars or titan, more often than earth.
US does have a monopoly on beryllium, which is as critical as rare earths. Unless China buys over Materion for just 1.4B.
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Japanese are really smart!
They had no choice and US did not back them up.
I like Josh as the moderator.
Any form of dominance should be challenged. China''s control over rare earth metals, OPEC's control on oil (though no longer the case), the U.S.'s domination on semi-conductors manufacturing, competition is good, it drives innovation.
There's no reason not to do both; co-operate where possible and have your own production; that's the most secure and beneficial. Can't ignore the economic law of supply and demand.
I disagree with the usage of the word "regime" in describing the Chinese government. While it also means government in the general sense, it imbues a sense of illegitimacy with its modern usage in mainstream media. How would the US feel if we call your government a regime?
US would laugh and say we are not authoritarian.
@@timsuniverse9364 Yeah, they really think people are dumb and would believe it don't they. The US hegemony is the pinnacle of authoritarian in the history of mankind. Invading / over-throwing / infiltrating / meddling other countries to serve self-interests with made up righteous excuses.
China: no rare earth for you USA
USA: no food for you China
let’s see who lasts longer
Both can buy from third party
winnie the pooh have become ThanosXi
haha, china is now answering with that rare earth...sound like tit for tat.
Free trade is where willing buyer and sellers can buy and sell their products or services. Nobody is putting a gun to the head.
Eye opening episode. Thank you
All I can say is this. End green initiatives. Or we will pay the price. Mine like there is no tomorow.
Lanthanoid Age. I like it.
China is 5-6 years behind in semiconductor manufacturing. They need those as much as the US needs rare earth minerals...
U.s is 40 years behind China in rare earth refining and processing. The mountain pass spot stopped producing rare earths since the 1980s.
So now they are serpentZA
How about stop making weapons and airplanes for the military. Problem solved. I think we have enough
+1
Well sue to West negligence, rare earth extraction and refinements are mainly concentrated in China, but these past 2 years, the West started the trend of self-reliance in these things. We will see the change in focus and the world learn to have a more diversified supply chain.
A country needs to control more food, energy, water, and salt by mass the nation that produce the most, has the most, had the most power over them. Its like the power of the purse supply and demand runs like a river runs dry.🛤
And what happens when all the rare earth mines are exhausted? Just like oil, it’s a non-renewable resource
That's why things made with the stuff needs to be recycled to re-claim the rare earth materials.
Censorship and intrusive government? You had to look all the way out to Myanmar for that? Really? The US and EU weren't close enough?
They should change the name to ''difficult earth element''
as it is extremely difficult and labor intensive to produce.
If u are more than happy to export your pollution, why complain about it, when the producer takes control? Are they supposed to take the pollution but give US the control?
Winnie the pooh is not amused.
😅LOL. There is no rare earth elements in EV batteries, they are for the powerful magnets in electric motors. 😉
China can't put economic pressure over rich countries especially the US. since Chinese economy is highly dependent on US, the fall of the US economy is also theirs
Yeah... actually China depende more in Asia amd Europe than In USA..
@@damianjf6357 combined all the countries in Asia and Europe, of course
You have to respect Japan despite being a big island.
What in rare earth is going on? It seems China has on a gauntlet filled with 17 rare earth gems, and is decimating its rivals
yep, it is called capitalism.
this video serves also a catalyst for trade war. Note, so long as US and China doesn't get along - the rest of the world suffers. We could have much better technological advancements, but sanctions, tech war, supply chain cut off, isnt helping that.
Instead of "How could CHINA BLACKMAIL THE WEST?", why not "How could China cooperate with the West?"
I think it's USA not West !
We could be producing all the rare earths needed for the whole world here in Canada as a byproduct of our gold, copper, uranium, iron and nickle mines. Like you said rare earths are not rare, they are abundant everywhere. Surely tailings from our other metal extractions can be used to also extract and stockpile rare earths as well. The rest of the processing to finished products could happen here, in the US, Europe or Japan... No need to let China hold all the cards
China not holding the cards, they are holding the nasty toxic pollution.
Remember the rare earth ban on Japan? How did that work out for China though?! 😂 I wish they would ban rare earth exports to the West because Vietnam, Brazil and even Canada for that matter have huge reserves of rare earths. That would mean a diversification of the market and much needed investments flowing into these countries' economies.
They have huge deposits but no extracting, processing and refining machinery and equipment.
U.s is 40 years behind China in rare earth refining and processing. The mountain pass spot stopped producing rare earths since the 1980s.
We can find rare earth metals in Cameroon
Why no mention of Japan's discovery of huge rare earth mineral deposits off Minamitori Island?
Heading for the PGM age as the world begins to turn away from gas engines to electric motors among other green tech.
Too many adverts. Waaaay worse than US TV.
Remember asteroid mining
afghanistan has lot of undiscovered rare earth metals
That is why the United States invaded and occupied Afghanistan to this day.
@@yuhanlin8491 yes
I am the 31st person to watch this video. I have made it in life. Thank you Jesus
Thanks
It is good news US finally reopen the mine.
the issue is all major global corporations have operations in China, so what's the problem? Small and Medium players!
Canada has all the minerals you need 🇨🇦🍁
🤔🤔🤔 so has Australia.
🤗🤗🤗
Tons of places have them. Just not in high considerations and that's only half the battle, refinement is a big sticking point.
You forgot about the fact that Canada has all the Maple syrup we all need. Now how’s China going to compete with that, huh? 🍁
@@paulsz6194 They will fake it and label it as maple syrup I suppose
@@robman2095 they can try, but a true Maple syrup liver will taste the difference. Just like when some Turkish honey was labeled as honey, but it was blended with glucose . Test will be performed and the fakes will come out.
Whatever happened to Simon??
You definitely must do a video about vaccine diplomacy by China.
Indian vaccine diplomacy has brought the country nothing but disaster. I’m wondering which country is benefiting this vaccine diplomacy certainly not India.
Randians I mean Endians are dying 300000+ cases in day
@@CB-bl8sp india completely ignored social distancing in favor of religious traditions and election season and is bearing the consequences of such actions.
@@CB-bl8sp Every country who has vaccine does vaccine diplomacy and includes India and China as well. Every country is after their self interest.
This is somewhat liberal regimes in Anglosaxon countries never like..
it's not fair when you do it. lol
black mail? Double standards rock and roll!
Nice work
This is why i like China, they work on strategy not Bombs and guns
You forgot genocides
@@looneytoons171 there no genocides in China, that's the media fooling us... But yes they are human rights abuses
@@christonngoveni8438 even human rights abuses doesn't seem like a problem when compare to the US's police killing and unregulated civil violence. The US, which ironically is the one that sets itself on moral high ground and starts all the accusing to China about "human right issue".
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This is a great advert for the strategic planning of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
The strategic planning and forwarded thinking aspects of China are amazing and we should be doing that everywhere else, just a shame it comes with no rights, invading other countries and massive human rights abuses
@@ryangrange938 China Hasn't invaded or attacked any Nation since the border war with Vietnam in 1979. You must be thinking of the USA which is responsible for numerous military interventions since 1979 causing over 1 Million Civilliam Death.
As for Human Rights Police in China just do not shoot ethnic minority citizens down in the streets or imprison them at the level of the USA public satisfaction surveys carried out by Harvard University report popular support of China's Government running at 90% Approval.
Living Standards are rising absolute poverty ended and in 2019 130 Million Chinese travelled abroad as Tourists - All of them went home many of reporting suprise at the visible squalor and Decline of Western Cities in Contrast to China's rapidly improving Urban Centres.
Of Course China proved how it protects the most important human right - the right to life with only 5000 Covid19 Deaths compared to the USA's 600,000 and rising.
to reduce the use of rare earth metals in essential sectors.
Isn't this the plot to COD Black OPs 2?
The U.S can look rare earths to Latin America, Africa, Australia, EU, Other Asian nations unlike China.
US can only look, whereas China can buy.