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The first shot to counter Europe and the United States is about to fire! The mainland is going to fight back this time!
In the second half of this year, on October 1, the mainland will officially launch the "Rare Earth Management Regulations", which includes policies for the protection and rational use of rare earth resources in the mainland, as well as restrictions on the export of resources.
A few days ago, the mainland officially announced the relevant regulations, the "rare earth management regulations" announced a total of 32 articles, the most important of which are a total of six points:
1. Clarify the working principles
2. Strengthen the protection of rare earth resources
3. Sound rare soil management system
4. Promote the high-quality development of the rare earth industry
5. Improve the supervision system of the whole rare earth industry chain
6. Clarify supervision and management measures and legal responsibilities
The second point of strengthening the protection of rare earth resources seems to have deep meaning, which openly makes it clear that "rare earth resources belong to the state". Does this mean that the mainland will have to impose restrictions on imports and exports?
The importance of rare earth resources
In 1992, Deng Xiaoping mentioned this sentence in his speech in the south:
"There is oil in the Middle East, and there are rare earths in China".
How important oil is, everyone should be very clear, without oil, aircraft and tanks and other weapons that need fuel will be paralyzed, and transportation will also fall into a state of stagnation, according to relevant statistics, the energy use of oil accounts for about 30% of the world's energy!
At present, the dispute in the Middle East is so fierce, and there are many countries that have taken a fancy to the large oil resources in the Middle East, so they do not hesitate to risk their lives and enter the chaos in the Middle East.
The former leaders of the mainland compared the mainland's rare earth resources with the oil resources of the Middle East, which shows how important the status of rare earth resources is on the mainland.
In fact, this is not an exaggeration at all, rare earth resources are very scarce in the world, and like oil, they are non-renewable energy. It can play a great role in both agriculture and the military industry.
Needless to say, land resources themselves are a necessary environment for agricultural development. But can you imagine? In the current information age, information technology is also indispensable for the demand for rare earths.
Rare earths can be used in the manufacture of magnetic materials, because the elements in rare earths have great magnetism and are irreplaceable for modern high-performance permanent magnet materials. At the same time, the elements in rare earth materials are not only powerful, but also diverse, so they can also be applied to the development of superconducting materials. The demand for these two materials in modern technology is almost irreplaceable.
Rare earth resources are so rich in elements that it is not surprising that they are used in the military industry. In the manufacture of almost all modern fighter missiles, there are rare earth resources. The U.S. Air Force's F-22 fighter is one of the most expensive fighters in recent years, because its configuration was the world's top fighter at the time of development, even its latest F-35 fighter is not very comparable.
The higher the configuration of the fighter, the more indispensable the use of rare earth resources, the most prominent is that the extremely hard metal of the fuselage is indispensable for the elements in rare earth resources.
Europe and the United States have frequently suppressed China
Why do we immediately think of the import and export management of rare earth resources when we see the mainland announcing that "rare earth resources belong to the state"? Because European and American countries have suppressed the mainland more and more excessively over the years.
During her visit to China, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen went so far as to propose the existence of a "trade monopoly" with the mainland. The reason is that the mainland's new energy vehicles are sold too cheaply overseas, which seriously affects the balance of the market.
Analyzing Yellen's remarks, we can find that it has not so much affected the balance of the market, but rather affected the control of the market by the United States, especially since the United States has considerable rights and interests in Europe, and even the existence of "pro-American" factions among EU members.
The United States said that the mainland's new energy vehicles are sold too cheaply, which the mainland does not deny, but the existence of a "market monopoly" is purely imaginary, and the mainland's new energy is sold cheaply because the mainland has abundant labor and strong industrial manufacturing capabilities, so it does not need too much cost to produce the car, and it is natural to sell it cheaper than the United States.
Look at how expensive the American manufacturing is, their F-22 fighters are so expensive that even the United States itself does not produce them, so they switch to the cheaper F-35. A few years ago, the United States relied on its advanced science and technology to sell military weapons all over the world, and that is called market monopoly!
In April this year, Biden announced that he would triple the tariffs on steel and aluminum products exported from China to the United States. And the reason is the same, it is still to criticize China for "unfair competition".
In order to suppress us, the United States will not even change its statement, and during the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, it also openly spread rumors that the mainland's trade cooperation with Russia and Russia is an act of supporting Russia's war.
Although the mainland has taken countermeasures against the United States before, the mainland has implemented anti-dumping measures against US imports of propionic acid, and has made an encouraging response to the US act of raising tariffs.
As a matter of fact, what the mainland wants to advocate is a strategy of peaceful development, and if the European and American countries do not provoke us, the two countries will naturally be at peace, but since the United States wants to apply hegemonism to the mainland, then the mainland will not be polite.
Rare earth resource control, the United States or face a head-on blow?
Once the "Rare Earth Management Regulations" really controls exports, it is bound to be a head-on blow to the United States.
According to statistics in 2022, the mainland's rare earth resources account for about 70% of the world's total, and there is a gap between it and the second place. Once the United States loses China's huge market, the development of industry and manufacturing will become more difficult on top of the already slow progress.
This is also the reason why the United States frequently makes trouble with foreign countries, because there are hidden dangers in the rapid development of the United States, and they owe a large amount of national debts outside, and the fundamental reason is the hegemonist behavior of "taking and seizing by force," which makes it impossible for them to stop the pace of development, and once they are surpassed by other countries, the weakness behind it will immediately manifest itself.
And hegemonism is obviously not feasible at the moment. China is no longer the China of the past, and if the United States wants to suppress China again, it really has to re-examine its own weight.
Resources:
Promulgated the "Regulations on the Management of Rare Earths" - Jintai Consulting
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