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China Loses Its Grip on Rare Earth Monopoly

I am surprised at this. The danger with any weapon, is once used, your enemies may seek alternatives. An example of this I worry about, is the use of sanctions again Russia. In this case, China used rare earths against Japan in 2010, and Japan found alternatives. Also supply and demand. When supply goes up in price, demand may go down, or their may be an increase in supply as other alternatives are developed.

A new example may be the Russian dominance of Titanium, that is used a lot by Boeing.

References:

China Loses Its Grip on Rare Earth Monopoly - The American Interest

Boeing, United Technologies stock up titanium parts from Russia: WSJ - Reuters

Labels: exports, Rare Earths

Chinese Exports Grow - Highest in 4 Years

Good news for the Global Economy, as well as China!

I hope we are not going to here more about China Manipulating it's currency.

China Exports Rise More Than Estimated - Bloomberg

Labels: china's future, exports, US Chinese Image

Turkey gets Chinese ABM System

I am surprised that Turkey is buying from China an anti-missile defense. A reason that does not go into the messy political issues that I do not want to write about, is Turkey wants to export more weapons, and China is offering technology sharing.

A point not mentioned, is this also shows how high tech China's weapons have become. Through what ever means, China has advanced the technology of their weapons considerably in the past 30 years. The US is perceived as the leading Weapons Technology supplier in the world, and is by weapons exports by sales per Wikipedia, Russia is 2nd, and China fifth.

Turkey goes for Chinese take-away defense - Asia Times

I read it about this on The American Interest, and found the article with more details.

Labels: exports, made in china, Turkey, weapons

Wednesday, October 29, 2014