China has been slowly restricting access to these materials for a long time, at least years if not decades. They have a large enough population and therefor workforce to refine it into products themselves and sell the results for high profits.
Of course as a net result diplomacy breaks down with loss of trade for incentive, but their aggressive militaristic actions and election interference show they don’t give a fuck about that.
Wait why all countries? What did Canada do?
Trade the refined products to the US
If they hadn’t noticed the rest of the world isn’t really looking up to the current USA either.
You don’t need to look up to a country to want to turn a profit right?
But some of them will fold. And china can’t be sure who will
China has been slowly restricting access to these materials for a long time, at least years if not decades. They have a large enough population and therefor workforce to refine it into products themselves and sell the results for high profits.
Of course as a net result diplomacy breaks down with loss of trade for incentive, but their aggressive militaristic actions and election interference show they don’t give a fuck about that.
China knows how circumventing these things works because they actively help Russia circumvent their blockades.