• China has 3 times the population of the USA but only 1/5th the farmland.
• China has no great river system for moving goods within the country, the USA has the Mississippi River with more locks and channels than all other global rivers combined.
• The USA protects all ocean trade routes (this can be stopped immediately)
• The USA pays for all shipment costs from China (this can be stopped immediately)
• All the Naval power of the world, combined, is about 1/11th of the USA Navy’s carrier and warship capabilities.
• The USA is 30% of China’s exports but China is only a tiny fraction of USA critical imported goods.
We can leave them hanging on any of these and put their nuts in a vice. They don’t have shit on the USA. They need the USA badly yet the USA doesn’t need shit from them. Sure, they make a lot of stuff for us, but the only thing we have to have is tech and we can start making our own in about a year if we had to. On the other hand, they’d be fucked without us and would go into panic and massive decline.
We can't stop protecting trade until we make it worth while to the shipping industry to flag their vessels in America. As long as these ships carry a foreign flag but ship all the goods to us, we are compelled to protect it for our own good. If we can divest ourselves form foreign flagged vessels, then we can tell the rest of te world to suck it.
Also, the Three Gorges Damn turned the Yangtze into a central artery for China. It's now navigable 700 miles upriver from the mouth by large river barges much like the Mississippi. That being said, China is deficient compared to the US when it comes to inland shipping when you combine the Mississippi and Great Lakes, especially when you add in the ICW and other large canals like the Tombigbee.
It's very true that China needs the US. In fact every other country on Earth needs us more than we need them individually, but for a different reason than those you've stated above. They all need us because we control half of the world's consumer economy. Yes, that's correct, Half of everything produced on the face of the Earth is bought by Americans. That's what happens when you have the third largest population combined with a GDP twice as large as the runner-up. Any country that wants a successful trade economy must deal with us. Trump understands this which is why he has been able to drag those stubborn bastards to the negotiating table. They can't afford not to trade with us.
A point about my reply: The USA pays for the protection and cost of shipping goods from China to the USA as well as protects China’s shipments through all global oceans worldwide. If the USA stops that protection, and why wouldn’t we, China would have to protect their own routes, pay for their own shipping, etc. The USA, on the other hand, can start giving anyone they want that sweetheart deal. Also, with the USA market unacceissble to them, there’s no other developed market to fill the void. They go into absolute collapse and have to retreat inward.
This isn’t something I”m pulling out of my ass. Check out Peter Zeihan’s “The Accidental SuperPower” and listen to his talks. Dude is the preeminent mind in global relations. He is repeatedly saying China and Europe are both about to have a massive decline because the USA will stop paying for all the perks and protection of the world. That means they would have to start arms races just to protect their own trade while losing USA’s market. This has been moving this way well before Trump, but Trump is pushing it hard and now with Corona....shit, good luck China. It’s about to be a hard 4 or 5 years for them.
That means they would have to start arms races just to protect their own trade
Trying to do that (match the US Navy) is a large part of what bankrupted the USSR. Not that it wasn't bound to happen eventually given a Bernie Style Economy.
Fuck off faggot, the mining industry is controlled to kneecap our economy and the extreme regulation has destroyed one of the best ways we can generate actual wealth.
Rare earth minerals exist all around the world.
Digging them up has environmental costs.
The solution is very simple.
If a US company imports bulk rare earth minerals from China, they have to pay a tariff on it because those rare earth minerals are mined causes environmental damage so they can be dug up cheaply.
If a product is built in China using Chinese rare earth minerals, it comes with a tariff.
So now the cost of environmentally sound rare earth goods will be equal to the cost of environmentally un-sound rare earth goods.
Part of those tariffs can be put into a fund to assist mining companies in complying with strict mining regulations.
We can just add tariffs to any of Chinese materials and make them pay for their ridiculous prices also there’s plenty of the stuff we decide to look a little bit harder
From my understanding, it prevents shipping from one US port to another US port. So any minerals mined in Alaska wouldn't be able to ship directly from Alaska to another US port.
If I'm wrong about that, let me know, but that was how it was explained to me.
Ok so I think the issue the person explaining it was trying to explain was that the ships have to be US built to go directly from port to port. So if a shipping company owned ship built elsewhere, even if it was completely owned and crewed by a us company, it was disallowed.
Maybe it's not as big a deal as they were making it out to be, but they were wanting rare earth minerals mined from Alaska and were completely convinced that the Jones act was one of the things that would make it too expensive.
But yeah, I agree with you about not wanting to give China the edge.
• China has 3 times the population of the USA but only 1/5th the farmland.
• China has no great river system for moving goods within the country, the USA has the Mississippi River with more locks and channels than all other global rivers combined.
• The USA protects all ocean trade routes (this can be stopped immediately)
• The USA pays for all shipment costs from China (this can be stopped immediately)
• All the Naval power of the world, combined, is about 1/11th of the USA Navy’s carrier and warship capabilities.
• The USA is 30% of China’s exports but China is only a tiny fraction of USA critical imported goods.
We can leave them hanging on any of these and put their nuts in a vice. They don’t have shit on the USA. They need the USA badly yet the USA doesn’t need shit from them. Sure, they make a lot of stuff for us, but the only thing we have to have is tech and we can start making our own in about a year if we had to. On the other hand, they’d be fucked without us and would go into panic and massive decline.
I fear jack shit from China....
We can't stop protecting trade until we make it worth while to the shipping industry to flag their vessels in America. As long as these ships carry a foreign flag but ship all the goods to us, we are compelled to protect it for our own good. If we can divest ourselves form foreign flagged vessels, then we can tell the rest of te world to suck it.
Also, the Three Gorges Damn turned the Yangtze into a central artery for China. It's now navigable 700 miles upriver from the mouth by large river barges much like the Mississippi. That being said, China is deficient compared to the US when it comes to inland shipping when you combine the Mississippi and Great Lakes, especially when you add in the ICW and other large canals like the Tombigbee.
It's very true that China needs the US. In fact every other country on Earth needs us more than we need them individually, but for a different reason than those you've stated above. They all need us because we control half of the world's consumer economy. Yes, that's correct, Half of everything produced on the face of the Earth is bought by Americans. That's what happens when you have the third largest population combined with a GDP twice as large as the runner-up. Any country that wants a successful trade economy must deal with us. Trump understands this which is why he has been able to drag those stubborn bastards to the negotiating table. They can't afford not to trade with us.
A point about my reply: The USA pays for the protection and cost of shipping goods from China to the USA as well as protects China’s shipments through all global oceans worldwide. If the USA stops that protection, and why wouldn’t we, China would have to protect their own routes, pay for their own shipping, etc. The USA, on the other hand, can start giving anyone they want that sweetheart deal. Also, with the USA market unacceissble to them, there’s no other developed market to fill the void. They go into absolute collapse and have to retreat inward.
This isn’t something I”m pulling out of my ass. Check out Peter Zeihan’s “The Accidental SuperPower” and listen to his talks. Dude is the preeminent mind in global relations. He is repeatedly saying China and Europe are both about to have a massive decline because the USA will stop paying for all the perks and protection of the world. That means they would have to start arms races just to protect their own trade while losing USA’s market. This has been moving this way well before Trump, but Trump is pushing it hard and now with Corona....shit, good luck China. It’s about to be a hard 4 or 5 years for them.
Trying to do that (match the US Navy) is a large part of what bankrupted the USSR. Not that it wasn't bound to happen eventually given a Bernie Style Economy.
Wait until you see what the Muslim horde at the mouth of the Mississippi River has planned.
Fuck off faggot, the mining industry is controlled to kneecap our economy and the extreme regulation has destroyed one of the best ways we can generate actual wealth.
Yes take back control of our resources including the uranium deal Hillary made with Russia.
Since it was a formal contract, we can't just leave them with nothing. Send them Hillary, Kamala and Sniffin Joe.
Another reason we should be putting up resistance to their occupation of Africa.
Rare earth minerals exist all around the world. Digging them up has environmental costs.
The solution is very simple. If a US company imports bulk rare earth minerals from China, they have to pay a tariff on it because those rare earth minerals are mined causes environmental damage so they can be dug up cheaply.
If a product is built in China using Chinese rare earth minerals, it comes with a tariff.
So now the cost of environmentally sound rare earth goods will be equal to the cost of environmentally un-sound rare earth goods.
Part of those tariffs can be put into a fund to assist mining companies in complying with strict mining regulations.
CNN: "Sources say Trump wants to clamp down and prevent all rare earth mineral mining in the United States."
Cuck: "We will not let Trump bully American miners."
Nancy: "We are opening all rare earth mineral deposits for mining to prevent Trump from hoarding it all for himself."
MSNPCs : "Orange Mines Bad, Blue Mines Good."
POTUS: "Not so fast, I will veto this unless Congress funds another 12 billion for the southern Carbon Protection Wall."
AoC: "A 32ft wall won't stop climate change, it needs to be 20 ft taller!"
Bill funding wall, opening mines passes and is signed by President Trump in 2022.
WaPo: "Trump thwarted by defiant Congress - Climate Crisis temporarily halted - Double Victory for the Democrats!"
GEOTUS (smiling): "What can I say folks, complicated business."
We can just add tariffs to any of Chinese materials and make them pay for their ridiculous prices also there’s plenty of the stuff we decide to look a little bit harder
https://www.geek.com/news/tiny-village-in-nebraska-hides-worlds-largest-rare-earth-mineral-deposits-1409967/
Need to repeal the Jones act.
From my understanding, it prevents shipping from one US port to another US port. So any minerals mined in Alaska wouldn't be able to ship directly from Alaska to another US port.
If I'm wrong about that, let me know, but that was how it was explained to me.
Ok so I think the issue the person explaining it was trying to explain was that the ships have to be US built to go directly from port to port. So if a shipping company owned ship built elsewhere, even if it was completely owned and crewed by a us company, it was disallowed.
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/410659-alaska-lawmakers-must-get-serious-about-jones-act-repeal
Maybe it's not as big a deal as they were making it out to be, but they were wanting rare earth minerals mined from Alaska and were completely convinced that the Jones act was one of the things that would make it too expensive.
But yeah, I agree with you about not wanting to give China the edge.