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Anti-American much?
China will collapse under its own weight of too many mouths to feed. One deadly famine in that dense population would make the Black Death of the middle ages look like childs play. We don't need to do anything, mother nature will take care of them, lol.
Anti-American much?
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
China has secret plans alright... But a missile attack isn't a part of it... They are already very close to defeating the USA, and have not, nor will need to fire a single weapon.
Good luck.
Originally posted by USAisdevil
reply to post by SLAYER69
depends by what you call stranglehold.Oil is not the end.Chinese have heavily invested in Coal to Liquids Technology and Russian and Turkmen Oil and gas.
Secondly,China has all the industrial capacity and technology of USA.If USA fails to pay then China will effectively nationalize the US industrial capacity in China.
Thirdly,US does not have capability to produce REEs which are critical for advanced weaponry , whose production is in mainly in China and some bit in Russia primarily for military (controlled by military and Rosatom)
Currently, Rare Earth Dependent Technologies are nearly 100% reliant on Chinese-sourced materials. While in recent years China has managed to supply the entire world’s demand for Rare Earths, a dramatic shift is beginning to take place. As global requirements for Rare Earths continue to grow considerably (fueled primarily by the development and deployment of green energy technologies like hybrid vehicles, energy efficient lighting and wind power), China’s own domestic use of its resources is also soaring—with internal consumption presently at about 60% of production and rising rapidly....
Fortunately, the U.S. has one of the world’s largest and richest Rare Earth deposits at Molycorp Minerals’ facility in Mountain Pass, California. At Mountain Pass we are producing certain Green Elements and plans are in place to bring the facility back into full production following an extensive modernization and expansion project. With appropriate federal assistance for research, development and capital costs, Molycorp Minerals is prepared to move forward to reestablish domestic manufacturing capacity on an expedited basis.
Originally posted by USAisdevil
reply to post by SLAYER69
Secondly,China has all the industrial capacity and technology of USA.If USA fails to pay then China will effectively nationalize the US industrial capacity in China.
I think you may want to read up on the reality of the situation and rely less on Internet Pop Culture Voodoo conspiracies...
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
reply to post by SLAYER69
The brass at the pentagon are focused on military objectives only, the rest in Washington are all focused on their corporate interests, special interests and the agendas of major lobbyists... None of them have time, or interest in the greatest threats to US national security.
Over 90% of the world’s REPMs are made in Asia (60% in China and 30% in Japan). The alloys from which they are made are produced almost entirely in China, from REEs produced domestically there. Anyone in the USA who is planning to manufacture REPMs from domestically (USA) produced REEs is facing the situation that: No rare-earth ores have been mined in North America in the 21st century; No American company, using American-developed technology, has produced pure REEs in the USA in the 21st century (do note that I’m referring to metals here, not oxides); No American company has made Nd-Fe-B magnets from the individual REEs in the USA since at least 2004. Electron Energy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania has however been making Sm-Co-based REPMs and alloys for decades. The company has, I believe, recently entered into an off-take with Great Western Minerals Group (GWMG) (TSX.V:GWG) for rare-earth metals to be produced by the latter company’s Less Common Metals subsidiary, which will eventually use feedstock for GWMG’s future mining and refining operations in South Africa; Only a small overall tonnage of REPMs are currently produced in the USA, from a rare-earth-metal base, and, critically; All of the commercially available Dy used to modify the heat cycle sensitivity of REPMs, which is critical in their largest end-use, “under the hood” applications in the OEM automotive industry, as well as in their military use, is and always has been produced in China. Just two of the US junior-mining ventures currently in development, Ucore in Alaska and RER in Wyoming, are likely to produce Dy in significant quantities in time for the American military and industrial complexes to free themselves of Chinese monopolizing of the rare-earth space in general, and of the HREEs in particular, before the possible discontinuing of the export of Dy by China by 2015. America needs between 5,000 and 10,000 tpa of lanthanum (La) (90%) and cerium (Ce) (10%) in order for the fluid cracking catalyst (FCC) manufacturing industry to remain based mainly in the USA. America also needs 4,000 tpa of Nd at most, to manufacture all of the REPMs used in every application in the USA today, rather than import most of them from China and Japan – this estimate may even be too high – and America needs between 400-1,200 tpa of Dy to modify those magnets so that they can be repeatedly exposed to heating and cooling cycles (such as “under the hood”) and retain their original properties. Also, if America has 100 tpa of domestically produced Tb, it could dominate the world of non-incandescent lighting if it so desired.
Originally posted by The Motorcycle Boy
reply to post by TDawgRex
"China Could Be Planning Surprise Missile Attack on United States"
Why? Does this make sense to anyone? They pretty much own the US. Why would they want to destroy such a huge money maker?
Question: Do Chinese missiles says Made in China on them?
This is just the usual ATS paranoia...there's real crap going on in the world people. Why not focus on reality?