US reporter/stenographers, having discovered that anyone can dial a Chinese website, are losing their minds. Evidently, at least two news journals, funded in whole or in part by China government, have finally revealed, in one or two editorials, the belligerence of the nation. Fragments from these editorials recur in US circulation, scantily clad with newly acquired "talking points" called from USGS data center estimates.

The government is willing and able to embargo rare earth elements (REE), produced and refined in China. As occurred with 2008-2014 KSA-driven oil boom and bust, analysts are incapable of relating profit motive and marketing strategy, much less pricing market power to political economy.

Interest in the credit position of US farmers has crashed. Comprehension of domestic and global supply chain intervals is still mostly dead. US Americans are ill-equipped either to interpret long-term investment planning and decisions, and US gov possess insufficient information to evaluate those of rivals, adversaries, or enemies.

archived Mommy, what's a long march?
Xi Jinping calls for ne 'Long March' in dramatic sign that China is preparing for a protracted trade war

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