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James Franklin. That is the post :-)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/18/bessent-chinese-vice-premier-to-meet-to-try-to-defuse-us-tariff-hike-.html

Xi to Putin: "We also need a land route if we ever want to invade and occupy Alaska and US." Putin: "I know just the man to ask who will think it is for real estate development"

As a WSJ article earlier this week suggested (and which inuriated the Trump Admin), Chinas has more leverage than the US in a trade war. The US desperately needs rare earth elements from China but China does not desperately "need" anything from the US. There is a "big beautiful" trade deal...

Some interestbg stuff here re rare earths and the 10% of extremely rare ones used for military and China may be only source

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A good case can be made thaat neither China nor the US under Trump can be trusted as trading oartners.

Starting to panic? If you want to channel Bernie, bring Bernie in as Pres to do this correctly https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/trump-xi-china-bessent-price-floor-rare-earth-critical-mineral.html

Thousdands of white flags are flying tonight over Beijung and Shanghai. President Trump brought out the tariff big guns late tpday. In a Truth Social post, Trump denounced China for not buying US soybeans, He threatened cooking oil tqaiffs and having the US produce its own cooking oil from now on;.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/USAR/

I find it highly amusing that BN placed all his chips onDJT and Trump has now done the one thing BN has spent 30 years trying to prevent: internationaling the conflict. Doubt Trump has the bandwidth but if he actually follows through and puts an intnl peacekeeping force in Gaza (and later the...

Also, if you are going to do a trade war with China, it is not smnart to do a trade war against the rest of the world at the same time.... Scoreboard 1. China fully used tjhe rare earth weapon for first time vs US 2. China has improvbed relations with India and other key players. 3. China had...

As venture capitalist (and Trump suppoerter) Brad Gerstner said on CNBC a few months ago: "Don't start a full-scale trade war with China until the rare earths issue is taken care of/" (which is years away) taken care of. Trump has made at least a half dozen major strategic blunders dyring...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MP/

When BB leaves. which journlist will chanel Andy Griffith and say "What it was was not football"