First off, I’m Canadian, and yeah, you’ve pissed us off.
Secondly, read the lnk I linked; before Trump did this whole trade war thing, there was already almost a decade of work going into rebuilding the knowhow and supply chains needed. It takes time, but there are already companies who have been ramping up over the past 5-10 years — they just haven’t been able to compete with China on price or quality.
But now they’ll get their chance, as the US is running out of other options.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will hopefully also wean ourselves off of Chinese rare earths too, now that we’ve seen them actually weaponize them against the US.
Then again, rare earths processing is very environmentally destructive; there’s a reason China is doing it in Jilin and Mongolia.
First off, I’m Canadian, and yeah, you’ve pissed us off.
Secondly, read the lnk I linked; before Trump did this whole trade war thing, there was already almost a decade of work going into rebuilding the knowhow and supply chains needed. It takes time, but there are already companies who have been ramping up over the past 5-10 years — they just haven’t been able to compete with China on price or quality.
But now they’ll get their chance, as the US is running out of other options.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will hopefully also wean ourselves off of Chinese rare earths too, now that we’ve seen them actually weaponize them against the US.
Then again, rare earths processing is very environmentally destructive; there’s a reason China is doing it in Jilin and Mongolia.