Short of Chinese producers of “rare earths” literally hoarding them, there’s no keeping them out of the United States. Production begets imports, and with the U.S. economy by far the world’s most productive, global production will find its way here.
The biggest country economies need never worry about lacking the resources necessary to continue growing. In the “closed economy” that is the world economy, production always and everywhere finds production.
This is worth remembering as media accounts, including one in the New York Times from this week, criticize Nvidia for “final delivery of advanced tech” to China. The Times portrayed
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