No counterattack card against China’s “rare earth retaliation”- Japan still imports 60% of its rare earths for high-end manufacturing, and faces losing 2.6 trillion yen per year without them
https://topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp/article/japanesejoins/world/japanesejoins-343115?redirect=1
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If a bully like Donald couldn’t take on China and has been chickening on his tariff threats to China, what made Japan think it can decouple from China?
As a Canadian I’ve long thought a stronger alliance with Japan makes a lot of sense. We’ve got oil, energy, minerals, and food galore. We could use some technical expertise in transport, manufacturing, and healthcare among other things.
yeah but it was completely worth it for scoring short term regard political points against low hanging fruit Chinese tourists coming to spend money in your country
They can beg the U.S. to get green land’s rare earth and share some of it with them.
well, after doing military threats to china, it will really seem dumb for china to supply the japanese military
I feel like fixing this diplomatically would be the cheapest way to resolve the issue.
They’ve done it before. A decade ago. How is there no preparation done for this exact thing?
Classic far right political plan:
-Promise to fix issues
-Pick a scapegoat to blame, can be a minoritie or your neighbors
-Aggravate your nation problems by attacking your neighbors/minorities
-Actually don’t fix any of the actual problems your nation is facing
-Fail
-Do it again after some years
For context, China’s “rare earth retaliation” is considered a “retaliation” to Japan’s previous export restriction of photoresist to China.