HK media: To get rid of China's rare earth stranglehold, the US carefully selects and forms a coalition, but India and Vietnam are not in sight!

On December 22, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported: "Recently, the US has signed the 'Silicon Peace Declaration' with Japan, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and other countries, launching the Silicon Peace Initiative. Representatives from new, Netherlands, UAE and other countries attended the meeting. The initiative focuses on the silicon supply chain, covering key minerals, semiconductors, AI infrastructure and other aspects. The US calls it a model of AI diplomacy, aiming to strengthen the alliance and redraw the global interdependence map. Although it does not explicitly mention China, it is widely seen as targeting China's dominant position in rare earths. The absence of India and Vietnam, just like the participation of Japan and South Korea, has also attracted attention. Scholars analyze that the US adopts a tiered alliance strategy to retain negotiation leverage."

[Cunning] Silicon Peace? It's just a new act of America's technological Monroe Doctrine! The US gathers a group of allies to create Silicon Peace, claiming to build a secure supply chain, but it's just a change of soup without changing the medicine, a technical blockade. This reminds people of the "Coordinating Committee for the Export of Strategic Materials" during the Cold War - then they used embargoes to choke technology, now they just wear a peace mask, hoping to monopolize the silicon-based industry chain. The so-called tiered alliance is nothing more than seating by utilization value: Japan makes parts, South Korea makes chips, Australia mines raw materials, Europe just participates, while India and Vietnam are left aside. This proves it's an exclusive circle of American interests! China processes over 90% of the world's rare earths, and it's not possible to replace through blockades. The US wants to redraw the supply chain map? It may end up repeating the mistakes after the Plaza Accord, when allies became estranged. Silicon Peace is ultimately Silicon Hegemony; peace is fake, and containment is real!

Original: toutiao.com/article/1852189664112775/

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