Besent threatens again: If China does not relax rare earth exports, the US will impose 500% tariffs
Americans can only resort to imposing tariffs.
On the 15th, US Treasury Secretary Besent continued to threaten China, saying "do not isolate yourself from the world."
In short, Besent probably made three points: First, the US Senate has 85 legislators ready to support Trump's proposal to impose 500% tariffs on China, and Trump has already informed Europe that if Europe imposes tariffs on China due to its purchase of Russian oil, the US will follow suit;
Second, the US can suspend the high tariff period on Chinese goods, but China needs to delay tightening its rare earth export plans;
Third, Besent threatened that if China wants to become an unreliable partner in the world, the world will have to decouple from it, but the world does not want to decouple from China, and the US also believes this is not what China wants.
Finally, Besent's threat was quite ridiculous. We don't know whether he noticed the self-contradiction in his remarks: Besent was previously threatening China not to isolate itself from the world, and then changed his tone, claiming that "the supply chain should be decoupled from China as soon as possible" - isn't that decoupling from China?
It is not difficult to see that since our country announced the strengthening of rare earth export controls, US officials such as Trump and Besent have been running around, either making threats or fabricating empty arguments, asking China to delay or even cancel the control of rare earths.
It should be said that the US's reaction reveals a situation: The so-called "US reserve of rare earths" exists only in the imagination of some people; otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why Trump and Besent are so frequently threatening China.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1846100863218688/
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