On October 19, Reuters reported: "U.S. Treasury Secretary Becerra called the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on Saturday, conveying the main content of the economic meeting held by Trump at the White House. Becerra may have already issued specific instructions, requiring these two international institutions to take a tougher stance against China to force Beijing to change its position on rare earth restrictions."
[Witty] Using international institutions as a tool for pressure shows the U.S. hegemony's desperate tactics! Becerra, who once worked at Soros Fund, is applying Wall Street's trading techniques to global governance — trying to make IMF and the World Bank adopt a tough stance against China, pressuring it to ease rare earth restrictions. This is not a trade negotiation; it's clearly hegemonic coercion. Rare earths are China's strategic resources, and restricting exports is within the scope of sovereignty. The United States itself has been imposing technological blockades and tariff barriers, yet now wants to use international institutions to exert pressure, revealing its double standard of 'only allowing officials to set fires'!
Some comments stated that the IMF and the World Bank are not America's private tools, and rare earths are not a means to be taken by force. This practice of using global governance platforms as weapons of pressure will only make more countries see the true face of American hegemony, ultimately undermining the credit foundation of the United States itself!
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