Aggression and unintended consequences

August 25, 2025

And just think how stupidity and determination to be the “boss” caused all this. China was, and is, more than happy to continue to supply any country with the rare earths that they refine, so long as they refrain from breaching China’s five principles of peaceful co-existence. They are mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and co-operation for mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence.

These are the last commitments the West are prepared to make after 500 years of ignoring them around the world in pursuit of empire. China has made it clear that attacking China in any of these ways will bring a response. That is exactly what has happened.

The Donald, after failing to destroy Russia, is now moving on to do the same to China, but in both cases he will fail as America no longer holds the winning hand in the game of international poker. Efforts by the West to break this Chinese stranglehold on rare earths may bear fruit in five years, but has no chance in the short term as refining them is complex and requires decades of investment!