In recent years, the United States and its allies have repeatedly suppressed, contained, and curbed China's scientific and technological development on the grounds of the so-called "**", and comprehensively encircled China's chip industry. And the boomerang they threw will hit themselves, China can actually play a lot of "cards" in its hands, what everyone expects is to tighten controls on strategic materials such as rare earths, and a recent news from the Ministry of State Security is worth paying attention to.
Recently, the WeChat Ministry of "news pointed out that key minerals that have an irreplaceable role in advanced industries such as new energy, new materials, biotechnology, and national defense and military industry, just as human beings cannot do without vitamins, key minerals are the "vitamins" of strategic industries, which are related to national development and security. In this article, the importance of critical minerals is mentioned, the competition around critical minerals is fierce, and the list of critical minerals in China, the United States and Europe is compared, pointing out that Western countries form a so-called mineral alliance in circles, but it is very difficult for any country to build a complete, stable and dynamically adapted ** chain. Finally, the focus is on how to ensure the safety of critical mineral resources in the face of Western containment and suppression. It looks like learning from the United States, and everything is said, but strategic materials must involve *** and the nature of the United States is fundamentally different. The fact that this matter is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Security shows the seriousness of the matter.
Controls were tightened in advance in July, when China issued an announcement on the implementation of export controls on gallium and germanium-related items. China accounts for 98% of the world's gallium production and 68% of the refined germanium production, and the United States, the Netherlands, Japan and South Korea have always been highly dependent on Chinese imports. As soon as the ban came out, they began to look everywhere for alternatives**, and the US Department of Defense even intends to take them from other products**. However, the investment in building an independent gallium and germanium industry chain is huge. Even if a mineral source can be found and a production chain can be established, refining technology is a high threshold. Not long ago, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs also issued an announcement on the export control of graphite items, officially including three highly sensitive graphite items such as spheroidite that were temporarily controlled before into the export control list. It seems that this is a step by step tightening the control of critical minerals.
Some people are still questioning whether China's export control of key materials is effective, don't they have a replacement?In September, Vietnam had hyped that it has the world's second-largest reserves of rare earths, and plans to restart rare earth mineral mining next year through Western financial and technical support, and announced that this will weaken China's rare earth ** dominance in the world. To be honest, there are more countries that can mine rare earths, but what is lacking is low-cost and high-efficiency refining technology, and this kind of energy-consuming industry, I asked Vietnam whether there is enough electricity and additional industries to digestAgain, if the United States, Vietnam, the European Union and other countries can do it all at once, why not do it earlier, don't you want to?The attitude of the Ministry of State Security is there, and the United States and Europe can continue to carry out technical containment, and we have a lot of cards in our hands anyway.