Kunpeng Plan As we all know, the game between China and the United States has reached a white-hot stage, in addition to the military field that we are familiar with, the United States has almost completely closed the door to China economically and technologically, after the United States restricted the export of semiconductors and other products to China, and recently the United States has carried out ** on high-tech products from China! Last year, the United States accused China's information technology equipment of having a back door, and then claimed that the cranes produced by China were "Trojan horses" for gathering intelligence!
After that, the U.S. Congress went even further, directly exaggerating the threat of electric vehicle batteries produced in China, thus stopping the purchase of Chinese batteries! In this context, China did not sit still, just when the United States just issued a ban on Chinese batteries, China announced the extension of the export time of gallium and germanium two rare metals to the United States for the first time! From July 2023 to the present, we have not resumed exports to the United States gallium and germanium! This makes the United States miserable, and the reason why I say this is because these two rare metals are very widely used! First of all, gallium, which cannot be produced or developed without gallium in many fields such as electronics, optoelectronics, materials science and lighting technology!
The second is germanium, a rare metal that has a large number of applications in semiconductors, aerospace measurement and control, nuclear physical detection, optical fiber communications, infrared optics, solar cells, chemical catalysts, biomedicine and other fields. It should be emphasized that the total reserves of gallium in the world are about 330,000 tons, and China's gallium reserves are as high as 26.28 million tons, accounting for about 80% of the world's total reserves, and China's gallium production accounts for 96% of the world's total production.
That is, apart from China, the United States simply cannot find an alternative, and as soon as China continues to extend the time for exporting this rare metal, then the high-tech R&D of the United States will be affected! In addition, the current proven germanium reserves in the world are only 8,600 tons, 3,870 tons in the United States, and 3,500 tons in China, but the United States lacks the corresponding germanium mining and refining technology, so it can only be imported from China! In other words, the United States has its own, but there is no way to apply it, it can only rely on China!
With the passage of time, the United States' sanctions against China will be greatly discounted, in this context, the United States wants its own scientific and technological level has been in the lead, it must maintain good relations with China, once it angers China, we don't need to think of ways to sanction the United States, only need to extend the export time of gallium and germanium, which is enough for the United States to drink a pot! I just don't know how long the United States can hold out under our technological anti-blockade! After all, with the passage of time, China's scientific and technological level is still gradually improving, if the United States does not let go, sooner or later one day we will get rid of the constraints of the United States and become a completely self-sufficient scientific and technological power!