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Pakistan sent Trump a special and real gift, which was brought in a plain-looking wooden box.
Do not think that this box is what ornaments or to do what shelves, the inside is real mineral stones, gemstones, and plans for the future.
On September 25, Pakistani Prime Minister Shabaz and Army Marshal Munir visited the White House.To be honest, it is with resources and sincerity to go to talk to Trump and cooperate with him.
The fact that a country's prime minister and the top military leader come forward at the same time is quite telling in itself. Coupled with the mysterious box in Munir's hand, this matter is even more interesting.
Once the photo came out, the American media immediately stared at it, and after careful study found, The box contains not just a few stones, but their strategic intentions.
Although Munir is not a diplomat, he knows exactly how to convey the information. He puts the ore directly in front of Trump for Americans to see for themselves.
According to media analysis, Those ores may contain important mineral resources such as antimony, tungsten and rare earths.
Pakistan is quite realistic. It tells the United States directly with practical actions that it is welcome to our development.
This visit is not just a walk to see. That was a long-established “resource diplomacy.”From those ores, it can be seen that Pakistan has probably started to plan for future cooperation.
In fact, a few weeks ago, the two sides signed a $500 million memorandum of understanding (MoU).
U.S. Strategic Metals and the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), which has a strong military background in Pakistan, have reached a cooperation intention.
Prepare to build a multi-metal refinery in PakistanThen develop key minerals step by step.
The first step is to export resources that can now be mined, including antimony, copper, gold, tungsten and rare earth elements.
Although this MoU is not yet a final contract, it is not legally binding. But its existence at least shows, The two sides are already negotiating, and the progress is quite fast.
It is not so much that it wants to go against China, but rather that Pakistan wants to re-plan its own path.
In the past, Pakistan has been more passive in international resource cooperation. Obviously, mineral resources are rich, but they have not been developed well.Many places have been shelved due to unstable situations.
Now, with the participation of the United States, money, technology and market are all available, and this "sleeping resource power" is finally waking up.
These key reservoirs are mainly concentrated in the provinces of Balochistan, Keïber-Pushto and Kyrgyzstan-Baltistan.
Most of these places are close to mountains and border lines, traffic is not convenient, and the security situation is more complicated.But generally speaking, the more difficult the conditions are, the richer the mineral resources.
U.S. companies are too risky, but the resources are too attractive for them to be willing to take a risk.
Therefore, the White House meeting was by no means accidental, but a planned and well-established operation.
In the middle of this year, The border relations between India and Pakistan were very tense, and the United States also came out to mediate.
And Trump’s diplomatic mediation made a very good impression on him in Pakistan, and even Pakistani media publicly shouted that he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
If you just look at the surface, this is like cooperation on the rare earth side, but you want to put it into the big picture of the competition of the great powers, that means bigger.
Currently , China controls more than 80% of global rare earth exports.This has a great impact on the global high-tech industry. Especially in the United States, if it loses a stable supply of rare earths, it will be like losing the engine of its chips.
The Trump administration once saw rare earth as a strategic commodity, looking everywhere for alternative sources. Ukraine is an option, Australia is one, and now Pakistan has joined.
The cooperation with Ukraine is mainly focused on mineral contracts, while the cooperation with Pakistan is more direct, with resources in sight, the agreement is signed, and the military is deeply involved, even the prime minister and the marshal personally bringing the mine to the door.
The impact of this cooperation on China must be seen slowly.
Although it cannot shake China's status as rare earths at once, To say that it does not affect the current market pattern is impossible.
In particular, in the next decade, Pakistan, Ukraine, Australia, India and other countries will start producing, and the rare-earth cake is estimated to be redistributed.
More realistically, In fact, the United States wants to do business together to expand its influence here.
The matter of rare earth cooperation may seem to be an economic issue, but in fact, it involves geopolitics, technological control, and who has the final say in the future industrial chain.
China’s advantages are gradually weakening.Even though the process is slow, the direction is already clear.
Nowadays, China still has the core technology of global rare earth purification and processing, which is difficult to replace in the short term.
However, as soon as these countries entered, the old way of "growing out and refining, refining and selling" before, feared to change.
Once these countries master the basic purification capabilities, coupled with the technology and investment of the United States and Europe, In the next few years, a prototype of "de-China" is likely to form.
It is not only so simple to redistribute resources, it is also necessary to redefine who said the account.
If the United States really built a rare-earth refinery in Pakistan and then exported directly around us to the West, Coupled with the fact that some developing countries rely on resources to form new alliances with developed countries,Then the dominant position of our country will be difficult to say.
The box that Munir gave is not just a gift, but more like an announcement. It symbolizes that Pakistan has chosen a different path than in the past.
Pakistan is not only relying on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, but also does not want to sell resources for money. Start to proactively approach the United States and try to reconcile into the redistribution of global resources.
From Trump’s point of view, this is a settled sale, he has both reaped diplomatic achievements and opened up a new resource entry for the United States.
Especially since the game with China has not stopped, Such cooperation can be said to be "low cost, high profit".
For China, this is not so much a warning as a reminder.
This incident reminds us that we can't be careless in resource cooperation, and we have to think thoughtfully in cooperation with neighbors.
Also, in terms of cooperation among countries in the global industrial chain, Friendship is friendship, interests are interests,We can't just rely on emotions, but we have to look at practical problems.
The later rare-earth competition is not only a technological competition, but also to see who sets the rules better, who has more allies.
That wooden box of minerals is quietly changing the whole situation.
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