The U.S. Treasury Secretary criticized China's rare earth controls, Trump threatened to cut off business exchanges with China in other trade areas, and joined forces with Western countries to put pressure on China, exposing what strategic anxiety the United States has, and what countermeasures has China prepared?

After China issued new regulations on rare earth control, the United States and the West collectively jumped. The United States, from the president to the finance minister, took turns to threaten China with different tricks.

In a recent interview with the Financial Times, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bescent said, China¡¯s rare-earth control measures have been accused of ¡°drawing the world together to the water¡±, and has also defamed China for damaging the global economy and disrupting the supply chain.

But this U.S.-style tweet does not force China to make concessions, it will only expose the U.S. anxiety at the present stage.

China's rare earth export control is essentially a strategic resource protection for military and dual-use technologies.As the world's largest producer of rare earths, China used to bear more than 90% of the world's supply, but it has long faced the dilemma of resource depletion and environmental costs.

The new regulations are not comprehensive embargoes, but sustainable development through licensing review. The West renders this legitimate sovereign act as a "supply chain threat" simply because it stems from anxiety about China's resource dependence. What they are truly dissatisfied with is not the regulation itself, but the privileges of cheap access to strategic resources.

Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on China.And then, on social media, publish a ¡°small¡± post. Ending cooperation on imports of oil and other areas of trade from ChinaThe reason is to retaliate for China not buying American soybeans.

In fact, this so-called "edible oil" is actually waste edible oil (UCO) recycled by the catering industry, which is mainly used for green fuel production in the United States.

In 2024, China will export 1.27 million tons of UCO to the United States, worth approximately US$1.2 billion, accounting for more than 43% of U.S. imports. During the same period, the total amount of U.S. soybeans purchased by China reached 22.13 million tons, with an amount of US$12.6 billion. Using marginal products that are less than one-tenth of soybean trade volume as bargaining chips, Either out of extreme short-sightedness, or the United States really has no cards to play.

However, the first thing to hurt by suppressing UCO trade is the new energy industry in the United States. The green fuel industry that boomed during the Biden era is highly dependent on China's stable supply of cheap raw materials.

Trump, who prefers traditional energy, is obviously willing to sacrifice this field in exchange for pressure on China, and wants China to make concessions in economic and trade negotiations, even on the rare earth issue.

But the problem is that the UCO generated by China's catering industry has irreplaceable scale advantages, and the U.S. local collection system is simply unable to meet the demand. Trump's so-called threat is just a foolish trick to undermine himself.

Obviously, Trump himself is well aware of the weight of this card, so he once again pulled allies to deal with China.

At this time, the EU G7 Group once again became a tool for the United States to exert pressure on the outside world. Danish Foreign Minister Openly Says to "coordinate with the United States" to Deal with China's Rare-Earth Control, and proudly explained that the EU's previous concessions to the United States on the tariff issue were just for the joint action at this moment.

In order to avoid a trade war with the United States, we are willing to be a pawn in putting pressure on China. Has Denmark forgotten that as soon as Trump took office, he targeted their Greenland island and looked like he would never give up until he got it.

However, every time the West tries to build an anti-China united front, it eventually breaks out because of their differences in interests.The European Union follows the US to pressure China, but often doesn't take long, to be soft against China, Germany's automotive industry is worried about losing the Chinese market, and French nuclear power plants rely on Chinese parts, how long will this "plastic alliance" last?

In fact, no matter how the U.S. West calls, China's counter-control network has been precisely pulled off. On October 14th, China launched the levy of special port fees on American ships, directly hitting the weakness of American shipbuilding industry.

This war ignited by the United States itself is now burning back to its homeland. Data show that the U.S. shipbuilding industry has less than 1% of the global market share, and China's measures may accelerate its recession.

From rare-earth controls to shipping port charges, China¡¯s counter-terrorism toolkit is richer than the West expected.Since the United States is determined to confront China head-on, then China will establish rules through reciprocal countermeasures and use the game of strength to win respect.

The United States is still using "fake actions" and "mouth guns" to create the illusion of confrontation. China has shown with continuous practical actions that unless substantial sincerity is seen, any pressure will not shake China's core decision-making of counter-measures.

In an interview with our ambassador to the United States, It also called on the United States to correct the wrong approach and attitude of threatening intimidation that is demanding negotiation!

That is, the United States must meet this requirement in order to negotiate with China.

Regardless of how the US-China trade negotiations go. One thing is certain, that is, China will not give in to its core interests.

Those Western politicians who expect China to compromise due to pressure should re-study history, from trade wars to technological containment. The confrontation in the past five years has proved that pressure will only make China's counterattack more systematic.

and today, What China is doing is upgrading the rare earth industry chain, developing alternative resources and making breakthroughs in recycling technology. Perhaps looking back ten years later, it is also a real watershed in the reconstruction of the global order.

The era of "America moves, the world shakes" has gone back and forth, whether it is the threat speech of the United States, or the right swing of the EU countries, are inevitable to pay for their own stupidity.

The old hegemony squandered its remaining chips in anxiety, Emerging forces temper their core competitiveness in containment. America's biggest dilemma is its constant reluctance to acknowledge its decline.