According to Observer.com, on October 17, local time, Australian Treasurer Chalmers, who was visiting the United States, said in an interview with the media that Australia may help solve the weak links in the global critical mineral supply chain, but he also clearly opposed the Trump administration's "decoupling" argument from China this week.

Chamos's remarks were obviously expressing his position on China, saying that he would not "collude with the United States" and cut off trade with China. It seems that the results of sanctions against China following the footsteps of the United States twice before have given Australia a "memory".

This also shows from the side that Trump has no cards on hand in the face of China's rare earth counter-measures, otherwise he wouldn't take his younger brothers together.

Earlier, Trump faced China's increased-coding sanctions on rare-earth areas, and Twitter accused China of this move as an "economic hostility" to the United States, which has risen to the extent that it has damaged the world trade pattern.

To this end, Trump first clamored to impose a 100% tariff on China, wanting China to taste its own tariff stick again. However, before China could react, the U.S. market panicked first. Investors quickly sold and cashed in. U.S. stocks fell sharply, and the market value of hundreds of billions of dollars was directly evaporated within a few hours.

In response, Trump could not sit still and directly pulled US Commerce Secretary Lutnik out to take the blame, saying that sanctions against China were Lutnik's "independent act" and he did not know about it.

It was supposed that after delivering the steps, the Chinese side will give a face and disclose this matter, and they do not want China to take into account.

Seeing that China turned a blind eye to the steps it had thrown, Trump once again clamored to stop purchasing China's "gutter oil." Unexpectedly, he made a big mistake and made China see a joke for nothing. Trump, who had no choice but to struggle with his younger brothers and attempt to form an "anti-China alliance" to force China to lift sanctions.

According to Reuters, on October 15 local time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent claimed that China's export controls on rare earths were "China versus the world." He called on U.S. allies to take action and work together to eliminate dependence on China as soon as possible.

In response, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian gave a positive response at a regular press conference hosted on the 16th, saying that China's competent authorities and we have repeatedly elaborated on relevant positions on rare earth export control policies. The export control measures are in line with international common practices.

In the response of Lin Sword, the meaning is expressed very clearly, China does not eat the threat set, wanting China to lift sanctions is not impossible, but first the United States to correct attitude, the two sides at the negotiating table on equal terms, "side talks" such a way of negotiation without any sincerity, China has no interest and no time to accompany the U.S. side to "play the game."

China's tough attitude is not a bluff. It has an absolute say in rare earths, a key field of modern industry. Almost all the important heavy rare earth production bases are in China.

The only one has nothing to do with the United States and is firmly held by Australia. This is also why Chamos dared to say "no" to Trump.

Australia's refusal also caused the United States to die in the womb before it even began

In fact, the Sino-US game has reached this point today, and the United States has frequently suffered losses, which has long caused the so-called alliance system of the United States to leak out.

In the past, the European Union and G7 countries followed the lead of the United States. That was because the United States could still share a share of the soup with its allies while eating meat. However, since the United States imposed sanctions on China, not only have U.S. allies not only failed to drink soup, but have also been "ripped off" by Trump, seriously damaging their interests.

This made many allies of the United States, especially Australia, start thinking.

China's successful counterattack against rare earths in the United States not only allows Australia to see its importance in the Western rare earth field, but also allows it to see the "soft spots" under the strength of the United States. It is entirely possible to rely on rare earths to "focus on customers" to collect a lot of wool from the United States.

In view of the history of Western looting, once Australia has succeeded in harvesting benefits from the United States, I am afraid that the so-called "anti-Chinese alliance" will directly become a "feast" for the United States, and will think about how to harvest a piece of "fat meat" from the United States.

Australia is the first country to oppose the US proposal. Although this move will make Trump furious, given the "internal and external troubles" Trump is currently facing, it is uncertain that it will succeed.

However, even if Trump is willing to make concessions and "cut meat" to feed friends to reach an "anti-China alliance", it is always a temporary cure rather than the root cause.

On the one hand, Australia's output of rare earth materials can indeed slightly alleviate the current rare earth dilemma in the United States, but its output and quality still have a certain gap compared with China. At present, even the Pentagon's needs cannot be met, let alone completely replace China..

On the other hand, Trump can certainly increase investment in the rare earth industry to catch up with the progress of China's rare earth industry. But how long does this take?

It was not from Trump that the United States realized the threat of China's rare earths. As early as Obama was in power, the United States had already discovered the threat of China's rare earths and put the local rare earth industry on the agenda.

The problem is that the process is very slow, or there is nothing to push. The destruction of the environment by rare earth mining, the U.S. government simply wants to break through the obstacle of the "environmental protection" group is very difficult, and it is even more difficult to "rare earth autonomy".

The amount of mining is not mentioned, and the technological breakthroughs in the relevant fields are still unreasonable.In addition to the United States, it is also customary to "people on people" life, as long as the money can get a sufficient amount of quality and rare earth materials, why go to hard research.

Because of this, the United States '"rare earth autonomy" plan has been left in the president's office for more than ten years, but has made no progress in relevant aspects.

Even if we step back and say that Trump can overcome serious difficulties, and the United States is on track to promote the process of the rare earth industry, then China is not watching.

After years of development, China's rare earth industry has formed a set of good circles, from classroom to institute, China's perfected education system, is constantly providing fresh blood to rare earth-related fields. At the same time as the United States is chasing, we are also continuously breaking through. According to the American Western speculation, it takes only 5 years to catch up with China's current technological level. Let's not say how much water is here, even if the US West can reach the level of China today after 5 years, China has already developed the next generation, or even two or three generations of rare earth technology, then how many years will the United States need to catch up?

In general, Trump's "incompetence rage" not only exposes the "soft spots" of the wolf, the United States, makes a group of "allies" shine green eyes and "looks at it fiercely", but it cannot pose any substantial threat to China.

After all, China has set the attitude out early on, fighting to the end, thinking about it will set the attitude right, otherwise everything is exempt from talk.