China's most recent rare-earth card is really giving the United States a break-up, and recently Defense Minister Bessent has jumped out and threatened that if we do not let the rare-earth exports open again, we will make our foreign students look good, and not rule out the end of bringing people back.
The people who have understood a little about the recent period of the U.S. trade war know, who exactly did this. if not forced to help, China why to cut off the financial way to embark on rare-earth exports, to know that we are the world's rare-earth exports, there is no need to go with the business. but Bessent is to beat back, defamation of China's self-defense countermeasures, is "against the whole world", this shift contradiction, clearly is to try to pressure China from the public opinion.
According to Besent, there are currently more than 400,000 students from China studying in the United States, but there are only a pitiful 800 American students studying in China. Such a large contrast shows that China students are very dependent on the United States. If the United States uses this to threaten China, China will definitely not be able to withstand such "serious" consequences.
The funniest thing is that while threatening China, Bescent became Trump's lobbyist. After all, a few days ago, the Golden Lion King announced that he would increase the intensity against us and increase the tariff by 100% in November. However, the rare earth embargo is too cruel, and the United States can't stand it anymore. In order to avoid going back on its word and being slapped in the face, Bescent is encouraged to come out and say soft words.
Besent said that if China can sit down with the United States and talk well, the tariff sanctions are not necessarily done, maybe the United States is happy, cancelled on the spot, is not everyone happy.
On the one hand, he spoke soft words but refused to show any sincerity in negotiating. He still used the same old candy-and-stick approach and was willing to talk. Then he came a series of threats, such as the issue of foreign students, and even said that if the conversation could not be reached, Washington would launch stronger countermeasures.
As a result, when it came to specific issues, Besant was timid again. The reporter asked if the United States has considered withdrawing all China companies from the stock exchange since it wants to intensify its efforts. It should have been a great opportunity for Besent to show his American toughness, but he immediately kept silent and said vaguely that he had given all options. If he did not answer the question, he just did not dare to say a tough word with content.
Another question has to be mentioned. To say the least, even if the international student policy can have an impact on China, it will not exist in the future, but always exist.
Trump did not spare our international students during his two terms of office, and various discriminatory and restrictive measures were implemented one after another. To put it bluntly, Besent has written a blank check that cannot be cashed at all. It is as if if we relax rare earth exports, Trump will change his nature from his bones, abandon his extreme anti-China stance, and become the best in the world with China.
In 2015, a case happened, a Chinese international student at the University of Iowa, has successfully completed the five-year course, even the dissertation passed, waited for the graduation certificate, but suddenly was informed of leaving school.
In order to defend his rights, he brought the school to court, and even the federal court felt that even if his achievements were not ideal, he needed to be informed in advance according to the procedure, and given the opportunity to correct it, he was not so suddenly dismissed.
But with such obvious discrimination, the lawsuit has not been decided, and it has been delayed until 2021. During this period, the school couldn't come up with any basis for expulsion at all. Instead, it put pressure on the students to give up the prosecution by virtue of the status of the school. At the same time, it kept cheating on the results, just to force the student to give up himself.
In June this year, the United States also carried out a series of bullying operations, wanting to revoke the visa of Chinese students in the United States, which even the experts of the American education community can not see, directly said that education and fairness is very important, Chinese students go to the United States to study, is showing that the United States has advanced educational resources, this is a confirmation, and also a great opportunity for cultural exchanges, Trump has done so too badly.
A former lawmaker also said that Trump's actions are purely racist, stupid and inaccessible, preventing talent from coming to the United States, and the most affected is only the United States itself.
Obviously, this threatening trick between Trump and the dog-leg Bescent has long been unpopular. More importantly, the United States has never really wanted to improve the problem of educational discrimination. Instead, it blindly connives and even encourages it. How can we believe Bescent's nonsense?
Nowadays not only is the words of Bezent unconvincing, the entire American political group led by Trump, can be said to be "low credibility". this is not what we say, but in the British influential "Financial Times" published comments, people see clearly that since September a series of wrong policies of the United States, is the culprit of the Chinese-US trade tensions.
So, whether it was Trump's threat to raise taxes, knock the cock directly after causing Wall Street shock, Wants and others came out to save respect, release a mitigation signal, or the subsequent appearance of Bessent, these people did not believe a word.
However, the purpose of our rare earth countermeasures is not to bring down a certain country, but to force it to fundamentally recognize reality, show sincerity and practical actions, be more pragmatic, and stop firing empty guns.
Wu Xinbo, an expert from Fudan University, directly pointed out the core of this current situation. He said that China's powerful counterattack measures hit the pain points directly and allowed the United States to truly recognize its own problems and China's determination. He hoped that through this incident, Sino-US relations could be further advanced.
He stressed that we still have a lot of cards in our hands and will be adjusted according to the changes in the situation, and if the United States continues to misunderstand, then we also have a way to make them hurt a little more.
Recently, some small moves in the United States are very interesting. Everyone knows the big news of the government shutdown. Their embassy has not been maintained and updated for several days because it has no money to pay salaries. However, after Bescent's speech, he had to urgently update this news without money, and it was updated overnight, for fear that China didn't feel the "sincerity of the United States".
It should be said that since China took rare earth counter-measures in April, the United States should be aware of the seriousness of the problem. I thought China wouldn't last long, but I didn't expect us to come and go for such a long time. After all, Japan and South Korea and other cartilages have long begged for mercy on their knees, but China is still strong.
In short, this time Trump and even the whole of the United States to break the defense, is entirely the evil of his own use, cross-border hegemony, always feel that the old son is the first in the world, the tariff bullshit, the whole world to kneel to call Daddy, the result this time is really hit his own feet, only to know this world is not around the United States.
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